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Time Sensitive: T-Mobile Mobile Life Albums DEAD on 6/30/13 - Transfer your Photos before it's too late!, May 14, 2013
T-Mobile is discontinuing its Mobile Life Albums feature. The service will end on June-30-2013. After that, you will NOT be able to access your photos and videos. So be sure to save and back-up everything that needs saving! If you... Continue

Pixiq.com is Dead, Killed by Owners, All Content Gone!, May 10, 2013
Pixiq.com was an ambitious attempt by Sterling Publishing (Barnes & Noble) to build a popular photography mega-blog owned by traditional corporate media. Apparently the owners decided to abruptly end the experiment and pull the plug. When you visit the Pixiq... Continue

Discontinued effective immediately: Snapseed Desktop for Windows and Mac (iOS/Android apps still alive), March 13, 2013
Google is aggressively trying out different things but there's a price to pay for this aggressiveness. More products and projects are getting cancelled. In a new "Spring Cleaning" announcement at the Official Google Blog, Google has revealed that the desktop... Continue

Nikon officially acknowledges D600's dust issues, February 24, 2013
Perhaps the digital camera manufacturers need to spend some time on the Dr. Phil show. They love being in denial for the longest time ever! Nikon has finally confessed that the Nikon D600 is special, special in that it has... Continue

Problem Solved: Digital Rev accepts responsibility for sending photographer used camera as new, February 18, 2013
We have a happy ending alert! The saga of photographer Rob Dunlap who received as new a used Canon 5D Mark III that was used in a Digital Rev video by Kai himself has a happy ending. Digital Rev accepted... Continue

Patent Wars: RED sues Sony, alleging pattern infringement with Sony F5, F55, F65, February 17, 2013
Shortly after the RED vs ARRI spy vs spy case was dismissed, RED is back in the Legal Eagles headlines with a new lawsuit, this time targeting Sony and citing *you guessed it* patent infringement. The offending cameras include Sony's... Continue

Troublemakers of the Day: Adobe and Instagram [updated], February 14, 2013
Just a couple of days after Adobe decided to drop their inflated Creative Cloud subscription prices in Australia after the Australian government decided to look into the matter more closely, Adobe is causing mischief in the digital markets. They amended... Continue

Problems: some private Flickr photos were accidentally made public, February 11, 2013
We have a new edition of The Trouble Repor(t). The subject this time? Flickr! An unspecified number of private photos on flickr were accidentally made public by the flickr service. Yahoo claims this issue affected a "very very small" number... Continue

Nikon cut forecasts last week, stock crashed (and still sliding now), February 10, 2013
Since we are on the topic of business, Nikon announced last week that they would fall quite short of their previous net income forecasts and that made the invisible hand of the market jittery. So the invisible hand of the... Continue

Problems: Photographer discovers that his new Canon 5D Mark III was actually used to make the DigitalRev review, February 10, 2013
This is a new episode of The Trouble Repor(t). A photographer purchased a brand new Canon 5D Mark III DSLR from DigitalRev, and it turns out, the camera purchased as new was the camera used by DigitalRev to make their... Continue

Lynny Lenses (similar to Lensbabies) removed from Sale by Maker for Legal Reasons, February 7, 2013
Lynny Lenses, a maker of selective focus lenses in the product category occupied by Lensbabies decided to pull all their products from sale due to legal reasons. A brief statement on their website (page down below the giant picture) is... Continue

Even Musicians Fight Over Pictures: Bowie vs Morrissey over cover art, February 7, 2013
Picture usage conflicts are not just with big companies trying to milk photographers for free work. It also happens among creatives and in this case, two critically acclaimed musicians, David Bowie and Morrissey have an album cover art dispute over... Continue

The Trouble Report: Philip Bloom finds Canon 1D C MJPEG compression banding, February 5, 2013
Philip Bloom has found evidence of MJPEG compression banding and blocking with the Canon 1D C, the DSLR for video. This is only based on his findings. Details and artifacts at the Philip Bloom Experience. Speaking of the Canon 1D... Continue

Financial Gloom: Thom Hogan discusses camera industry dollars and sense, February 4, 2013
Fiscal Cliff 2013! Okay, nowhere near that dramatic, but things are not rosy for the world of digital camera manufacturers. Thom Hogan takes a detailed look at both financial results and CIPA numbers to explain why there was a grim... Continue

Imaging Resource Lab investigates: Sony RX1 red-to-cyan color tint, February 2, 2013
In an interesting new feature, Imaging Resource takes us behind the problem-solving scenes inside the IR Lab and talks about their investigation of a Sony RX1 issue, red to cyan color tint, and their CSI work to find the guilty... Continue

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