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Canon launched its Dual Pixel 3D imaging software in October 2026, letting users convert still photos into 3D models and videos without extra hardware. The tool depends on a camera's Dual Pixel CMOS AF sensor, limiting compatibility to select EOS R series bodies, and currently requires Windows 11 from 2024 or later. Output files are exportable as OBJ, GLB, or MP4.
A research team has reported a method for building infrared imaging sensors using lead sulfide (PbS) that are grown and integrated directly onto silicon readout circuitry, rather than assembled from separately fabricated parts. The approach draws on techniques such as epitaxial membrane transfer and low-temperature 2D material growth to achieve cooling-free, monolithic infrared detection on a single chip.
A failing CMOS battery, typically a CR2032 or CR2025 coin cell, loses its ability to keep a motherboard's clock and BIOS/UEFI settings intact when the system is unplugged. Symptoms include the date resetting to a default like January 1, 2000, boot-time warnings, and BIOS settings such as boot order reverting to factory defaults. Replacing the battery is cheap and simple, and using sleep mode instead of rebooting can temporarily preserve settings on a dead battery.
Sigma has announced the FP2, a follow-up to its original fp full-frame mirrorless camera, priced at $2,199 for the body and available November 11th. The camera features a new 24.5-megapixel partially stacked BSI sensor enabling faster readout, up to 20fps stills, 6K/60fps video, bird-detection autofocus, an articulating LCD screen, and longer battery life, though it is roughly six grams heavier than its predecessor.
Fujifilm has unveiled the Instax Pal 2, a compact digital camera that builds on the original Pal by adding tactile controls, downloadable color filters and a horizontal, Charmera-like design. It packs a 1/3.06-inch CMOS sensor that shoots either 10MP or 1MP images, an f/2.2 aperture and LED flash, and lets users transfer photos to a phone via a built-in USB-C port or Bluetooth.
A marketing writer describes four years spent interviewing people who broke conventional marketing rules, including CMOs and other leaders. The piece highlights three unconventional figures—a monk, a real estate mogul and a musician—who are described as marketing gurus despite never setting out to be one, and draws lessons from how each built influence and audience without formal marketing titles.
Camp Snap has opened preorders for the 110D, a pocket-sized digital point-and-shoot styled after the thin horizontal 110 film cameras Kodak popularized in the 1970s. It costs $74.95 and comes in two color options, packing an 8-megapixel Sony sensor, a 4.2mm f/2.0 lens with 30.5mm filter compatibility, five built-in retro filters, and a bundled 4GB microSD card.
Canon has launched the 24-megapixel EOS R8 II, an entry-level full-frame camera with a squared-off body inspired by its old EOS 650 film SLR, replacing the rounded look of the original R8. The update adds a joystick for autofocus point control, 40fps electronic shutter burst shooting, and Canon's first in-body 5-axis stabilization on this line, cutting shake by up to 7.5 stops while remaining the lightest full-frame stabilized camera at 546 grams.
Canon has unveiled the EOS R8 Mark II, a successor that finally adds in-body image stabilization, one of the biggest gaps in the 2023 original. The camera will launch in late October at $1,899 for the body alone, or $2,099 with a 24-50mm stabilized lens, positioning it between the original R8 and the pricier EOS R6 Mark III.