Photo Geek Weekly Episode 18 – New Life to Old Cameras

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Darlene Hildebrandt joins the conversation to discuss a Kickstarter campaign that allows you to use a digital back on many 35mm film cameras (and it doesn’t break the bank), what innovations might be possible now that Google has open-sourced its pixel-by-pixel object recognition software, and what is quickly [...]

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Darlene Hildebrandt joins the conversation to discuss a Kickstarter campaign that allows you to use a digital back on many 35mm film cameras (and it doesn’t break the bank), what innovations might be possible now that Google has open-sourced its pixel-by-pixel object recognition software, and what is quickly approaching from RED – and a little hint that should make photographers and cinematographers pay attention. Give it a listen!

Story 1: ‘I’m Back’ digital back for analog SLRs successfully returns to Kickstarter (via DPReview)

Story 2: Semantic Image Segmentation with DeepLab in TensorFlow (via Google Research Blog)

Story 3: HYDROGEN hints… (via reduser.net forums)

Picks of the Week:

Don: Panasonic Lumix GX9

Darlene: Fuji X100f

Photo judged as “unaccepted” in the PPOC National Image Salon:

Image taken with the GX9 that was exhibited and sold in the Image City Photography Gallery:

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Darlene Hildebrandt: Website – Digital Photo Mentor, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook