News Shooter Friday November 22, 2024
Sony says its newly introduced flagship full-frame camera—the second-generation Alpha 1 II—"combines some of the most requested and beloved features of Sony’s high-end camera lineup into one body.” The mirrorless camera was designed to be a reliable and robust choice for professional applications, notes News Shooter, from photojournalism and wildlife photography yo sports, portraiture, weddings, and commercial work. It's built around the same 50.1MP stacked CMOS sensor as its predecessor but now includes an "AI processing unit" that allows its autofocus system to recognize seven different subject types and to automatically select one based on what's in the scene, adds DP Review.
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Associated Press Thursday November 21, 2024
The Vatican and Microsoft recently unveiled a “digital twin” of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s, notes Associated Press. The AI version of the famed location is also meant to help the Holy See manage visitor flows and identify conservation problems. Using 400,000 high-resolution digital photographs, taken with drones, cameras and lasers over four weeks when no one was in the basilica, the digital replica is going online alongside two new on-site exhibits.
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AnOther Thursday November 21, 2024
As we noted previously, Pirelli is bringing the sexy back with its 2025 calendar, and AnOther now has a preview. This year’s effort, by photographer Ethan James Green, features a cast including actors Jodie Turner-Smith, Vincent Cassel, Simone Ashley, and John Boyega, as well as writer and TV host Padma Lakshmi, musician Elodie, and models Connie Fleming and Jenny Shimizu. Green, a former model, also appears in the calendar. He says he was “the only person I could tell to be completely nude.”
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The New York Times Thursday November 21, 2024
As the former top editor of Business Insider, Nicholas Carlson has witnessed spectacular failures in the tech and media worlds over the years. Now, notes The New York Times, Carlson is trying to put the lessons he learned to good use: He is preparing to debut a media start-up and betting big on the growing popularity of video on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn. The company, called Dynamo, will produce “cinematic” video stories for those platforms, focusing on business journalism for a core group of strivers.
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