The folks at Lirpa Labs, the research arm of Sloof Lirpa, made a big announcement today. It’s a first for the company, which has previously developed standalone products. Lirpa will be providing firmware upgrades for Sony, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Hasselblad, and Fujifilm cameras. The Lirpa firmware will add entirely new artificial intelligence capabilities to those… [Read More]
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Siri and the iPhone camera
So far, Apple has just scratched the surface when it comes to integrating Siri with the iPhone’s camera. You can say, “Hey, Siri, bring up the camera,” but that’s about it. Siri won’t trip the shutter, zoom the lens, or even close the app. As of today, all that’s over. Sloof Lirpa just announced their… [Read More]
The secret behind GFX sharpness with native lenses
In my GFX tests, I’ve found that the camera is about as sharp as you’d expect when tested with adapted exotic Zeiss glass, but it is surprisingly good with the presumably lower-quality Fuji 63 and 120 macro. Why is that? For the answer, I turned to a group of experts: the brilliant, unconventional folks at… [Read More]
Irrational aspect ratios
Since the dawn of digital photography, practitioners of the art have been barred from a creative freedom enjoyed by their image-making predecessors. Oil and watercolor painters, printmakers, and, yes, chemically-based photographers could make an image any shape they wanted to. Not so in the digital world. When cropping a raster image, a digital photographer must… [Read More]
Designing the new M-series Leica
There’s a controversial thread over on the L-camera forum. The topic is what the next Leica M-series camera should be. There are two diametrically-opposed approaches: a) build a thoroughly modern camera that takes the M lenses, or b) provide the best expression of the gestalt of the film-era Leica M’s. My own personal desire is… [Read More]