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Around The Horn
24 July 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 another Voigtlander, a mysterious camera, motivation, The Star Named EOS and generative AI in documentaries.
- Kirk Tuck has been Buying Additional Toys, namely another Voigtlander lens. "They are not as well corrected as lenses using more modern designs but they are current products and they are long on delivering "character" (which means optical flaws that people seem to like," he writes. "The idea seems to be that a few optical flaws bolster the feeling of authenticity in an image)."
- In Search for Owner of Mysterious Camera, Mildred Armah talks to Chris Watson who found a Canon R5 with an RF 24-105mm f4 L series lens that had been left on its tripod for eight months to a year in Milford Sound, New Zealand. "I'm going to try and read the card and see what happens. We might be able to find some photos on it," Watson says.
- Jason Row shares a few tips to help you Get Going. "I don’t mind telling you that it can be a struggle to get out and shoot, even more so to shoot at the best times of day," he writes.
- Michelle See-Tho reviews The Star Named EOS Review, a video game in which Dei inherits his mother's Polaroid to recreate her photos. "Photos capture a moment in time with full objectivity," See-Tho writes. "They can defy our version of events and settle 'that's not how it happened' arguments. In these cases, you could say fitting a photo into one's memory becomes a ... puzzle."
- Andrew Deck talks to Errol Morris about Whether You Should Be Afraid of Generative AI in Documentaries. "Well, of course, all images are unreal. They all are. That's an important thing to remember," Morris says. "In reality, they're images of reality taken by people under certain circumstances with certain equipment and on and on and on and on and on."
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