By David Butow – Leica has just updated their flagship digital rangefinder, the M11, with a new chip that encodes the original image file with CP2A technology. This new “M11-P” is…
AI & Fauxtojournalism
By David Butow – I’m sure you’ve heard of the major strike in Hollywood. Two of the largest entertainment industry unions, the the joint Screen Actor’s Guild – American Federation of…
By David Butow and David Paul Morris – There are existential questions about how Artificial Intelligence will modify the appeal and strength of photography. The principle one is: what impact will…
By David Butow- In the last few months there have been many examples of AI imagery, including examples of fauxtojournalism that have drawn attention – not just inside the photo community…
By David Butow – Photographer Michael Christopher Brown, a well-respected documentary photographer with a half-million Instagram followers stirred up tremendous controversy recently with his creation and IG publication of AI imagery…
By David Butow – Since its inception about 200 years ago, people have discussed and argued to what extent photography depicts reality. You could fill a bookshelf or your computer’s hard…
By David Butow – A bright spot in the emerging AI/photo dynamic is Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). The basic mission of CAI is the development of software, block chains and…
By David Butow – While we can only speculate about where AI imagery is going, there is one component that’s similar to dynamics that have always existed in photography: how much…