Amazon UK cancelled the Panasonic G9 for £600 preorders :(

Image on top shows the famous deal that Amazon UK now has canceled

Readers reported that their Panasonic G9 for £600 preorder  has been canceled. This is what they  got:

The price for `Panasonic Lumix Mirrorless Compact System Camera DC-G9EB-K with 4K Video, 6K Photo, Wildlife Camera’ (ASIN: B0779B2K8B) was displayed incorrectly when you placed your order 205-2949120-5436323.

Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occasionally occur.

In our Conditions of Use and Sale (see http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=1040616), we state that where an item’s correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, cancel the order and notify you of that cancellation.

Your order has now been cancelled. If you still want to purchase this item, please place a new order.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.co.uk

That’s really to bad!

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!

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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