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iPhone 13 Diary: Putting macro photography capabilities to the test

One of the new features of the iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max is its macro photography capabilities. Early reviews seem to indicate that there is essentially no limit to how close you can get to the thing you’re photographing, so I put this to the test. I half joke that photographing gadgets is 5% photography, 5% editing, and 90% cleaning. When it comes to macro photography, that would be more like 99.9%…
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iPhone 13 Pro: How to take macro photos and videos

The iPhone 13 Pro devices come with some great new camera capabilities with one of them being powerful performance for up-close shots and footage. Let’s look at how to take iPhone 13 Pro macro photos and videos. With the new ultra wide camera on the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro…
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Apple camera VPs offer deep dive into iPhone 13 camera in podcast interview

Some of the biggest upgrades this year with the iPhone 13 lineup are the camera advancements thanks to even bigger sensors, lenses, and more. To get all the inside details, videographer Tyler Stalman has interviewed some of Apple’s camera engineers on the latest episode of the Stalman Podcast. Coming with all-new sensors and lenses, an improved A15 Bionic chip, and new ISP, the iPhone 13…
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Skype for iPhone and Mac gets a redesign and new features

Skype is receiving a major update on all platforms. According to Microsoft, this is an “improved, faster, reliable, and super modern-looking Skype.” In a blog post, Microsoft says it’s upgrading and modernizing “the most important part” of Skype, the call stage…
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Apple responds to security researcher who found multiple iOS 15 zero-day flaws [U]

Apple overhauled its security bounty program back in 2019 by making it open to anyone, increasing payouts, and more. However, the program has seen a good amount of criticism from the infosec community. Now another security researcher has shared their experience claiming that Apple didn’t give them credit for one zero-day flaw they reported which was fixed and that there are three more zero-day…
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Apple camera execs detail iPhone 13 upgrades, timeline for new features

Apple is continuing to heavily promote the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro’s new camera hardware in press interviews. This time around, Apple’s Jon McCormack (VP of camera software engineering) and Graham Townsend (VP of camera hardware engineering) sat down with GQ Magazine to go in-depth on the new features, the A15 Bionic chip, and more. One of the more interesting comments came from…
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