Cameras
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Bunnings wins appeal over use of facial recognition technology to fight crime
During 2018 and 2021, Bunnings trialled technology in 62 stores that captured customer facial data and compared it against a database of repeat offenders.
- Jessica Yun and Elias Visontay
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Tokyo, Shanghai, now Brisbane: Ricoh’s GR Space arrives in Spring Hill
It’s a gallery, art centre and cultural meeting point, in one, and it’s opened in Brisbane – not Melbourne or Sydney. Here’s why.
- Matt Shea
The Sydney institution riding the wave of a Gen Z-fuelled revival
Young people are the craving mistakes, nostalgia – and the magic – of film photography. And this is where they go to find it.
- Abby Seaman
Behind the counter at old school camera and film shop Sydney Super8
The Kodak-yellow Newtown store is keeping the art of film photography alive among the next generation of shutterbugs.
From ‘delete anxiety’ to data breaches: The perils of all those photos on our phones
Swamped by the thousands of photos on your phone? In our drive to document every moment, treasure is getting lost among the trash.
- By Fenella Souter
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Bunnings defends use of facial recognition after privacy breach
The retailer says its use of the technology appropriately balanced privacy with the need to protect staff against violent and organised crime.
- David Swan and Jessica Yun
From the Archives, 1998: After 34 years, Instamatics retire from service
In 1998, it was the end of a photographic era, when Kodak announced it would stop manufacturing the Instamatic 126 film cartridges and disc film in Melbourne.
- Suzanne Brown
Flash sale: Snapping bargains at million-dollar camera auctions
A wristwatch camera and a rare piece commissioned by Mao Zedong’s wife are among items from a camera museum that will be sold at auction.
- Carolyn Webb
All at sea: Man to reunite with camera lost off coast in 2015
The New Zealand man last used the camera during a family trip to Queensland. It was a different time, long before COVID-19.
- Jocelyn Garcia