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Newspaper Navigator Lets You Search 1.56M Newspaper Photos Throughout History

The Library of Congress has created something really cool. It’s called the Newspaper Navigator, and it’s an AI-powered image search that lets you browse through over 1.5 million newspaper photos from over 16 million pages worth of digitized newspapers published between 1900 and 1963. The Newspaper Navigator project is the brainchild of Computer Science PhD student Benjamin Charles Germain Lee…
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The Market For Discontinued Photographic Film

My fridge was recently full of instant film. I mean that literally, it was not possible for me to put any more packets of the film into the fridge without risking damaging them. I had acquired all of the film one day when my printer sent me an email asking if I wanted to purchase 93 packs of Fujifilm FP-100C for 2,790 Swiss Francs (~$3,000) in Switzerland. That’s ~$32.50 per box, about three…
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Profoto Unveils the A10 Speedlight: Works with Phones, Costs $1,100

Profoto has just unveiled the latest iteration of the A1 series of round-head speedlights. First came the Profoto A1, then the Profoto A1X, and now the company has unveiled the Profoto A10: basically an A1X with Bluetooth and “AirX” technology built in. In almost every way, the Profoto A10 is identical to the A1X. You get the same round flash head design, a big display for easily changing…
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Alice Camera is a New AI-Accelerated Computational Camera

The British startup Photogram AI has announced a new camera called the Alice Camera. It’s an “AI-accelerated computational camera” that aims to deliver better connectivity than a DSLR and better quality than a smartphone. Smartphones have been making huge advances in…
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ON1 Unveils ON1 Photo RAW 2021 and Launches All-New ON1 Portrait AI

Portland-based software company ON1 made three announcements yesterday. It launched a new application called ON1 Portrait AI, pushed a major update to ON1 Photo RAW Mobile for iOS and Android, and unveiled the latest version of the ON1 Photo RAW desktop editor, which will officially launch in October. ON1 Portrait AI As the name suggests, ON1 Portrait AI is a stand-alone application (also…
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