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Around The Horn
9 March 2023
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 Egypt, the Benro Theta, point-and-shoot cameras, some stats and repairs.
- Suzanne Sease features Chad Holder's images of Egypt, a personal project he took to feed his soul. "It was a chance to break out of my familiar surroundings and explore how I see things when I'm simply shooting for myself," he writes. "Every sight, sound and texture felt novel and this really stimulated my senses and sparked new ideas."
- In The Motorized Self-Leveling Tripod, Mike Johnston wonders about the need for the Benro Theta announced by Benro. "You attach a battery to it and it levels itself," he writes. He's not tempted, but many others have been already. "Theta has reached 10 times its original $50,000 goal on Kickstarter with 43 days remaining, which means that a lot of people have put their money behind their interest."
- LensRentals reports The Most Rented Point and Shoot Cameras during the last year. Odd numbering, though. Number 10 is "at the top of the list." An Olympus Tough TG-6 (well, that makes sense). Cameras from Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Leica, Ricoh and Sony also made the list.
- Jasenka Grujin compiles some Photo Statistics That Will Blow You Away. "To get you started, based on recent estimates, it is believed that five billion photos are taken every day!" she writes. Oh, don't get us started.
- Kirk Tuck bemoans the state of Refrigerator Repairs. His experience with a new GE model mirrors our horror story of a Whirlpool washer/dryer combo in which five dryers were delivered so beat up they weren't even installed and when we did get one in, it had to be completely dissembled by the second repair person to button down the interior assembly. "I guess modern life really is a series of compromises," he writes, explaining why he picked a model he could get rather than the one he wanted.
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