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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Could Sharper Lenses Really Make Images Look Like AI?
The lead image of this article is one that will always stick out to me. It's an image of my good friend, Alex. And I remember when I was showing it off to a bartender identifying as Gen Z, she told me it looked like AI. However, I was showing her the literal back of the camera s…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Moonday
Ilmoonination Actually, we have a waning gibbous moon tonight. It was full two nights ago. But I need to a headline, so there ya go. How's fishing? Mainstream media continues to get sidestreamed. That's what I take from Ad Market Resumes Tepid Growth In August, 'Traditional' Me…
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The Rare Lens From the Nevada Test Site
Today's awesome vintage find on ebay is something for collectors with a taste for rarity and curiosity for military history. You definitely don't see a 1000mm 40-inch f/8 Cyclotar lens spring up from the depths of ebay everyday! What exactly is this curious-looking item? Well, t…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: I was wondering what a play button does on an already playing video. Turned out first video was a “cover image” for another video! #Anthropic #Claude #Video #Play
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Are Modern Cameras Useless Without AI and Scene Detection?
When you shoot with a modern camera, chances are that you're using some of the more very automated autofocus modes. By that, I'm talking about AI detection and scene detection -- depending on what brand we're discussing and the vernacular that they're using. In the past year or…
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Oatmeal (Feed)
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hyper bf
ever had a thought like, “wish I could program on a gameboy” but then remember why all your Pokemons’ nicknames are like 2 to 3 letters long because selecting text on a virtual keyboard with a d-pad blows so then you start to think about programming systems that don’t re…
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5 Pentax K-Mount Lenses Reach End of Production
Pentax has discontinued five of its lenses for the company's K-mount cameras. The announcement comes shortly after the company announced the discontinuation of the last K-1 II camera. The report comes after reports of camera dealers announcing the discontinuation of these lenses…
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Sunlint
Lemme know when one shows up Liblice II, the tallest structures in the Czech Republic, are about to come down. They carried the 1.5 million watt signal of Czech Radio Two until 2021 on 639 mHz. The cool thing is this (from that last link, translated): After the removal of the…
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Performing a pooplic service
When a whole business category is fubar, and its members together exemplify enshittification better than each does alone, I suggest we speak of their collectivity as a fecosystem. I’ve been using that word since 2016, and bring it up now because these two posts about the subs…
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