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Around The Horn
24 April 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 photo puzzles, Fujifilm Pixel Shift Combiner, GFX 100S stuck/jammed shutter, a camera store owner dishes, the difference we don't celebrate and superficiality.
- Alan Taylor presents 25 photos of the week featuring Happy Cows, Bird Paradise, Big Merino. Quite of few of these could be photo puzzles. You have no idea what you're looking at without a clue from the caption. And then you really start to marvel at what you're seeing.
- Jim Kasson takes a look at Fujifilm Pixel Shift Combiner Accurate Color Mode in the new version of the program. And, as a bonus, shows you the secret to displaying the version number, which should not be a mystery unless you're trying to hide something.
- In Fujifilm GFX 100S: Some Units Have a Stuck/Jammed Shutter Problem, Lloyd Chambers laments paying $6,000 for a camera that has to be immediately returned to the manufacturer for repair. "The workaround is to use the electronic shutter, but that would be a very temporary solution and it's a bad idea for handheld work," he writes.
- The owner of a Full Service Camera Store sits down for a Reddit Ask Me Anything. And Robby Yankush dishes all the delights, delusions and details about dealing with cameras and customers.
- Mike Johnston liked Jason Kottke's The Worst Player in the NBA, unraveling the tale of a photographic equivalent (with a happy ending for the pro). Readers contribute other parallels. He doesn't go this far but it does help put artificial intelligence in its place -- more weight on the "artificial" than "intelligence."
- Andrew Molitor discusses one of the many permutations of Superficiality among "the photographic/cultural critical types," using sweet peas as an example. This does not exempt him from criticism, he points out.
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