DP Review Monday March 24, 2025
When Canon released the R5, a common complaint was the camera's tendency to overheat when recording video. Canon improved those problems with the R5 Mark II, but all cameras overheat at some point, especially when recording long takes in high resolutions. To help cool things down, notes DP Review, SmallRig has adapted its Cooling Fan, originally designed for Sony cameras, to work with the Canon R5 Mark II and R5. The SmallRig Cooling Fan features multiple layers to efficiently pull heat away from the camera body, including a silicone thermal conductive gel.
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International Birth Photography Contest Monday March 24, 2025
Now in its 15th year, the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers’ 2025 Birth Photography Contest showcases the exceptional talent of its over 1,100 members in 55 countries. This year’s top winner is Charlotte, North Carolina-based photographer Anna Garvey for her image “Surrender to the Wave,” a black-and-white photo of a woman laboring in a shower. The mother was having her fourth child, but her first at home. She was able to complete her home birth just 20 minutes after this image, notes My Modern Met.
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THE VERGE Monday March 24, 2025
Recently passed by the Senate, the so-called Take It Down Act would create criminal penalties for people who share non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including AI-generated imagery, and also force platforms to take it down within 48 hours of a report or face financial penalties. White NCII is a real and devastating problem on the internet, The Verge policy editor Adi Robertson warns that the bill would give the Trump administration new powers over speech, handing the president a “weapon” with which to attack speech and speech platforms he doesn’t like.
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David Schonauer Monday March 24, 2025
Through Nov. 16, the Shoah Memorial in Paris is featuring "How the Nazis Photographed Their Crimes--Auschwitz 1944," an exhibition of imagery drawn primarily from the "Auschwitz album," a
photographic album produced by the SS to show Nazi dignitaries the mastery with which the extermination operations on the site were run. The images, notes the Holocaust museum, allow viewers to
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