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Around The Horn
4 January 2024
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 Japan, Dia De Los Muertos, RaMell Ross, Z-mount Nikkors and a scanned film frame.
- The Associated Press presents images of the aftermath of Monday's 7.6 quake in Japan Grieves. "The quake killed at least 73 people and 15 were listed Wednesday as officially missing."
- Suzanne Sease highlights Dia De Los Muertos, the personal project of Scott Lowden who visited Patzcuaro, Tzintzuntzan, and Isla de Janitzio Mexico to explore the tradition.
- Strapped In? showcases RaMell Ross's tour of the American south, his adopted home, from his new book Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body.
- In Which Lenses Got Better, or Worse? Thom Hogan revises his opinion of several Z-mount Nikkors after using them a while. He also list three trios of lenses to make up a base zoom kit.
- In The Proof Is in the Image, Kirk Tuck analyzes a scanned film frame for the camera, lens and film he used. I wish that everyone who wrote about or made videos about, their techniques or their gear or even their creative vision would append an actual image or a set of images, made using that gear or that technique so we could see for ourselves if it was really all that," he writes.
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