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Adobe Has Completely Redesigned Masking in Lightroom and ACR

September 30, 2021
Adobe has announced that it will be launching a redesigned and more powerful way to make selective adjustments — collectively referred to as masking — in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) and all Lightroom applications at the end of October. Adobe says that while it has been creating new ways to make selections with its AI-powered selection tools inside of Photoshop, the image processing engine used by…
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Irix Unveils the Cinema-Inspired 30mm f/1.4 Lens for DSLRs

September 30, 2021
Irix has announced a new 30mm f/1.4 lens that it says uses the same optical design found in its 30mm cine model, but has been rehoused to work for still photographers. The new DSLR lens is available in Nikon F, Canon EF, and Pentax K mounts. The Irix 30mm f/1.4 is constructed of 13 elements in 11 groups and features an optical design that includes three ultra-low dispersion glass elements, two…
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Google Lens Soon to Allow Search with Photos and Text Combined

September 30, 2021
Google Lens, the company’s image recognition technology, will soon allow a smartphone’s camera to not only recognize objects in the real world but be combined with search terms to allow users to ask questions about what the camera sees. Google will add functionality from its Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to allow its Lens system to understand information from both the visual data as well as…
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Honor is now the third-largest smartphone brand in China

September 30, 2021
According to , Honor has outpaced Xiaomi in terms of smartphone sales in China for August and is thus one of the top-three largest smartphone brands in the country behind Oppo and vivo. The new report states an 18% increase in monthly Honor smartphone sales for August which…
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Samsung removes the support pages for the Galaxy S21 FE

September 30, 2021
Nothing to see here, move along. Samsung swept any evidence of the Galaxy S21 FE under the rug and removed the support pages for the phone that went live in anticipation of its announcement. An announcement that has reportedly been canceled. You can see the various support…
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Photo of Samsung Galaxy S22 battery confirms 3,700 mAh capacity

September 30, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy S22 is going to be smaller than the S21, but that also means that it will have a smaller battery – 3,700 mAh according to the most recent rumors. And those rumors have been confirmed with a photo of the actual battery. Here it is, the EB-BS901ABY (14.35 Wh), photographed during the certification process of SafetyKorea. For reference, the Galaxy S21 and the S20 before it had…
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