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Part of a Bigger Picture: Sony, Canon, and Nikon Led Production in 2020

While 2020 wasn’t a particularly good year for camera manufacturers overall, by the late fall and into the winter the sales number had rebounded, returning to more typical numbers. Through the year, the big three — Sony, Canon, and Nikon — unsurprisingly led total production numbers. According to a report from Sankeibiz, the research firm Techno System Research noted that a total of 3.26…
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Hands-on with the Sigma fp L and its new viewfinder

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Hands-on with the Sigma fp L Sigma has just announced the fp L, a high-resolution sister model to the original fp, released in 2019. With a 61MP full-frame sensor, it’s intended to be more stills-oriented than the original camera, with which it shares its design and control philosophy. That makes both of these…
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Photoshop Super Resolution vs Topaz Gigapixel AI: Upscaling Throwdown

Adobe’s new Super Resolution is making a big splash in the industry as photographers can output cleaner upscaled images at four times the original pixel count. Is it really impressive enough to take the crown from Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI? Super Resolution is a brand new feature that lives inside Adobe Camera RAW and uses machine learning to increase the size of images while attempting to…
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How to Build Your Own Thermal Camera With a Raspberry Pi

Thermal cameras are expensive. They can cost anywhere between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars to buy and can cost $50 a day to rent. So why not just build one for around $100? As published on the Raspberry Pi blog, DIY-er Tom Shaffner wanted to check his house with an infrared camera to see where he could improve his insulation (seeing as he is spending a lot more time there working from…
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