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Around The Horn
17 October 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 Nikon Small World contest, Magnum Square Print Sale, Emocean, Save for Web, Kodak Slide N Scan Scanner, the Nikon Z f, the Mammoth Camera, nerves and NFTs.
- Nikon has announced the winners of its annual Small World Photomicrography Contest.
- The Magnum Square Print Sale: Written by Light (as opposed to AI) ends Oct. 22.
- Heidi Volpe interviews Thembi Hanify and Mariah Ernst about Emocean, a surf print publication owned by women. "It's also one of the few surf mags that features a truly diverse range of people," Hanify says. "There are a lot of male-dominated mags out there and then there are a lot of women-only mags out there, so we felt the need to address this underserviced area where surfers of all different genders, backgrounds and identities could be seen side by side."
- There are reports of Photoshop's Save for Web showing incomplete previews on the main monitor under Sonoma. Magnum Photos and World Press Photo will be donating a portion of the profits from the sale of each $110 6x6-inch print to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Feroz Khan reviews the $180 Kodak Slide N Scan Film Scanner which uses a 13-megapixel CMOS sensor to scan 125, 110 and 126 film. Khan provides plenty of scans to show why he "honestly expected better" from this scanner.
- In More Thoughts on the Nikon Z f, Thom Hogan explains, "In the Z System, we have two highly configurable cameras: the Z 8 and Z 9. We have three somewhat crippled cameras in terms of configuring: the Z 5, Z 6 II and Z 7 II. And we have two cameras with highly limited customization: the Z f and Z fc."
- Matthew Green tells the story of The Mammoth Camera built to capture a single, panoramic photograph of the Alton Limited train in the early 20th century. J.A. Anderson constructed the $5,000 camera ($185,415 today) that George R. Lawrence used to take the shot.
- Nervous Before a Photo Shoot? Me Too, admits Derrick Story. He lists his recipe for coping.
- In Where Are NFTs Today?, Paul Melcher blames the crash of cryptocurrency for the downfall of NFTs. But experts believe "NFTs were just an imperfect first attempt," he writes, and "a more refined and less tumultuous version" will emerge "as the ownership of digital files naturally finds its place in our digital universe."
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