THE VERGE Wednesday May 24, 2023
Nikon’s announced the Z8 is basically identical to the Z9 but in a smaller form factor, notes PetaPixel, and The Verge thinks it might be Nikon’s best mirrorless camera yet. The camera “boasts a 45.7MP stacked CMOS sensor that, thanks to the Expeed 7 image processor, can shoot RAW photos at 20fps for over 1,000 frames. There are also autofocus readings up to 120fps. And impressive video specs: 12-bit N-RAW at 8K 60fps or 4K 120fps,” notes TV. You'll pay only $4,000 for the body, as opposed to the Z9’s price tag of $5,496.95.
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Close Up Photographer of the Year Wednesday May 24, 2023
Organizers of the Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest set up a challenge outside their normal competition, and this year’s theme was “Minimal.” The winners have now been announced, with photographer Ferenc Kocsis’s image of Danube mayflies in flight taking the top prize. “Danube mayflies take flight sometime in August for about a week,” Ferenc says, “flying at nightfall for only an hour or so. This is why it’s extremely important to show up on time if you want to witness and photograph these creatures.“ See also: The Atlantic.
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ARTnews Wednesday May 24, 2023
Richard Prince’s years-long legal woes over a controversial series of doctored Instagram screenshots continues after a federal judge in New York again rejected his fair use defense, reports Art News. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein ruled that Prince’s “New Portraits,” consisting of enlarged Instagram screenshots reproduced on canvas and paired with his pithy commentary, “indeed tested the boundary between appropriation art and copyright infringement.”
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ARTnews Wednesday May 24, 2023
Sotheby’s Metaverse, the auction house’s NFT marketplace, is getting an upgrade, notes Art News: The marketplace will now expand to include not just primary market offerings but also secondary sales, through which collectors can sell directly to each other. The auction house is rejiggering Metaverse so that the platform operates entirely on-chain, allowing for peer-to-peer transactions on both Ethereum and Polygon. Yet it will operate quite differently from secondary NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, where any user can upload any NFTs they want.
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