Y.M. Cinema Magazine Friday July 11, 2025
Apple might be quietly preparing one of the biggest advancements in image sensor design — and it could change everything from iPhones to professional cinema tools, notes Y.M.Cinema Magazine, which uncovered a newly published Apple patent titled “Image Sensor With Stacked Pixels Having High Dynamic Range And Low Noise.” With claims of a staggering 20 stops of dynamic range packed into a stacked sensor architecture, Apple might be gearing up to rival — or even surpass — the giants of cinema camera technology, declares YMCM.
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Royal Museums Greenwich Friday July 11, 2025
The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest — hosted by Royal Observatory Greenwich and BBC Sky at Night magazine — has released its 2025 shortlist, drawn from more than 5,580 entries submitted from all over the world. Among the nominees: Chinese photographer PengFei Chou’s image of the Sun during a solar prominence, with a plasma eruption that extended more than 310,000 miles into space. The image comprises 20 stacked data sets to illuminate the entire process, as if caught in slow motion, notes Colossal.
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David Schonauer Friday July 11, 2025
These days the news is served up two ways: real and fake. As we noted recently, bogus images and videos of explosions, fires, protests and weapons went viral after the United States's June 21 attacks
on three Iranian nuclear sites. Many of the videos were shared by X accounts with blue check marks, which were formerly associated with accounts belonging to people or organizations … Read the full Story >>
People Thursday July 10, 2025
A North Carolina photographer, her son and a soon-to-be bride ended up in the hospital after their bridal shoot was interrupted by a surprise lightning storm on July 1, notes People. Brianna Pendley was taking bridal photos for Katie McDaniel ahead of her wedding this month, when a thunderstorm quickly broke out at Carvers Gap on Roan Mountain, near the Tennessee border. The group sheltered under trees, and “within literal milliseconds we were on the ground screaming because lightning had struck the tree/ground that we were under," the photographer noted. "I felt the electricity in my feet and legs, and saw smoke coming from the ground so I knew it wasn’t good.”
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