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Around The Horn
30 August 2018
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. This time we look at John McCain, Vietnam, armed teachers, a Garry Winogrand movie, the DX format, the Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS II/III, phodeos and PhotoRec.
- Getty Images Foto celebrates John McCain: The Life of a Maverick, in Photos. The last caption quotes McCain, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears."
- In Forgotten Images of the Vietnam War Made for the Americans Who Fought in It, Finbarr O'Reilly presents images from the Hoover Institute's exhibition We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam featuring images from the photo morgue of Overseas Weekly discovered in 2014.
- Kate Way takes A Firsthand Look at Teachers Training to Pack Heat. Way has co-produced G Is for Gun, a documentary on the training that will air on PBS next month. "Shockingly, the exact number of states or schools with armed teachers is unknown," she writes. The practice is banned in California, however.
- Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable is a 1:31 hour documentary directed by Sasha Waters Freyer will be released Sept. 19. Here's the trailer:
- In What's Up With DX, Redux, Thom Hogan admits, "I'll just say right up front, I don't have the answers you're looking for."
- In Lens Teardowns and Comparisons of the Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS II and III, Roger Cicala (with Aaron Closz of course) take apart two very popular zooms "to see if there was any difference in the mechanicals." Nope, no difference.
- In Pursuing Low Hanging Fruit or the Long Tail?, Hans Hartman suggests "the proliferation of cameras, visual formats and monetization methods are transforming the consumer imaging industry." We can capture more than photos and videos now. "It's no longer just either photos or videos -- instead, a long tail of visual formats is blossoming, which we refer to as phodeos: from animated GIFs to cinemagraphs, to Apple Live Photos, to Instagram Boomerangs, to Stories," he points out.
- Oliver Kmia PhotoRec, freeware file recovery software. "It can retrieve lost files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT, HFS+ and ext2/ext3/ext4 file system. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if the media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted," he writes.
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