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Around The Horn
29 March 2021
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 Bebe Blanco Agterberg, Michal Pelka, Siegfried Jansen, $1,000 mirrorless cameras, infrared, shutter speed, Sony anti-dust, photo critiques, a clamp stand, light tents, sensor fingerprints and an a7 III lawsuit.
- In A Mal Tiempo, Buena Cara, Bebe Blanco Agterberg talks about illustrating Spain's desire to forget the Franco era with its obligation to remember.
- In Atmospheric Images of Breaking Waves at Dusk, Stephanie Wade presents Dutch photographer Michal Pelka's "peaceful wave photography."
- The Flow of the Lines features highlight from Siegfried Jansen's new book of the same name. The Hamburg photographer finds "the urban landscape arranges itself to create perfect picture compositions."
- In The $1,000 Crop Sensor Mirrorless Camera, Thom Hogan lists and evaluates 16 models, pruning the list to six very different ones from Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony.
- In Infrared Photography With the 590NM Filter, Derrick Story shows how to use the Channel Mixer to turn the unprocessed file into an image that seems to come from another planet.
- How Fast Is the GFX 100S Electronic Shutter? Jim Kasson asks. Exactly as fast as the GFX100.
- Lloyd Chambers reports Sony A1 Has Two Welcome Anti-Dust Features. "For the first time ever, the Sony anti-dust feature worked for me," he writes.
- In What Can You Expect From a Photo Critique?, Scott Kelby explains, "When it comes to photo critiques, if you don't have the right attitude going in -- if you didn't ask for a critique for the right reasons, what you're left with is anger and frustration and you don't get any better."
- Terry White reviews Arkon's New Clamp Stand for dSLR Cameras. It features a long, articulated arm with a tripod mount on the end. He put a ballhead on it because he wanted a quick release mount. To avoid tripod legs when shooting straight down, we dust off an old enlarger as an alternative.
- William Sawalich considers The Light Tent Tabletop Mini Studio and its alternatives for small product photography.
- In The Hidden Fingerprint Inside Your Photos Jerone Andrews goes beyond metadata in the Exif header to Binghamton University's Jessica Fridrich's patented non-uniformity sensor fingerprint technique to identify both a particular camera and whether or not the sensor data has been manipulated.
- Kehl Bayern reports Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Sony Alleges a7 III Shutter Defects Breaking the Camera. The shutter blade can catch, detach and remained closed, requiring a $500 to $600 repair.
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