Month: May 2024
Forget full-frame, the new Fujifilm GFX100S II delivers affordable medium-format quality
The new GFX100S II is Fujifilm’s cheapest medium-format camera with a 100MP sensor yet at launch, and it’s aggressively priced at $4,999 / £4,999 / AU$8,699 body only. That high-resolution medium-format sensor offers a degree of detail in your pictures that full-frame cameras can’t match – even the class-leading and…
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Fujifilm’s medium-frame GFX 100S II is lighter, cheaper and AI-enhanced
Fujifilm’s successor to the GFX 100S, its 2021 medium format camera with terrific performance but slow speeds, is the aptly named GFX 100S II. The new model is $1,000 cheaper, smaller, lighter and has (shocker) AI features to improve its autofocus, one of our gripes with its predecessor. The Fujifilm…
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Fujifilm’s new X-T50 has a film simulation dial — and a questionable price
Fujifilm has just announced a pair of new cameras at the company’s X Summit Sydney event. There’s the medium format GFX100S II, which frankly falls outside my scope of interest (and budget). The more mainstream of the two is the X-T50, which is a followup to — but not a…
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Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch
On one side, responses included creatives like Hugh Grant and anyone who spotted a slightly-too-on-the-nose representation of Big Tech’s steamroller approach to art, copyright, and the past, powered by the might of generative AI tools. On the other there were the people ticked off by the knowledge that there was…
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Netflix to add more live content, including two NFL games on Christmas Day 2024
Netflix and the National Football League (NFL) are entering into a partnership, letting the streaming platform air live games on Christmas Day 2024, 2025, and 2026. It’s all part of a new “three-season deal” between the two companies. In December, the service will offer two football games on the holiday:…
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Google I/O 2024: all the news from the developer conference
Google I/O introduced an AI assistant that can see and hear the world, while OpenAI put its version of a Her-like chatbot into an iPhone. Next week, Microsoft will be hosting Build, where it’s sure to have some version of Copilot or Cortana that understands pivot tables. Then, a few…
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