Photo Geek Weekly Episode 167 – The Future is Artificial

On this episode of Photo Geek Weekly, Don is joined by Allan Attridge to discuss how AI imaging is changing the photography landscape, the dramatic images from space telescopes in 2022, phase detect autofocus on Lumix and how camera technology is advancing, and the unreasonable demands of a wedding photographer. All this and more! Thanks for listening, and your feedback is always appreciated.

Story 1: Google’s Imagen AI produces photorealistic images from natural text with frightening fidelity (via DPReview)

Related: Stunning sunset ‘photograph’ wins contest after bowling over judges – but ‘terrifying’ twist leads to scandal (via The Sun)

Story 2: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (via NASA)

Intermnission: Allan’s Holzfäller Woodworking Co YouTube Channel

Story 3: Panasonic Lumix DC-S5 II / DC-S5 IIX initial review (via DPReview)

Story 4: Wedding Photographer Sued After Making ‘Unreasonable Demands’ (via PetaPixel)

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Don: Platypod Don Kom Macro Bundle

Allan: Canon EOS R6

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