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Lexar is first out of the gate with CFexpress 4.0 Type A cards for Sony cameras

Jan 12, 2024
John Aldred

Lexar has announced its newest CFexpress memory cards at CES 2024. Both cards meet the new CFexpress 4.0 specification, offering double the speeds of previous…

Camera frozen in ice on hockey rink to get unusual angle

Jan 11, 2024
Alex Baker

I love unusual camera angles, from nature documentaries to adventure films. It always adds a slice of the unexpected and makes you consider the world…

Wacom responds to artists’ outcry over AI use in ad

Jan 11, 2024
Alex Baker

A few days ago Wacom published some advertisements for their pen and tablet products, which appeared to use AI-generated images. Of course, the artist community…

Watch: This is how Kodak made film in the 1950s

Jan 10, 2024
John Aldred

Not too long ago, we saw a three–part series from Destin Sandlin at Smarter Every Day showing how Kodak makes film. He visited their Rochester,…

How a GoPro and patience helped photographer win the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2023

Jan 10, 2024
Dunja Djudjic

Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) has announced the winners of its 2023 contest. And this year, the winner is Hungarian photographer Csaba Daróczi. His…

Uranus and Neptune have way more similar colors than we thought, study shows

Jan 10, 2024
Dunja Djudjic

For decades, we’ve seen stunning images of Neptune as a deep azure and Uranus as a pale cyan. However, it turns out those vibrant colors might not be entirely accurate. A new study reveals that these two ice giants are actually much closer in color than we thought – a shade of greenish-blue, to be precise.

Now you can wear Kolari filters on your face

Jan 9, 2024
John Aldred

Kolari Vision has announced their newest filters – sort of. These ones don’t go over your camera lens, though. No, these ones are for your…

Mouse filmed tidying photographer’s shed every night

Jan 9, 2024
Alex Baker

It almost sounds too good to be true, like a plot from a Pixar movie. A Welsh photographer discovered that a mouse was tidying up…

New Panasonic AI revolutionizes image recognition with context understanding

Jan 9, 2024
Dunja Djudjic

Panasonic has joined the world of AI. And it seems that it hasn’t only jumped on the bandwagon but has led the charge with a new development. Their latest creation is an image recognition AI that sheds the limitations of its predecessors. It can tell apart the objects that appear differently depending on their surroundings.

Photographer fined for crashing drone near DJ Fat Boy Slim

Jan 8, 2024
Alex Baker

Authorities have fined an amateur photographer for nearly crashing his drone into famous DJ Fat Boy Slim. The incident happened when the DJ, Norman Cook…