The Future of Photography

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020 Singles Mar 21, 2018

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This week Ade has been looking into very small things - in fact singles. How do you photograph a single atom? How do you capture a single photon? Is there anything that small worth photographing?

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019 Drones and Printing Mar 14, 2018

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The Skydio R1 seems to be the first fully autonomous selfie drone that actually delivers on their promise. Tested.com did a review in a forest. On the topic of printing: 3D printing pens, 3D avatars, vertical wall printing, hand jet, braille embosser, Barilla pasta printer, Heston Blumenthal, cake printers, 3D chocolate printing, toast printer #1, toast printer concept, nail printer.

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018 On body cameras Mar 07, 2018

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Ade does a science show - but this is head-science. How does wearing a body camera impact the behaviour of police officers and the citizens they engage with? How does the press treat formal studies? Could the technology be misused? And how might video footage be misinterpreted due to the perspective of the shot? Take the NY Times test on this last question and see how you fare. And if you want to buy a body camera.

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017 Photo Enhancements using AI Feb 28, 2018

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Increasing resolution of existing photos has traditionally been done by a combination of extrapolation of the existing images, followed by some form of more-or-less smart sharpening. The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, has developed a new machine-learning based system named Enhancenet-PAT, which shows much greater success in increasing photo resolution using automated texture synthesis. Here's a talk (14-minute video) that explains this in more depth.

016 Mobile Mini Me Feb 21, 2018

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What if I want to climb a mountain to take photos or videos? What if I am a keen cyclist? What if I am a scuba diver?Traditionally I needed bespoke kit but now technology is helping us out. Do I still need an enormous DSLR or can I do something else? This week Ade and Chris talk about mobility with photo kit and how you can achieve it. What's out there today that's tiny and cool? Where does it go next? What (if anything) does this mean for the future of photography? Some fun 360 degree toys... Nicolas Cage Can Now Be Put Into Any Movie in History

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015 Light Field Photography Feb 14, 2018

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Lightfield photography (aka plenoptic photography) enables photographers to computationally re-focus their images and create different perspectives. We explore the history and future of Lytro and what this technology means for photographers and videographers alike. Lytro Cinema and Immerge 2.0. Adobe's Lightfield experiments. Lightfields explained in videos: Talk by Paul Debevec (start here), Talk by Mark Bolas

014 Baking the Cake: Photo Integration Feb 07, 2018

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I want... all my images on all my devices, all edits sync'd, cloud backup, publishing, automatic keywording and a yacht. OK, maybe the yacht is out of scope but the rest is largely available in various forms and Ade has been checking out Google, Adobe and iCloud services to see what works and what really doesn't. Conclusions? This integration or workflow element of our photography is important but which services do Ade and Chris trust with their images and their money?

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013 KodakCoin Jan 31, 2018

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Did the Kodak Coin announcement confuse you? Kodak (actually one of their licensing partners) wants to put the entire photography business on a blockchain. On this episode we try to make sense of this announcement. Also: Chris' new streaming setup that looks like portrait mode (YouTube) and let us know if you'd be interested in a TFOP meetup in the UK in 2018.

012 Personal Drones Jan 24, 2018

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At the family holiday festivities, Ade saw kids as young as 8 get drones as presents. "Holy Flying Menace, Batman" he thought to himself. He quickly ran to safety and started researching the mainstream acceptance of consumer-grade drones. Even common newspapers had buying guides. Also this week, hilarity ensues when Chris flies his own drone indoors and crashes it :-) Would you be interested in a TFOP meetup in the UK in 2018? Potential for knowledge sharing, playing with other people's toys, recording a live show... If that sounds like fun to you, please let us know by registering your interest.

011 Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Networks Jan 17, 2018

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Chris and Ade explore some new research that just came out of Nvidia, a manufacturer of graphics and machine learning hardware. In the future it will be possible to translate a winter image into a summer image or a corgi into a german shepherd and they are showing that in a set of impressive demos. TFOP 002 Depth. Research website. Example video 1. Example video 2. Explanation video. [Slightly NSFW] Face swapping for fake p*rn.

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