Unusual goings on in Italy

[Black Pearl]

Naughty...

Canon Italy Posts Landscape Composite Without Credit, Stolen Elements, and Taken on a Fujifilm:

https://fstoppers.com/news/canon-ita...d-taken-211794

[Donald]

Methinks heads will roll.

What a stupid thing to do. Seems like some sort of marketing guy with little knowledge about photography thought he's get away with it. Maybe he has with non-photographic items in his portfolio. But to try this in relation to a photographic product had to be inviting discovery.

[Manfred M]

This is almost as funny as when Nikon used product images of their own equipment used for promotional purposes shot on Phase One gear a few years back.

[xpatUSA]

Apparently it was an accident, according to this article:

https://www.dpreview.com/news/671187...r-social-media

A composite image had somehow gained Canon data in the EXIF and the image was found in a search on something called "UnSplash", if I understand correctly.

[Manfred M]

Here is a screen capture from the Unsplash site.



The original image comes from material Elia Locardi supplies with his Fstoppers course "Photographing the World - Cities and Stars" as a practice file as raw and his Photoshop psd files. He of course tells people that they can use the file to practice on (I know as I have bought the course), but not to publish or share. I do use the technique he teaches.

Obviously someone does not read and released the work as his own. The PP work is definitely different than Locardi's but it comes from the same base files. For far as I understand it the shot was done with a FujiFilm XT-1.

[Black Pearl]

Isn't it a shame though that a camera company that sells to professionals (amongst others) and has brand ambassadors all who make a living selling images taken with a Canon camera can't pay any of them for an image it uses to promote itself.