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Around The Horn
19 March 2025
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 Reuters, scanning backs, the niftiest 50, a perpetual usage contract and Group f.64 at SFMOMA.
- Reuters features 21 Pictures of the Day for today.
- Michael Collette's Better Light showcases some examples of Intentional Misuse of scanning backs to "create unique images not possible with other digital cameras." Instead of avoiding subject movement, it employs it as a technique.
- Mike Johnston sings the praises of The Niftiest 50 by All Means, which would be the Pentax HD FA 50mm f1.4 SDM AW ($996) and the Tokina Opera ($699), "being the same lens or nearly the same lens optically."
- Andrew Souders prices a contract for Headshots and Environmental Portraits for a grocery retailer. The contract include perpetual usage rights.
- In At SFMOMA, History of Bay Area Photography Shows a Way Forward, Max Blue reviews the SFMOMA exhibit of Group f.64's influence on the Bay area. "Group f.64 only existed formally for a year and exhibited together once, at the de Young Museum, but had an outsized impact," he writes. "The elders of the group, Weston and Cunningham, leveraged their international connections -- they had recently exhibited in Germany -- to spread their gospel."
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