DP Review Wednesday March 19, 2025
As we noted recently, Xiaomi has updated its flagship smartphone, filling it with even more Leica camera tech. But, notes DP Review, the company has also announced a concept called the "Modular Optical System," which asks: "what if you could magnetically attach a Four Thirds sensor and lens to the back of your phone?” A video posted to Xiaomi's YouTube channel shows the module, which includes a "Light Fusion X sensor" that "delivers true 100MP clarity," paired with a 35mm equiv. f/1.4 lens in a relatively small package.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 19, 2025
With all the worries engendered by AI, you probably don't want to also hear that the technology may be making humans dumber. But new research from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University has found
that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can "result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved." The … Read the full Story >>
The Phoblographer Tuesday March 18, 2025
Photography come and go, but how do they hold up? The Phoblographer recently looked at a numbers of trends and movements, from the 365-day photo project and off-camera flash techniques to “really bad HDR.” Remember Hipstamatic, the app that let millennials use filters to create mostalgic-looking images? Now Gen-Z is using old digicams to do the same thing.
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The New York Times Tuesday March 18, 2025
In the heart of Utah’s Uinta Mountains, a team of scientists and adventurers is re-creating historical pictures made in the 1870s by William Henry Jackson, a photographer who worked for the United States Geological Survey under the direction of the geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. The aim of the group, led by Jeff Munroe, a professor of geology at Middlebury College in Vermont, is to study how much, and how quickly, ecosystems are changing, notes The New York Times.
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