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Around The Horn
18 November 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 Jeff Keller, the bee project, Diana Walker, Japanese leaf art, LensWork's Rust bonus edition, two photography rules, Nikon and the Rokinon Remaster Slim.
- In The Rise and Fall of the Compact Camera, veteran digcam reviewer Jeff Keller and founder of DCResource.com documents the early days of the industry. "As someone who spent two decades writing about point-and-shoot cameras, I'm a little sad, but technology has left compacts in the dust," he writes. Mike Johnston has a nice appreciation of Keller's impact during that time.
- In The Bee Project Helping to Tackle Elephant-Human Conflict, Tony Karumba documents a long-running project by the charity Save the Elephants to deter some of nature's biggest animals with some of its smallest: African honeybees.
- The Bigger Picture highlights Diana Walker's images of U.S. politics taken as an assignment photographer for Time magazine since the mid-eighties. She has published a selection of her work in Through Her Lens.
- Killian Fox showcases some playful Japanese Leaf Art by the Japanese artist Lito.
- Kevin Raber announces LensWork's Rust Bonus Edition, which includes a download link to a PDF copy of the book featuring Raber's images of rust organized in three categories: Tanks, Machines, Bolts & Rivets and Beyond Recognition.
- Mike Johnston reveals Two Photography Rules I Go By. That would be the Nothing Rule and the Never Salvage Rule.
- Thom Hogan wonders, Given the Z50II, Wither the Z70/Z90? He suspects, "Nikon is trying to minimize DX R&D costs. That says 'no new models and likely no new image sensor until absolutely necessary.'"
- Nilofer Khan reviews the $399 Rokinon 3-in-1 Modular Lens that provides 21mm f3.5, 28mm f3.5 and 32mm f2.8 modules that mount magnetically to a 19.5mm base on Sony cameras. "The Rokinon Remaster Slim appears like a pancake lens while giving you enough liberty to get the shot you have been desiring," he writes.
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