Photography

The global chip shortage has had a lot of consequences. While we expected many products to be tough to find, some of the outcomes of the shortage are more surprising. For example, Canon puts chips in some of its ink and toner cartridges so that its printers can identify them as genuine cartridges. However, these chips are difficult to find so Canon has been manufacturing cartridges without the…

Nikon has released a firmware update for its Z9 full-frame mirrorless camera that increases the camera’s burst length for dual-format capture, more than double the rate possible in the Z9’s 1.00 firmware. According to Nikon, firmware version 1.10 for the Nikon Z9 allows photographs to be captured at 20 frames per second (fps) for up to eight seconds when shooting in ‘NEF/RAW…

As an art form and a technology, photography’s youth is only matched by its blisteringly rapid advancement. This creates something of a paradox for us as enthusiasts and professionals, where the history of the medium we so love can feel both short and overstuffed. Neither condition is conducive to any one camera gaining, let alone maintaining, a sense of permanence or constancy. It can…

Smarterpix, Germany’s leading stock photo agency, has announced an industry-first: a set of stock portraits that are 100% generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and available for legal licensing. Smarterpix is operated by PantherMedia, the first microstock agency in Germany, which partnered with VAIsual, a technology company that pioneers algorithms and solutions to generate synthetic…