The Daily PetaPixel for 01/30/2024

The top news from the world of photography. [View this email in your browser]( [PetaPixel Homepage]( [TikTok is Coming For YouTube: App Boosts Longer, Horizontal Videos]( By Pesala Bandara on Jan 30, 2024 06:20 am [tiktok]( TikTok appears to be coming for YouTube -- after the company was spotted incentivizing creators to start posting horizontal, longer videos. [[Read More]( [Drone Photographer Captures ‘First-Ever’ Footage of Newborn Great White Shark]( By Matt Growcoot on Jan 30, 2024 06:05 am [Baby great white shark]( A drone photographer may have captured the first-ever footage of a newborn great white shark off the coast of Southern California. [[Read More]( [OM System OM-1 Mark II Adds Live Graduated ND, Improved AF, and More]( By Jeremy Gray on Jan 30, 2024 01:00 am [OM System OM-1 Mark II]( OM Digital Solutions Corporation has unveiled the OM System OM-1 Mark II. The successor to 2022's OM-1 flagship camera includes everything that made the OM-1 "the best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made," but the "Mark II" moniker doesn't include the substantial upgrades photographers may be expecting. [[Read More]( [OM System Adds New 9-18mm f/4-5.6 II and 150-600mm f/5-6.3 IS Lenses]( By Jaron Schneider on Jan 30, 2024 12:59 am OM System may have only announced one lens last year, but it's starting 2024 much stronger with two new Micro Four Thirds offerings: a 9-18mm f/4-5.6 II and the 150-600mm f/5-6.3 IS. [[Read More]( [ACLU Supports Man Wrongfully Arrested Based on Poor Facial Recognition]( By Lisa Marie Segarra on Jan 29, 2024 04:35 pm [Facial Recognition]( The national and New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in support of a man who was reportedly wrongfully arrested after facial recognition misidentified him. [[Read More]( [Sperm Whale Introduces Her Calf to a Robotic Spy Whale]( By Abby Ferguson on Jan 29, 2024 03:21 pm [A sperm whale swims up to a realistic looking robotic submersible.]( Scientists and cinematographers are constantly searching for new ways to gather information about animals. In one such attempt, John Downer Productions launched a realistic-looking submersible robotic whale to capture unique footage and gain insight into the intelligence of these creatures. [[Read More]( [Meta to Hand Over Data for Third-Party Research on ‘Well-Being’]( By Lisa Marie Segarra on Jan 29, 2024 03:10 pm [A building in the evening shows the Meta logo]( In a partnership with the Center for Open Science, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta revealed it will give data to researchers for a study. [[Read More]( [Japan’s SLIM Lunar Lander Back Online After Precise but Awkward Landing]( By Jeremy Gray on Jan 29, 2024 03:09 pm [JAXA SLIM lander]( Last week, Japan became the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon successfully. However, the historic accomplishment had its challenges. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed upside-down on the lunar surface, preventing the lander from recharging its batteries with its included solar panels. [[Read More]( [TerraMaster’s D5 Hybrid is First-Ever Dual SSD and HDD Storage Enclosure]( By Jaron Schneider on Jan 29, 2024 03:08 pm [TerraMaster D5]( TerraMaster says its new D5 Hybrid is the industry's first to combine two series of slots for both standard HDDs and M.2 NVMe SSDs to support both "hot and cold" storage. [[Read More]( [RED’s New Global Shutter Camera Promises Unbelievable Dynamic Range]( By Jeremy Gray on Jan 29, 2024 02:02 pm [RED V-Raptor (X) and V-Raptor (X) XL]( Last week, RED unveiled a pair of new large-format global shutter cinema cameras, the V-Raptor (X) and V-Raptor (X) XL. Tedious model names aside, these cameras have 40.96 x 21.6-millimeter image sensors and make lofty promises concerning dynamic range. [[Read More]( [Adox Launches New Ultra-Low-ISO Color Film]( By Abby Ferguson on Jan 29, 2024 01:22 pm [Three rolls of the ADox Color Mission Helios film placed against a white background.]( German film company Adox is branching out with another new color film. On the heels of Color Mission, which Adox released in 2022, Color Mission Helios is an ultra-low-ISO color option for photographers. [[Read More]( [Webb Captures ‘Extraordinary’ Photos of 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies]( By Jeremy Gray on Jan 29, 2024 01:19 pm [JWST PHANGS collaboration releases 19 images of nearby spiral galaxies.]( The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies as part of its long-term Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program. [[Read More]( [Photographer’s Secret Images of Holocaust Victims Being Rounded Up Are Discovered]( By Matt Growcoot on Jan 29, 2024 01:15 pm [Deportees]( A trove of clandestine photos taken of Jewish people being rounded up in Nazi-occupied Poland so that they could be murdered has been released for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. [[Read More]( [NYC’s Mayor Says Social Media is Like Smoking: a Public Health Hazard]( By Jaron Schneider on Jan 29, 2024 01:11 pm [NYC Public Health Hazard]( New York City is taking a strong stance against social media and becomes the first city in the United States to designate it as a "public health hazard" and using imagery that compares it to smoking. [[Read More]( [NASA Wants to Put a High-Res Telescope Camera Array on the Moon]( By Jaron Schneider on Jan 29, 2024 12:58 pm [NASA Lunar telescope plans]( A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed a design for a lunar-based multi-camera telescope array that could start small, but expand to be much larger over time. [[Read More]( [The IMAX Camera Used to Film ‘Oppenheimer’ Broke During a Sex Scene]( By Matt Growcoot on Jan 29, 2024 11:16 am [Florence Pugh Cillian Murphy]( With Oscar season well and truly upon us, actress Florence Pugh has revealed that during the filming of smash hit movie Oppenheimer the camera broke at a very unfortunate moment. [[Read More]( [Google’s Art Selfie 2 Uses AI to Turn You Into a Renaissance Painting]( By Matt Growcoot on Jan 29, 2024 10:19 am Google has released Art Selfie 2, an app that harnesses generative AI to transform the user into a historical character. [[Read More]( [Watch a Chameleon Erupt in Stunning Color Moments Before She Dies]( By Pesala Bandara on Jan 29, 2024 10:02 am [Watch a Chameleon Erupt in Stunning Color Moments Before She Dies]( This is the incredible moment a female chameleon erupts in glorious color in a poignant final display before its death. [[Read More]( [Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits]( By Pesala Bandara on Jan 29, 2024 09:22 am Artist Richard Prince has agreed to pay at least $650,000 to two photographers in a pair of long-running copyright lawsuits against him for using their images in his controversial Instagram-sourced New Portraits series. [[Read More]( [An Underwater Drone Might Have Captured an Image of Amelia Earhart’s Plane]( By Matt Growcoot on Jan 29, 2024 08:57 am [Amelia Earhart]( A commercial real estate investor who sold his properties to fund a mission to find out what happened to Amelia Earhart believes he may have a picture of the aviator's plane. [[Read More]( Earlier Stories: [Website]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( Copyright © 2024 PetaPixel, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. PetaPixel · 2944 N 44th St Ste 100 · Phoenix, AZ 85018-7258 · USA You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.