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A rare cruise liner passing through Tower Bridge provided an unexpected opportunity to test the night video capabilities of the iPhone 18 Pro. The device's wider aperture and enhanced processing resulted in noticeably better low-light video quality compared to previous models. This showcases Apple's ongoing efforts to close the gap between still and video night photography in smartphones.
Apple has outlined a new approach called Reference Image aimed at proving whether a photo genuinely came from a real camera sensor, rather than relying on after-the-fact metadata like the C2PA standard. The method uses iPhone's secure hardware and Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure to build a chain of trust starting at capture, rather than tracking edits after the fact.
A photography guide explains that Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro has a slightly wider variable aperture (f/1.48 vs f/1.78) than its predecessor, theoretically producing shallower depth of field. However, it outlines four techniques—Portrait mode, Macro mode, shooting close to a subject, and using the telephoto lens—that let owners of older iPhones create similar background-blur effects without upgrading.