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Over the past few weeks, we've been compiling the questions you want Adobe to answer related to its push into AI, recent controversies, and photography in general. We had a chance to sit down with Maria Yap, Adobe's Vice President of Digital Imaging, to give the company a chance to respond. For over an hour, Chris Niccolls, Jordan Drake, and Jaron Schneider chatted with Yap and presented her with a range of inquiries from the whole "skip the photoshoot" debacle, pricing and subscription strategy, Lightroom performance, and more. While Yap answers many of those in the podcast, she also wanted to be sure to give detailed answers in text form to a few that stood out as needing more context. You can read those here: http://petapixel.com/2024/08/15/adobe-answers-your-questions-on-ai-controversies-and-photography-the-petapixel-podcast We expect to speak with Adobe more frequently moving forward, so more questions and ideas for topics to discuss are welcome! Check out PetaPixel Merch: store.petapixel.com/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio. We hope you enjoy the podcast and we look forward to hearing what you think. If you like what you hear, please support us by subscribing, liking, commenting, and reviewing! Every week, the trio go over comments on YouTube and here on PetaPixel, but if you’d like to send a message for them to hear, you can do so through SpeakPipe. In This Episode 00:00 - Intro 03:28 - Meet Maria Yap, Adobe's Vice President of Digital Imaging 06:20 - Discussing the "skip the photoshoot" ad 11:04 - Can Adobe use AI to make metadata tagging easier? 13:27 - Does Adobe plan to update its TOS to allow boudoir photographers to use AI tools, or are they out of luck? 16:37 - Is Adobe going to leverage NPUs better so sending AI requests to the cloud is not necessary? 21:13 - When are we going to get proper multi-core and graphics card acceleration? 28:05 - Will Lightroom on iPad ever have feature parity to Lightroom on desktop? 46:34 - When is Lightroom Classic tethering support coming to Apple Silicon? Are you working to improve the stability of tethering on Windows? 47:17 - Why hasn’t there been any significant improvement or revision to the Lightroom import process? 48:35 - Could there be a Photoshop or Lightroom "lite"? 51:43 - Would Adobe consider a "build your own" or a la carte bundle plan of apps? 53:41 - How does Adobe ensure that its decision-making remains independent and user-centric? 55:14 - How does Adobe plan to improve communication and transparency with its users? 59:43 - How does Adobe ensure that customer value remains central to its business strategy? 1:03:19 - The broken promise of Lightroom as perpetual software forever. 1:06:12 - Adobe's stance on AI, imagery, and what is a photo?

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Today, Canon announced the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II – two highly anticipated cameras that say a lot about where the company stands on technology and, more importantly, how what it can provide photographers compares to its peers. Each camera alone is a big deal for Canon but together they mark what is arguably the most important launch for the company in the digital photography era -- it is unquestionably the most important launch for Canon since it moved to mirrorless. It was odd, then, that Canon gave US media so little time with the cameras. This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake join me to go over all of the details about the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II that we weren't able to talk about when we got hands-on time with them a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix, Arizona. We weren't able to dedicate the time to doing things as we would typically for camera launches because Canon only provided us about two hours of shooting time. If we attempted to record all of this information on site, we wouldn't have had any time to evaluate the equipment. Beyond that, Canon wasn't able to provide concrete information to many of our questions in Phoenix. While we did eventually get final specifications this week, a lot was still missing. It doesn't seem like Canon wants to share everything and we'll have to get production units in hand to provide full information to everyone. So because of our limited time and because we didn't have enough information when we had the R1 and R5 Mark II in-hand, we focused our efforts on explaining the most important aspects of each camera with the anticipation that we would spend a lot more time discussing those features in a podcast format. Now that podcast is here, and we do our best to answer every question we think you might have about both cameras. Enjoy! Check out PetaPixel Merch: store.petapixel.com/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio. We hope you enjoy the podcast and we look forward to hearing what you think. If you like what you hear, please support us by subscribing, liking, commenting, and reviewing! Every week, the trio go over comments on YouTube and here on PetaPixel, but if you’d like to send a message for them to hear, you can do so through SpeakPipe. In This Episode 00:00 - Setting the stage and explaining how this video is divided 03:25 - Canon EOS R1 specifications and breakdown 46:05 - Canon EOS R5 II specifications and breakdown 1:07:31 - Explanation of the shooting opportunity in Arizona 1:18:22 - Opinions so far... 1:28:37 - Canon did a round of layoffs and Rudy Winston is gone 1:30:02 - OM System Curry

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