Lead image: San Jose as captured by the Canon CE-SAT-1. Image courtesy of Canon. Click to enlarge.
Canon didn’t announce any new products at this year’s CES, but the company is leveraging an older product to give people the chance to capture simulated photos from distinct perspectives. The Canon CE-SAT-1 satellite was launched into orbit in 2017 and via a new interactive experience…
The Nintendo Switch dominated hardware sales in the United States throughout 2020. It easily outsold its last-gen competition in the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and it continues to outperform PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S due to their supply constraints. The hybrid…
December saw new records for consumer spending on video games in the United States of $7.7 billion, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. The new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S hardware drove that, but ongoing success for Nintendo’s Switch platform was also…
Nikon Professional Services has added two paid tiers above the complimentary Pro plan that add significant additional benefits for working photographers. Both new tiers include equipment loans, repair discounts, and cleaning services.
Nikon’s basic, complimentary, Pro membership includes access to the NPS support hotline, a dedicated NPS representative, prioritization of repairs, no charge for…
Photographer Markus Hofstätter had been designing parts for his cameras and 3D printing them at home when the idea to try something new struck him: 3D printing photographs. After a lot of trial and error, he successfully found a way to translate wet plate photos into 3D…
Fujifilm Has Discontinued its Pro 400H Color Negative Film
January 15, 2021
Fujifilm has discontinued the Pro 400H film in both 35mm and 120 formats, citing the challenges associated with producing this particularly unique film.
Announced on its website, the company cites the unusual fourth layer coating that makes the film challenging and…
AI systems’ failures have become a recurring theme in technology news. Credit scoring algorithms that discriminate against women. Computer vision systems that misclassify people with darker skin. Recommendation systems that promote violent content. Trending algorithms that amplify fake news.
Most complex software systems fail at some point, and they need to be updated regularly. We have…
Canon Exceeded Sales Projections For its 2020 Fiscal Year
January 15, 2021
The success of Canon’s R5 and R6 mirrorless cameras have exceeded the company’s expectations and it has revised its 2020 fiscal year earnings over initial projections. The company logged net income of more than a quarter of a billion dollars in excess of its original…
Researchers at Facebook and New York University (NYU) claim to have developed three machine learning models that could help doctors predict how a COVID-19 patient’s condition might develop. The open-sourced models, all of which require no more than a sequence of X-rays…
Last year Fufjilm announced a firmware update that would bring pixel-shift multi-shot to the GFX100, allowing it to jump from 100-megapixel photos to capturing whopping 400-megapixel photos. In this 12-minute video, ZY Productions shows exactly what that looks like.
Thanks to the firmware update, the GFX100 can now capture images with a final dimension of 23,296 by 17,472 pixels, which is about…
