NVIDIA’s Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that can produce a 3D scene from 2D data inputs in seconds and can render images of that scene in milliseconds.
The process is known as inverse rendering and allows AI to approximate how light behaves in the real world, which can be used to turn a collection of still images into a digital 3D scene in seconds. NVIDIA’s research team has…
During a recent deep-sea dive, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured stunning footage of a strawberry squid using its brand-new 4K camera.
While piloting its remote-operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts during a recent dive, MBARI researchers came…
Samyang has announced the second generation 35mm f/1.4 FE autofocus lens for both full-frame and crop sensor Sony E-mount cameras. With its launch, Samyang says that the major angles of 50mm and 35mm in its f/1.4 lineup have been updated.
The Promise of High…
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an incredibly detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that is shaped like an eye. The photo was made thanks to two of Hubble’s instruments: the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
This detailed photo shows the heart of NGC 1097, what NASA describes as a barred spiral galaxy that sits about 48 million light-years from…
Improving the performance of smartphone cameras often feels like approaching the end of an exponential curve: it can be done, but improvements are becoming less noticeable. Glass Imaging wants to change that through the novel use of anamorphic lenses.
Smartphone…
Optics manufacturer Samyang has announced the release of the AF 35mm F1.4 FE II, a second-generation autofocus prime for Sony E-mount camera systems.
The updated lens features a new optical construction that consists of 11 elements in nine groups, including two aspherical…
Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has purchased brain-computer interface startup NextMind whose technology could be used to directly control augmented reality (AR) tools just with thought, like the Spectacles or forthcoming camera drone.
NextMind is a France-based startup that developed a small, head-mounted sensor that uses non-invasive EEG technology to detect electrical signals…
The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated its 20th year using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed on Hubble in March of 2002 and became its most used camera.
The ACS wavelength range extends from the ultraviolet, through the visible…
One of the world’s most popular aerial photography communities, SkyPixel, has announced the winners of the seventh-annual Aerial Photo and Video competition.
The competition, supported by DJI, attracted nearly 30,000 submissions from 124 countries and regions.
Photographer Ronaldo Carvalho took an old and broken fixed-lens Olympus film camera lens and adapted it to work on a new Canon EOS R6, breathing new life into retired gear.
Carvalho originally got the idea to repurpose his old equipment when he noticed that the 40mm f/2.8 on an old Olympus camera he had been using as a shelf display had loosened and started to fall. It got him thinking…
