Amersham Photographic Society

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS The Amersham Beyond Group has evolved from the Digital Group to concentrate exclusively on creative photography and digital art. It meets on the first Thursday of each month (with occasional moves as necessary). The group will explore the extension of photography into the...

BEGINNERS MUST CHOOSE THE RIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE Newcomers to digital imaging will need to get to grips with at least one major software package. The industry-leaders are Adobe but they have attracted much condemnation in recent years for their confusing product strategy. Some of this is histor...

NEWS The momentous news over the summer break has been announcements from Nikon and Canon that they are launching new full-frame mirrorless cameras with all-new lens mounts. Both makers are fairly conservative and the move into mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (MILC) is more than ten years be...

Please see the October 2018 Digital Group notes about choosing the right class of software to process your images - Image Manager/Developer, or Image Editor.

Cheers, Steve B

NEWS DxO Labs is applying for bankruptcy in France but their software business is reported to be sound and they still plan June maintenance releases of their respected DxO Photo Lab raw editor and the popular NIK filters which they acquired from Google last year. Both will be free (which seems to be...

NEWS The Google Images search has been subject to a deal with Getty whereby it may be harder to download high resolution images directly, or at least without visiting the source website. This is due to copyright infringements. This deal does not affect the many other sources of images such as DuckDu...

NEWS Computational Photography is a name for the combination of image capture and post-processing that cameras and especially smartphones are doing to overcome shortcomings in sensors and lenses. For example the so-called Portrait Mode in smartphones attempts to determine the background in order to ...

NEWS ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD If you want to sign up for Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription, it’s not necessary to pay full price (£120pa). Discounted annual subscriptions are available from third parties. On Christmas Day (Sad. So sad. Loser) I found it on Amazon for £74.25. A very useful site for tra...

NEWS My new HP laptop has a 4K display and the graphics capability to drive the club’s projector with its larger-than-HD vertical resolution (1600x1200 pixels). It turns out that support for high resolution displays by Windows and application developers is still a work in progress and I have had qui...

ADOBE DO IT AGAIN Adobe, in their wisdom, have confused us all again. Lightroom is now divided into two parallel development paths; Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic Creative Cloud and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Creative Cloud. Who thought of that bizarre naming strategy? You need to choose one or th...