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"The Fall of Icarus" Andrew McCarthy, Cosmic Background

The Fall of Icarus

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured this stunning photo of skydiver Gabriel Brown’s dark silhouette against the Sun’s fiery chromosphere. The photo was shot through a telescope equipped with a special...

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The Story Behind The First Digital Camera

“I’ll just make one [a camera] with no moving parts, and that’ll annoy the hell out of them [mechanical engineers].” The story of how the first digital camera was conceived at Eastman Kodak by a...

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The Leaf Sheep Gets Its Energy From the Sun

This slug with what looks like leaves on its back lives in the sea and is appropriately known as a leaf slug. Its face appearance looks like a sheep, and hence the sea sheep and leaf sheep monickers. Its scientific name...

Nikon Announces the Full-Frame Z5II Mirrorless

Today Nikon Canada announced the Z5II, a full-frame mirrorless camera targeted at intermediate-level photographers. The Nikon Z5II features a full-frame 24.5MP back-illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensor, fast and intelligent AF...

TIPA World Awards 2025

The editors of TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) have voted and announced their 2025 winners (cameras introduced in 2024 – 2025 time frame). With full-frame becoming the de facto standard once again, we now...

Panasonic Announces Lumix G97 and ZS99

PRESS RELEASE Panasonic Announces Two New Cameras: Compact Micro Four Thirds LUMIX G97 and Pocket-Sized Travel Zoom LUMIX ZS99 Newark, N.J. (December 17, 2024) – Panasonic is pleased to introduce two new cameras to its...