A group of news organizations, camera makers, and technology companies have joined together to create a web tool called Verify for checking the authenticity of images for free. If the image has a digital signature, the site will display the date, location, and other credentials for the image. The authentication technology is now adopted by Nikon, Sony, and Canon.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/camera-companies-are-working-on-technology-to-watermark-real-images
Tag: photography
Photon’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive
Photon, an iOS app for pro photographers, is introducing a new feature that will allow iPhone 15 Pro users to save their photos directly to an external drive, freeing up valuable disk space on their device. The app, which hails from LateNightSoft, the makers of the popular consumer app Camera+, was launched this July to cater to a more professional audience with tools for adjusting focus, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, format and resolution, among other things.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/photons-app-for-pro-photographers-lets-you-shoot-and-save-to-an-external-drive/
Google’s Pixel 6 camera smartens up snapshots with AI tools
Google’s latest flagship phones have an impressive set of automated, AI-powered tools to help make your photos look better, with smart blurs, object removal and skin tone exposure. While we’ll have to test them out to see if they work as advertised, they could be useful for everyone from pixel peepers to casual snapshot takers.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/googles-pixel-6-camera-smartens-up-snapshots-with-ai-tools/