preservation
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Fujifilm’s Flagship Camera Can Now Be Used In Crime Scenes and Art Preservation
Fujifilm announced the launch of its updated GFX100 large format mirrorless digital camera on Wednesday, which now comes equipped with infrared image-making capabilities that could be used in forensic, scientific, and cultural preservation capacities.
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Google’s Absurdly Hi-Res Camera Will Preserve Great Works Of Art
Google has finally finished work on the cameras it hopes will digitise the world’s art collections. Fittingly called the Art Camera, the extremely high-resolution robots will be lent out to museums for free, and photos taken with them will appear on Google’s online Culture Institute.
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Does Preserving The Past Keep Cities From Moving Into The Future?
In the last 50 years, the preservationist movement has become powerful — maybe too powerful in a place like New York City, where a third of the buildings are now protected. But the buildings we think of today as landmarks inevitably replaced older structures, ones we tend to forget were demolished in the path towards…
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Syria’s ‘Monuments Men’ Are Trying To Save History Amidst ISIS Chaos
Roman ruins. Byzantine villages. Umayyad architecture. The relics of the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. Syria has some of the most remarkable cultural history in the world — and now, National Geographic reports that Syrians are using archaeological first aid to save it.