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Around The Horn
4 April 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, wildlife, waterfalls, Haley Van Lith, sharpness, tariffs, cropping's effect on dynamic range and proprietary Raw formats.
- Reuters shares 29 of its Pictures of the Week from around the world.
- Pejman Faratin showcases the Week in Wildlife from around the world.
- Grace Ebert presents the Ethereal Waterfalls of Jonathan Knight, who prefers to photograph about 45 minutes after sunset, during "the last few minutes the sky has any blue hue in it and the last few minutes you can see without an external light source."
- Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert Captures Haley Van Lith's Last College Game. "It was quite an honor to document Hailey Van Lith's very last college game. She is not only one of the most dynamic leaders I have seen on the court in my 40 years as a photojournalist, but this game and this photo had all the elements that speak to her collegiate history."
- Are Photographs TOO Sharp Now? Michael Johnston asks. "Sharpness and acuity are presumed to improve realism," he writes. "But at some point they go too far and decrease realism."
- In A Sad Day for Photographers in the U.S. and More on the Tariff Situation, Thom Hogan ruminates on what cameras from Japan will cost. "Bottom line: short term camera pricing won't seem to make a lot of sense," he writes. "If the tariffs stay in effect for any length of time, the only choice will be to accept a smaller U.S. market buying at higher prices."
- Jim Kasson looks at Cropping in the GFX 100RF and the Effects on Dynamic Range. With a follow-up in Diving Deeper Into Cropping in the GFX 100RF and Dynamic Range. "Fuji is recommending cropping as a method to ameliorate the limitations of a fixed lens in the GFX 100RF. That will affect dynamic range," he writes.
- Antonio G. Di Benedetto asked camera companies Why Their Raw Formats Are All Different and Confusing despite the existence of Adobe DNG, an open standard. He talked to Sony, Panasonic, Sigma, Canon, Pentax and two that did not answer: Nikon and Fujifilm. "I have yet to hear a good reason for using proprietary Raw formats. The underlying data is the same," said Halide developer Ben Sandofsky. "If a manufacturer comes up with additional data that isn't included in the DNG standard, the format is extensible enough that a camera manufacturer can throw it in there, anyway."
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