DIYPhotography Friday April 11, 2025
TUSK and ShiftCam have collaborated to launch the CINEMA // Series— the world’s first commercial-grade mobile lens and filter system. The innovative system marks a significant step forward in mobile content creation, offering filmmakers and creators a compact yet powerful toolset to capture Hollywood-level footage with their iPhones, notes DIY Photography. Designed to work seamlessly with Netflix-approved devices like the iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 16 Pro Max, the new system features 7 professional-grade lenses and 8 cinematic filters.
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PetaPixel Friday April 11, 2025
As we noted yesterday, AI image generator Midjourney recently released its latest model, V7, and now, reports PetaPixel, users are inputting creative prompts that include a filename from a camera system to achieve photorealistic images. One X/Twitter user, who goes by Min Choi, published a thread of images in which he writes a generic camera filename before a descriptive prompt. Choi chose CR2, Canon’s previous generation RAW image file format, notes PP. For example, Choi used the prompt “IMG_7249.CR2” followed by “casual selfie at X.”
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Semafor Friday April 11, 2025
YouTube is preparing to test a technical change that could upend the way YouTubers, podcasters, publishers, and other creators make money — and cement the Google-owned giant’s place at the center of the media world. Semafor reports that that the platform is currently developing a feature that would allow host-read ads to be dynamically inserted and swapped out within individual YouTube videos, as is already the case on other platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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David Schonauer Friday April 11, 2025
The final shot of director Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 horror film "The Shining" has left audiences mystified and uneasy for decades: To the wistful foxtrot tune "Midnight, the Stars and You,"
Kubrick's camera focuses in on a vintage group photograph showing that Jack Nicholson's character, Jack Torrance, never really left the haunted Overlook Hotel. As we learned this week, the source
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