Top 5 Photography News Stories of the Week
 |
The world of photography news moves fast, with tens of interesting, tragic, educational, and inspirational stories breaking sometimes daily. To help parse through the noise and focus on the signal, each week, we’re going to recap the 5 top photography news stories from the previous seven days.
This week, the tragic story of a young photographer’s death was the most popular—and controversial—of the news stories we covered on DPReview. This was followed by a shocking story of a musician kicking a photographer in the face, an inspirational round up of the best Nature photos of 2017 and, finally, a pricey announcement from Apple and a Leica sensor test rounded out our list.
Scroll through the slideshow for a quick recap of each story, and then follow any of the big blue buttons to dive deeper.
Famed Chinese rooftopper falls to his death from 62-story skyscraper
 |
In November, 26-year-old Chinese rooftopper Wu Yongning fell to his death from atop the 62-story Huayuan Hua Centre skyscraper when a photo stunt for an unnamed sponsor went horribly wrong. The story—and a video of his fall—only came to light this week, shining a tragic light on the dangerous lengths some photographers will go to for an exciting shot.
Read the Full Story
Photo: Weibo
Musician kicks photographer in the face during rock concert, sending her to the ER
 |
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme found himself the subject of heated criticism and disgust this week, after a video and photos seem to show him purposely kicking photographer Chelsea Lauren in the face during a performance.
His apologies—first over Twitter, and later over Instagram video— have not gone over well.
Read the Full Story
Photo: Screenshot from YouTube video
These are the winners of National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year 2017
 |
Moving from tragedy and anger to inspiration, National Geographic revealed the winners of its annual Nature Photographer of the Year contest. And as you might have expected, every shot from the Grand Prize winner down to the Honorable Mentions and People’s Choice awards were fantastic.
The Grand Prize went to photographer Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan of Singapore, who beat out 11,000 other entries with his intense wildlife portrait of an orangutan crossing a river in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park.
Read the Full Story
Photos courtesy of National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2017
A fully loaded iMac Pro will cost you $ 13,200
 |
On December 14th, Apple finally put the “most powerful Mac ever,” its new iMac Pro, up for sale. And now that the powerhouse of an all-in-one is live on the Apple Store online, we were able to check how much a fully loaded version would cost you.
No surprise here: an 18-core iMac Pro with 128GB of RAM, a 4TB SSD and Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics card costs about as much as a modest sedan!
Read the Full Story
Photo: Apple
DxOMark: The full-frame Leica M10 is ‘on par’ with the best APS-C sensors
 |
DxOMark finished their review of the Leica M10 sensor this week, giving the sensor an overall score of 86.
The Good News: this means that the sensor inside the M10 outperforms almost every other digital Leica ever made, coming in second only to the Leica SL with its overall score of 88.
The Bad News: the expensive camera still falls significantly short of the top-of-the-line full-frame sensors out there, performing “more on par” with the best APS-C sensors DxOMark has tested.
Read the Full Story
Photo: DPReview hands-on photo by Barney Britton
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)