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3 January 2015
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at great lenses, Menuez's images of Steve Jobs at NeXT, the Library of Birmingham's endangered photography collection and .
- Kirk Tuck argues Great lenses should be great values and fun to use, taking a stab at corner-to-corner sharpness and naming names.
- Julia Love reports that Doug Menuez's documentary images of NeXT for Life magazine have finally seen the light of day in Rare photos shed light on Steve Jobs and a young Silicon Valley. Menuez said, "He [Jobs] told me, 'Don't worry, you'll have fun with these pictures someday.'" Menuez's 192-page hardback Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000 is available for $29.28.
- In Another One Bites the Dust, Francis Hodgson warns that budget cuts threaten the historic photography collection at the Library of Birmingham.
- Ryan Mense describes A Better Way to Fix Snow's Blue Color Cast in Photoshop in two steps that take less than a minute. That's what we call dancing.
More to come...