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Sigma interview: 'All employees have to respect each other, educate each other, and encourage each other'

June 9, 2021
Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of Sigma, pictured in 2018 at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany. After a long, eventful year since we last spoke, we connected with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki recently, over a video call from his headquarters in northern Japan. In a wide-ranging interview he spoke about his vision for the future of his company as both a lens manufacturer and camera manufacturer, what…
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Razer partners with ClearBot to reduce ocean plastics

June 8, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Razer said it has partnered with marine-waste cleaning firm ClearBot to reduce pollution from ocean plastics. In celebration of World Oceans Day, the partnership will complement Razer’s own “green…
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Adobe Launches Native Apple M1 Support for Lightroom Classic

June 8, 2021
Hot on the heels of Capture One, Adobe has finally brought native Apple silicon support for Lightroom Classic. In addition to promising straight performance improvements, Adobe is also adding several new features — like Super Resolution — to the popular photo editor. Adobe’s June Release for Creative Cloud has a ton of improvements across its entire suite of applications, but photographers…
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9 of History’s Rarest Lenses That You Can Actually Buy

June 8, 2021
Through the history of camera development, thousands and thousands of different types of lenses have been designed and produced. Some did not advance beyond the prototype stage, some were privately commissioned, and naturally many were mass-produced to one degree or another.
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Microsoft Patents Four-Color Quad Camera to Match its Windows Logo

June 8, 2021
Microsoft has patented a new “logo camera” system for use on its devices. It uses a quad-camera array in the shape of its iconic Windows logo where each individual camera is optimized for a specific color. Discovered and visualized by LetsGoDigital, the patent was originally filed in October of 2020 and the 40-page documentation was published publicly on May 14, 2021. According to the…
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IBM releases AI model toolkit to help developers measure uncertainty

June 8, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At its Digital Developer Conference today, IBM open-sourced Uncertainty Quantification 360 (UQ360), a new toolkit focused on enabling AI to understand and communicate its uncertainty. Following in the footsteps of IBM’s AI Fairness 360 and AI Explainability 360, the goal of UQ360 is to foster community practices across…
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