Facebook has just introduced the ability to share high-resolution photos on its Messenger app. This makes for a much better, and less compressed, visual user experience for the countless people who send photos to one another every day through the popular app.
“We’re making significant investments in how people communicate visually on Messenger,” says Facebook […]. petapixel.com
Facebook has released a new tool that’ll allows you to bulk-export all of your photos and videos to another service or social network in just a couple of clicks, starting with Google Photos. The tool was announced on Facebook’s About website by Director of Privacy and Public Policy Steve Satterfield, and it’s part of the […] petapixel.com »
2019-12-03 00:47
Kodak Moments, the consumer printing arm of Kodak, has launched a new Facebook Messenger chatbot. Its purpose: to try and sell you prints of your old photos. The app, once it has a connection to your Facebook account, will sift through your old photos and use some type of algorithm to pull out the most interesting […] petapixel.com »
2017-09-25 20:30
Facebook has updated its mobile app for both iOS and Android with support for capturing and sharing 360° photos without any extra hardware required. It has been possible to upload and view 360° photos since May last year using images created on other devices, but now the Facebook app can handle the 360° capture itself. The […] petapixel.com »
2017-08-24 21:33
Saving images for the web, and specifically Facebook, can require a little bit of extra attention to get them looking sharp. This 10 minute video from Francisco Hernandez of FJH Photography explores some sharpening, sizing, and exporting tips to ensure your images look their best on Facebook. Have you ever uploaded images to Facebook and […] petapixel.com »
2017-06-28 17:30
After upgrading my phone and switching over to iOS, I began uploading videos and photos to Facebook using the app itself… only to find out that it was not uploading my files in high-definition quality at all. petapixel.com »
2016-09-28 17:58
Facebook’s auto-generated photo slideshows aren’t always the best at nailing the mood of photos. Case in point: after Josh Gibson got into a serious freeway car accident, Facebook suggested sharing the above “chipper” video with friends and family. petapixel.com »
2016-09-12 18:16
High Res Shot mode is something that's available with most camera systems on the market. But very few do High Res shot mode while also making it available to you handheld--and do a good job at it. That's where OM SYSTEM is pretty different.
The Leica SL2 is a camera that boasts some great resolution while also giving a whole lot of details to images shot at high ISOs. When coupled with Leica's lenses, you can sit there staring at and inspecting the details for a very long time.
I believe in a happy medium, somewhere between too little and too much. Aristotle defended this view with his Golden Mean, the middle ground between excess and deficiency.
The Leica M10R is what I feel to be the true successor to the Leica M9, and I’m super happy about that. If you were to tell me that the Leica M10R would have the same sensor as the Leica Q2 and the Leica SL2, I’d believe you. But it doesn’t. Instead of that hulking
We've long been advocating printing out your precious photos instead of letting them marinate in your hard drives or stay forgotten in your social media accounts. One of the first steps to this is finding out how big you can print your photos.
The new Canon 85mm f1. 4 L IS USM does not replace the Canon 85mm f1. 2 L USM II--and to be honest I'm not exactly sure why not. It's been a really, really long time since Canon announced a new 85mm lens but today we're getting something that Canon says lives in between the 85mm f1.