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3D Print Your Own Camera with an Interchangeable Sensor and Lens

Electronics engineer Guarav Singh has 3D-printed a camera chassis that’s designed to work with interchangeable lenses and sensors. The open-source industrial-grade camera is split across three boards, and it is here the interesting design allows for modularity. The first board holds the USB interface, with a USB 3.0 Type-C connector mounted at a 90-degree angle for data and…
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Video: DIY macro photography with a $20 microscope lens and 3D printed adapter

Image credit: Micael Widell One of macro photographer Micael Widell’s subscribers, Nicholas Sherlock, sent Widell an awesome microscope lens and 3D-printed adapter. Sherlock, a macro photography enthusiast, created a microscope adapter for up to 4x macro photography on Sony E/FE, Canon EF/EF-S, Nikon F and M42 cameras. With the adapter, you can attach an AmScope 4x Plan Achromatic…
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NVIDIA’s New Tool Can Create Editable 3D Objects from Photos

NVIDIA researchers have created a new tool that can easily turn photos into 3D objects. Called NVIDIA 3D MoMa, the company says it can allow architects, designers, concept artists, and game developers to quickly import objects into a graphics engine for digital manipulation. The technology works through what is known as inverse rendering, which is a technique that can reconstruct a…
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Claid AI Software Auto-Enhances Customer Photos on E-Commerce Sites

Claid.ai, a self-described artificial intelligence (AI) company, has launched new software that automatically enhances, removes backgrounds, and fixes lighting in photos uploaded to e-commerce sites by users who might not have the best equipment. The company says that online marketplaces have little to no control over the quality of user-provided photos, many of which rely on these…
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