DP Review Tuesday February 7, 2023
Formula 1 racing is about to look different: Over the past two years, F1 has been testing helmet point-of-view cameras, allowing viewers watching races on television to see the track from the perspective of their favorite racers. This coming season, F1 is mandating that all its drivers wear the visor cameras, promising spectacular footage from all 23 tracks around the world on the 2023 Formula 1 schedule, notes DP Review. The move comes with the growing popularity of the Netflix series Drive to Survive.
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British Journal of Photography Tuesday February 7, 2023
When Ivan Vartanian arrived in Tokyo in 1997, he knew nothing about Japanese photography. Fresh out of NYU, he became assistant to the senior editor at Aperture, where he worked on a co-publication with Japanese publisher Korinsha. Now, 26 years later, Vartanian is the author of numerous books on Japanese art and photography. His latest publication, Japanese Photography Magazines, is a sprawling history that covers everything from late-19th century manuals to the “golden era” of the 1980s, notes the British Journal of Photography.
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TechCrunch Tuesday February 7, 2023
New references in Instagram’s code suggest the company could be developing a paid verification feature following the rollout of a similar (and controversial) system at Twitter under Elon Musk. The same reference also appears in the latest build of the Facebook app, indicating paid verification could be offered across Meta’s platforms. Instagram’s current verification system is obtuse, complicated, and seemingly random, due to its reliance on automation—although Instagram in 2018 began allowing users to request verification, the overall system itself hasn’t changed much, notes Instagram.
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David Schonauer Tuesday February 7, 2023
Can AI win a photography competition? To answer that question, the Royal Meteorological Society, which runs the Weather Photographer of the Year competition, came up with a Turing test in which the
viewer is invited to guess which is an AI image and which is an actual award-winning photo. (The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by mathematician Alan Turing in 1950, is … Read the full Story >>
