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Public voting is now open for the 2020 Inaugural Class of the Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame. MPB, the world’s largest resale platform for digital photography and filmmaking kit, has launched the Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame to honour the best photo and video equipment of the digital era.
The twenty-five nominees across five awards categories—Classic, Game Changer, Iconic, Road Tested and Trendsetter—cover thirteen leading brands of photography and videography kit. The camera experts at MPB chose the nominees based on their qualities, embodying the spirit of each category.
Canon features strongly in three of the categories, registering eight nominations out of 25 slots, the most for any single manufacturer.

The Classic category – with camera bodies and lenses renowned as evergreen benchmarks of quality – features three Canon classics: the EOS 5D Mark III camera, plus EF 70-200mm and EF 50mm f1.8 lenses.

In the category of the rugged kit workhorses, Road Tested nominees include the…

The Photography Show and The Video Show, postponed from March 2020 to September 2020, will not being going ahead at the NEC this year, due to continued uncertainty around hosting large events.

However, the organisers have announced that, for the first time ever, the shows will take place as a virtual festival on Sunday 20 and Monday 21 September 2020. The event will be free to attend from the comfort of your own home. We will post more information as it becomes available.

Next year the show will return to its home at the NEC from 18 to 21 September 2021. All entry tickets and passes booked and confirmed for the 2020 event will remain valid. If you are a ticket holder and would prefer a refund, you can request one here.

Canon has made available some specialist firmware for the EOS R. Unlike most firmware, which can be downloaded for free and installed by the user, this update, currently only being promoted in North America, costs $100 and can only be installed by a Canon Service Centre.

Alternatively, you can buy an EOS R with the firmware pre-installed for a $100 premium.

The firmware is only of use to photographers doing stop-motion work and using Dragonframe software. Stop-motion is a technique where a subject is shot a frame at a time with very small movements applied between exposures to give the impression of motion when the frames are played back. Wallace and Gromit is a well-known series of films created by stop-motion methods.

The firmware provides a Live View resolution of 1920 x 1280, compared to the normal 960 x 640. It also allows Manual Focus Peaking via a USB connection.

The downside is that HDMI output is disabled. If you do not use Dragonframe, this firmware upgrade is not for you.

Canon has developed EOS Webcam Utility software to bring easy-to-use, plug and play, webcam-like functionality to selected Canon cameras (see below for full list of compatible EOS models). This allows you to use your camera as a high-quality webcam for personal or business video calls.

The free software is currently Beta, which means that Canon welcomes feedback about bugs and suggestions for additional features. Also, it can only be used with Windows 10 64-bit at present, though compatibility with other computer operating systems is likely in the future.
UPDATE 28 May 2020
EOS Webcam Utility Beta is now also available for Mac OS – 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave) and 10.15 (Catalina).

Details about compatible cameras and download instructions are available at:
https://shop.usa.canon.com/estore/marketing/ebook/Canon-WebCam-Utility-Instructions-with-USB.pdf

The software download can be access here:
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/self-help-center/eos-webcam-ut…