tech radar Thursday April 18, 2024
As higher resolutions and more frames per second become standard in photography and video creation, manufacturers are responding with ever more enormous storage solutions. Now SanDisk has launched the world’s first 4-terabyte SD card. The new SanDisk Extreme PRO SDUC UHS-I memory card doubles that of the largest microSD cards, earning it the title of the world's largest removable memory card, notes Tech Radar. A 4TB card can store nearly nine hours of high-quality 4K footage, adds PetaPixel.
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The Phoblographer Thursday April 18, 2024
Grace Chon was once a stressed-out art director at a large advertising agency. Then she tried something else. “I ultimately decided to return to my childhood love of photography and bought an entry-level DSLR,” she tells The Phoblographer. Volunteer work taking headshots of dogs needing adoption led to a full-time career. But, notes TP, lessons she learned in the advertising business have been valuable. “Crafting a great idea is excellent creative problem solving,” she says. “You have an idea you want to communicate.”
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Bloomberg Thursday April 18, 2024
Adobe has begun procuring videos to build its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated its Sora technology. The company, which added millions of 4K videos to its Adobe Stock library earlier this year, is “offering its network of photographers and artists $120 to submit videos of people engaged in everyday actions such as walking or expressing emotions including joy and anger,” reports Bloomberg. The payments works out to around $2.60 per minute for the submitted video, although they can range up to as much as $7.25 a minute.
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The Guardian Thursday April 18, 2024
Two years ago, a 1924 print of Man Ray’s “Le Violon d’Ingres” set a record when it sold for $12.4 million at auction in New York. This month, one of three prints of the famed image made in 1970 from the original negative sold as part of an auction of Man Ray works. The print, which was made under Man Ray’s supervision, sold for €120,000 ($127,873), double the upper range of the catalog estimate, notes The Guardian. A number of Man Ray prints failed to reach the auctioneer’s lowest estimates, however.
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