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Laowa 100mm f/2.8 Ultra Macro Now Available in Pentax K and Stepless on Canon EF

Venus Optics has announced that the 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro lens originally announced in 2018 and has seen updates to multiple mirrorless mounts including Canon RF and Nikon Z is now available for Canon EF with a stepless aperture ring and finally on Pentax K. This announcement makes for two different versions of the optic available for Canon EF. Venus Optics had previously launched an EF…
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Apple ProRAW Photos Will Be 12-Bit DNGs with 14-Stops of Dynamic Range

Yesterday, the developer beta for iOS 14.3 – which contains the upcoming ProRAW photo feature – became available. Though the exact date of the consumer beta or final release of the software has yet to be announced, we now know some facts about how ProRAW will work. In an interview last week with Apple, we already gleaned a lot of information about the advantages of the coming file type. The…
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How and Why You Should Take Photos in Bad Weather

Spanish-American Photographer and YouTuber Aows has published this 9.5-minute video that discusses a topic most photographers avoid: taking photos in bad weather conditions. Aows explains how he does it and why he thinks it’s worth it. Aows says he has experimented with…
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Kenneth McKenzie’s Lost Photos from World War II

I met a man who owned a ton of his uncle’s photos he took during his time in World War II. The images by Kenneth McKenzie start in Vancouver and Banff where they did their training, then all across Europe. Kenneth McKenzie with his Brownie in hand and Caesar by his side. While there are many images like these, what makes these special in my opinion is that each of the images has a handwritten…
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Help wanted: Google Photos wants your assistance in training its machine learning algorithms

Android Police is reporting that Google Photos has been asking its users to help improve its algorithms. While this is not Google’s first foray into crowdsourcing help in improving its recognition software, the latest survey, which is rolling out to users on Android, is asking for volunteers to label their images. Last year, Google Photos asked users to identify faces in images to help…
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