(Reuters) — Huawei is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers in a bid to keep it alive, the company and the consortium said today.
The deal comes after U.S. government sanctions have restricted supplies to the Chinese company on grounds that the firm is a national security threat — which it denies.
The consortium issued a statement on…
Olympus 150-400mm f/4.5: Built-In 1.25x Teleconverter, 8 Stops of IS
November 17, 2020
Olympus has unveiled the M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm F4.5 TC1.25x IS PRO lens, a new super-telephoto lens that thanks to a built-in teleconverter enables 300-1000mm equivalent shooting capabilities while being just 12.4 inches in length and only weighing 4.1…
Cameraman Gets Rammed in the Groin by an Angry Sheep
November 17, 2020
If you ever find yourself getting low to the ground to try and get the perfect shot of a horned animal, be sure to protect what’s valuable to you. A BBC cameraman found out what can happen if you don’t, as you can see in this short viral clip above.
The cameraman was…
Olympus Adds Bird Detection AF and RAW Video Support to E-M1X
November 17, 2020
Olympus has announced firmware updates that adds Bird Detection to the OM-D E-M1X as well as RAW video recording capability via an external recorder to it and the E-M1 Mark III.
Bird Detection has been added to the Intelligent Subject Detection autofocus, Olympus’ proprietary deep learning technology. Once upgraded to the latest firmware, the camera will be able to focus primarily on a…
Photoshop for Apple Silicon is Here: Adobe Releases Beta
November 17, 2020
Adobe today released new ARM versions of Photoshop in beta for macOS and Windows. The new Mac version of the image editing app will run natively on Apple’s new line of computers, which features its new in-house M1 chip.
MacOS
After Apple’s Mac announcements on November…
This Camera Was Used for Aerial Photos During WWII
November 17, 2020
Check out this absolute unit of a camera that was used to do aerial photography during World War II. Mounted on the front of the camera is a massive 2-foot long 305mm f/5 lens.
This viral photo has made the rounds on the Web in recent years, and the camera has widely been…
Oppo unveils rollable smartphone concept
November 17, 2020
Oppo is no stranger to shaking up the smartphone design status quo. Back in 2013, the Oppo N1 had a rotating camera followed by 2018’s Find X which got rid of the notch thanks to its slide-out cameras. Now the maker is yet again redefining the norms with its Oppo X 2021 rollable concept phone.
The biggest wow factor with this device is that it doesn’t have a fixed display size as it can…
Oppo announces AR Glass 2021
November 17, 2020
Last year at its Inno Day event, Oppo unveiled AR glasses, and this year it’s back with a much improved version. While the previous iteration seemed to model VR glasses in design, this time around, with the Oppo AR Glass 2021, we’re getting something that’s…
OnePlus 9 also spotted on Geekbench
November 17, 2020
Yesterday we saw the OnePlus 9 Pro in a Geekbench listing, flexing its Snapdragon 875 chipset and 8GB RAM. That phone had the LE2117 model number and now we have its non-Pro counterpart with the LE2113 codename in another Geekbench test run.
OnePlus 9 on Geekbench
The new…
Samsung Galaxy M12 renders show an A42-like design
November 17, 2020
Samsung is working on an entry-level Android with a massive 7,000 mAh battery. It will likely be named “Galaxy M12”, though F12/F12s is also a possibility. Anyway, we saw live photos of an unfinished back panel earlier this month, now @OnLeaks has filled in the blanks with CAD-based 3D renders of the phone.
The design is very similar to the recently announced Galaxy A42 5G. The screen will be…
