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NEWS ROUND-UP
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By Geoff Harris and Andy Westlake
Canon Lightroom plug-in ‘culls’ your photos
Canon has announced the Photo Culling Plugin for Lightroom
Classic which claims to ‘intelligently’ select your best images
from a batch. The AI-powered plug-in analyses images based on
sharpness, noise, exposure, contrast, closed eyes, and red eyes.
Coloured flags give you feedback and the process can be
customised. Available in March from exchange.adobe.com.1TB key drive coming
SanDisk used the recent CES consumer electronics show in Las
Vegas to reveal a 1TB USB key drive – in other words, it’s compact
enough fit on a keyring. A terabyte will store about 100,000 10MB
images, and the ingenious new drive features USB Type-A and the
the newer Type-C plugs. UK availability to be confirmed.Travel photo
workshop discount
Travel photographer and AP
contributor, Steve Davey, is
running a travel photography
workshop at the Destinations
travel show, at Olympia London
from 30 January to 2 February.
You’ll get feedback on your
images from Steve and his
colleagues. AP readers can get £
off the masterclass ticket, which
includes entry to the show, by
quoting AMPHOTO. Order from
http://bit.ly/stevedaveydiscount.Major lifeboat project reaches milestone
Photographer Jack Lowe has reached a five-year milestone in his
project to travel around the UK and Ireland, shooting all 238 RNLI
lifeboat stations and crews using the wet collodion process. Since
January 2015, he’s visited 147 stations, driven over 35,000 miles in
his mobile darkroom (a converted ambulance), and created 1,
glass plates. Lowe, the grandson of actor Arthur Lowe, plans to
visit 30 more stations this year. See lifeboatstationproject.com.Manfrotto releases
‘Pro Rugged’ cards
Manfrotto’s tough SD, CF and
microSD cards feature sealed
designs that protect internal
components, with the SD and
microSD versions able to keep
out liquid and debris and be
submerged for up to 72 hours.
They can withstand high
temperatures too. They come in
64GB and 128GB sizes, with
prices from £26.99 to £124.99.
For full details see manfrotto.
com/uk-en/© STEVE DAVEY/STEVEDAVEY.COM