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Viltrox Unveils $380 50mm f/1.8 for Sony E and Nikon Z-Mount

December 16, 2021
Viltrox has announced a 50mm f/1.8 lens for both Sony and Nikon mirrorless cameras, adding to the company’s expanding list of third-party lens choices for full-frame mirrorless bodies. Without a lens cap and hood, the new Viltrox lens is relatively lightweight at just 350 grams (12.4 ounces) compared to the Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.8 which weighs 415 grams (14.7 ounces), for example. The…
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Photographer Uses AI to Restore 110-Year-Old Photos, Bring Them to Life

December 16, 2021
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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Unbabel acquires Lingo24 to bolster AI-driven translations for enterprises

December 16, 2021
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more 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)…
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