DIYPhotography Wednesday March 22, 2023
Canon’s EOS M APS-C mirrorless camera system has been fading away for a few years, with little-to-no updates and few comments from Canon about its future. And last month, when Canon announced the EOS R50, many saw it as the final nail in the coffin for the M system. But, notes DIY Photography, in a recent interview at the CP+ 2023 event, Canon execs stated that the EOS M system is not dead, as far as they were concerned. The M system is still a very big income generator for Canon: In Asian countries, the Canon M50 and its Mark II successor have been Canon’s top-selling cameras.
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The Athletic Wednesday March 22, 2023
Cassy Athena remembers the moment her life changed: During her junior year at Cal State Northridge, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, forcing her to reconsider her career aspirations. After she recovered, she pursued photography full-time, emerging as one of the best and most well-connected photographers in the NBA world. She has been a trailblazer in sports photography, particularly for women who, she believes, are still underrepresented in the space, notes The Athletic.
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engadget Wednesday March 22, 2023
The U.S. Copyright office has stated that any images produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted. The Copyright Office equates such prompts to a buyer giving directions to a commissioned artist, notes Engadget. "They identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output," the USCO wrote in new guidance it published to the Federal Register. In such artwork, traditional elements of authorship are determined and executed by the technology — not the human user, noted the Copyright Office.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 22, 2023
PPD readers know just how far camera technology has come over the past decade--and how good modern cameras are, with ever-higher resolutions, better performance in low light, smart focusing, shake
reduction and so much more. But as we've noted previously, what Gen Zers like are old-school digital cameras from the 2000s, introduced before many were of them were born. Why? It may have to … Read the full Story >>
