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Nikon is Fighting RED’s Lawsuit Over the Z9’s Compressed RAW Video

In May, RED Digital Cinema filed a lawsuit against Nikon, alleging that the data compression technology it uses in the Z9 camera violated its patents. Nikon has responded and argues RED’s patent should never have been approved to begin with. RED’s lawsuit says that a type of compression it has patented is in use by the Nikon Z9 without licensing it. The lawsuit states numerous…
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How Steve Sasson Invented the Digital Camera

Steve Sasson is an electrical engineer who invented the digital camera while working for Kodak. The Rochester, New York, company, which had made its fortune by selling photographic film and paper for most of the 20th century, did not think that Sasson’s digital camera had…
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Reality TV Star Photoshops Herself to Show How ‘Deceptive’ Social Media Is

Reality TV star Bethenny Frankel has revealed how “deceptive” editing and filters can be, by posting a Photoshopped image of herself in a bikini on Instagram. Real Housewives of New York alum and television personality, Frankel, has also condemned other celebrities who are known for Photoshopping their own social media images. Frankel shared a heavily edited photo of herself in a…
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This week Fujifilm announced the XF 56mm F1.2 R WR, a prime lens that provides an 85mm full-frame equivalent field of view – a favorite of portrait shooters. So what did we do with it? We shot a sample gallery chock-full of portraits, of course. View our Fujifilm XF 56mm…
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The Insta360 X3 Takes 5.7K 360-Degree Video and 72MP Photos

Insta360 has announced the X3, a 360-degree camera that features a larger sensor and bigger touchscreen than its predecessor as well as the ability to capture 5.7K 360-degree video and 72-megapixel photos. The X3 boosts the size of both the sensor and display over the previous model, the One X2. Firstly, the display on the X3 is dramatically larger than its predecessor. The X3 features…
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Canon, What Are You Doing?

Canon has said the quiet part out loud: it doesn’t want you to spend any of your money on anything other than Canon products. This is a huge mistake, and I’m pleading that the company rethink this strategy. Earlier this week, we confirmed that Canon issued cease and desist orders to at least one third-party lens manufacturer — namely Viltrox — to demand they stop releasing…
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