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Magnum Photos is working closely with Fujifilm and MPP (Heritage and Photography Library of Paris / Mdiathque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie) to digitize Magnum's massive color library archive in Paris. The collection contains approximately 650,000 color slides that have remained mostly untouched and unseen for over 20 years.

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Godox, makers of professional lighting solutions, announced a new powerful, waterproof RGBWW monolight, the Knowled M1000R. It is designed primarily with videographers in mind, although it could also be useful for photographers.

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Famous YouTube creator and former NASA engineer Mark Rober, who provides his 65 million subscribers with scientific entertainment videos, put Tesla's vision-based safety features up against a LiDAR system, and the results, although arguably flawed, highlight the limitations of vision-based autonomous vehicle systems.

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Last November, Austrian auction house OstLicht held the historic first camera auction in China. The auction appeared to be a smashing success, with the headline item, a one-of-a-kind Leica IIIg built for the German Army, selling for nearly $4 million.

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In April of 2023, my family and I sold nearly everything, left Los Angeles, and moved to the southwest of France.

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Image sensor research and development is notoriously costly, which is why so many manufacturers have opted to work with an existing sensor fabrication company, like Sony Semiconductor, rather than develop their own in-house. Canon has been one of the few exceptions and, according to its executives, that will remain the case.

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Hungarian photographer Benedek Lampert is well known for his fantastic images that bring Lego to life. Lampert's latest project brings the high-octane world of Formula 1 to life using Lego's new F1 sets, brilliant backdrops, practical effects, and, of course, incredible photo skills.

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Ricoh's Mayumi Ueda, Kazunobu Saiki, Shigeru Wakashiro and Ryutaro Aratama

"We don't just want to focus on the results of photography: we want people to enjoy the photography process," says Kazunobu Saiki, general manager of the Ricoh Camera Business Division.

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OM System isn't willing to sacrifice the performance of its computational photography features in order to increase the resolution of its sensors. That strategy leverages one of the company's competitive advantages, but it also very well makes it difficult for its cameras to appeal to any photographer.

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Illuminated water fountains light up the night on the Magic Water Circuit at Parque de la Reserva in Lima, Peru. The Magic Water Circuit features a variety of fountains, some featuring animated shows, that stretch across the park.

Photo: Dale Baskin

The theme for our March Editors' challenge is 'Water'.

Show us the essence of water in its many forms, from the roaring... more

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