Artist, designer and programmer Cyril Diagne recently created a bit of tech that looks more like science fiction that science fact. Using a combination of augmented reality and machine learning tech, he's figured out a way to "copy and paste" objects from the real world into Photoshop, using just a smartphone.
If you're the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, you may want to start being extra careful with the smartphone -- some users are reporting that the glass covering the large 108MP module is unexpectedly shattering on them for no apparent reason.
After four years, we have a new budget-conscious iPhone. Like previous SE, it reaches that price point by sticking to components from previous generations. iFixit found the the camera sensor interchangeable with that of an iPhone 8.
VESA has announced that USB 4 is going to be even more versatile that we thought. Thanks to the new "DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0" spec, USB 4 will be able to fully support the DisplayPort 2.0 standard, allowing it to power up to three 10K monitors at the same time, or one 16K monitor, at 60Hz.
Intel has finally unveiled its much-leaked lineup of 10th-generation "S-series" desktop CPUs headlined by the flagship 10-core Core i9-10900K—a beastly 5.3GHz chip that Intel is calling the "world’s fastest gaming processor."
Earlier today, OmniVision announced an impressive 64MP 1/2-inch image sensor that will be ideal for ultra-thin, high-end smartphones. 64MP is an industry first at this size, achieved by shrinking the pixels all the way down to just 0.7 microns.
iFixit has finished its teardown of Apple's new iPhone SE, and one of the main revelations is a disappointing one for smartphone photographers: the new phone does NOT use the camera from the iPhone XR. Instead, Apple is using a module that is basically identical to the one in the iPhone 8.
Thanks to everyone who read my previous article on my process as a TV show set photographer, and all of you who got in touch with questions and comments. People had a range of questions, especially about how I use a waveform monitor, so I'll make this a fairly wide-ranging post to try and answer everything.
Samsung unveiled the world's first 108-megapixel smartphone camera sensor back in August 2019, but that sensor is only a taste of what may be to come. Samsung is aiming to one day make a 600-megapixel sensor that's superior to the human eye.
Last week's Sony a9 II firmware update came with a couple of really useful features. Not only does it let you close the camera's shutter when changing lenses, but the new 'shutter speed fine-tuning' feature is able to completely eliminate flicker from troublesome light sources.
How does Lens IS compare to using IBIS? And how do either of these compare to stabilization in post? These are the questions that Eric Stemen wanted to answer in his latest side-by-side comparison, which highlights the benefits and limitations of each stabilization method when shooting video handheld.
Photographer Hugo Rodriguez has created a "new generation" of color chart called the HR-1 SuperChroma that blows your ColorChecker out of the water. Using 999 evenly distributed color patches, Rodriguez claims his chart can produce more accurate results than anything else on the market today.
A security researcher is being rewarded handsomely after he discovered a massive iOS and MacOS camera flaw that would allow bad actors to hijack the camera and microphone in any iPhone or Mac computer, and use it to spy on you.
Google has added a new feature called 'Art Transfer' to its popular Arts & Culture app. The tool uses AI to "transform" all or part of your photo into the style of famous artists like Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, or Edvard Munch.
Researchers in Japan released some truly fascinating footage this week. Using special 'high-sensitivity' cameras and laser beams, they're able to capture microdroplets that are 1/10,000 of a millimeter in size—droplets that are invisible to the naked eye, and may contribute to the spread of COVID-19.
If you're looking for a new editing laptop, today is a very good day. Not only did Intel debut its 10th Gen H-Series mobile CPUs, but NVIDIA has just revealed its latest GeForce RTX Super GPUs, paving the way for a slew of new high-performance laptops for creative professionals.
Intel has just debuted its 10th Gen H-series high-performance laptop CPUs, breaking the 5GHz barrier and ushering in a new era for creative professionals who want no-compromises photo and video editing performance on-the-go.
Huawei recently revealed the P40 Pro smartphone: the company's latest flagship complete with some very impressive camera specs. But the most impressive thing about this phone might not be the cameras themselves, but their insane digital image stabilization.
US drone maker Draganfly—one of DJI's major competitors in the commercial camera drone space—is working with the Australian Department of Defense and University of South Australia to deploy special "pandemic drones" that can detect coughing, sneezing, respiratory rate, and even fever from a distance.
Researchers at the University of Zurich have created a custom drone that's so good at obstacle avoidance it can play dodgeball. The drone uses a special camera that allows it to react to incoming objects in just 3.5 milliseconds, about 10x faster than anything on the market today.
The world's first photo of black hole was published back in April 2019, and scientists have been laboring to find ways to capture sharper images of the mysterious regions of spacetime. Scientists are now saying that focusing on a black hole's "photon ring" may lead to a huge increase in sharpness.
An intriguing, and surprisingly plausible, rumor is flying around the smartphone world this week claiming that Samsung will be releasing an "almost 1-inch" sized 150MP ISOCELL CMOS sensor, and that this sensor could show up in a smartphone as soon as Q4 of 2020.
Photographer Chris Lee of pal2tech has created a much-requested follow-up to his technical breakdown of how ISO works when you take a picture. The followup uses Fuji cameras as an example to explain how the Extended Low, or "L", ISO setting on your camera functions.
Scientists have created a new focus-free camera using an ultra-flat lens that "eliminates the need for focusing." The development could have an impact on both photography and a wide range of industries.
iFixit has posted their teardown of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra: a smartphone that boasts, at least spec-wise, the most impressive camera array on the market. This thing is a beast, and iFixit is giving us our first look at the 108MP sensor behind its main camera module, and the folded optics behind its 4x optical zoom.
Photographer Chris Lee of the YouTube channel pal2tech recently released one of the most straightforward technical explanations of ISO that we've seen. In this 12 minute video, he explains what ISO is and, just as importantly, takes on a couple of common misconceptions by explaining what ISO is not.
The Chinese smartphone company Vivo has unveiled its new APEX 2020 5G concept smartphone. It's a device that comes with a number of interesting photography-related features, including what the company calls a "gimbal-stabilizing camera."
Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don't actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning (i.e. artificial intelligence), Facebook taught a neural network how to "infer 3D structures from 2D photos," even if those photos were taken with a single lens camera.
The Joint Photographic Experts Group, the committee behind the JPEG image file, recently held its 86th meeting in Sydney, Australia, and among the topics discussed was using artificial intelligence for greater image procession and using blockchain (the technology pioneered by Bitcoin) for a new system of trust.
After unveiling the Galaxy S20 Ultra with its monstrous (or ridiculous?) 108MP image sensor, Samsung has decided to pull back the curtain and reveal some details about this chip and the technology that made it possible.
Panasonic recently partnered up with India's Dentsu Aegis Network to create something really cool. Following in the footsteps of those glasses that "reverse" certain types of colorblindness, the company created a Panasonic G90 with a specially designed viewfinder lens that lets colorblind photographers see color.
All digital data storage decays in one way or another. Depending on if your storage media, your digital photos may last just years or decades before "bit rot" destroys it. But Microsoft is working on something called Project Silica that could one day allow you to store your precious memories safely for 10,000 years by etching the data into glass.
YouTuber Denis Shiryaev used publicly available AI-based technology to take a grainy, low-resolution short film from the year 1896 and upscale it all the way to 4K and 60 fps. The results, while not perfect, are downright astonishing.
Google is contacting a small percentage of Google Photos users to notify them that a bug in the company's "Takeout" system for downloading your data accidentally sent some users' private videos to random strangers. Oops...
Sony has been quietly developing and patenting a "flying camera" drone over the past few years. While not much is known about the project, the published patents (titled "Flying Camera and a System") reveal some interesting features of the device.
The National Solar Observatory has just released the highest resolution images and video ever taken of the sun's surface. The images, captured with the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, capture the sun in unprecedented detail, revealing features as small as 18 miles (30km) in size for the first time ever.
There's amazing work being done in the area of using neural networks to edit or create photos. If you'd like to experience some cutting-edge technology for yourself, check out GANPaint Studio. It's a free online demo that shows how photo editing tools of the future could work.
The design of the iMac hasn't changed much since the aluminum unibody version was announced in 2009. They slimmed down the design in 2012, and added a retina display in 2015, and that's about it... but that definitely doesn't mean Apple isn't innovating behind the scenes.
We crossed the 1 trillion frames-per-second barrier a while back, but a group of Caltech scientists just made another leap. Their new camera doesn't just shoot up to 1 trillion fps, it can do it while capturing transparent objects like neurons and invisible phenomena like shockwaves.
Schlieren imaging is a fairly standard optical technique for visualizing heat, sound, or pressure differences in air. Technically, a schlieren system is able to see clear disturbances in air due to slight differences in the speed of light in the air. The technique can be sensitive enough to see the heat rising off a human hand at room temperature.
Depth maps? We don't need no stinkin' depth maps! AI vision startup Lucid has announced a new app called LucidPix that claims to convert regular 2D photos into 3D images without the need for multiple cameras, depth sensors, or any other kind of hardware help.
Canon has announced a brand new product called the Photo Culling Plugin. It's an intelligent AI assistant for Adobe Lightroom Classic that helps you save time during post-processing by intelligently selecting the best shots for you out of a large set of photos.
Researchers at Australia's Monash University have developed what they're calling "the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery," an ultra-high-capacity design that could quadruple camera battery life and run a smartphone for 5 consecutive days without a charge.
CES 2020 is starting to rev up, and while we're still waiting for Nikon and Canon to make their expected announcements, photo and video editors already got some exciting laptop news courtesy of Acer.
A team of researchers at MIT have created a new AI algorithm that can help cameras "see" off-camera things using only moving shadows.
Qualcomm has officially unveiled its next generation smartphone chipset--the Snapdragon 865--and if the specs are to be believed, smartphone cameras are going to get a whole lot more powerful next year.
In a technical article published earlier today, Facebook has reveled some of the Machine Learning (AKA 'AI') technology that decides what photos show up on Instagram's "Explore" tab—the main way IG users discover new accounts and content.
A team of researchers from Caltech and NASA JPL have developed something they're calling the 'Streamlined Quick Unfolding Investigation Drone' (SQUID): a "ballistic launching drone" that unfolds at altitude after you literally launch it out of a cannon.
A security firm has discovered a major Android exploit that would allow hackers to take control of your smartphone's camera in the background and use it to take pictures or record video while the phone is locked. The security report reveals that the exploit affects Google and Samsung smartphones, bringing the tally of affected users into the "hundreds of millions."
An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, "remove the water" from an underwater photograph. The result is a "physically accurate" image with all of the vibrance, saturation and color of a regular landscape photo.