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Hypnotic Photos Show the Flight Paths of Birds and Bats

Lockdown Vultures (Moab Slope) Stifled by lockdown, photographer Doris Mitsch began to look up for inspiration and started photo-stacking bird flight paths with the editing sometimes taking her days to finish. “The photos take hours and hours and hours to edit. Some combine more than a thousand separate images,” Mitsch tells PetaPixel. Mitsch used a Canon 5D Mark III sometimes, and…
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Film Friday: Combining a Polaroid Model 455 and Fujifilm Instax 100 to make a retro Instax Wide camera

Fujifilm discontinued its FP instant pack film in 2016, opting instead to focus on its Instax film series. You can still find FP online, but it’s old and expensive. Fujifilm Instax Wide Instant film is 10.6 x 8.4cm and costs a bit over a dollar per photo, keeping instant photography relatively accessible. For Jim Skelton of Emulsive, the Instax Wide film is good, but the Instax 100 camera…
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It Looks Like the Nikon Z7 is Being Discontinued

Nikon appears to have discontinued the Nikon Z7, the company’s original foray into full-frame mirrorless. The camera is listed as an “old product” which usually indicates it will no longer be actively manufactured. As spotted by Nikon Rumors, the “old…
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Secrets of Old Photos Revealed Using AI Colorization and Reverse Search

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…
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Studio Scene 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…
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