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Paid $200 for CO 22 a couple weeks ago, bundled with a free upgrade to CO 23. Kinda expected more out of CO23, but the Smart Adjustments thing sounds like a useful feature as that's probably half...

@Eric Hensel - the difference is that if the UV filters turned out not to be fine, they're way cheaper to replace than the front of the lens, so it's a good way to reduce hard-to-replace damage at...

I guess you should just shoot a backlit subject with and without your filter and see if there's a difference in flaring or sharpness. If you get bad enough UV filters on Amazon, the difference can...

I think the assumption is that you'd only replace the filter if it got scratched, and tbh for most users they don't scratch their filter or their lens front element that often. Or maybe it's just...

Apparently the square Instax film format can only resolve like 2 MP so that probably won't be a limiting factor.

@GRUBERND - the logic applies if there is any stage in the image pipeline where the image is represented as linear integers. The obvious place I'd be concerned is immediately after the sensor is...

@Fred Dominic - it's an interesting suggestion, that potentially "natural" images are of a substantially low entropy that they can be almost losslessly encoded into a model that's 0.1% of the size...

Not sure I agree with your point about the way a lens affects noise, but it's easily avoided by simply looking at noise on untextured, boring parts of the image. Like you said though, a poor choice...

Curious what you're referring to with the blurb about "broken post-processing software"

Though yeah the fact that cameras are tested on different lenses makes the test less meaningful for...

The logic is that if you have a 12-bit image that's in scene linear, like your RAW files are, each photosite is represented by one of 4096 different values, where the code value is proportional to...

On a factual level though I feel pretty confident saying that most of the larger image and text datasets used in AI today are made by scraping the internet, so they're basically guaranteed to be...

Yeah I see your point and I could see why it feels like a legal loophole in a way. To play the devil's advocate, the analogy I'd draw is this: suppose someone is directing a movie, and as part of...

Really, almost all recent AI image models are trained on copyrighted images. That being said, the nature of neural networks is that after the training procedure is complete, the model does not...

@John Sevigny - being able to shoot film with a lens that supports IS and autofocus is pretty incredible though. You don't have to worry about accidentally missing a manual focus shot and you can...

@DarkShift - Fwiw cropping in post will also have the perception of reduced rolling shutter. If it takes 20ms to read out 4000 rows of pixels, the middle 2000 rows will inherently have been read...

Digital zoom degrades the image quality in a few ways. Like everyone agrees here, obviously you're going to construct a 4k image from perhaps 4k photosites instead of downsampling from 8k...

Honestly many genres of photography could be done on a DSLR from 2012 and you'd be totally fine. Product photography, landscapes, and portraits largely have slow moving subjects and an abundance of...

I'd certainly be interested in an Atomos EVF. Honestly if they could make a sub $1000 EVF with at least 1080p resolution, that would be an excellent new product for a monitor/recorder company....

Can't afford it, but I dig the idea of camera companies releasing modernized/updated versions of their film cameras. Would love to see Canon do this too, though I know that's just a pipe dream.

@MILC Man: Also, just curious - do you think the zv1f footage in the dpreviewtv video looks good? Can you even tell it wasn't shot on a phone? You haven't even voiced your own opinion on the most...