The Future of Photography

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051 Leica, Light and Automotive Guidance Oct 24, 2018

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Autonomous cars utilize an array of sensors: radar, lidar, ultrasonic and of course cameras. Leica, Light and Tesla are betting on a future where cameras can handle almost all of those sensing tasks. Leica Funds Camera-Guided Automotive System | Fstoppers | Leica Invests in Light as Part of Massive $121M Funding Round | Watch a Tesla drive in Paris through the eyes of Autopilot - Electrek | The Future of Photography episode 043: Cameras and Cars

050 FaceTime vs. FacePlant Oct 17, 2018

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Do you ever see people walking along and making video calls? Often without headphones so lots of shouting going on. Did you ever see anyone walk straight into a lamp post or fall over a kerb? Is that something you do? But in some situations video calling is a crucial part of communications because it can provide a far more nuanced view of how messages are received - it's a richer picture. Military forces, emergency services and even surgeons depend on these technologies. So as our written language simplifies to a set of small yellow faces on phones - is the future of rich communication based around our cameras? Will the future of photography also be the future of human language? Early Video Phone

048 Ultimate TFOP Workspace Build Oct 10, 2018

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Way back in Show 14, Ade talked about how tools, toys and cloud services are integrating our workflow. But where, how, when and why do you want to use these? How do you build the Ultimate TFOP Workspace? How big is your monitor? How many RAID systems? Are you standing, sitting or lounging? How do you compose the score for a 360 spherical movie? Ade is embarking on all this just now and is learning a lot he wants to share... And maybe Adam Savage can help with First-Order-Retrievability.

047 New Manufacturing Methods Are Changing Photography Oct 03, 2018

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New manufacturing methods and old ones that are becoming accessible to the masses change how cameras are made. CNC routers, laser cutters and of course 3D printers are a part of this story. Chris picks four large format camera projects to illustrate this: Intrepid, Standard 4x5 (monorail), Chroma, Cameradactyl ("my first 4x5"). Sunny 16 Podcast, ep 111, a discussion with the Intrepid founder

046 On Body Cameras - Real World Update Sep 26, 2018

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In Show 018, way back in July, we discussed the impact of on-body cameras and their impact on law enforcement. We now return to that with real-world input from listener Jon who is a police officer in the USA. Jon provides a view of the positive and negative impacts of these cameras. They don't make criminals or police officers suddenly behave well but they do provide evidence. In fact, maybe the biggest problem is how to deal with the increasing public expectation that there should be video...

045 Shhh... Sep 21, 2018

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Cameras make sounds. From mechanical shutters to cameras that play those sounds digitally. What are those sounds good for? Chris and Ade discuss how camera sounds give them personality and recognizability and how the shutter sound changes the dynamics in a portrait session. Jacobson Sound Blimps closing after 52 years, Photography Tips from the Top Floor, ep 414: DIY camera blimp (interview starts 10 minutes into the show), YouTube: The iPhone shutter sound is a Canon AE-1. TFOP is in the top 25 photography podcast list!

044 TFOFP (the second F is Film) Sep 05, 2018

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This week Chris is travelling so Ade has taken over the show and used it to promote The Future of Film Photography (TFOFP). With Sunny16 podcast co-host Graeme and special guest Sandra Coan, Ade discusses the positive impact of using film in a commercial photography business, how to expose and light portraits with film and the role film will play in the future.

043 Cameras and Cars Aug 29, 2018

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The last 10 years have seen a big change in how cameras are being used in cars. From the backup camera when reversing to the dash cam. From cameras as rear view mirrors (Audio E-Tron) to lane assist and obstacle recognition. From 360-degree parking helpers to autonomous logging trucks and obviously in self-driving cars, from Tesla to the more open-source approach of Comma's Openpilot. Also LIDAR is in the process of being turned into a solid-state system and prices are expected to come down.

042 Rights vs lefts, wrongs and respect Aug 22, 2018

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An organisation of street events is asking photographers to gain verbal permission before shooting in a public place. The organisation, The Petapixel article that got us thinking. These are events that are about personal expression of sub-culture but how do we judge or decide between rights of photography in a public place versus respect of individuals? Is this a slippery slope? Is there a difference today from how digital natives will view the rights and risks tomorrow? Are we going to see a change in fundamental rights of photographers? Would that drive a positive or negative scenario? Would technology innovation out pace the revision of law? Will photography become about wearing a nanotech sensor on you jacket? And BTW, weird that this all happened in San Francisco which is one of the most liberal cities going!

041 AI Judges Photos and Carrots Are Sooo Episode Thirty-Eight Aug 15, 2018

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Huawei wants to use an AI to help judge a photo contest. The Kirin 970 CPU with its NPU (neural processing unit). Pictures too grainy? Nvidia developed a new AI-based method to de-noise photos without prior knowledge of clean image data. (The research paper, PDF). This has the potential to get us to grain-free low-light photography with small image sensors.

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