A new version of Excire Foto has been released. I am using this AI-augmented software for my photos and are happy to feature it. Here is Excire Foto 2025 with lots of new features, as the team behind Excire continues to expand the boundaries of AI-assisted image management by offering powerful, intuitive, time-saving solutions to common photography problems.
Excire Foto 2025 is available for both Windows and macOS; the program can be downloaded directly from the Excire website. The software’s sells for $199, but a limited-time launch discount reduces the price to $169. Additionally, existing Excire Foto 2024 users can upgrade to Excire Foto 2025 for $69. A 14-day trial version is also available for download. To learn more about Excire Foto 2025’s groundbreaking new features, head over to their website.
Press release:
The Next Level of Smart Photo Management: Excire Launches Foto 2025 With AI Culling, Video Support, and More
PRC’s Latest Image Organizer Offers Time-Saving Search and Organization Tools for Photo & Video Creators
Lübeck, Germany – December 4th, 2024 – PRC, the AI company behind the award-winning Excire software, has today launched the latest iteration of its innovative photo-management program: Excire Foto 2025. In addition to an array of AI-powered search functions—including natural-language (prompt) search, similarity search, face & people search, GPS search, and duplicate search—Excire Foto 2025 boasts powerful new features for sorting, culling, and organizing image and video files. As a result, photographers and content creators can accelerate (or even bypass) tedious image-management tasks and save more time than ever before. “Excire provides a powerful toolbox designed to give photographers better access to their photos and help them get organized,” said Erhardt Barth, CEO of PRC and a machine learning expert at the University of Lübeck. “While Excire is AI-powered, the focus will always remain on the photographer. We designed Excire software so that the AI assists, rather than replaces, the user. For example, the prompt-search tool isn’t used to generate new photos; instead, it’s used by the photographer to search for existing photos in their collection.”
Smart Photo and Video Organization Reaches New Heights
For photographers seeking a faster, more effective approach to image search and organization, Excire Foto 2025 is an essential program. But with the new release, PRC continues to expand the boundaries of AI-assisted image management by offering powerful, intuitive solutions to common photography problems.
Highlights of Excire Foto 2025 include:
● Unparalleled smart culling. Excire Foto 2025’s brand-new culling module allows photographers to rapidly group and sort files by visual similarity, sharpness, burst sequences, subject type, and more. AI functions can be implemented as a flexible, highly configurable culling assistant—though users can also configure Excire’s AI to automatically identify and select the best photos based on a wide array of adjustable criteria, including aesthetics, overall sharpness, and even eye sharpness.
● A new workflow for people search and face-tagging. Excire’s people-search features make it easy to search for people based on faces and even specific facial characteristics (age, gender, eyes open/closed, etc.). Excire Foto 2025 now includes an intuitive tagging workflow, so photographers can tag faces and create automatic “people” collections. To aid in tagging, the user can zoom in on faces, even when viewing thumbnails; Excire even adds sharpness markers to each preview, so photographers know at a glance which faces are in focus and which are blurry.
● Full video support. Photo and video content creators, as well as photographers who capture video files on occasion, can now manage their photo and video collections side by side. Not only does the new Excire Foto 2025 offer full support for video files, including high-quality video playback, but the software also analyzes a representative frame from each video file and automatically applies keywords for easy search, organization, and retrieval.
● State-of-the-art image search. Excire leverages cutting-edge AI to provide photographers with an unbeatable toolkit for photo retrieval. Thanks to prompt search, similarity search, people & face search, GPS search, duplicate search, and more, users can instantly find any image, no matter how deep it’s hidden in their photo collection.
● Automatic AI keywording. Excire automatically analyzes each photo on import and applies relevant keywords to aid in search and categorization. Thanks to X-tags AI’s unique capabilities, users can skip the tedium of manual keywording and can instead let Excire do the heavy lifting, making it easier than ever to categorize and retrieve images based on their content.
● AI aesthetics evaluation. Trained using hundreds of thousands of photos as well as extensive input from expert photographers, Excire’s X-tetics AI engine independently evaluates each image uploaded to a user’s catalog, then outputs a unique Aesthetics Score for each file. Aesthetics ratings can then be used to swiftly identify the most shareable – and most deletable – images during culling, as well as to uncover hidden gems from deep within an image database. Additional features of Excire Foto 2025 include:
● Automatic rendering of 1:1 previews
● Ultra-fast database navigation
● New options to filter by file type, aspect ratio, and more
● An improved interface
● A brand-new comparison view
● Excire Analytics, a module for analyzing users’ photos and providing unique insight
● Duplicate search, a tool for cleaning up duplicate and near-duplicate images in users’ catalogs
● Slideshows for easy collection
● Color labels, stars, and flags
● Keyword hierarchies
● Metadata filters and advanced metadata editing Also note that Excire Foto 2025 runs locally on the user’s computer. Therefore, the user’s photos are not accessed by a third party, nor are images exported for analysis in the cloud; instead, privacy is maintained and the user remains in control of their data.
Canon released firmware update 1.0.2 for the Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Please note: I’ve linked Canon Japan because they are the first to make the update available.
EOS R5 Mark II Firmware Version 1.0.2 (download) includes the following fixes
When using LP-E6NH/LP-E6N, frame rates of 23.98fps/24.00fps are now supported.
The Wi-Fi communication status can now be identified by the color of the [FTP transfer icon].
It is now possible to set “Rating” and “Protect” during FTP transfer.
You can now change the custom shooting mode even when the camera is busy writing images to the media during shooting.
Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to become unresponsive when repeatedly shooting while using HDMI output with a lens that did not communicate with the camera.
Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to become unresponsive when cropping an image while it was being transferred to an FTP server.
Fixed an issue that could cause Err70 to occur when the load on the smartphone increases while using application software such as Camera Connect.
Fixed an issue that could cause image stabilization to become unstable in movie mode when panning diagonally while using a monopod.
Fixed an issue where, when copying multiple images using the camera’s image copy function, not all images were copied.
Fixed an issue where third-party flashes would fire during pre-continuous shooting.
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the screen to take a long time to turn off when pressing the button assigned to turn off the monitor immediately after shooting.
Fixed an issue where the Look File setting was sometimes applied to multiple custom picture files.
Fixed an issue where the AF frame would not move smoothly when using the multi-controller with many shooting information items displayed.
Fixed saving camera settings to include custom pictures.
Improved operational stability during network communication.
Canon released a firmware update for the Canon EOS R1.
Canon EOS R1 Firmware Version 1.0.1 (download) includes the following fixes
The Wi-Fi communication status can now be identified by the color of the [FTP transfer icon].
It is now possible to set “Rating” and “Protect” during FTP transfer.
You can now change the custom shooting mode even when the camera is busy writing images to the media during shooting.
Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to become unresponsive when repeatedly shooting while using HDMI output with a lens that did not communicate with the camera.
Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to become unresponsive when cropping an image while it was being transferred to an FTP server.
Fixed an issue that could cause Err70 to occur when the load on the smartphone increases while using application software such as Camera Connect.
Fixed an issue that could cause image stabilization to become unstable in movie mode when panning diagonally while using a monopod.
Fixed an issue where, when copying multiple images using the camera’s image copy function, not all images were copied.
Fixed an issue where third-party flashes would fire during pre-continuous shooting.
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the screen to take a long time to turn off when pressing the button assigned to turn off the monitor immediately after shooting.
Fixed an issue where the Look File setting was sometimes applied to multiple custom picture files.
Fixed an issue where the AF frame would not move smoothly when using the multi-controller with many shooting information items displayed.
Fixed saving camera settings to include custom pictures.
Improved operational stability during network communication.
Here is a new Canon patent application for a 85mm f1.8 lens with some special optical elements.
Canon patent application 2024168979 (Japan, published 12/5/2024) discusses optical formulas for a 85mm f1.8 lens with optical elements called “seagull lenses” (that’s what the machine translation says).
From the patent literature:
An optical system that is small in size and has a large aperture while having high optical performance is provided.
Background Art: In recent years, with the increasing number of pixels in solid-state imaging elements such as CCD and CMOS sensors, optical systems used in digital still cameras and video cameras are expected to have high optical performance. In addition, large-diameter optical systems are required to take pictures that make the most of the bokeh effect. Furthermore, optical systems with a short optical length are required to reduce the size of imaging devices.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT EMBODIMENTS: It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an optical system which has high optical performance, is small in size, and has a large aperture.
The Z9 is an awesome camera despite being slightly older than the others, and there is no arguing that it represents the best value for the dollar at just under $5,000. It has an excellent sensor, can handle any kind of photography, and is still the most capable video/photo hybrid of the bunch.
[…] The Canon EOS R1 is undoubtedly pricey at $6,300 and is clearly more specialized as a dedicated sports and action kind of camera. Canon has certainly made an innovative body with a fast-scanning sensor and state-of-the-art autofocusing. It’s a decent video camera as well but I feel like if I’m paying the high price of admission, I want a camera that can tackle more types of photography.
[…] The Sony a1 II is proving to be a controversial camera. On the one hand, it borrows technology already present in the Sony lineup as a basic mashup of the a9 III body and the older a1 internals without providing much innovation. On the other hand, the camera still ends up being incredibly capable and delivers fast shooting, high burst rates, and more megapixels than anyone else. It’s a testament to the original a1 for being so ahead of its time but any updates like pre-capture and auto subject detection are fairly minor.
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