DP Review Wednesday April 24, 2024
China-based TTArtisan has officially released another budget lens—a AF 56mm f/1.8 autofocus model for X- and E-mount cameras. The $158 lens is built with a stepper motor, which TTArtisan claims delivers fast and quiet autofocus. It has a minimum focusing distance of 0.5m (19.6") and a minimum aperture of f/16. This is only the company's fourth autofocus lens, but it's the second one it has announced in recent weeks, following the TTArtisans AF 35mm f/1.8 released early this month for Sony E-mount cameras, notes DP Review.
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The Washington Post Wednesday April 24, 2024
Since 2016, Johnny Cirillo has been known on Instagram as the photographer behind Watching New York, a street-style feed that shares photos every day of stylish city dwellers. “Watching New York, which has 1.3 million followers on Instagram, has come to be known for its distinctive, friendly visual style, consisting of vertical shots with the subject perfectly centered, walking straight toward the camera with the background out of focus,” notes The Washington Post. Now there’s a book, Watching New York: Street Style A to Z.
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PetaPixel Wednesday April 24, 2024
The rise of generative AI means that huge archives of photographs and videos are suddenly valuable as training data, notes PetaPixel, which looks at the photo companies have that cashed in by striking licensing deals with AI firms like Midjourney, OpenAI, and Stability AI. Not all the deals are the same: Shutterstock, for example, licenses content to external AI companies, while others like Getty Images use content from its own platform to build in-house generative AI models, notes PP.
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CNN Wednesday April 24, 2024
A potential US ban against TikTok took a major step toward becoming reality this month when House lawmakers approved a bill targeting the app as part of a wide-ranging aid package for Israel and Ukraine. The bipartisan vote of 360-58 marks the latest defeat for TikTok in Washington, as the embattled social media company with 170 million US users fights for survival under its current ownership by ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, notes CNN. The newly-passed bill closely resembles an earlier version approved in March that would ban TikTok from US app stores unless it finds a new owner.
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