Digital Camera World Monday August 29, 2022
If you're in the market for a Leica camera, now is the time to dust off your wallets. You can now buy a brand new Leica for just $1,995 at B&H, notes Digital Camera World. You won’t be getting the latest Leica M11 rangefinder camera for a steal. What you will get is a unique hybrid camera that is made from a single block of aluminum. It “oozes the sort of German engineering that Leica is know for in the best Leicas,” adds DCW. Read the full Story >>
CNN Monday August 29, 2022
For his new series "Then & Now,” photographer Doug Inglish asked models to recreate portraits he had taken of them in the early 2000s. The resulting images juxtapose subjects' past and present selves, leaving viewers to reflect on the passage of time, notes CNN. "As I age, there is this longing for the past," Inglish says. ”There's a longing to recreate (the past) or just to be back where you were. But the truth is, when I think about it, I'm a much happier person today than I was back then.” Read the full Story >>
META Monday August 29, 2022
Despite feedback from users who hate it, Instagram is increasing the amount of recommended content that appears in their feeds. Would you like to know how the IG algorithm decides what stuff it will push your way? The app recently published a report detailing how its AI selects content to suggest. There are two systems—“Connected” and “Unconnected”—which work in different ways. The first bases suggestions on a user’s interests; the second takes into account a user’s activities across IG. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Monday August 29, 2022
Police in Canada are investigating the “brazen” heist of a photograph—indeed, one of the best-known photos of the 20th century: Yousuf Karsh’s portrait of Winston Churchill. An employee at the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa recently noticed something amiss about the portrait hanging in hotel’s Reading Lounge. On further inspection by Jerry Fielder, who oversees Karsh’s estate, it was found the photo was a fake—thieves apparently stole the original and left a replacement image. The hotel was originally gifted 15 original works by Karsh, Read the full Story >>
