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Google Lens, the company’s image recognition technology, will soon allow a smartphone’s camera to not only recognize objects in the real world but be combined with search terms to allow users to ask questions about what the camera sees. Google will add functionality from its Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to allow its Lens system to understand information from both the visual data as well as…

Introduction 85% Overall score Jump to conclusion The Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports is an ultra-telephoto zoom lens for full-frame and sub-frame mirrorless cameras based around either the Sony E-mount or the Leica L-mount. With 35mm-equivalent focal lengths equating to 225-900mm with an APS-C crop, it’s aimed primarily at still photographers looking to bring distant…

Lens manufacturer Irix has announced its new 30mm F1.4 lens, a stills version of its 30mm cine lens available for Canon EF, Nikon F and Pentax K mount camera systems. The 30mm F1.4 manual lens is constructed of 13 elements in 11 groups, including three ultra-low dispersion elements, two high-reflective elements and a single aspherical elements. The lens features Irix’s ‘Dragonfly’…

The same developer who created a free app that lists over 150 film simulations for Fujifilm is back at it and has published over 40 such simulations for Ricoh GR cameras. The Ricoh Recipes App is now available to download for both iPhones and Android devices and was developed by Ritchie Roesch who is the creator of the Fuji X Weekly blog, but he has clearly branched out from Fujifilm. His app…