The Nik Collection is Now Free

  
You can download a copy from Google here.

Press Release

“Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free.

Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.

The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities — from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.

Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we’ll automatically issue back to you in the coming days.

We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now. “

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FUJIFILM X-Pro2 Firmware Release Notification

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Fuji just released their official notice that Firmware 1.01 (not 1.1) is available, which we reported when it went live earlier today. It installed issue free for me, but was a little slow, so be patient. Good luck and happy shooting.

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Fuji film X-Pro 2 Firmware 1.01: Now Available – Updated 3/23

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Today an administrator on the original fuji-forum updated their report on the upcoming Fujifilm X-Pro 2 Firmware. Firmware version 1.01 is now available here.

The Update Addresses
The reset issues
Long exposure image quality
Other minor bugs

Update Status
Just updated my camera and it went smoothly

Via Fujix-Forums

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The Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R vs Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M ASPH

Last night I was filming with the Fujifilm X-Pro 2 again to test manual video recording and I decided it would be interesting to do a comparison. I wanted to try something extreme, the FujiFilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R vs Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M Aspherical. I moved the camera to try to match the field of view and I focused on the most stationary person before beginning recording. Read More »

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Street Shooting Techniques Discussed

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I came across an interesting article today about street shooting techniques that some might find informative, but it made me think about my particular style and success rate. I have always felt that I have a high hit rate for photos that I find pleasing, to the point that I largely need others to give feed back to help me reduce what I share publicly.

Yet, stylistically, how I go about capturing them changes pretty drastically depending on what camera I am using. For instance, I have always enjoyed great success shooting my Leica M completely manually with a thin depth of field but, on my Leica Q, I tend to select the aperture/shutter speed, then utilize autofocus/auto ISO. I further deviate with my Fuji cameras by utilizing zone focusing on them because sometimes the auto focusing fails when street shooting. The new X-Pro 2 is much better at achieving proper focus when on the move in a low light street shooting situation than past Fujifilm cameras, but it still isn’t as effective as a rangefinder with LED illumination at night. Read More »

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The Nissin i60a is Now Available For Preorder

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The Nissin i60a is now available for preorder on B&H Photo and Adorama. We covered its announcement previously and there was debate about whether the wireless capabilities would work on Fuji bodies. It seems from the B&H preorder page that Fuji models will have full Nissin Air 2.4Ghz support. Now I am curious to see how well high speed flash sync will work out of the box with this flash, if at all. I have heard the i40a works on the X-Pro 2 up to 1/8000th.

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