Photographer and Youtuber Mathieu Stern recently purchased two glass plate negatives from 1910 and decided to scan, restore, colorize, and animate the photos with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
Stern said that after he purchased the two negatives, he spent some time online studying Victorian glass plate archives so that he could try and learn more about the woman in the…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope to be the ‘Coolest Camera in Space’
December 16, 2021
NASA’s soon-to-be-launched James Webb Telescope is set to fly into space this month and begin its tasks of collecting infrared light from the distant corners of the cosmos. But to do so, it needs to get very, very cold.
The James Webb Telescope is the successor…
US Navy Shares Photos of New Laser Weapon in Action
December 16, 2021
The US Navy has shared photos and videos of a powerful new laser weapon system that it has been testing to take down both drones and small crafts.
The latest reddish photos were captured with a special camera equipped with a short wave infrared lens and an optical…
Sony Unveils Groundbreaking CMOS Sensor That Gathers Twice the Light
December 16, 2021
Sony’s Semiconductor division has announced that it successfully developed the world’s first stacked CMOS image sensor technology with two-layer transistor pixels that grants double the light gathering capability.
Sony explains that typical image sensors place photodiodes and pixel transistors on the same substrate, but in this new design, it was able to separate them onto different…
Using a Zeiss 300mm Lens for a Wet Plate Self Portrait Project
December 16, 2021
Wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter recently acquired a Zeiss 300mm f/4.5 lens, and although it produced beautiful results, the process of getting to a finished image was filled with numerous obstacles along the way.
The Austria-based Hofstätter is not a stranger…
Revisiting the Canon 1D, 20 Years Later
December 16, 2021
It was my first year in college. I was going out every day to teach myself photography, Harry Potter had just come out in theaters, and Canon entered the digital photography world with its very first fully backed flagship, the Canon EOS 1D. At the time, I was shooting on the…
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San Francisco, California-based Unbabel, a startup delivering AI-driven translations to help enterprises deliver multilingual customer service, today announced that it has acquired the Edinburgh, Scotland-headquartered language service provider (LSP)…
Pixelmator Photo is now available on iPhone
December 16, 2021
The Pixelmator team is perhaps best known for Pixelmator Pro, the richly-featured Mac image editor and graphics tool. However, the company has been quietly iterating on a streamlined photo-focused app on the iPad, Pixelmator Photo.
Today, Pixelmator Photo is expanding to the…
If you’re from the US or are trying to understand American units of measure, there’s now an easier way to do that with Uniter. This is a new iPhone app that can convert measurements in real-time in your preferred unit system.
Developed by Arek Holko, what called my…
OnePlus Nord 2 CE renders showcase the upcoming budget Android
December 16, 2021
The latest set of 3D renders of an unreleased device have been shared online, and this time it’s the turn of the OnePlus Nord 2 CE.
While it’s unclear just how popular the original Nord CE was, it looks like OnePlus is doubling down with the Nord 2 CE in early 2022. Effectively just a stripped-back version of the device released earlier this year, we’ll see some cutbacks likely to…
