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Canon’s New App Culls Photos with Artificial Intelligence

Canon has announced the Photo Culling app, the company’s new software for iOS that is built on a newly-announced proprietary artificial intelligence. Canon advertises its new app as a “digital photo assistant” to help select your best images based on four key parameters. Starting with the core of its new app, Canon announced that it has built a Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence…
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Sony’s Next Camera is the Cine/Alpha Hybrid FX3: Report

A pair of photos have emerged that appear to show Sony’s next camera, depicting a look that combines the body profile of the Alpha series with cinema camera buttons. Called the FX3, it shares much in common with the design philosophy of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera.
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A Trove of Clever KGB Spy Cameras From the Cold War Are Up for Sale

Several examples of the height of concealed camera technology are set to go up for auction on February 13 as part of the first and most comprehensive offering of rare artifacts ever assembled from the Cold War era. Many of the items come straight from the KGB museum in New York. According to Julien’s Auctions, the entire collection from the KGB Espionage Museum — which you can read more…
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Laowa Brings Four of its Popular Lenses to L-Mount

Venus Optics has announced that four popular Laowa lenses are being released for L-mount. Two wide-angle lenses, the 4mm f/2.8 Fisheye and the 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D, and two macro lenses, the 24mm f/14 2X Macro Probe and the 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro, are available to order…
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Same Energy is a Visual Search Engine That Finds Similar Photos in a Snap

Same Energy is a new Web tool that’s perfect for photographers looking for visual inspiration. It’s an AI-powered visual search engine that provides a fast and simple experience for exploring visually similar photos. The website was created by Canadian developer Jacob Jackson, who launched it into beta last week. “We believe that image search should be visual, using only a minimum of…
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Taking a Photo with the 130-Year-Old Rochester Premo B Camera

Photographer Roberto Serrini received an antique camera as a gift from his father: a Rochester Premo B. Curious to see what it was like shooting with this camera as if it was 1893, Serrini decided to give see what that process was like. The Rochester Premo B shoots tintypes and is one of the first consumer cameras ever made. It was made by the Rochester Optical Company in 1893, which makes the…
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