Images for the Sony booth at the Shanghai Photo show
Sony had quite a big booth at the show and many so called “experience” areas for different kind od photographers filmmakers and vloggers. Fengniao shared some images from the booth:
New Topaz Photo AI v1.5 released
Topaz released the new Photo AI version 1.5. Here are the improvements:
Recover original detail when removing noise
Removing all noise can sometimes make an image appear unnaturally smooth. To fix this, you can now add original image detail back into your denoised result:
Increase the Recover Original Detail slider to intelligently blend luminance detail back into your image while still removing all color noise. While not necessary for all images, it can improve how natural images appear without compromising on noise reduction quality:
The effect you get from this this slider would be similar to an “Add Grain” feature, except the extra detail comes from the original image instead of artificially generated grain. Recover Original Detail is currently only available for non-raw images, but we will add it to Raw Remove Noise soon as well.
Preserve eye color when recovering faces
Face Recovery will no longer change eye color when enhancing faces. This applies to all photos but is especially noticeable in B&W or sepia images (image available here 29):
You can now also better control where to apply face recovery in Preferences → Autopilot. Change this setting if you see abrupt transitions between recovered areas and the rest of the image:
Please let us know what else you’d like to see to improve Face Recovery.
Laowa shows two new lens prototypes for APS-C E-mount: 8-16mm f/3.5-5 and a compact 15mm f/5.0 pancake
Laowa did display two new lens prototype (both also for APS-C E-mount cameras).
LAOWA New Lens CF8-16mm F3.5-5.0 C-Dreamer Super Wide Angle Zoom Lens
- Full size conversion angle of view 12-24mm
- Lens construction: 16 elements in 12 groups
- Aperture blades: 5
- Shortest shooting distance: 0.2m
- Filter: 86mm
- all metal body
- Size: 88.3×88.54mm
- Weight: about 463g
- Mount: Sony E, Fuji X, Nikon Z, Canon R, Canon EF-M
New 15mm f/5.0 pancake
Here are the images:
Sony Tidbits…
Sony AUTOFOCUS Settings For PHOTO & VIDEO Explained | Using A6700
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Best Food Backgrounds, Backdrops, or Surfaces for Photography (42West).
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This ain’t a joke: Sony showcase the first “cameraless” virtual recording technology
Yes, what you see here on top is really a “virtual camera” created by Sony. There is a real time generated world that appears on the screen and the camera operator can move around and see what he is recording. In future might offer you a Sony Alpha camera-less camera to shoot your movies :)
Just watch the video below to see how it works:
Curiosity: Sony A6700 dynamic range performs exactly like a Sony A7rV in crop mode
Bill Claff from photonstophotos tested the A6700 dynamic range and it’s exactly like the one of the A7rV in crop mode.