Special Sale: Get Gigapixel AI with new automatic face refinement!

TopazLabs added the new new automatic face refinement to their Topaz Gigapixel AI plugin (Click here). You also get this plugin with a new $20 discount.

Press text:

Gigapixel AI now features automatic face refinement!

With our latest developments in machine learning and image recognition, we’ve implemented automatic face refinement in Gigapixel AI to offer you more powerful and accurate face enlargement.

You’ll see a toggle in the right panel to enable/disable the new Face Refinement feature. Face Refinement will detect very small faces (16×16 px to 64×64 px) and apply targeted, improved upsampling through machine learning.
Ordinarily, faces this small in dimension can be very difficult to upscale, leaving them vulnerable to unpredictable results during enlargement. With our latest improvement, Gigapixel AI produces  a more seamless enlargement of faces within your photos, so you’ll be satisfied with more natural-looking results!

(FT4) Olympus E-M5III could be announced in October at earliest…

Image on top shows the current E-M5II model

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From the latest I heard it seems to be likely that Olympus E-M5III will not be announced in September. It’s very likely we will see it in October. A bit unusual because September is the usual time we see new camera announcements. But With Canon, Sony and Fuji all having announcements in September it’s likely that Olympus wanted to avoid to be stuck in the crowded press time :)

E-M5III rumor summary:
Announcement in October (90% certain)
Same E-M1II sensor with 121 cross-type phase detection pixels. (60% certain)
New processing engine (90% certain)
Lighter, more plasticky but still weather sealed body (60% certain)
Will have USB charging (90% certain)
Same BLS-50 battery of the PEN and E-M10 camera series (60% certain)

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a bit of everything…


25mm vs 50mm Standard lens Battle by Matti Sulanto

CNBC: “How Canon, Nikon and other Japanese camera companies are fighting for survival in the Smartphone era” (MirrorlessRumors).
SuperCharger 2.0 – The ONE for all solutions also for your camera (Kickstarter).
Panasonic S1 Real World Review | Better than Sony a7 III, Nikon Z6, Canon EOS R? (L-rumors).
How to Succeed at a Photographic Portfolio Review (Explora).

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Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

Reminder: Two new MFT lenses on preorder, the Laowa 4mm and Pinhole Pro X 18-36mm zoom lens

Venus Optics announce pricing and availability of Laowa 4mm f/2.8 Circular Fisheye, a lens that can capture 210° field of view. You can preorder it now for $199 directly at Venuslens.net (worldwide shipment).

The world’s first Pinhole Pro X 18-36mm zoom lens is now oon preorder on Kickstarter (Click here). You get this lens with a 30% discount for $41. And shipment will start in November.

New Olympus patent describes a technique to reduce distortion with the on sensor stabilization

I found a patent that describes a way to use Olympus on sensor stabilization to correct for Distortions. Olympus writes:

According to the present invention, there can be provided a camera system and a camera body, which can execute, by a simple method, distortion correction with high precision, taking into account a shape variation of distortion on an image plane due to decentering of a vibration reduction optical system.

I read it multiple times and I cannot figure out well how this works. Hope more technical skilled readers can illuminate when reading the patent: freepatentsonline.com/10186021.pdf

a bit of everything…


Battle of 45mm, Olympus Portrait Lens Shootout (Ft. Saori Okuno) – RED35 Review

Testing out video with helios 44-2 58mm f2 on my panasonic g85. loving the bokeh (Ian Fong)
Unboxing the TOUGHEST Camera You Can Find! Olympus TG-6 (TheEveryDayDad).
Telecentric Lens Design – Did Canon RF and Nikon Z Adopt Similar Approach as Micro Four Thirds? (Robin Wong).
Think Tank Announces Urban Access and MindShift Gear PhotoCross Backpacks (Explora).

Share your best pictures on our new Instagram MicroFourThirdsGallery.

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

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