Image search technology is evolving to a point where researchers can gather information on old photos that was previously impossible to attain.
Investigative journalist Foeke Postama published an article on Bellingcat this week demonstrating the astonishing power of online tools — such as reverse image searches, Google Lens, and artificially intelligent (AI) colorization.
Using these…
Bathynomus yucatanensis | Dr. Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History
Scientists have recently trapped and photographed a giant deep-sea isopod — a giant, underwater cousin of the pillbug — off the coast of Mexico and after studying it closely, realized that it was…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of photographer Elliot McGucken who brought a case against Pub Ocean Ltd after they published photos of a lake that had formed in Death Valley without permission.
The decision reversed a lower…
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August 11, 2022
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Our test scene is designed to simulate a variety of textures, colors and detail types you’ll encounter in the real world. It also has two illumination modes to see the effect of different lighting conditions.
We suspect the small difference in apparent sharpness between the X-H2S and the X-T3 and 4 is primarily down to the fractionally darker exposure giving a hint more…
In May, we wrote about Sigma’s new headquarters in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture. While the new four-story building isn’t open to the public, Gizmomo Freak took a private tour of the new facility. Now CineD has toured the facility, giving us our first…
Magnum Photos Marks its 75th Anniversary With Unseen Photos
August 10, 2022
Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, Altai Territory, Russia, 2000. | Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photo
Magnum Photo is marking its 75th anniversary by publishing 150 photos, some of them previously unseen, from its…
Canon has officially partnered with Japanese toy company Takara Tomy to produce two “robots in disguise” Transformer toys that take the shape of the EOS R5.
Spotted by TFormers and The Verge, Takara Tomy is set to release a pair of Transformer toys that take the shape of Optimus Prime of the Autobots and Refraktor of the Decepticons. Refraktor might at first seem like an obscure…
Fujifilm will host what it describes as a free and “interactive festival” for anyone interested in photography this September in New York. Called Fujifina, the event is making a location shift from its traditional home in Tokyo, Japan.
The company says that…
After nearly five years of development, Polaroid lovers in France have developed a new instant print back adapter to fit vintage Type 100-400 Polaroid Land cameras. Dubbed the Newland Camera, the back adapter enables the folding, bellows style land cameras made in the 1960s…
These Canon EOS R5 replicas are actually Transformers that shapeshift into Optimus Prime and a Decepticon
August 10, 2022
While the above camera looks just like a regular Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera, you’d be in for quite the surprise if you tried to use it. That’s because hidden within the nearly perfect replica is a transformer toy the turns from a mirrorless camera into a robot with a little articulation.
Canon has teamed up with Takara Tomy, the Japanese company behind the Transformers toys, to…
