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December

Happy New Year!

31 December 2017

We never like to end the year without wishing you the best in the one to come. And while we're at it, we strike up the band for another rendition of Auld Lange Syne.

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Matinee: 'Dawn Parsonage, The Found Photographer'

30 December 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Site Note: The Year In Review?

30 December 2017

You may have noticed we don't publish year-in-review stories. There's a reason for that. We don't have to. The design of Photo Corners does that automatically.

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Around The Horn

30 December 2017

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 13 Lens posts, some monochrome images, Lightroom export plug-ins and TheFilmCameraShop.

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Friday Slide Show: Gangsta Step Sistas

29 December 2017

Christmas traditions warm the heart with memories. Not to mention being the source of a lot of holiday stress, too. Sometimes it helps to break the mold. And we're not talking about jelly mold.

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Around The Horn

29 December 2017

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 a Julieanne Kost slide show, Ming Thein's photographic rules, Kenji Toma's flowers, the New Apple Park, an iMac Pro review, the Wright Brothers, best new gear picks and the vindication of Andrea Polito.

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Making A Custom Border For Exposure X3

28 December 2017

One of the reasons we launch Exposure X3 now and then is that we really like the special effects it provides. And one of those special effects is Borders. These frames for your images are unlike the cartoonish frames of many other applications. They're, uh, sophisticated.

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Remembering Don Hogan Charles

27 December 2017

Don Hogan Charles, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 79, was the first black photographer the New York Times had ever hired. He spent over four decades on the staff, covering the city that never sleeps from his unique perspective until his retirement in 2007.

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Around The Horn

26 December 2017

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 Hadeer Mahmoud, a sorting library, Instagram and a Boxing Day sale.

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A Christmas Memory

25 December 2017

We usually start our day by rolling over in bed several times to squeeze as much sleep out of our body as possible. When we sense the last drop of unconsciousness has been dripped, we turn on the radio to find out what terror the East coast has visited on the nation while we were off duty.

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Tracking Santa In 3D

24 December 2017

Christmas Eve in a house with four boys resembled something between the wild West and martial law. There would be dinner (which, in light of Christmas Day preparations, was not elaborate), baths in rotation, new pajamas and reassembly in the kitchen where Dad would tune in NORAD on the big radio on the wall so we could follow the North American Aerospace Defense Command as it tracked Santa.

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Matinee: 'Albert Heijn Christmas 2017'

23 December 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

23 December 2017

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 Garrett Maclean, Neewer Vision 4 strobes, Darktable for Windows, Imatag, Davis' best and Harald Johnson.

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A Canopy of Red Clouds

22 December 2017

You can never do justice to the sunset. But we keep trying. We want to preserve that subtle yet dramatic display that changes without our noticing it.

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Friday Slide Show: Gump's Ornaments

22 December 2017

We were driving around the sunsplashed streets of the city the other day when a sudden thought jaw-walked in front of us. We stomped on our intellectual brakes to spare it a sudden passing.

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Around The Horn

22 December 2017

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 Christmas Past, Love Park, popular rentals, storytelling trends for 2018 and Fujifilm updates.

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Around The Horn

21 December 2017

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 the year in pictures, Quentin Bruno, wedding photography with a small camera and backing up Apple Photos libraries.

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Phase One Updates Styles Packs For Capture One 11

20 December 2017

Phase One has updated all of its Capture One Styles Packs to work with the new engine in Capture One 11. They also remain backwards compatible with Capture One 10.

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An Autumn Dawn

20 December 2017

The ratio of sunset photos to dawn photos is a lopsided one in favor of sunsets. Primarily, we suspect, this is because we tend to be awake at sunset. But today we were awake for the sunrise and, looking southwest, the delicate light falling on the storm cloud over the Pacific was spectacular.

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Around The Horn

20 December 2017

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 Time magazine's photojournalism, 2017ish photos, Tina Barney, Derek Parfit, a portrait lighting trend, Lightroom, smart objects, the smartphone's significance and eCO improvements.

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Hasselblad Announces XPan Lens Adapter For X System

20 December 2017

Hasselblad has announced an XPan Lens Adapter to use legacy XPan lenses released in 1998 on the company's X System bodies.

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Nikon Accepting Submimssions For Storytellers Scholarship

19 December 2017

Nikon has begun accepting submissions for its Storytellers Scholarship which was announced as part of the brand's 100th anniversary celebration earlier this year. Eligible students can apply to be one of 10 individuals awarded with an academic scholarship of $10,000 to help foster their growth as visual storytellers and content creators.

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Around The Horn

19 December 2017

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 Christmas lights, African-American photography, Willy Spiller and a LaserSoft deal.

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Hasselblad Updates X, H Firmware

19 December 2017

Hasselblad has released firmware updates for it X and H systems. Firmware update 1.20 features include Instant Preview and Imaging Browsing through the X1D EVF, a beneficial utility that many photographers rely on. Firmware 1.20 also offers creative Selectable Crop Modes including the popular XPan Ratio (65:24), 1:1, 7:6, 5:4, 3:2, 16:9, 2:1, A4, U.S. Letter and more.

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Remembering Bob Seidemann

18 December 2017

Bob Seidemann, who photographed rock stars and aviators, passed away from Parkinson's disease late last month at his home in Vallejo, Calif. He was 75.

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Around The Horn

18 December 2017

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 the Blue Mosque, Hogan's comparitor, Matthew Finn and 10 Photoshop contenders.

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Matinee: George Lambert

16 December 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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The Sky On Fire

16 December 2017

As the Thomas Fire continues to burn in southern California, the winds have blown its smoke past the Channel Islands and into the Pacific. There they have blown north, passing just outside the Golden Gate.

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Friday Slide Show: SantaCon

15 December 2017

SantaCon may have started in San Francisco 15 years ago, as local legend has it, but this year there are SantaCon events in 397 cities in 52 countries. So you probably know it's a convention of people dressed as Santa. Or reindeer. Or elves. Or even snowmen.

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Around The Horn

15 December 2017

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 Leticia Valverdes, Zarita Zevallos, the Strobist Lighting Cookbook, Nikon's lens famine, Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer contest and net neutrality.

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Leica Announces M Camera With Red Anodized Finish

14 December 2017

Leica has announced another special edition camera. The Leica M (Typ 262) with a red anodized finish on the top plate and baseplate, matching the color of the special edition Leica APO-Summicron-M 50mm f2 ASPH. lens released in 2016. The Leica logo remains red.

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Around The Horn

14 December 2017

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 the good fight, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Joe McNally, Apple discounts at B&H, Sigma lens sale, three Photoshop tools, DxO PhotoLab, three appsperiments and rolling your own holiday email card.

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Fiat Lux

13 December 2017

The motto of the University of California is "Fiat Lux" ("Let There Be Light" to those of you who've let their Latin lapse). It should be the motto of every photographer, too, when you think about it. It's light we love and chase and capture.

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Around The Horn

13 December 2017

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 the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest winners, Mars, Puerto Rico, PhotoShelter, Dreamstime and handling the creative phone call.

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A Smoky Sunset Miles Away

12 December 2017

The Thomas Fire in Ventura continues to burn. Late reports today claim 20 percent of the 230,000 acre, week-long fire has been contained. But it continues its march toward Santa Barbara where a Santa Ana wind could threaten coastal communities like Summerland and Montecito.

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Outside TV Premieres Clark Little's 'Shorebreak: The Series'

12 December 2017

Today Outside TV has launched a brand-new series Shorebreak: The Series to its streaming platform, Outside TV Features. The original series documents photographer Clark Little as he travels around the North Shore of Oahu, intent on capturing the perfect wave shot. The series premieres today exclusively on Outside TV Features.

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Adobe Updates Lightroom CC, Classic and Camera Raw

12 December 2017

Adobe has updated "the entire Lightroom CC ecosystem, including for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and the web, as well as Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Camera Raw," the company announced this morning.

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Around The Horn

12 December 2017

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 macro shots of insects, Christopher Griffith, a 4K monitor buyer's guide, the new iMac Pro, geotag tips and Pixel Shift images.

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Think Tank Photo Releases Video Tripod Manager 44

11 December 2017

Think Tank Photo has just released its $349.75 Video Tripod Manager 44 rolling case with hard case protection and soft case convenience. It can hold cinema-sized tripods, stands, sliders and/or modifiers up to 40 inches in height.

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Around The Horn

11 December 2017

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 a book on NOAA scientists, Haiti, an amaryllis unfurling, the Panasonic G85 and the Olympus 45mm f1.8 and f1.2 lenses.

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Time After Time +

10 December 2017

We don't publish on Sundays. We don't even sit at the keyboard. We take a break. We get some sunshine or let the rain drops fall on our head. It's our idea of a vacation.

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Matinee: Tim Knox And The Women Of Gleason's Gym

9 December 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

9 December 2017

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 Julia Butterfly, being a specialist, using the color of the year, visual tech trends, Nikon rebates at midnight and net neutrality.

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Friday Slide Show: Autumn Afternoon Light

8 December 2017

Occasionally we take our own advice. Not as punishment either. Instead, much to our surprise, we benefit from it. Which, after all, is why we pass it along here on a regular daily schedule.

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Doyle To Auction Ansel Adams Museum Set

8 December 2017

A complete Ansel Adams Museum Set will be auctioned during Doyle's sale of photographs on Thursday, Dec. 14, in New York. Spanning Adams' entire career, the set of 75 images includes much of the artist's best-known work.

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Around The Horn

8 December 2017

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 some hopeful images, Review Santa Fe, Kentaro Takahashi, the Canon 85mm f1.4L IS, Direct Relief's fire mapping and a DIY Lighting Products webinar.

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Taking The Calla Lily Cure

7 December 2017

The poor have religion, the rich have spirituality and enthusiasts have photography to get them through life's bumps and bruises. We fall into the third category, so when the approach of winter started sinking our spirits, we grabbed a camera.

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Around The Horn

7 December 2017

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 more of 2017 in Photos, Nathan Farb, three Kost edits, Long Exposure mode on the iPhone and mirrorless vs. dSLR.

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Meyer Optik Develops Primoplan 75/1.9

6 December 2017

Meyer Optic has launched an Indiego campaign for its redesigned Primoplan 75/1.9 (aka P75 II), designed as a portrait lens with "versatile bokeh that spans from dreamy and swirly to circular, along with melting colors and smooth transitions from sharpness to soft blurs."

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DxO Releases PhotoLab 1.1

6 December 2017

DxO has announced the release of version 1.1. of DxO PhotoLab (formerly DxO OpticsPro), the first update to its Raw conversion software. DxO PhotoLab 1.1 features U Point local adjustment tools, as well as a Brush tool with adjustable flow and opacity settings. In addition to these new features, the software is now compatible with Adobe Lightroom CC Classic, as well as with new cameras and drones.

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Around The Horn

6 December 2017

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 Phnom Penh, Maurice Berger, a 50mm Carl Zeiss lens, an estimate, Lytro's living pictures and Peak Design's anchor links.

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Kodak Adds Mini Shot Instant Camera With LCD

5 December 2017

Joining the Kodak Printomatic, the new Mini Shot adds features like color controls, filter effects and Bluetooth connectivity to the instant print experience.

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Lifeprint Launches Wireless 3x4.5-Inch Zink Printer

5 December 2017

Lifeprint has released its 3x4.5-inch WiFi and Bluetooth connected photo printer exclusively on Apple.com and Apple stores.

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LensProToGo Merges With LensRentals

5 December 2017

Paul Friedman, LensProTo Go "head honcho," announced in a blog post that the company has merged with "our friends and largest competitor, LensRentals."

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Around The Horn

5 December 2017

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 part of the year in photos, national monuments, the iPhone X (and accessories), Nan Goldin, layer masks, the image tag, Instagram and denagging macOS.

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Free Android App Looparoid Creates Photo Stories

4 December 2017

Magix has released Looparoid, a free Android app to create photo stories of up to eight images that can be distributed as animated GIFs.

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Around The Horn

4 December 2017

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 the top 25 news photos, the shooting experience, Helen Levitt, Tuck's two favorite lenses and a Rocky Nook deal.

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Matinee: 'Singing Men of Ohio'

2 December 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

2 December 2017

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 tethered shooting, a Lightroom keywording issue, the Sony a7RIII silent shutter and TensorFlow's image recognition software.

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Nikon Releases SnapBridge 2.0

1 December 2017

Nikon has released SnapBridge 2.0, updating the app that connects Nikon digital cameras via Bluetooth to a smart device.

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Friday Slide Show: Sugar Castles

1 December 2017

There is a tradition at the St. Francis Hotel next to Union Square (and the Powell St. cable car line) of erecting a sugar castle in the lobby just before Thanksgiving. This year, for only the second time, there were two.

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Bonhams To Auction Berman Collection

1 December 2017

Bonhams announced it will auction photographs from the collection of film industry executive Bruce Berman on Dec. 14 and 15 in its saleroom in Los Angeles. The sale, titled The Producer's Pix: Photographs from the Bruce Berman Collection, features works by blue-chip artists as well as emerging talent that capture views of America that are in danger of vanishing.

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Around The Horn

1 December 2017

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 holiday light shows, a Santa Fe portfolio review, dark skin tones, digital preservation, a Davis webinar, Darktable, how to clean filters, Google's Vision Kit and hand lettering.

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November Archived

1 December 2017

As Masaccio might have told you if you'd bought him a glass of wine, perspective is everything. And as we archive Volume 6 Number 11 of Photo Corners, perspective is what we're providing.

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November

Around The Horn

30 November 2017

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 Maury Gortemiller, Facebook profile picture animation, Pixelmator Pro first impression and books from Pier 24 Photography.

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Think Tank Photo Announces Airport Advantage Plus

30 November 2017

Think Tank Photo has announced the Airport Advantage Plus roller, an upsized version of one of its most popular rolling camera bags. The new roller combines domestic U.S. carry-on size requirements so your gear won't have to be checked with the lighter weight requirements airlines are introducing.

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Special Leica 50mm Honors Intl. Leica Society 50th Anniversary

30 November 2017

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The International Leica Society, Leica will produce a special edition of the Leica APO-Summicron-M 50mm f2 ASPH. lens uniting the classic look of the Summicron 50mm f2 from 1954 with modern technology.

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Phase One Releases Capture One 11

30 November 2017

Phase One has released Capture One 11 with "new, highly-responsive tools, workflow enhancements and a finely-tuned processing engine," the company said. Capture One 11 has been designed to deliver a significantly faster and smoother experience.

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Hasselblad Launches Online Store

30 November 2017

Hasselblad has launched the online Hasselblad Store in the U.S., China, U.K., Germany and France.

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DxO One Early Access Program for Android Available

30 November 2017

DxO has launched a DxO One Early Access program for Android for anyone with a compatible smartphone or tablet. The program gives you the opportunity to start using the new DxO One for Android right away.

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Pixelmator Pro Released For MacOS

29 November 2017

The Pixelmator Team has released Pixelmator Pro, a new Mac app designed to provide professional-grade editing tools within an intuitive and accessible design. Pixelmator Pro 1.0, code named Whirlwind and built with Swift 4, includes a modern single-window interface with nondestructive, GPU-powered image editing tools, machine learning-enhanced editing features and more.

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Leica Announces Noctilux-M 75mm f1.25 ASPH. Lens

29 November 2017

Leica has announced its Noctilux-M 75mm f1.25 ASPH. featuring a shallower depth of focus than that of the Noctilux-M 50mm f0.95 APSH. and a close focusing distance of 2.79 ft. and a reproduction ratio of 1:8.8.

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Deals: $100 Off Sigma 100-400mm Contemporary Zoom

29 November 2017

Sigma is offering a $100 instant savings off its new and very popular Sigma Global Vision 100-400mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary zoom lens. The compact, super-telephoto zoom lens is compatible with both full frame and ASP-C crop sensor dSLRs.

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Around The Horn

29 November 2017

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 Guatemala's civil war, the Strobist Lighting Cookbook, working with channels, Marina Amaral and Luminar with the iPhone.

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Test Drive: Kodak Printomatic +

28 November 2017

The $69 Kodak Printomatic is not made by Kodak -- just as it's slightly more complicated cousin, the $99 Polaroid Snap, is not made by Polaroid. In both cases the venerable names have been licensed by C+A Global. And both use the same Zink (Zero Ink) thermo paper with an adhesive back.

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Adobe Sneak Peak: Select Subject

28 November 2017

At Adobe MAX Japan yesterday, Adobe offered a sneak peak at an upcoming new Photoshop feature designed to make image editing "faster and easier than ever before."

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Around The Horn

28 November 2017

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 the Ancient Silk Road, the Real Hollywood, lighting a stage, QT Luong, After Supper Visions and the iPhone X's lens switching.

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The DNP DS620, WPS Pro One-Two Punch: Overview +

27 November 2017

We're beginning our multi-part review of the DNP DS6210 dye sublimation printer and DNP's WPS Pro wireless print server after several months of testing. We might have started a review of either individual product on its arrival, as we usually do. But the combination made for some interesting complexities.

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Around The Horn: Cyber Monday

27 November 2017

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. American shoppers spent $5 billion during Black Friday. So this time we look at some Cyber Monday deals, including some held-over our Black Friday deals.

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Matinee: 'Roma: Sacro e Profano'

25 November 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

25 November 2017

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 suburban geometry, photographing architecture, the Panasonic/Leica 8-18mm lens and ParallelDots.

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Friday Slide Show: A Vespa Fantasy

24 November 2017

Since it's Black Friday we seriously thought of leaving you to your shopping and family and leftovers for the day. But we enjoy putting together these little slide shows every week. So why deny ourselves the pleasure?

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Around The Horn: Black Friday +

24 November 2017

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. With Black Friday upon us, we look at a few unusual shopping resources with links to their deals. As always, shopping with our affiliates helps support this site.

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Happy Thanksgiving

23 November 2017

The trouble with turkey is it's two meats in one: the white meat and the dark meat. That's a problem because the white meat is cooked before the dark meat is done. If you cook the turkey long enough for the dark meat to be cooked, the white meat will be dry.

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Ihagee To Offer $299 Base Elbaflex Model

22 November 2017

Ihagee has added a basic version of its Elbaflex 25mm analog camera to its Kickstarter campaign. The company also announced both the base and prime models will be offered in either the original Nikon F mount or a screw-threaded M42 mount.

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Around The Horn

22 November 2017

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 giant pandas, Cig Harvey, a Lightroom preset issue, the Panasonic 12-60mm, some twigs, museums and a Lloyd Chambers lens sale.

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Leica Adds Leica CL to APS-C System

21 November 2017

Leica has announced the Leica CL featuring a 24.2-megapixel APS-C sensor, a Maestro II series processor and fast autofocus system with 49 AF points. The CL introduces a new electronic viewfinder, built-in WiFi and advanced video as well.

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Around The Horn

21 November 2017

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 2017 Epson International Pano Awards, Photoshop's Fill command, a biography of Graciela Iturbide, smartphone camera showdown, a Neal Preston interview, why buy a 2017 iMac 5K now, a copyright infringement lawsuit and a 2018 visual trend forecast.

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A Monochrome Moment

20 November 2017

Mount Davidson was once a bare hill, nothing but a lump on the landscape. Then it was forested mainly with blue gum eucalyptus. Now the tallest peak in San Francisco looks like it needs a haircut.

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Deals: WhiteWall Acrylic Prints

20 November 2017

WhiteWall has announced a 20 percent discount from Nov. 23 to 27 on its acrylic photo mountings, including the Acrylic Mini, which features your photo under acrylic glass, and the Acrylic Photo Block, a bold, one-inch-thick, free-standing block.

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Leica, Peak Design Collaborate On Backpack Capsule

20 November 2017

Leica Camera and Peak Design have announced their collaboration on the Leica Backpack Capsule, a Peak Everyday Backpack with Leica design elements. Only 100 units will be made available.

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Storyglory Launches First Thanksgiving Challenge

20 November 2017

Storyglory has launched its first Thanksgiving Challenge. The free and private iOS app lets you attach an audio memo to any photo. Until Sunday, Nov. 26, the company is challenging you to share your memories with family members.

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Around The Horn

20 November 2017

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 the American family, Lightroom's Sensei search, Raw+JPEG Files in Capture One Pro, QromaScan and International Smoke.

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Matinee: 'Behind Their Eyes'

18 November 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

18 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Istanbul, the women who covered Vietnam, iPhone X questions, Persistence of Vision and Medium Photo Boards.

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Friday Slide Show: South Of Market

17 November 2017

The first big storm of the season was on its way in but the winds hadn't been as strong as forecast so it was taking its time. We had an appointment downtown and debated whether or not to bring a camera. Always bring a camera.

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Photography As An Art +

17 November 2017

We had wandered onto the sunny patio with a little book we rediscovered in our library of unread titles. The sun could not exert itself to reach very high in the sky but it was enough to read by. Especially in a reflective mood.

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Around The Horn

17 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Paul Struijk, the world's largest digital camera, the Profoto A1, Clips, Drip, teens at the Getty and Samantha Clark.

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Jeff Borkowski Wins Documentary Family Photography Awards

16 November 2017

Massachusetts photographer Jeff Borkowski took home First Place Environmental Portrait, Anna Kuperberg's Judges Choice and Best Overall awards in the 2017 Documentary Family Awards. The winning image features his daughter, age 3, a frequent subject in his personal work.

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Hasselblad Launches Rental Program

16 November 2017

Hasselblad has launched Rent a Hasselblad to "allow photography enthusiasts and professionals to benefit from the advantages of medium format technology," the company announced.

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Around The Horn

16 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Delhi, Nina Berman, changing requirements, amateur volcano hunting, Neal Preston and Adorama's gift guides.

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2017 Windland Smith Rice Awards Announced

15 November 2017

The 2017 Windland Smith Rice Awards have been chosen from over 26,000 entries and an exhibition will showcase 60 of the images from the work of outdoor photographers in 59 countries.

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Adobe Releases Lightroom Downloader

15 November 2017

Adobe has released Lightroom Downloader, an application to download your synced Lightroom photos and videos to your computer's hard drive. Edits are stored in XMP sidecar files on the drive.

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Nunn Awarded 2017 Bob & Diane Fund Grant

15 November 2017

The Bob & Diane Fund, a grant-making organization dedicated to promoting Alzheimer's awareness, is awarding $5,000 to British photographer Christopher Nunn for his work, Falling into the Day. In addition, Sony Imaging is generously donating an a7S II camera and an FE 24-70 ZA lens to this year's grantee. The contest attracted 67 submissions from 22 countries.

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Around The Horn

15 November 2017

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 Puerto Rico, Antarctica, Gianni Berengo Gardin, the iCloud Photo Library, the 'Robin Wong' Look, Sebastien Hue, JPEG settings, a free photo contests guide and pricing business portraits.

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Adobe Issues Photoshop, DNG Converter Security Updates

14 November 2017

Adobe has issued security updates for both Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows and Mac) and DNG Converter (Windows). "These updates resolve critical vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution," the company said.

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Remembering Patrick Nagatani

14 November 2017

Patrick Nagatani was born in Chicago on Aug. 19, 1945 to Japanese-American parents who had both been held in detention camps during the war and met in an early-release program in the city. It was just days after Hiroshima, his family's hometown, had been destroyed by the atomic bomb.

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Ihagee Elbaflex Film Camera To Be Resurrected

14 November 2017

A team of German and Ukrainian engineeers hopes to resurrect the Ihagee Elbaflex 35mm film camera with a Nikon F lens mount, wooden grip, your choice of leather coverings and a two-year warranty.

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Around The Horn

14 November 2017

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 finding the best average focus point, smart filters, Citizen of the Year, a dramatic photo edit and the case for RSS feeds.

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Around The Horn

13 November 2017

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 smartphone photographs, a sensor wars update, Maarten van Dijk, celebrities at airports, art in snapshots, five tips, European libraries, Guy Aroch and the CokexAdobexYou challenge.

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Matinee: Stacy Pearsall's Veterans Portrait Project

11 November 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Bufano's Madonna

10 November 2017

Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, sculptor, was not born in America," begins Lois Rather's Bufano and the U.S.A. "He was born in San Fele near Rome, Italy,on October 14, 1898 -- or was it, as his death certificate states, on October 15, 1890? Or in 1909, as he brashly announced at one point?"

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Veterans Day Observed

10 November 2017

Today we observe Veterans Day, which actually always falls on Nov. 11 and therefore doesn't actually occur until tomorrow. Our observation of it today is merely a time out from business as usual. A holiday.

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Around The Horn

10 November 2017

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 school children in Syria, a possible photo of bluesman Robert Johnson, Pete Souza on the road, the last Lighting 103 installment, fine-tuning autofocus, Lena Herzog, syncing 32 strobes and Apple Clips.

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Sigma To Ship 16mm Contemporary This Month

9 November 2017

Sigma has announced its Global Vision 16mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary lens for APS-C mirrorless Sony E-mount and Micro Four Thirds camera systems will be available at the end of November for $449 through authorized U.S. retailers.

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Around The Horn

9 November 2017

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 the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Best Individual Focus MTF curves, a timelapse with a broken lens, Bokehmarket, the Camera app's new floor crosshair feature and QR codes.

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The Art Of Composition +

8 November 2017

Your eyes do not frame what they see. They notice some detail in passing. You stop. You begin to frame. And in framing begins composition.

But it doesn't stop there.

Composing an image includes all the artificial acts that, together, create a final image. They are artificial in the sense that they are not inevitable, intrinsic changes. They're optional.

But each of them is a road that diverges in a yellow wood. Once you decide to go that way, other options are precluded and new ones present themselves.

This image Game Over is a case study in composition.

We had taken a walk late in the day with our Nikon D200 and an 18-200mm Nikkor without a polarizer on it. As we passed this yard, we were drawn to the last remaining patch of sunlight on the browned lawn. But only as we went by did we notice out of the corner of our eye, the ball.

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Leica Marks Canada's 150 Years with Special Edition Leica

8 November 2017

Leica Camera will mark Canada's 150th anniversary with the Leica M-P (Typ 240) Canada Edition Set. With only 25 units available, the limited-edition set will include a special red cowhide leather Leica M-P (Typ 240), a Leica Summicron-M 35mm f2.0 ASPH. lens and a red rope strap.

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GlobellColor Launches Calibration System Kickstarter Campaign

8 November 2017

The German firm globellColor has launched a Kickstarter campaign for an innovative calibration system that starts with a lens cap and ends with a monitor calibration unit that does not need to actually touch the screen.

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Panasonic Announces Lumix G9

8 November 2017

Panasonic has announced the Lumix G9, a mirrorless Micro Four Thirds camera featuring a 20.3-megapixel Live MOS sensor matched to its Venus Engine processor with ISO up to 25,600, 60 fps continuous shooting and UHD 4K at up to 60p.

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Panasonic Announces Leica DG Elmarit 200mm f2.8

8 November 2017

Panasonic has introduced the Leica DG Elmarit200mm f2.8 Power O.I.S., the first large-diameter ultra-telephoto fixed focal length lens within the Leica DG family. It features the sharpest-ever corner-to-corner image quality in the history of Lumix digital interchangeable lenses, the company said, in a compact, lightweight design.

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Around The Horn

8 November 2017

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 Pete Souza, an affordable normal lens, selecting metadata for Lightroom exports, the Internet warriors and the Ghent Altarpiece.

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Site Tweak: Longer Horn Tweets

7 November 2017

No, you won't need earplugs. But we'll be sending longer tweets for our Around The Horn column now that Twitter has raised the 140-character barrier to 280 characters. Longer Horn tweets at last.

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Miops Launches App-Based Mobile Remote

7 November 2017

Miops has launched its $125 Miops Mobile Remote, a versatile smartphone-based wireless camera remote which received $275,188 in Kickstarter funding from 2,548 backers. Miops Mobile Remote uses the smartphone's built-in capabilities to remotely fire the camera with various creative modes like Vibration, Sound, Motion, Distance as well as advanced Timelapse modes.

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Around The Horn

7 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Walker Evans in Cuba, filtering your flash, the Reflex SLR, Austin Mann's latest iPhone reviews and a 100-Mp moon.

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Remembering Mel Rosenthal

6 November 2017

For Mel Rosenthal, who passed away last week a victim of Alzheimer's, photographer was not just a job. It was a calling.

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Deals: Nikon, Olympus Rebates

6 November 2017

Instant rebates are now available from both Adorama and B&H on select Nikon lenses and Olympus products. Free shipping is included in the offer and Adorama includes a four percent Adorama reward as well.

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Peak Design Launches 'Greatest Hits' Kickstarter Campaign

6 November 2017

Peak Design has launched a five-day Kickstarter campaign featuring its greatest hits, including a brand new V3 Capture camera clip and Slide/Slide Lite camera straps.

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Phase One Appoints Capture One Brand Ambassadors

6 November 2017

Phase One has put together "a team of ambitious creatives and experts in their fields, who all believe in the power and precision of Capture One," the company said. "They are uncompromising in their approach for success and eager to help educate and inspire you to achieve amazing results."

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Around The Horn

6 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at PhotoPlus Expo, Mark Mann, the dSLR, accessories and group unpublished works.

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Matinee: 'Art Shay: The Sporting Life and Times'

4 November 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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2017 Lucies Awarded To Outstanding Photographers

4 November 2017

The 15th annual Lucie Awards black-tie gala was held last Sunday at Carnegie Hall in New York to present awards for achievement in photography ranging from Achievement in Fine Art and Documentary to achievements in industry support categories, including Photojournalism and Advertising.

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Fall Back

4 November 2017

Only a public service announcement (of nearly the most significant kind) would oblige us to interrupt the weekend. We could just have tweeted this reminder but we take our responsibilities seriously. And you should too if only for tonight. The occasion? The end of Daylight Saving Time (for those of us under its thumb) at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 1 a.m. again.

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Friday Slide Show: The Golden Gate Bridge

3 November 2017

Hard to believe we've done 202 of these Friday Slide Shows without featuring the one San Francisco landmark everyone knows. And we can't explain it as an oversight because the Golden Gate Bridge has showed up in several of them, as well as modeled for a few of our tutorials, like The Split-Toning Solution.

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MindShift Gear Announces BackLight 36L Backpack, Relief Initiative

3 November 2017

MindShift Gear has introduced its $289.99 BackLight 36L Photo Daypack with 10 more liters of capacity than its predecessor. Like the original BackLight, the back-panel accesses your gear when you can't take the pack off. The zippered compartment reduces the amount of dust, mud, ice or other elements coming in contact with gear, while keeping the pack and shoulder harness clean.

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Hasselblad Updates 2018 Lens Road Map

3 November 2017

Hasselblad has updated its XCD lens roadmap for the X1D-50c, adding the XCD 135mm and the 80mm lenses for a total of nine dedicated lenses. By end of 2018 X1D users will have a wide range of lens options, the company said.

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Remembering Virginia Thoren

3 November 2017

You were a camera and eyewitness to a golden age -- the rebirth of Paris after the war," New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham once wrote to Virginia Thoren. Thoren passed away on Oct. 27 in Manhattan at the age of 97.

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Blakesberg Rock & Roll Retrospective Opens Nov. 9

3 November 2017

A retrospective of the work of Jay Blakeberg sponsored by ChromaLux will open in San Francisco on Nov. 9 and run through Jan. 6, 2018. The exhibit, titled Dark + Light, features 142 images printed on ChromaLuxe aluminum.

"When I shot my first rolls of 35mm film in 1978, I never could have imagined it would lead to this," Blakesberg said. "For 40 years I have been lucky enough to document pop culture history in the world of rock and roll.

"My camera has brought me in to places I could never have dreamed of. I am humbled that I have been able to make a living doing something I love so much."

Blakesberg has photographed many musicians, including the Grateful Dead, B.B. King, Phish, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Ben Harper, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, Neil Young and Carlos Santana, among others.

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Around The Horn

3 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Fortepan Iowa, Shin Noguchi, a new printer for the ISS, essential Photoshop training and the Nikon D850's autofocus accuracy.

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Affinity Photo, Designer Both Updated

2 November 2017

Both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer have been updated to 1.6 versions that introduce a new architecture to make them faster, smoother and more powerful. The updates also feature a light user interface mode, brush stabilization and performance improvements and enhancements, the company said.

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Phase One Releases Capture One Pro 10.2.1 Update

2 November 2017

Phase One has released an update to Capture One Pro, its image editing software, with new camera and lens support as well as a few bug fixes.

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Around The Horn

2 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, HEX, clipping paths, a ridiculous Copyright Office proposal and Adobe Sensei.

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Digital Film Tools Releases Film Stocks 3.0

1 November 2017

Digital Film Tools has released Film Stocks 3.0 featuring new black-and-white films, Polaroid presets, color presets, black-and-white presets and 16 motion picture film presets. In addition, 89 color-grading presets from Academy Award nominated movies are also provided. And a new visual Color Wheels interface adjusts brightness, hue and saturation using master, shadows, midtones and highlights wheels.

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Around The Horn

1 November 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Julia Child by Paul Child, the Tusheti Mountains, Matthias Hombauer, ISO choice and Luminar 2018.

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October Archived

1 November 2017

Our usually reflective hour spent archiving the month was a distracted one with Halloween and Game 6 of the World Series competing for attention in the same window. But a window it is and we were happy to gaze back through it as we archived Volume 6 Number 10 of Photo Corners.

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October

Happy Halloween

31 October 2017

Occasionally the target of the nasty things, we have no love for black birds, crows, ravens or whatever you want to call them. So when we saw them settle on a neighbor's house during their annual Halloween migration here, we decided to shoot them.

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No Promises But We Reactivated Google

31 October 2017

With a little bandwidth leftover this month, we decided to allow Google to index our site again. It can consume our allocation in just a few days, repeatedly downloading every file on the site. So limiting it to the last few days of the month allows us to be found without being shut down.

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Around The Horn

31 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Halloween, Mimi Plumb, the Phottix Juno and Brooke Didonato.

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Deals: SilverFast 50 Percent Off

31 October 2017

The ~~ghouls~~ guys at SilverFast are reducing prices 50 percent today and tomorrow. That includes all SilverFast 8.8 products (SE/Ai/HDR/Archive), PrintTao 8 and IT8/AirForce resolution targets.

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Leica Announces Silver Leica Q

30 October 2017

Leica has announced a silver version of its full-frame Leica Q. A silver top plate, silver baseplate and silver lens define the new version of the Leica Q, while the rear of the camera remains a sleek and refined black.

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Fall Colors

30 October 2017

We rarely get out at the golden hour but last week we managed a late walk around the neighborhood just as the light was about to fade. And it revealed some stunning fall color before it did.

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X-Rite Introduces i1Studio Color Management Solution

30 October 2017

X-Rite has announced the i1Studio, a color management solution to control results from capture to print. The package comprises the i1Studio all-in-one spectrophotometer, i1Studio software, X-Rite's ColorChecker camera calibration tools and the ColorTRUE mobile app.

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Alien Skin Updates Exposure X3

30 October 2017

Alien Skin has released its first update to expand Raw support in Exposure X3, its image editing software famed for its film emulations and efficient workflow. The update also includes minor bug fixes and user interface improvements.

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Around The Horn

30 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at El Sobrante, Jens Umbach, Amanda Lucidon, pixel shift facts and the Getty Images Instagram Grant recipients.

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Matinee: David Turnley's Rise Again Series

28 October 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

28 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Catalonia, Jim Kasson, cloud backup services and Story returns home.

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Friday Slide Show: The Haight +

27 October 2017

For us, this 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco is bittersweet. We were in high school then, just a few blocks from the Haight, which was a respectable neighborhood just a few blocks from Golden Gate Park.

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Halloween Decorations Go Digital

27 October 2017

It was inevitable. Digging up the front yard to prop up headstones with various skulls and hands shooting up from the grass only scared toddlers. Hanging witches and bats didn't fool anyone in grade school. Halloween decoration had to go digital. And in Creating a Halloween Cinemagraph With Photoshop CC and Adobe Stock, Chris Converse, a partner at Codify Design Studio, shows you how to do it.

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Around The Horn

27 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at large-format contact prints, changing Lightroom's name, HEIF/HEIC/HEVC apps, Mug Life and a copyright issue.

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Site Tweak: Recent Releases

26 October 2017

The stack of review books was threatening our safety here in earthquake country. We'd read the things but we hadn't had the leisure to sit down at the piano and keyboard a review for each of them. One-man bands are sometimes short of breath.

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Book Bag: Recent Releases

26 October 2017

Our full book reviews gathered under this column's tag are reserved for titles we found particularly inspiring. But there are a number of releases that we read for review that are worthy of recognition if not a full review. Our short reviews of recent releases attempts to retrieve them from oblivion. Because, you know, we think you might enjoy them.

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Around The Horn

26 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Northern California fire scar, Aperture at 65, panos with the Spark and the Olympus 45mm f1.2 Pro.

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Tamron Announes 100-400mm f4.5-6.3 Zoom at $800

26 October 2017

Tamron has announced its 100-400mm f4.5-6.3 Di VC USD, an affordable ultra-telephoto featuring Vibration Compensation, eBand coating and weather protection. At 39.3 ounces, Tamron claims it is the lightest lens in its class.

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Olympus Announces Pro Series 45mm f1.2

25 October 2017

Olympus has announced its M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.2 Pro lens for the Micro Four Thirds system. The 35mm equivalent for the weatherproof lens is 90mm.

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Olympus Announces Pro Series 17mm f1.2

25 October 2017

Olympus has announced its Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 17mm f/1.2 Pro lens for the Micro Four Thirds system. The 35mm equivalent for the weatherproof lens is 34mm.

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Around The Horn

25 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Anna Maria Verzino, the Panasonic GH5, a licensing extension, two Apple videos on Portrait Lighting, Nikon SB-5000 Speedlights, five tech myths and Tuscany via an iPhone 8+.

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Sony Introduces a7R III 42.4-Mp, 10-fps dSLR +

25 October 2017

Sony Electronics has introduced the a7R III, a full-frame mirrorless camera featuring a 42.4-Mp back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS image sensor with shooting speeds at up to 10 fps with full AF/AE tracking. The new camera also sports 4K video, a wide 15-stop dynamic range, high sensitivity with noise reduction of almost a full stop and more.

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Sony Adds FE 24-105mm f4 To Lens Lineup +

25 October 2017

Sony has announced the addition of the FE 24-105mm f4-GB OSS zoom lens to its full-frame E-mount lens lineup.

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Sony Announces FE 400mm f2.8 GM For Summer 2018

25 October 2017

Sony has confirmed its development of an FE 400mm f2.8 GM OSS super-telephoto lens. The company said it expects to deliver the prime lens next summer.

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DxO Updates OpticsPro To PhotoLab With U Point Technology

25 October 2017

DxO has updated OpticsPro, its image editing software, with U Point technology from the Nik Collection. By adding Nik's powerful local adjustment tools, DxO OpticsPro ushers in a new era, DxO said. Consequently the company has changed the name to PhotoLab.

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DxO Acquires Nik Collection, Releases DxO PhotoLab +

25 October 2017

DxO has announced the acquisition of the Nik Collection from Google. The company said it plans to continue development of the suite of plug-ins, which Google had recently sunsetted to widespread lamentation.

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Fujifilm Announces Instax Share SP-3 SQ Printer

24 October 2017

Fujifilm has announced the new Instax Share SP-3 SQ printer, the latest line in the Instax Share series of printers that can print photos taken with a smartphone on Instax Square film.

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Test Drive: WhiteWall's Direct Print On Wood

24 October 2017

When WhiteWall announced its new Print On Wood option in which the birch wood grain of the printed piece remains clearly visible, we scratched our head a while. Just what would look good printed on wood?

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Hasselblad Releases X1D, H6D Firmware Updates

24 October 2017

Hasselblad has released version 1.19 firmware updates for its X and H systems. The X1D update includes a new function to use the rear screen as a touch-pad to select AF point while viewing through the EVF. The H6D now supports V System lenses through the use of the CF Adapter in addition to other new functions.

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Sigma Announces Sigma 16mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary +

24 October 2017

Sigma has announced its 16mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary prime lens. On Sony E-mount cameras it's a 24mm equivalent focal length (35mm equivalent) while on Micro Four Thirds it offers a 32mm focal length. Its fast f1.4 aperture is the same for both mounts.

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Tenba Launches Lightweight Air Cases

24 October 2017

Tenba has launched its Air Case line of hard cases that provide the strength and rigidity of a hard case at a fraction of the weight, keeping the overall weight within airline limitations.

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Around The Horn

24 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at photos of the season, the cloud's silver lining, the Sony 24-70mm f2.8 prime lens, Adobe MAX presentations and the Canon EF-M 22mm.

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Lowepro Introduces m-Trekker Backpack for Compact Cameras

23 October 2017

Lowepro has announced a new twist to its Mini Trekker pack, the m-Trekker BP 150, designed for today's compact camera systems. The m-Trekker's design features the security of body-side access, robust fabric options and a fully customizable interior.

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Lemkesoft Releases GraphicConverter 10.5.1

23 October 2017

Lemkesoft has released GraphicConverter 10.5.1, the Swiss Army knife image editing utility, with 18 new features and 7 updated ones in addition to a few bug fixes. Version 10.5 was released Sept. 21 and version 10.4.3 on July 26.

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Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Ninth PhotoBid Exhibition and Auction

23 October 2017

Phoenix Art Museum will host its ninth annual InFocus PhotoBid Gala Art Auction on Nov 16. The live auction and fundraising event benefits exhibitions and educational programming at the Museum.

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Around The Horn

23 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Josh Anderson, Lightroom, Luminar's asset manager, a Lightroom survey and the Canon 200mm f1.8.

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Capture One Releases Film Styles Pack

23 October 2017

Phase One has released The Film Styles Pack. This newest Styles Pack emulates the feel and texture from the days of analog photography. Capture One Film Styles help you get closer to the colors, contrast and grain of these analog images, the company said.

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Rocky Nook to Donate Online Sale to Fire Relief

23 October 2017

In its newsletter today, Rocky Nook announced it would donate 100 percent of its online sales through Sunday, Oct. 29, to Northern California fire relief efforts.

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Matinee: 'Catherine Opie -- Photography, Painting and Portraiture'

21 October 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

21 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the last moon landing, packing for Germany, 13 free photo apps and the Gomma photography grant contest.

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Friday Slide Show: Along The Seawall

20 October 2017

We were shaking our heads. It was the middle of October and again it was too hot to stay in the house, which bakes in the afternoon sun. For several days, we'd been eating dinner outside in the shade of the patio, distracting ourselves from the heat by planning new advances against the ivy growing in a corner of the yard.

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Adobe Unveils 11 Technology Sneaks At MAX

20 October 2017

Last night at Adobe MAX, Adobe unveiled 11 technology Sneaks, representing its explorations and emerging technologies. The table below includes links to the videos and descriptions of the experimental technologies showcased last night with the help of Kumail Nanjiani of HBO's Silicon Valley.

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Around The Horn

20 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Rohingya, Filter Photo Festival portfolios, Instagram filter usage, a Mississippi town, a camera inventory, autumn poplars, Robin Wong's truths about photography, HEIF/HEIC image files and writing captions.

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W. Eugene Smith Fund Honors Castro Garcia, Clark, Majoli

19 October 2017

At the W. Eugene Smith Fund's 38th annual awards ceremony at the School of Visual Arts Theater in New York City last night, the organization awarded its prestigious Smith Grant, two Smith Fund Fellowships and the Chapnick Grant.

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Leica Announces Special Edition Pigozzi Sofort

19 October 2017

Leica has announced its collaboration with photographer, art collector and entrepreneur Jean Pigozzi on a special edition Leica Sofort instant camera and Leica Gallery exhibition. The "LimoLand by Jean Pigozzi" is inspired by the fashion label Pigozzi created.

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Around The Horn

19 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Wrangel Island, the Pixel 2's portrait mode, Mongolia, Deborah Copaken, McNally hovering over NYC, chess photograph, Canon's improved repair service and social media licensing.

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Zeiss Announces Milvus 25mm f1.4 Prime Lens

18 October 2017

Zeiss has announced its Milvus 1.4/25, the latest focal length to be added to its largest range of lenses for full-frame single-lens reflex cameras. The lens, available in Canon and Nikon mounts, is suitable primarily for landscape and architecture photography and for journalistic shots and videos, the company said.

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Around The Horn

18 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Julieanne Kost on Adobe's new Cloud releases, Ben Warde on the Lightroom landscape, two new Canon Explorers of Light, photos in iOS Messages, Shannon Ebner and Dropbox Pro.

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HP ZBook x2: A Detachable Workstation For Creatives

18 October 2017

At Adobe MAX today, HP introduced its ZBook x2, a detachable workstation designed for "artists, designers and digital imaging professionals that need to push Adobe Creative Cloud and other professional applications to the limit." In fact every ZBook will include the Creative Cloud desktop manager and a 20 percent discount on a Creative Cloud one-year subscription.

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Adobe Expands Photography Program With New Cloud Service +

18 October 2017

At Adobe MAX today, Adobe has announced a revamped Creative Cloud Photography plan with several levels, adding a new version of Lightroom and expanded online storage options to the existing plan.

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Dyno Introduces Trek Small Camera Slider

18 October 2017

Dyno Equipment has introduced Trek, a modular, motorized camera slider system for GoPros, small cameras and smartphones. Through its Android or iOS app, you can customize the speed, length, direction and long exposure time-lapse for each shot.

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Wildlife Photographers Unite to Present 'Remembering Rhinos'

17 October 2017

Images of rhinos taken by some of the world's top wildlife photographers will be unveiled at a free London exhibition and an evening of talks by leading conservationists, as the much-anticipated Remembering Rhinos book is launched this month.

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Leica Camera Introduces Thambar-M 90mm f2.2 +

17 October 2017

Leica Camera has announced the revival of it legendary Thambar lens with the Thambar-M 90mm f2.2. The Thambar was renowned for its soft focus, particularly prized in portraiture.

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Around The Horn

17 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Motorclassica, 40 years ago (twice), the history of fashion photography, a custom white balance factor, a SRDx Photoshop plug-in deal, William Eggleston as you've never heard him before, Astro HQ's camera button and Connor Nickerson.

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Canon Announces PowerShot G1 X Mark III +

16 October 2017

Canon has announced the PowerShot G1 X Mark III, an update to its flagship G-series line, featuring a 24.3-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and Canon's Dual Pixel CMOS AF (Auto-Focus) technology, both firsts for a Canon digicam.

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Around The Horn

16 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Manchester at night, a Story podcast, Hardy-Bernd Wagner, the Eiffel Tower, Davis in Paris and USB-C.

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Matinee: 'Birth Photography Day 2017'

14 October 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not; we thought; escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

14 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at life in Sonoma County, four lighting techniques, Dawoud Bey, a Bill Cunningham story, Dehazing autumn leaves and a Copyright Office rule proposal.

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The Skyline At Noon

13 October 2017

The air quality in the Bay area as the North Bay fires rage on has been consistently unhealthy. The Air Quality Index at the time this photo was taken today was 162.

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Friday Slide Show: The Campanile

13 October 2017

It is fondly known as the Campanile although it is named Sather Tower. But there being a Sather Gate already, calling it the Campanile only helps to distinguish it in its own right as a much loved symbol of the University of California at Berkeley.

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Around The Horn

13 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Helen Levitt, curating an exhibit, more from the Filter Festival, a London photo project, iOS 11's long exposures and Aundre Larrow.

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Around The Horn

12 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the season of harvests, the persecuted, a traveling cat, an artist's statement, Kuching and Peruvian lilies.

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A Lightroom-Google Photos Plug-In

11 October 2017

There had to be a better way. To move images from Lightroom to Google Photos, which offers free unlimited photo storage and easy photo sharing, we had a simple routine. Export the JPEGs and drag them into the browser window opened to Google Photos.

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Stieglitz Letters To Mumford To Be Auctioned

11 October 2017

An archive of over 50 letters from Alfred Stieglitz to noted writer and critic Lewis Mumford will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The archive consisting almost entirely of handwritten letters, most signed "Stieglitz," dating from 1925 to 1946, comprising over 100 pages.

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Around The Horn

11 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at California wildfires, affordable circular polarizers, Moose Peterson, matching a background, the Sony A9 and tips for hiring a crew.

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Alien Skin Releases Exposure X3

10 October 2017

Continuing its recent tradition of autumn updates to Exposure, Alien Skin has released Exposure X3, its image editing software famed for its film emulations and efficient workflow.

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Zeiss Photography Award Opens For Entries

10 October 2017

The third edition of the Zeiss Photography Award has opened for entries today. Photographers from around the world are invited to submit their best series of work before the competition closes on Feb. 6, 2018.

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Around The Horn

10 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Santa Rosa fires, Zach Gross, how to zoom in Photoshop and the Sony a7RII's finder lag.

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Smoke, Fire, Friends

9 October 2017

This is the view out our window this evening as we sat down to dinner. A little while earlier we sat on the patio in the back of the house marveling to see white ash on the outdoor table. California was in flames.

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Around The Horn

9 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Walker Evans in France, Leslie Gleim, Control Room and Debi Cornwall.

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Matinee: David Hume Kennerly +

7 October 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

7 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at strong directional light, the Canon EF-S 35mm f2.8 Macro, an old lens that shines and great work from the Filter Photo Festival.

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Friday Slide Show: The Marina In Monochrome +

6 October 2017

Oddly enough (which is our way of starting a confession), we've never published these 2012 images before. They're among our favorites. So we felt like we had, but we never did. Until today.

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New Kid On The Block

6 October 2017

One thing about a city that never changes is that it is constantly changing. We were walking down a side street the other day when we looked up and saw a new kid on the block. It's the Salesforce Tower, which has been called many other things, including the Tower of Babel.

Still, it looked pretty good standing out there in the sun by itself. So we stopped, took our camera out of the bag and lined up the shot.

Later, we realized there was a lot more going on in that composition.

There is, for example, the irony of the scrawny tree, which seems to have no hope of ever achieving maturity, let alone health.

There is a city program to plant trees on the street. It's good for the air, which, in turn, is good for us. But this lone specimen seems like a poor argument for it.

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Around The Horn

6 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Nikon Small World winners, Drew Doggett, Google's new Pixel Clip camera, Adobe Portfolio's new trick, the effect of distance on filters and Gitzo at 100.

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The Art Of Cropping

5 October 2017

One of our earliest introductions to the art of cropping was a book recommended by the staff photographer of a weekly publication which we art directed many years ago. Bill was a mentor, passing down camera gear to us, and discussing the finer points of press photography.

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Adobe Integrates Portfolio With Lightroom

5 October 2017

Adobe has integrated Lightroom into its Portfolio Web site gallery, making it possible to import your Lightroom Collections into Portfolio to publish them on your customized Web site.

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Phase One Announces More Free Webinars

5 October 2017

Phase One has announced several free webinars covering the features of Capture One Pro 10, its image editing software.

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Around The Horn

5 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a Puerto Rico update, Louvre copyists, working with Photoshop brushes, the Google Pixel 2, Google's new Pixel storage policy, UV filter flare and finding models on Craigslist.

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Test Drive: Adobe Elements 2018

4 October 2017

We've always kept a small can of three-in-oil around the house. Its three uses are that it lubricates, cleans and polishes. As a bonus, it also prevents rust and tarnish. And features a unique, easy-use spout you pull up to open and push down to close. It's the model for Adobe Elements, just released in its 16th edition.

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Nikon Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Eddie Adams Workshop

4 October 2017

Nikon is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Eddie Adams Workshop it has sponsored since its inception. The workshop, which offers a unique learning experience for young photojournalists, honors the legacy of American photojournalist Eddie Adams himself.

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Around The Horn

4 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Las Vegas, the Panasonic GH5, Cade Martin, getting help with Lightroom, a Gordon Lewis print, mountain gear and finding a Web site's DMCA agent.

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ON1 Announces Photo Raw 2018

3 October 2017

On a blog post today by Patrick Smith, ON1 announced "a new version of ON1 Photo Raw coming at the end of the month." According to the post, ON1 Photo Raw 2018 will feature HDR merging, panorama stitching, global mask editing tools, luminosity mask updates, color range masks, blue and chisel mask tools, virtual copies, an updated user interface, paint with color brush, local noise correction, a free mobile app and additional camera and lens support.

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DNP Appoints Yamashita President of DNP IA

3 October 2017

CONCORD, N.C. -- DNP has announced the appointment of Shinichi Yamashita as president of DNP Imagingcomm America Corp. Yamashita was chosen to replace Katsuyuki Oshima, who is returning to Japan to take a new position with DNP. Yamashita will be based at DNP IAM's U.S. headquarters in Concord, North Carolina.

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Around The Horn

3 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Puerto Rico, Catalonia, an underwater photo contest, Gyda Henningsdottir and Robert Delpire.

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The End Of A Sad Day

2 October 2017

As if last week wasn't bad enough, this one starts with a Monday that begins with the unfathomable news of one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history and ends with the unexpected news of rocker Tom Petty's sudden death at 66.

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Around The Horn

2 October 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at trees, Scotland, two Batis lenses, filters, Photo Walk Week, the 2017 Canon EOS M6, the new Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices and two images by Harold Davis.

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September Archived

2 October 2017

When the first of the month falls on a Sunday, our official day of rest, we're able to take our time archiving the previous month's stories. It's usually a rush to squeeze that hour in between the end of one month's action and the beginning of the next month's stories.

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September

SFMOMA: Walker Evans Retrospective +

30 September 2017

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened its long awaited retrospective of Walker Evans, the only American venue for the exhibit that debuted at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Running through Feb. 4, 2018, it includes 300 vintage prints by the photographer as well as 100 or so artifacts from his collections.

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Matinee: 'Helen M. Stummer, Social Documentary Photographer'

30 September 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

30 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at photos from an incredible week, Laura Zaleng, Prague in monochrome and cataract surgery.

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Friday Slide Show: West Portal Mural

29 September 2017

You're probably as tired of our views of San Francisco from Twin Peaks as we are of biking up there to shoot them. But did you realize there is a tunnel running under those 900-foot hills? When it was built 100 years ago, the Twin Peaks Tunnel changed San Francisco forever.

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FAA Restricts Done Over U.S. Landmarks

29 September 2017

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced new restrictions on drone flights over selected U.S. landmarks "at the request of U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies."

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Around The Horn

29 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Puerto Rico, Eolo Perfido, the Mobile Photo Connect conference, the Broccoli Tree, sharing images in real time, an interesting ExifTool update, Lighting 103 and new Copyright Office circulars.

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Pier 24: Van Der Molen Lecture Oct. 5

28 September 2017

Pier 24 has announced it will host a lecture by photographer Awoiska van der Molen, the recipient of the Larry Sultan Photography Award, as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program.

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Adobe Sneak Peek: Variable Fonts

28 September 2017

Adobe has released another sneak peek of a feature that will be available in an upcoming release of Photoshop CC. Photoshop Product Manager Catherine Gee takes 1:22 to walk you through Variable Fonts.

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Around The Horn

28 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Weegee, an Ansel Adams print, image stabilization and pictures of people.

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Around The Horn

27 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at entries in the National Geographic Nature Photographer contest, Catherine Leroy, Lightroom's local adjustment presets, Mark Heaps, a study on lossy compression and the importance of punctuation.

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Adobe Stock: Lyon Appointed Director of Editorial Content

26 September 2017

Adobe has announced the appointment of photojournalist Santiago Lyon as the director of editorial content for Adobe Stock. In the new role, Lyon will "lead Adobe Stock's editorial content strategy and collection, working with world-class photojournalists, documentary photographers, editorial providers and media," the company said.

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Apple: Raw Support On iOS 11, macOS High Sierra

26 September 2017

With the release of macOS High Sierra yesterday and last week's release of iOS 11, Apple has detailed its Raw support for the new environments in Digital Camera Raw Formats Supported by iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra. "Support for additional Raw formats is included with iOS and macOS software updates," the company notes, without pointing them out.

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Moving The Earth

26 September 2017

Sooner or later you'll run across a story that advises you to look in a direction you do not normally look in. This will reveal a compelling view for you to compose and capture. One you would not, by definition, have noticed.

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Around The Horn

26 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the original Free Speech Movement, fashion photography, the Minolta 40-80mm gearbox zoom, Photos for macOS High Sierra, Hogan on the big two, Harold Davis, inspiration, example-based image synthesis and a live-streamed lighting workshop.

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Wacom Tablets Incompatible With High Sierra

25 September 2017

Wacom has announced its current table drivers are not compatible with macOS High Sierra 10.13, released today. In a popup window on its Web site, Wacom explained...

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WhiteWall Extension Creates Wall Art In Apple Photos

25 September 2017

WhiteWall has released an extension to order framed prints from within for Apple Photos in macOS High Sierra. The extension previews an arrangement of multiple photos on a virtual wall, allowing you to pick your favorites and select a variety of substrates, finishes and sizes, as well as choosing the frame and matting before completing the order.

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Vitec Acquires Joby, Lowepro, RTMotion

25 September 2017

Vitec Group has announced the acquisition of photographic accessory companies Joby, Lowepro and RTMotion.

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Around The Horn

25 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hans Gutknecht, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Stephen Scharf's GFX review, clear and UV filter spectrograms, Apple's iPhone camera design goals, USB-C memory card readers, plastic wrap filters, show black and today's macOS High Sierra release.

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Matinee: Gian Paolo Barbieri

23 September 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Favorite Windows

22 September 2017

We happened to be going through our catalog of over 60,000 images looking for just the right one for a particularly vexing project when it struck us that we are drawn to certain subjects.

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Around The Horn

22 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Mankichi Shinsh, crop-sensor travel lenses, sharpening with HDR software and smartphone circular polarizers.

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PPA Establishes Disaster Relief Fund For Members

22 September 2017

The board of directors of the Professional Photographers of America has announced it has secured up to $100,000 in matching funds for the Disaster Relief Fund to help affected members rebuild their lives.

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2018 PhotoFairs Opening Night To Benefit SFMOMA

21 September 2017

PhotoFairs has announced that the opening night of its 2018 San Francisco edition will benefit the photography program at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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OWC Introduces USB-C Travel Dock

21 September 2017

OWC has introduced its USB-C Travel Dock, a pocket-sized solution to expanding modern laptop connectivity on the road. The built-in USB-C cable provides access to five additional ports.

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Around The Horn

21 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Mexico City, Photoville, branded stories in Spark, the Think Tank Spectral 10, scanning in Notes and Adobe's Founders' Award Recipients.

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Utility Box Murals

20 September 2017

We were driving around minding our own business in Redwood City a few weeks ago when, stuck at the longest red light in the history of urban transportation, we noticed a delightfully decorated utility box on the sidewalk near us.

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Around The Horn

20 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Battle of the Sexes, Jeremy Cowart, Mann's iPhone 8 Plus camera review, Gear Acquisition Syndrome, bidding on a lifestyle shoot, Italian Vogue and the Bay Bridge.

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Snapseed 2.18 Released With Presets, New Tools, More

20 September 2017

Google started rolling out Snapseed 2.18 for both Android and iOS yesterday. The new version features "a fresh new UI, designed for faster editing with more efficient access to your favorite features."

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Leica, Nikki Sixx Collaborate On Special Edition Q

20 September 2017

Leica has announced its collaboration with Nikki Sixx, bassist and founding member of Mötley Crüe, on a special edition Leica Q and the musician's first photo exhibit Conversations with Angels at the Leica Gallery Los Angeles.

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Remembering Pete Turner

19 September 2017

Pete Turner was 11 years old in 1945 when he began making black-and-white prints. And when he was 14, he was making prints from color transparencies. When he passed away yesterday at 83, he was widely acknowledged as an early master of color photography who never relinquished the crown.

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Peak Design: SUMM1T 2017 on Thursday

19 September 2017

Peak Design has announced it will hold SUMM1T 2017, a party with an art exhibit that's also a 1% For The Planet fundraiser on Thursday, Sept. 21, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at SOMArts Cultural Center.

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Google Earth Maps The World's Photos

19 September 2017

In a blog post today Google's Stafford Marquardt announced the company has released a global map of crowd-sourced photos in Google Earth.

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Around The Horn

19 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Abkhazia, ethics in artificial intelligence, camera company foibles, a free HEIC-to-JPEG conversion site, getting Enchroma sunglasses for a birthday present and Joe McNally remembers Fred Demarest.

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PhotoShelter: Climate Change Is Real

19 September 2017

In an email today to the PhotoShelter community, PhotoShelter CEO Andrew Fingerman introduced a short video in which "four photographers -- Julie Dermansky, Jashim Salam, Caroline Bennett and Kike Calvo -- share what they've documented firsthand: destructive storms in the South, tidal flooding in Bangladesh, the effects of oil drilling in the Amazon and the melting Arctic."

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Oprema Jena Launches Campaign to Revive Biotar 58/f2

19 September 2017

German lens maker Oprema Jena has launched an Indiego campaign to resurrect the Biotar 58mm f2, promising to recreate the original optics down to its unique 17 aperture blade design. No other modern lens uses that many blades.

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Test Drive: Adobe Spark Premium's Smart Branding

19 September 2017

Adobe has released an update to its Spark Web authoring tool that adds branding to a premium version it will offer as part of any Creative Cloud subscription, including the $9.99/month Photography Plan, or as a $9.99/month subscription.

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Keyboard Maestro 8.0 Released

19 September 2017

Peter N Lewis has released Keyboard Maestro 8.0, his OS X productivity manager, with over a hundred improvements including more help, text size control, machine learning, more drag-and-drop, Touch Bar support, context sensitive assistance.

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Phase One Introduces Spectrum Style Pack

18 September 2017

Phase One has announced Spectrum, its first Capture One color grading style pack.

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Around The Horn

18 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Dimitri Mellos, what an old camera can teach you, Chambers' ultimate accessory, Tokyo vignettes and a new stadium in Atlanta.

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Matinee: 'For The Love Of It'

16 September 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

16 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at photos from Cassini, circular polarizers, Pentax film cameras and a webinar with Roberto Valenzuela.

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Friday Slide Show: Infrared Dahlias

15 September 2017

Every year it's the same thing. We go over to Sharon Meadow (soon to be renamed for Robin Williams) in Golden Gate Park to hear Opera in the Park and then walk over toward the Conservatory where the Dahlia Garden is showing off its annual September bloom.

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Tamron Announces Development of 100-400mm Ultra-Telephoto +

15 September 2017

Tamron has announced development of a new ultra-telephoto 100-400mm f4.5-6.3 zoom lens for full-frame dSLRs. The new design features three low disperson lens elements to reduce aberration plus the company's eBAND lens coating.

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Around The Horn

15 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 contest, the iPhone X, a weekly photo theme and Hollywood props.

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One Fabulous Toucan +

14 September 2017

It always pays to look up. We were at lunch the other day and just happened to stretch our neck a bit in preparation for a pitcher of margaritas. When we opened our eyes, there above us a fabulous toucan swung on its little perch.

We dug into our camera bag and aimed the Nikon D300 at it, tweaking the Lensbaby Twist 60 this way and that until we were pretty sure we had it in focus.

As charming (dimly-lit) restaurant, it wasn't a photo-friendly venue. Wide open at f2.5, we only managed a 1/15 second shutter speed at ISO 400. But somehow, we got a sharp shot.

But not a straight one. After all, we were bent backward looking up at an angle to get the toucan in our field of view.

So we worked on the image a bit in Photoshop.

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Phase One Releases Capture One Pro 10.2

14 September 2017

After yesterday's announcement of its Trichromatic back, Phase One has updated Capture One Pro, its image editing software, to support the new back and several new cameras. The new release also features improved speed and stability, plus bug fixes for both macOS and Windows.

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Around The Horn

14 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at La Raza, submissions to the Bob and Diane Fund, the Kingston Bolt, Frederic Filloux and Shootster.com.

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Adobe Announces 2017 Video Products Enhancements

13 September 2017

Adobe has announced new features for its suite of video and audio production products, which will be released later this year. The enhancements include innovations in virtual reality/360, animation, motion graphics, editing, collaboration and Adobe Stock, many powered by Adobe Sensei, the company's artificial intelligence and machine learning framework.

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Around The Horn

13 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at diversity in photojournalism, the Sony RX10 IV, sensor battles and a free SD card formatter.

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Phase One Introduces Innovative Trichromatic Back

13 September 2017

Phase One has announced its Phase One IQ3 100MP Trichromatic Digital Back, featuring an innovative CMOS sensor designed to capture color "as perceived by the human eye," according to the company. In addition to a new level of color fidelity, the sensor has a base ISO of 35.

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Phase One Releases XF Camera System Feature Update #4

13 September 2017

Phase One has released a free update for its XF Camera System featuring several focusing refinements, support for the Profoto remote trigger and two enhancements based on its vibration sensors. The update is available for any compatible Phase One digital back, including the IQ3 series.

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The iPhone and Studio Lighting

12 September 2017

Fresh from its success with Portrait mode, the iPhone team was challenged to come up with another fancy photographic technique that could be added to the growing suite of tools within reach of iPhonographers.

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Sony Announces RX10 IV With 24 fps, Fast AF, Big Lens +

12 September 2017

Sony has introduced its RX10 IV, the new flagship of its RX10 line, featuring 0.03 second autofocus speed, 24 fps continuous shooting with tracking, 315 phase detection points, a fast 24-600mm Zeiss zoom and 4K movie recording without pixel binning.

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Alien Skin Reveals Exposure X3 Details

12 September 2017

Alien Skin has announced the upcoming third quarter release of Exposure X3, its image organizing and editing application, with "numerous creative enhancements," the company said.

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Around The Horn

12 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hurricane Irma in Florida, Photoville, the Sigma Cine 85mm T1.5 FF lens, selecting colors in Photoshop, Julia Nimke, camera repair experiences and what you call those painted boards with holes in them.

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Digital Film Tools Announces DFT Plug-ins

11 September 2017

Digital Film Tools has announced the initial release of DFT, the successor to its Composite Suite Pro, Tiffen Dfx and zMatte sets of plug-ins. Available as plug-ins for all popular photographic, video/film post-production programs as well as a standalone application, DFT "provides the necessary tools to enhance images using a staggering amount of filter presets," the company said.

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Kodak Printomatic Makes Its Own 2x3 Prints

11 September 2017

Kodak has introduced its Printomatic camera, a pocketable camera that can make small prints immediately after capture. The company describes it as an "instant print camera" but it doesn't use instant film, incorporating instead a battery-powered printer that does not use ink or toner.

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Around The Horn

11 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hurricane Irma, Alan Schaller, lighting gear, freeing up iPhone space, lighting design and Google Street View.

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Matinee: 'What Makes A Photographer'

9 September 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Jerry Pournelle

9 September 2017

When we woke up this morning, we reached for the iPhone to read the news. Its charge had dipped so low we had to plug it in before launching Safari, a minor inconvenience. And then we learned Jerry Pournelle had died. A much more serious note.

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Friday Slide Show: Poem of the Vine

8 September 2017

In wine, truth. In dreams, diversion. After years of watching Antiques Roadshow and wondering just what we'd bring for appraisal, we realized in a dream it would have to be Gustave Dorè's monumental Poéme de la vigne.

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Around The Horn

8 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Getty Images grant winners, Hurricane Irma, the Olympus M.Zuiko 12-100mm f4 lens, , the perfect travel lens, X Raw Studio, Capture One Pro's hidden Cloning tool, Time's iPhone portfolio and Kristi McCluer.

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Fujifilm: Ultra-Compact X-E3, Fujinon XF80mm Macro Lens, More

7 September 2017

Fujifilm has announced its X-E3 rangefinder style mirrorless digital camera featuring a 24.3-megapixel X-Trans CMOS III image sensor and X-Processor Pro image processing engine, along with a new image recognition algorithm in an ultra-compact body. The company also announced its XF80mm f2.8 R LM OIS WR macro lens, the first 1.0x magnification mid-telephoto macro lens in the X Series lineup of interchangeable lenses, as well as a new lens roadmap and upcoming firmware updates for X series cameras.

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Fujifilm Announces Fujinon GF45mm f2.8 Prime GFX Lens

7 September 2017

With the new GF45mm f2.8 prime, Fujifilm has added the sixth lens to its GFX medium format mirrorless camera system. With the announcement, the company also updated its GFX lens roadmap and detailed a GFX firmware update coming soon.

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Adobe Sneak Peek: Photoshop Curvature Pen Tool

7 September 2017

Adobe sneaked a peek at its new Curvature Pen Tool that will be available in an upcoming release of Photoshop CC. Photoshop Product Manager Meredith Stotzner demos the new feature in this 1:23 video...

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Around The Horn

7 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at wildfires, testing lenses, Tasmania, People albums in Apple Photos and growing your skills.

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Adobe Releases Camera Raw 9.12.1

6 September 2017

Adobe has released Camera Raw 9.12.1 "to provide additional camera Raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Camera Raw," according to a Lightroom Journal post by Sharad Mangalick.

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Around The Horn

6 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at an interview with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, views of the Rialto Bridge, a single-layer conversion from a photo to a sketch, the Instagram square, Greg Berg and looking up at things.

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Pixelmator Team Announces Pixelmator Pro

5 September 2017

In a blog entry today, the Pixelmator team introduced Pixelmater Pro 1.0 for macOS, featuring "a modern single-window interface, nondestructive, GPU-powered image editing tools, machine learning-enhanced editing features and more."

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Joby Redesigns GorillaPod Line

5 September 2017

Joby has announced its redesign of the GorillaPod product line to meet the needs of modern photographers, vloggers and videographers. The modern GorillaPod features new compact designs throughout the line, new colors, stronger joints and new models.

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Around The Horn

5 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Burning Man, Afghan refugees, tomato portraits, Lightroom custom default, Moose Peterson's new book, Hogan's M5 repair and a DxO deal with Blurb.

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Labor Day

4 September 2017

Faithful readers will remember we don't work on national holidays. But we do put our feet up and spin a yarn, only a bit off topic, to celebrate. Today is no exception.

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Matinee: 'Shooting Inmates, The Photography of Deborah Luster'

2 September 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Mission Dolores Trail

1 September 2017

We dug deep into the archives for today's slide show. We had thought to update it with more contemporary photos, but something about the subject itself sent us back 15 years to when we first stumbled upon Lovers' Lane.

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Around The Horn

1 September 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Harvey photos, Hans Eijkelboom, rental gear destroyed by the eclipse, Wong on the new Olympus OM-D and a LaserSoft discount.

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Lexar Acquired By Longsys

1 September 2017

Longsys has announced its acquisition of the Lexar trademark and branding rights from Micron. The company said the acquisition "provides assurance to existing Lexar customers that the solutions and support they have come to expect from Lexar branded products will continue to be available."

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August Archived

1 September 2017

We published 75 stories in Photo Corners, Volume 6, Number 8. That includes 21 Features, 27 commented News stories, 23 Editor's Notes, one review and three Site Notes. And now that those Editor's Notes are not limited to four items, they've provided well over 120 links to articles on other sites we found worth your while because they were worth ours.

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August

Leaves

31 August 2017

We take a walk around the neighborhood every day, bringing one or another camera (sometimes just the one in the phone) along for the ride. There are several routes we follow but the other day we made a slight adjustment.

We walked on the opposite side of the street from the side we usually walk down.

And where we tended to walk on either side, we used a different street. We have a smorgasbord of streets here, one right next to the other, so no extra effort was involved.

The benefit of this approach was a whole new set of views. Similar but different enough that we were looking from the other side of the street or the other side of the fence.

The familiar was fresh.

We'd passed this vine-covered fence on the sidewalk it borders too many times to audit. But a view of a house perched precariously on top of a small hill led us to the other side of the fence.

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Olympus Announces OM-D E-M10 Mark III

31 August 2017

Olympus has announced the OM-D E-M10 Mark III, a compact, lightweight, easy-to-use interchangeable lens camera that includes best-in-class image stabilization compensation performance and the same TruePic VIII Image Processor used in Olympus' acclaimed flagship OM-D E-M1 Mark II camera.

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SanDisk Unveils 400-GB microSDXC Card

31 August 2017

SanDisk introduced a new microSDXC card that can store 40 hours of Full HD video and transfer files as fast as 100-MB/second. The 400-GB Ultra has been able to double the capacity of existing cards by using a new production process.

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Around The Horn

31 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at La Tomatina, Andrew Lichtenstein, a self assignment, Rebekah Steen, sage advice and the PhotoFinish 5K.

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Canon Issues Service Notice for EF 50mm f1.4 USM

30 August 2017

Canon has issued a service notice for its 50mm f1.4 USM prime lens for "a focus operation-related malfunction."

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Around The Horn

30 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hosam Katan, Zeiss microcontrast, Ming Thein's drone diary, DJI Mavic Pro drone settings, Brooke Shaden and Behance portfolio reviews.

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Cutting Out Carbs

29 August 2017

This is one of those shots we went back to get. Fortunately it was an inanimate object because, you know, opportunity only knocks once. Humor, however, has a way of repeating itself.

The joke here is that this sign board was strategically located by the front door of Baiano Pizza on Ninth Ave. And that little drawing is of a pizza cutter. And....

It made us laugh.

We walked on, though, looking for something to shoot with the Olympus Micro Four Thirds camera we like to use on the street.

Then it occurred to us that we had just seen something to shoot. So on the way back up the hill, we spun around, framed the shot so it didn't include the guy on the bench next to it and got the picture.

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Around The Horn

29 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Sam Horine, the Webb's diptychs, working with layers, the Nimble Classroom and a Harry Benson book.

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Canon Unveils 24-Mp M100 With Touchscreen

28 August 2017

Canon U.S.A., Inc. has introduced the compact EOS M100, the successor to the M10 interchangeable lens camera, as "an excellent choice for those looking to step up from smartphone photography." The M100 offers interchangeable lenses, optical zoom and the latest imaging technology, without sacrificing size, style or the ability to share instantly.

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Canon Adds 85mm L, Three Macro Tilt-Shift Lenses, Macro Flash

28 August 2017

Canon has announced its Canon EF 85mm f1.4L IS USM lens and three new tilt-shift macro lenses: the TS-E 50mm f2.8L Macro lens, TS-E 90mm f2.8L Macro lens and TS-E 135mm f4L Macro lens. The company also announced a new Macro Twin-Lite MT-26EX-RT flash.

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Reciting From Memory

28 August 2017

We read with no little difficulty (as we were constantly nodding our head in agreement) Molly Worthen's piece in the New York Times Memorize That Poem!. It brought us back to freshman English in high school, a far cry from the stuff we did in English in grammar school.

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Pelican Announces New, Deeper Air Cases in Three Sizes

28 August 2017

Pelican has unveiled three new cases in its Air line featuring over 13-inches in depth while remaining 40 percent lighter. The new 1607 and 1637 cases have wheels while all three feature a watertight O-ring gasket, a crushproof and dustproof exterior, stainless steel hasp protectors, rubberized, over-molded handles and proven tough double-throw latches.

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Photonicz Kickstarts Compact, Weather-Sealed LED Strobe

28 August 2017

Photonicz has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Photonicz One, its compact, weather-sealed LED strobe. Developed by photographer Alex Munoz, the unit can fire as short as 1/50,000 second with an equivalent power output of over 2500Ws. It can also fire up to 30 frames per second at full power with zero recycle time on battery power.

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RC Concepcion: Free Lightroom Webinar

28 August 2017

Rocky Nook will host a free Lightroom Webinar with RC Concepcion to celebrate the release of The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom. Concepcion will share five things about Lightroom you need to know, provide a sneak peek inside the book and conduct a brief question and answer period.

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Around The Horn

28 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hurricane Harvey, Gordon Parks, a fall foliage map, ode to the old shoebox, old cameras and your next camera.

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Matinee: 'Without You' By Naveen Gowtham

26 August 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Knickknacks

25 August 2017

We'd been thinking about this shoot for a while, mostly as a last resort. Oh, if we really didn't have anything for our Friday Slide Show (we would think), we could always shoot the knickknacks.

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Around The Horn

25 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a drone over Georgia, Nick Rains, Tuck on the D850, a Humans of New York docuseries and a book on vintage clothing.

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Leica Announces V-Lux Explorer Kit

25 August 2017

Leica has announced an Explorer Kit for its Leica V-Lux (Typ 114) compact travel camera. The kit includes the V-Lux itself with its 25-400mm range plus The Bowery for Leica camera bag from the ONA for Leica collection and a red Leica Rope Strap designed by COOPH.

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The Power Of Words

24 August 2017

This image has been laying around in our imagination for a few weeks. It's an alternate framing of the subject that includes the full shadow. The original composition was just the hydrant in portrait orientation.

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Around The Horn

24 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Tina Modotti, Aperture on High Sierra, David Hobby's lighting kit update, the Hasselblad X1D electronic shutter firmware update and an unforgettable dinner.

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Nikon Debuts D850 Flagship dSLR +

23 August 2017

Nikon has unveiled its D850 flagship dSLR featuring "an unprecedented combination of extreme resolution and high speed performance," according to the company. The 45.7-megapixel sensor is Nikon's first backside illuminated dSLR sensor.

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New Skyline Artificially Aged

23 August 2017

You just can't get bored around here. Every time you pass by the same view, there's something different to see. Maybe it's the bright white tower of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. Maybe it's Salesforce's Tower of Babel. Maybe it's something a bit more subtle.

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Canon Updates PIXMA All-in-One Devices

23 August 2017

Canon has updated its compact PIXMA all-in-one device line-up with five new TS-series devices. Each new model features a high-quality ink system, Bluetooth connectivity for wireless printing and scanning and the new, interactive Message in Print app.

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Digital Product Studio Adds Kelly Brown's Newborn Posing Site

23 August 2017

Digital Product Studio has announced newborn baby photographer Kelly Brown is joining the online education platform to teach photographers the latest techniques for posing newborn babies.

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Think Tank Photo Spectral Bags Are Anti-Theft, Low Cost

23 August 2017

Think Tank Photo has introduced its Spectral line of shoulder bags featuring an inconspicuous exterior with a magnetic, automatically locking Fidlock clasp for one-handed access to gear. The new line also distinguishes itself by providing Think Tank Photo quality for under $100.

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Polaroid Announces LED Macro Flash Flexi Light

23 August 2017

Polaroid has announced a macro light with twin LED light sources attached to flexible antennae that allow the light sources to be positioned wherever you need them. The unit functions in either strobe or continuous light mode.

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Around The Horn

23 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the moon's shadow, medium telephoto street shooting, Roberts Camera and any camera you want.

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CrashPlan Exiting Home Backup Service

22 August 2017

Code42 has announced it will exit its home backup service by Oct. 23, 2018 to focus strictly on its business and education customers. President and CEO Joe Payne said the company will honor its current home subscriptions but will not renew them.

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Leica Gallery LA: Menuez's 'Fearless Genius: Next Generation'

22 August 2017

Leica Gallery Los Angeles will present the premiere of Doug Menuez's Fearless Genius: The Next Generation on Sept. 6. The gallery exhibition will showcase the newest class of up and coming technology trailblazers. In addition, Menuez will host a Leica Akademie workshop from Sept. 8 through 10, following a welcome reception on Sept. 6.

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WhiteWall Adds Direct Print On Wood Option

22 August 2017

WhiteWall has announced a new Print On Wood option in which the birch wood grain of the printed piece remains clearly visible. The wood printing surface is taken from the tree in a single piece to maintain consistent grain.

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Around The Horn

22 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a friendship forged in combat, the importance of clothes that fit, a Lightroom trick, a used gear sale and gear rental discounts. We are, however, sparing you any eclipse photos.

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Freerange Updates Stock Photo Site

22 August 2017

Freerange Stock has updated its Web site with new search features, a redesigned brand and thousands of new photos and illustrations, the company said. Among the new features is the ability to separately search for Photos or Illustrations. Previously, all image types were grouped together.

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Adobe, Hootsuite Announce Partnership

22 August 2017

A new partnership between Adobe and Hootsuite integrated with Adobe Stock promises to provide customers of both services easy access, creatione and distribution of "varied content critical to engaging and communicating with customers," the companies have announced.

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A Couple Of Private Postings

21 August 2017

We spent a few hours today (or was it a few days for an hour, as Dick Gregory used to say about being in Texas) catching up on some event photography we'd promised to post as Google Photos albums.

One was a set of 90-year-old-Mom with her (only slightly) younger brother and his daughter. Cousin Barb had escorted her father to visit housebound Mom. She had to drive a few hundred miles to do it and the thought of it exhausted us.

The other was a family reunion of several branches (some from Texas in fact) occasioned by the visit of the 91-year-old matriarch. We shared the camera with her youngest son, which made it an illuminating experience for us. One we ruminated on for a while, in fact, before doing anything.

Google Photos behaved for the most part, but not entirely. We were able to upload 11 images from the first set with no problem but we only got through 23 of the second set of 34 images before it stalled.

The solution was to quit the browser (we tried both Safari and Firefox) and try again. Eventually, everything got uploaded.

That's the trouble with free full-resolution storage solutions like Google Photos. It's impolite to complain. (And yet.)

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Around The Horn

21 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Kevin Sturman in Morocco, shooting a 1:1 aspect ratio, Capture One import options, QAD card practices and multi-photo layouts in Lightroom.

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Site Tweak: Index Left Margin

19 August 2017

We don't call this series "tweaks" for nothing. They are sometimes ridiculously small changes that, nevertheless, we find exhilarating.

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Matinee: Cubs Photographer Stephen Green

19 August 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: On The Bay Trail

18 August 2017

We couldn't believe it had been almost a year since our last hike on the Bay Trail when we visited Sierra Point. So we drove back to South San Francisco last weekend to explore the segment just south of that.

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Around The Horn

18 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hagia Sophia, watermarks, another Lighting 103 piece from David Hobby and all the available 35mm films.

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Life's A Small Glass Of Glass Cherries +

17 August 2017

Glass cherries, with their slender black stems, are not long for this world. We have a few still, picked up for a buck each long ago at a little store on Clement St. We gave most away as Christmas presents one year.

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Around The Horn

17 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Michael Johnson, housetrucks, the Olympus E-M1 Mark II, the Neewer Vision Four flash, layer groups, Josh Parker and B&H Photo's lawsuit settlement.

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Around The Horn

16 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Carolyn Van Houten, Dalton Hamm's underwater photography, subtracting light, soft-tone photo manipulation and preview the solar eclipse.

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Adapting A Background To Your Environment

15 August 2017

Josef Albers is the guy you can blame for all those comparisons of colored rectangles within colored rectangles. "Is this the same color?" Invariably yes, but it never looks the same because the color surrounding it changes your perception.

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Around The Horn

15 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the response to Charlottesville, saturation, a drone photography backup strategy, vandalized Confederate monuments, backing up your Lightroom catalog, daylight LED panels for $68 and a white rose.

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Subscriber Benefit: Copyrighter Pro Updated

14 August 2017

Funny thing about software. It's never quite finished. Sure, you may turn those project specifications into code that commands worldwide adulation. But once that software puts a few miles on it, the problem it solves seems to have grown new thorns.

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Around The Horn

14 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Ryan Kelly in Charlottesville, the Sony FE 16-35mm f2.8, self-imposed limitations, the Panasonic FZ2500, Beth Dubber, evaluating your own images, and attorney appraises Binded.com and World Elephant Day.

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Matinee: 'Solar Eclipse Imaging'

12 August 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Tahoe

11 August 2017

August always brings back memories of childhood vacations spent at Lake Tahoe in the Sierras. It was a brutal three-hour car ride from the coast through the heat of the valley before rising 6,000 feet to that gorgeous lake. But it was always worth it.

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Remembering Arlene Gottfried

11 August 2017

The Singing Photographer has left the stage. She was carried off, after a remarkable performance as one of the leading street photographers of her generation, at the young age of 66 by breast cancer.

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Around The Horn

11 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Voyager's 40th anniversary, a Brownie at the races, five free Instagram presets, a new Helen Levitt book and online image editing.

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Peak Design Updates Cuff, Leash +

10 August 2017

About a year ago we made the move. We looped one of Peak Design's Achor Links on the right eyelet of all of our cameras (well, four of them anyway). Why? So we could snap Peak Design's Cuff to it.

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Terje Abusdal Wins Oskar Barnack Award

10 August 2017

Leica has announced Norwegian photographer Terje Abusdal has been awarded the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his project Slash & Burn. In addition, Ukrainian photographer Sergey Melnitchenko has been awarded the Newcomer Award, given to professional photographers age 25 or younger.

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Around The Horn

10 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at roadside buildings that look like what they're selling, the film resurgence, Chris Killip, Pershing Park and Sigma solar eclipse lens deals.

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Explorers Of Light Go On Portrait Photography Tour

9 August 2017

Canon's Explorers of Light professional photographers are going on a Portrait Photographer Tour to six cities. The day-long events will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a $99 ($79 for CPS members) fee.

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Rocky Nook, ShootDotEdit Host Free Online Wedding Photo Event

9 August 2017

Rocky Nook and ShootDotEdit will hold a free, online wedding photography summit on Aug. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT. The summit will feature five pros discussing posing, storytelling, lighting, branding and marketing.

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Cradle To Grave

9 August 2017

There we were minding our own business, trying to mark a special occasion with a bit of solemnity when, for no reason at all, we turned around. And what did we see? We saw the old maternity ward of Seton Hospital overlooking Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. A perfect picture.

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Around The Horn

9 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Stephen Crowley, Pete Souza's new book, Joann Pai, the Canon 22mm f2 M lens, more useful Lightroom smart collections and mail order film development.

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A Different Angle +

8 August 2017

There we were at Torpedo Wharf in the Presidio, which is right by the Warming Hut bookstore and cafe. There are great views of the Golden Gate Bridge to the west and the city to the east.

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Hasselblad Opens Shanghai Retail Store

8 August 2017

After opening its first retail outlet in Stockholm this June, Hasselblad has opened another in Shaghai, its first in China where it plans to expand in that country's major cities.

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Around The Horn

8 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at insect macro techniques, abstractions, Nikon's strobes, Adobe looks for rising stars in broad daylight and last night on The Photo Show.

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The Forest, The Trees +

7 August 2017

Just a short note to invite anyone within earshot of www.kcmj.org" target="_new">KCMJ 93.9 FM in Colorado Springs to tune in tonight at 7:30 MT to Mike Pach's The Photo Show. Or, you know, pretend you're within earshot using your browser or an app.

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Adobe's FaceStyle Tool Takes No Prisoners

7 August 2017

Adobe has released -- well, more like foisted upon the world -- a FaceStyle Web app to illustrate what it calls "example-based synthesis of stylized facial animations."

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Around The Horn

7 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at fashion photography, the 1959 Miami Photojournalism Conference, a Gene Smith book, Emily Garthwaite, Sony's ultra wide lenses, film cameras, the 10th Annual Worldwide Photo Walk and Noe Valley's Wishing Tree.

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Matinee: 'The Blind Photographer and the New Arteon'

5 August 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Along Grand View

4 August 2017

Grand View runs just east and slightly below the Market St. raceway that winds along the bottom of Twin Peaks in San Francisco. It's at the top of a very steep hill that is difficult to walk down and impossible to climb without steps.

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Remembering Gösta Peterson

4 August 2017

The fashion photographer Gösta Peterson, who died last Friday at the age of 94, began his career as an illustrator and that approach defined his photography. He didn't sell clothes. He imagined new worlds.

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Around The Horn

4 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Italian marble, more from the LACP Portfolio Review, another Lighting 103 installment, The Curator and Phase One's 100-Mp achromatic digital back.

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Around The Horn

3 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at minor leaguers, the , Zeiss 85mm T2.1 CP.3, Kasson again on criticism, selective color editing in Apple Photos, Kost's new series on Photoshop tips, Canon discounts on solar eclipse bundles and ImageOptim.

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Summer Fog

2 August 2017

When you mix the heat of the California's Central Valley with the cool air being blown in off the ocean, you get fog. Wisps of white cloud at ground level, that is, floating in like a light drizzle.

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Around The Horn

2 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Elliott Erwitt, handling criticism, copyright tip, Thiago Dezan, equipment failures, Apple's media library folders and a bid for stills and video.

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Adorama Launches Season Four of 'Through The Lens'

1 August 2017

Adorama has released Through The Lens: Europe the first episode of its fourth season of Through The Lens, its online docu-series which will be broadcast Tuesdays at 2 p.m. EDT.

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WhiteWall: Personal Photos Are Among Most Treasured Possessions

1 August 2017

A survey by the German-based online photo lab WhiteWall of its U.S. newsletter subscribers has revealed over three quarters of them consider their photo collections one of the most valuable assets they one. And 10 percent said it was the most valuable.

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Around The Horn

1 August 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at winners of the National Geographic Travel Photographer contest, 10 inexpensive film cameras, cinema lenses, Olivia Locher, Sony FE lenses and a BorrowLenses discount.

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July Archived

1 August 2017

We've just updated the Archive with the 73 stories we published last month as Volume 6 Number 7 of Photo Corners. We delivered 13 Features, 30 commented news items, 24 Editor's Notes (with over 110 total items of interest), three reviews and three site notes.

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July

Book Bag: The Arctic Melt

31 July 2017

The full title of this large format (10x13-inch) portfolio is The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape. But we're running out of time to read full titles. Our ice caps are melting.

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Deals: PhotoShelter 25 Pct. Discount Today

31 July 2017

Today's the last day but there's still time to snag PhotoShelter's 25 percent discount for the first year on monthly or annual Standard and Pro accounts. The deal includes...

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Around The Horn

31 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Hippie Trail, the effect of familiarity, packing for Iceland, Women Photograph grants, lens design, the Fujifilm GFX at Dana Lakes and Peter Turnley on John Morris.

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Matinee: 'Phototherapy'

29 July 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Photo Editor John G. Morris Is Dead At 100

29 July 2017

John Godfrey Morris, the legendary photo editor for Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Magnum, The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Geographic died yesterday at the age of 100 in Paris.

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Friday Slide Show: The O'Shaughnessy Overlook

28 July 2017

When the Nikon D300 was new in 2008, we took a review unit to the bluff overlooking Glen Canyon Park despite a forecast for rain. You do that with review units.

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Around The Horn

28 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the LACP Portfolio Review, the Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 Art lens, 11 free photo apps, the Eighth World Bonsai Convention and a SmugMug deal.

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Nikon Launches Two Programs For Budding Photographers

27 July 2017

Nikon has announced two new programs to recognize and support the next generation of visual creators. The Nikon Storytellers Scholarship will award 10 college students with academic scholarships of $10,000. Additionally, Nikon Inc. will recognize rising stars on digital platforms as a part of its curated Nikon100 List.

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TSA: Separate Bin For Electronics Larger Than A Phone

27 July 2017

The Transportation Security Administration has announced new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items. The new measures require travelers to place "all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for X-ray screening." For photographers that includes cameras and likely lenses and strobes as well.

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Around The Horn

27 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at photo-multigraphs, deleted protest photos, iOS 11's new document scanner, transparency and SD memory cards.

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Primera Introduces Bravo 4200-Series Disc Publishers

26 July 2017

Primera Technology has announced its new Bravo 4200-Series disc printers and disc publishers. The Bravo 4200 series automates the process of burning and printing quantities of recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs with built-in robotics and either single or dual optical drives.

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Oberwerth Launches ISAR Wrist Strap

26 July 2017

German bag manufacturer Oberwerth has introduced ISAR, a padded wrist strap made from rhubarb leather that is designed for dSLR and full-format cameras.

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Around The Horn

26 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at wildfires along the Riviera, Stephen Matera, pseudo batch processing for Apple Photos, Instagram hashtags and Flash.

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Nikon Celebrates 100 Years Today

25 July 2017

Established on July 25, 1917, Nikon today celebrates its 100th anniversary. After announcing the development of new flagship dSLR, the company marked the occasion with a message from Kazuo Ushida, its president and representative director...

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A Thank You To Our Subscribers

25 July 2017

Stop the presses. We'd like to take a moment to express our appreciation to our subscribers and other financial supporters. We do it every day when we sit down at the keyboard but once a year we like to make a public display of our gratitude.

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Around The Horn

25 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 2017 Silk Way Rally, a street photography workflow, the Magnum Photography Awards 2017, Joe McNally's portraits on the prairie, Callie Mills and Photoshop automation.

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Nikon Announces D850 Development +

24 July 2017

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, Nikon has announced it is developing the D850 dSLR, its next generation full-frame, high-resolution, high-speed flagship camera to replace the D810.

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The San Francisco Art Book Fair

24 July 2017

Last weekend the 2017 San Francisco Art Book Fair was held at 1275 Minnesota St. That particular venue could hardly contain the numerous exhibitors, each limited to a small folding table, not to mention the crowds pouring in to the free event.

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Around The Horn

24 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Harf Zimmermann, the beta Photos for macOS, street photography drama, Lightroom mobile and Bowens.

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Site Tweak: Carousel Navigation

23 July 2017

Two in the morning. Awake. Roll over. Still awake. Repeat for half an hour. Still awake. The only solution: get up, go down to the bunker and write some JavaScript.

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Matinee: 'Argento Ritrovato'

22 July 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Photodrive

21 July 2017

When we wrote about our excursion to the Presidio yesterday, we didn't tell you the whole story. Yes, we wanted to escape the bunker for a while. But there are escapes and then there are escapes.

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Win A DNP Printer With Your Vacation Photo

21 July 2017

DNP has announced a summer vacation photo contest whose grand prize is a DS620A printer and a case of 6x8-inch media. Post your favorite summer vacation photo on the company's Facebook page or Instagram site (#DNPPhoto) with a short paragraph about why you should win. Deadline is Sept. 30.

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Around The Horn

21 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Jonathan Castellino, using color gels, the 2017 World Aquatics Championships and a stolen gear story.

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Take A Seat On A Share Chair

20 July 2017

After publishing the news that dribbled in yesterday, we drove over to the Presidio in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area for no better reason than to escape the confines of the bunker.

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Around The Horn

20 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at trees, the 2018 Pirelli Calendar, Lightroom Web, older lenses and a Clip update.

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Deals: Alien Skin 40 Pct. Summer Discount

20 July 2017

Alien Skin Software has announced a 40 percent discount on all its product through July 24.

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Anthropics Tech Releases LandscapePro 2

19 July 2017

Anthropics Technology has released LandscapePro 2, the latest generation of its intelligent editing software for outdoor photographers. The new version features an expanded library of skies, 2D and 3D lighting brushes, sky reflections in water and improved selection brushes.

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Adobe Updates Camera Raw, Lightroom

19 July 2017

Adobe has updated Camera Raw, the Raw processing editor in Photoshop and Lightroom, and fixed a few bugs in Lightroom desktop at the same time. But Lightroom update "does not include performance improvements based on your survey responses," according to a blog post by Priya Alexander announcing the update on the Lightroom Journal.

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Around The Horn

19 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Igor Posner, Austin Burke, Irving Penn, negotiating stock licensing, Daniel J. Gregory and the Modular Cleaning Program.

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Lightroom Mobile Updated For Android, iOS

18 July 2017

In a blog post today, Josh Haftel announced updates to both the Android and iOS versions of Lightroom mobile. In a nutshell, the asynchronous updates feature...

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Around The Horn

18 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at hijacked educations, photographing the solar eclipse safely, swan upping, how to shoot like an astronaut and Ed French.

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Around The Horn

17 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 Art lens, poems inspiring pictures, the Leica TL2, architectural portraits, rail systems for rent, external drives and a smartphone tether.

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Matinee: Daniel Berehulak

15 July 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Photowalk

14 July 2017

It seems hard to believe that we've published 186 slide shows since 2013. It isn't just the number, it's the idea that a shy, retiring fellow like us would splatter the Web with his work on such a relentless basis.

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Around The Horn

14 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Australia's Outback, video file structures, the Olympus PEN-F and a used lens sale.

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Deals: Kodak Printer Dock $40 Off

14 July 2017

Among Amazon's Deals of the Day is a $40 discount on the new Kodak Photo Printer Dock, a dye-sub 4x6-inch photo printer that can also charge your mobile device. The printer, whose list price is $139.99, can be purchased for $99.99 today only.

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Nikon Updates D750 Service Advisory Again

13 July 2017

Nikon has updated its D750 service advisory to users of its D750 for a shutter problem that "sometimes resulting in a shading of a portion of images." The latest service advisory adds D750 cameras manufactured from July 2014 through September 2014 and from July 2015 through September 2016.

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Deals: Rocky Nook 24-Hour Fifty Pct. Discount

13 July 2017

Rocky Nook is offering a 50 percent discount on your entire purchase until tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. PST when you use the coupon code JULY50 at checkout.

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DxO Updates FilmPack, ViewPoint

13 July 2017

DxO has released updates to FilmPack and ViewPoint with support for eight new cameras, including the Sony A9, Apple iPhone 7/7 Plus, Canon EOS 77D, Nikon 7500 and Panasonic GH5.

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Around The Horn

13 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Jupiter's red spot, architecture, womanhood, photojournalism, the unseen, texting a photo, a studio setup, David Slater and a National Parks senior pass price increase.

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Book Bag: Black & White Photography

12 July 2017

Subtitled "The Timeless Art of Monochrome," Michael Freeman's new book on black-and-white photography titled Black & White Photography (what else?) is a comprehensive 192-page discussion and demonstration of the subject. You'd expect nothing less from Freeman.

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Around The Horn

12 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at documenting community radio, Google Photos, the DxO One, infringement, Filmulator and Net Neutrality Day.

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Citizen Photo Launches CY-02 Dye Sub Photo Printer

11 July 2017

Citizen Photo has announced its CY-02 dye sublimation photo printer, which improves on the output speed of its CY printer from two 6x8-inch prints per minute to three.

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The WhiteWall Experience

11 July 2017

When photographer and educator Andrew Darlow appeared on The Photo Show with Mike Pach to discuss his book 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques, he made an interesting point about printing at home (around the 16:30 mark). Don't.

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Around The Horn

11 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 2017 Audubon photography awards, a Ming Thein video, social media and smart filters.

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Hogarty Invites Feedback On Lightroom Performance Issues

11 July 2017

In a post on the Lightroom Journal, long-time Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty invited Lightroom users to fill our a survey to help the team address the product's performance issues.

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DNP Updates SnapLab SL620A, DS-Tmini Software

11 July 2017

DNP has released a software update for its SnapLab SL620A and DS-Tmini. The version 3.1 software provides both new features and updates to several features of DNP's SL620A dye-sublimation printer.

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Flying Meat Releases Acorn 6

11 July 2017

Flying Meat has updated Acorn, Gus Mueller's image editing software for macOS 10.11 and later, to version 6. The new version features text on a path, an improved clone tool, new Web export features, smart layer export settings, improved Bezier tools, improved color profile handling and bug fixes.

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Nikon Announces Full-Frame AF-P 70-300mm Zoom +

10 July 2017

Nikon has announced the AF-P Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6E ED VR featuring enhanced Vibration Reduction and an stepping motor for fast and quiet AF performance, making it Nikon's first full-frame AF-P lens.

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The Biggest Wedding Photographer Fail

10 July 2017

Weddings are conducted year round for the convenience of the couples. But summer seems to be the hardest time to rent a venue, get a church, arrange a honeymoon. It also seems to bring out the newest wedding photographers, all of whom make the same mistake.

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Leica TL2 Announced +

10 July 2017

Leica has launched the TL2, a new TL System camera featuring ia new sensor, 4K video, increased autofocus speed, ease of handling and flexibility, the company said.

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Around The Horn

10 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Autophoto, Dronestagram photo contest winners, a stock photo copyright shell game, Chris Killip and lenses for ultra hi-res sensors.

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ON1 Issues Photo Raw 2017.5.1 Update

9 July 2017

In an email to its users this morning, ON1 announced an update to Photo Raw 2017.5. "This addresses several issues discovered after the .5 release and reported by customers. It is recommended for all users," the email advised.

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Site Tweak: Blocking Google Again

8 July 2017

After just a week this month our Internet service provider notified us that our bandwidth usage had exploded. That's never a good thing, really. Readership doesn't explode. It grows.

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Matinee: 'Familia Carvalho'

8 July 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

8 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Letizia Battaglia, the right to film police, Joshua Holko's toughest print job and a Nikon battery recall.

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Friday Slide Show: Glass Swizzle Sticks

7 July 2017

Once upon a time, we were browsing a little store on Sacramento St. that offered kitchenware among its items when we spied these inexpensive glass swizzle sticks. If we recall, they were made in Mexico and were about $2 each.

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Around The Horn

7 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Mosul, landscape focal lengths, critical camera features, Instagram's Archive feature and a KelbyOne deal.

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Adobe MAX 2017 Early Bird Discount Ends This Month

6 July 2017

The early bird registration discount for Adobe's MAX 2017, its creativity conference being held this year in Las Vegas from Oct. 18 to 20, ends July 31. The discount saves $300 on the $1,595 full conference price.

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Goertz Launches Fixed-Focus Citigraph 35mm Lens Campaign

6 July 2017

C.P. Goerz has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its Citograph 35mm, "a super-compact, always-in-focus Tessar-type lens that may very well revolutionize street photography."

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2017 Nikon Photo Contest Winners Announced

6 July 2017

Nikon has announced the three of the winners of its 2016-2017 Photo Contest, a competition that has been held since 1969...

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Around The Horn

6 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Thomas Annan, Masahisa Fukase, avoiding cross contamination, Amelia Earhart, QromaScan and the Glif.

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Neomodern Opens Concierge Print Service

5 July 2017

Somewhere between your photo stream of thousands of images and the revered portrait above the fireplace there's a small collection of photos you can live with. You'd like them on your walls but getting from bits to framed works of art is ridiculously difficult. Enter Neomodern.

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Around The Horn

5 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Volvo XC60's camera, 10 years of iPhone, shutter therapy, Arved Colvin-Smith, an update to Pixel Peeper and Dae Cross's Dehaze for CS6.

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The Fourth

4 July 2017

For us, as perhaps for you, Photo Corners is an escape from the headlines of the day. It's a place where beauty is celebrated and chased with wild abandon, where good humor reigns and a generous spirit infects everything we do.

But the pictures we take are of the world. The world that is source of all those headlines.

Admittedly, the world we cover here is smaller than the one the headlines of the day cover. But still, we're a member of the working press. Our perspective is that of you, our reader, not the companies that would like you as a client.

But our world is big enough to celebrate the work of photojournalists and mourn their passing. They are part of that corps covering the larger world that keeps you free to know what's going on and protects you from the manipulators who would pervert your understanding.

There really is, after all, no escape from the headlines of the day.

Today's headlines will no doubt observe that we are busy celebrating the founding of the United States of America. History isn't as tidy as the story, with independence actually being voted on by the Second Continental Congress on July 2 and the Declaration of Independence not signed by everyone until Aug. 2.

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Building Macros For DxO Optics Pro

3 July 2017

It was a dark and stormy night. No, actually, it was a heat wave. We took refuge in the Keyboard Maestro forum where we like to read other people's problems. For a change.

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Photobucket Blocks Free Hotlinking

3 July 2017

The photo sharing service Photobucket abruptly changed its hotlinking policy today, restricting the ability to link to images on its services to those paying $400 for third-party hosting privileges.

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Of Fireworks We Singe

3 July 2017

It's easy to get burned taking photos of fireworks. Just use a digicam with autofocus and auto exposure doing all the thinking. Ugh. Of thee we singe.

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Around The Horn

3 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Lee Friedlander, Sascha Rheker, Sony a9 banding and Hany Farid.

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Matinee: 'The Simple Joys of the Dull Men's Club'

1 July 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

1 July 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at PF Bentley, Kelby's tethering kit, selfie taker categories and publishing technology.

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June Archived

1 July 2017

Of the 87 stories we've just archive in Photo Corners Volume 6 Number 6, a hefty 22 were Features, 38 were commented News items, were 22 Editor's Notes (including well over 115 items of interest), two were Reviews and three were Site Notes.

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June

Friday Slide Show: Small Wonders

30 June 2017

Probably the less said about these seven images, the better. But when has that ever stopped us?

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Fleishman On HEIF, HEVC

30 June 2017

In an article published on TidBITS today, Glenn Fleishman explores Apple's move in High Sierra from JPEG to High Efficiency Image File format, as well as High Efficiency Video Coding for movies. HEVC and HEIF Will Make Video and Photos More Efficient is nearly 3,000 words but it answers a lot of questions.

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Tamron Introduces Fast-Focusing 24-70mm Zoom

30 June 2017

Tamron has announced its SP 24-70mm f2.8 Di VC USD G2, a fast f2.8 zoom with new dual micro processing units for rapid autofocusing with improved accuracy and up to five stops of vibration compensation performance.

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Around The Horn

30 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the BigPicture Natural World photography competition, the Sony FE 85mm f1.8 G, Kevan Wilkinso, New Orleans, Apple Photos in High Sierra and Google Photos 3.0 sharing.

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Around The Horn +

29 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Canon 6D Mark II, National Camera Day, the Plustek OpticFilm 8200 and ArchivesSpace.

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Canon Announces 6D Mark II, Rebel SL2

29 June 2017

On National Camera Day, Canon has introduced two new cameras: the full-frame 6D Mark II designed for advanced amateurs and the APS-C Rebel SL2 designed for entry-level photographers.

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MindShift Gear Introduces PhotoCross Sling Bags

29 June 2017

MindShift Gear has introduced PhotoCross (www.mindshiftgear.com/photocross?rfsn=481549.d5f91), a new line of sling bags designed for adventure photographers. Built to withstand the elements, yet comfortable enough to wear on long days in the field, they feature weatherproof zippers and abrasion-resistant materials, plus a carrying system for tripods or jackets.

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The Old Pier

28 June 2017

There are some scenes we could photograph every day without wearing them out. Not to say they wouldn't wear you out if we showed them to you every day, too. But there's just something about them that attracts us.

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DNP Updates Windows Printing Utilities

28 June 2017

DNP has released free updates to two of its printing utilities for Windows. Hot Folder Print Utility has been updated to v2.3 and PrinterInfo to 1.2.1.1.

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Hasselblad To Open First Retail Store

28 June 2017

Hasselblad has announced it will open it first retail store at Fotografiska in Stockholm on June 30. The collaboration between Hasselblad and Fotografiska will provide access to a full range of Hasselblad cameras while sharing both company's expertise in the art of photography. They will also partner to host inspirational photography workshops to help develop both amateur and professional photographers' skills.

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Around The Horn

28 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at National Geographic's Traveler of the Year contest, the Sony FE 12-24mm f4, Tenba's Roadie bags, Antarctica, shooting tethered into Lightroom, a freelancing book and pro bono copyright representation.

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Remembering Richard Benson

27 June 2017

Richard Benson, who passed away last week at the age of 73, left college to join the Navy. Stationed on a repair ship, he learned all about lenses, which planted the seeds for a lifetime pursuit of photography in which he became a pressman, a photographer, a teacher and inventor.

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Lensbaby Announces Velvet 85mm f1.8

27 June 2017

Lensbaby has announced the Velvet 85mm f1.8 art lens, joining the Velvet 56mm f1.6 in its line of vintage-inspired prime lenses.

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Micron Discontinues Lexar Media

27 June 2017

In a company blog post today, Jay Hawkins, Micron consumer products group vice president, said the company "is discontinuing its Lexar retail removable media storage business ... to focus on its increasing opportunities in higher value markets and channels."

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Remembering Hope Ryden

27 June 2017

She was a model, an airline stewardess, a photographer, a filmmaker and the author of 25 books. Her camera captured the wild animals of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia in their natural habitats. Her films followed their subjects like a fly on the wall. Her books of photographs and observations celebrated the wild animals of North America including bald eagles, beavers, bobcats, coyotes, mustangs and Key deer.

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Around The Horn

27 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Syrian refugees, Neil McGahee, the IPPAwards, Photoshop's Fill command and the iPad Pro.

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San Francisco Bay Pano

26 June 2017

Escaping all the sanctioned events this weekends (well, any weekend around here), we took the 43 Masonic north to Fort Mason. It's a long bus ride but it leaves you at the north end of the city just a few steps from the bay.

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Around The Horn

26 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we (somewhat curmudgeonly) look at yoga masters, 35mm lenses, the Leica M10, review sites and colors at twilight.

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Matinee: '1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone' +

24 June 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Mike Lefiti

23 June 2017

June 14 was not a pretty day in this country. In Washington D.C., gunman fired on Republican congressmen at a morning baseball practice and hours later in San Francisco a disgruntled UPS employee killed three fellow drivers at a morning meeting.

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Tamron Announces Ultra-Telephoto 18-400mm Zoom

23 June 2017

Tamron's new 18-400mm zoom an ultra-telephoto breaks new ground, packing a wide angle 18mm focal length and a 400mm telephoto into one compact, lightweight zoom designed for APS-C dSLRs. The 27-600mm 35mm equivalent zoom uses a three-step extension to reach that far, correcting for optical issues with a set of aspherical and low dispersion elements.

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Around The Horn +

23 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hong Kong, Raw iPhone aerials, portrait tips, a Strobist experiment and a free Capture One Styles Pack.

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Epson Honored For Legacy Fibre Paper Video

22 June 2017

Epson America has been awarded Telly Awards for excellence in Videography and Cinematography for Epson Legacy Fibre Paper and Photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. In the 4:22 video Greenfield-Sanders describes his work as a portrait photographer, the inspiration for his famous List Portraits and why he chose Epson Legacy Fibre paper for his recent exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography.

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Sigma 14mm, 24-70mm Art Lenses Available For Pre-Order

22 June 2017

Sigma has announced price and availability for both its 14mm f1.8 DG HSM and Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 DG OS HSM Art lenses in its Global Vision line. The lenses, which were announced in February), will be available for $1,599 and $1,299 respectively.

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Around The Horn

22 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at turning an errand into a shoot, Pete Souza, the Wilson sisters, the Olympus 7-14mm f2.8 lens, using an Apple Watch with your camera and mixing an old lens with a new camera to beat the heat.

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PowerHouse To Publish 'Skin Deep: Looking Beyond the Tattoos'

21 June 2017

PowerHouse Books has announced the September release of Skin Deep: Looking Beyond the Tattoos by U.K. photographer Steven Burton. The 176-page book pairs before-and-after photos of tattooed Los Angeles gang members with the after shot erasing their tattoos.

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Photo Emphemeris Is Going 3D

21 June 2017

Photo Emphermeris recently announced it would release a 3D version of its planning tool for outdoor photographers. The new iOS version of the app to be released June 27 is "a big step forward in letting outdoor photographers see how the light will fall on the land, day or night," the company said.

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Cityscape

21 June 2017

On summer vacations from school, we used to go downtown to help out at the magazine. On one errand or another, we'd walk through the concrete caverns ducking into the plywood sidewalk tunnels protecting pedestrians from some construction site.

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Deals: Think Tank Photo Outlet Center

21 June 2017

Think Tank Photo has restocked its Outlet Center on the first full day of summer. Summer savings in the Outlet Center run as high as 30 percent on gear that includes the Airport Takeoff, Retrospective Leather, Urban Approach, Citywalker, Perception Pro, Turnstyle and more.

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Around The Horn

21 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at kites, a difficult contract, Joachim Baldauf and Ming Thein's predictions.

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Zeiss Announces Milvus 1.4/35

21 June 2017

Zeiss has announced the Milvus 1.4/35 prime lens, the tenth lens in its Milvus series. The fast manual-focus 35mm prime lens features weather sealilng and an aperture ring that can be de-clicked for video.

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A New Sidewalk

20 June 2017

We were on one of our urban safaris the other day when we noticed a new sidewalk had been laid on the other side of the street. There are some fabulous views of downtown on that side of the street but they were inaccessible until now.

On the way back we made a point of taking the new sidewalk and snapping some of those shots we'd always just not quite been able to frame from the other side of the street.

That's when we looked up the hill and saw the Stop sign looking back down at us.

Pretty funny, we thought.

It's a vertical, clearly. And with a circular polarizer on the 35mm lens (which provided something of a normal focal length on our Nikon D300), what you're seeing is what we saw only a bit glamorized.

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Book Bag: Focus & Filter

20 June 2017

We're not in the habit of giving advice to newbies but if we were, we'd have to recommend living next door to Andrew Darlow, the author of Focus & Filter.

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Around The Horn

20 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Andrew Harnik, affordable cameras, Photoshop layers, copyright tips and Hugh Edwards.

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Adobe Announces 'Make It Impactful' Contest For Lightroom Edits

19 June 2017

In Make It Impactful: Optimizing Images With Lightroom, a Create magazine article, Adobe announced a new contest for images that have been edited in Lightroom.

When you share your edited image with the hashtags #makeitimpactful and #contest, you'll become eligible to win a one-year Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, a $1,000 Adorama Camera gift certificate, and a one-hour mentoring session.

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Another Problem Automation Solved

19 June 2017

We usually look for ways to simplify what we're doing around here. We like reducing those five-step dances to a single tap and superfluous twirl. It reduces the chances for error, extends our productivity and makes us happy. It even gives us the illusion of living longer.

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Around The Horn

19 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Fred Stein, fireworks, displaying Camera Raw edits, iPhone GPS data, jigsaw puzzling and taking a shot.

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Matinee: Mike Pach's 'Same Tree, Different Day'

17 June 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: A Memorial Quilt

16 June 2017

We are a funny species. When someone dies, we leave their things just as they were. If we're pressed to explain, we might confess that we have a sneaking suspicion that they might be needed again.

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Remembering Gary Friedman

16 June 2017

Gary Friedman, who had been a Los Angeles Time staff photographer for over 30 years, has passed away at 62 after a 15 year battle with prostate cancer, the Times announced today.

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Around The Horn

16 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Ethiopia, changing TSA requirements, Thein's predictions and Adobe on climate change.

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Adobe Releases Munch Brush Collection

15 June 2017

As the initial product of its The Hidden Treasures of Creativity campaign, Adobe has released seven digital brushes based on the 100-year-old brushes used by Edvard Munch.

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Cotton Carrier Introduces G3 Camera Harness

15 June 2017

Cotton Carrier has announced a new G3 camera harness, updating its innovative hands-free camera carrying system featuring its Twist & Lock mount. The new harness has been completely redesigned to be easier to put on with a more comfortable fit. Other refinements include added straps, breathable fabrics, added pockets and new colors.

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Around The Horn

15 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Red Bull Illume Photo contest winners, triptychs, lightening the load, the new Luminar and Google's new Backup and Sync.

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Think Tank Photo Partners With SKB Hard Cases

14 June 2017

Think Tank Photo has announced a partnership with SKB to provide a variety of inserts including internal divider sets, organizers and even a backpack designed to fit within 10 SKB hard cases.

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OWC Announces SMART Alec To Predict Drive Failure

14 June 2017

OWC has announced development of SMART Alec, a new Mac utility to monitor hard drive health. Currently available in beta, the utility can check internal hard drives or SSDs and, for an additional charge, external Firewire and USB drives.

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Artnet To Auction Patrick McMullan Collection Online

14 June 2017

Artnet has announced The A-List: Works from the Collection of Patrick McMullan, a group of over 50 photographs, prints and paintings from McMullan's own private collection that will open for live bidding online June 20 to June 29.

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Kodak Announces Photo Printer Dock

14 June 2017

Combining a 4x6 dye-sub printer with a two-port charging station, the $139 Kodak Photo Printer Dock promises "one-touch printing directly from the smartphone or device."

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Around The Horn

14 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at David Douglas Duncan, the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm, a look at Apple's move to HEIF, the Sony a9 ships, lessons from creating an online photo exhibition and a radio show about photography.

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All Smiles

13 June 2017

Congratulations to the Golden State Warriors on winning the 2017 NBA Championship last night in Oakland. We know one household where the smiles never faded. Even in direct sunlight.

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Adobe Stock Adds Sources, Search Sophistication

13 June 2017

Adobe announced several new partnerships that will greatly expand what's available in Adobe Stock collections. At the same time, the company showed off two new search techniques based on Adobe Sensei.

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Around The Horn

13 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Fons Ianelli, that star-eating Sony, Photoshop's blur gallery, Hogan's favorite plug-ins and a photo book strikes gold.

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Apple Releases Imaging-Related WWDC Videos

12 June 2017

Apple has released a number of image-related videos which include sessions on its new image compression format and iPhone depth capture. Here's the short list with Apple's program notes...

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Darlow Launches 'Focus & Filter' With Special Offer

12 June 2017

Andrew Darlow, who publishes The Imaging Buffet, has launched his new 194-page book Focus & Filter with a bonus package valued at $100 when you order the book from the launch page by June 19.

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HDRsoft Releases Photomatix Pro 6

12 June 2017

HDRsoft has updated Photomatix Pro, its versatile HDR image editing software, to version 6 with a number of new tools and refinements.

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A Night & Day Lesson In Exposure

12 June 2017

We'd been taking some product shots in the bunker for an upcoming review when we decided to shoot a close-up. We don't have a macro lens for that particular camera but when did a detail like that ever stop us?

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Around The Horn

12 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the American Colony in Jerusalem, Doug Mills, going pro, lighting principles and Sony a9 worst cases.

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Matinee: 'John Perivolaris: Shoreditch Bridge Portraits'

10 June 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: The Chalked Sidewalk

9 June 2017

Every year at this time, the sidewalk up the street is decorated with names written in colorful chalk. It's one of the graduation traditions of the grammar school on our block.

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ON1 Releases Photo Raw 2017.5, Event Video

9 June 2017

Early this week, ON1 released its 2017.5 update to Photo Raw, its image editing software. And yesterday the company held a live event to introduce the new features, which it has just published online...

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Around The Horn

9 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at digitizing slides, photographing caves, Robin Wong and Lightroom shortcuts.

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Site Tweak: Send A Scoop

8 June 2017

We've always listed our contact information on our Contact page and we include a Feedback button on every story we post, so it's never been difficult to get in touch with us. But a button on the home page to submit a scoop to us can't hurt.

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Around The Horn

8 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a Joshua Tree presentation, image editing on mobile devices, household printers coding documents and Copytrack.

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Meyer-Optik Kickstarters Lydith 30mm Art Lens

8 June 2017

Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz has launched its fifth Kickstarter campaign to bring the Lydith 30mm f3.5 art lens back to life.

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Test Drive: Capture One Styles Packs +

8 June 2017

Phase One today introduced Capture One Styles Packs to accelerate your creativity and improve the image editing process, the company said. The five initial Styles Packs released today are compatible with Phase One v10.1.2 and contain up to 18 different Styles focused on a specific theme.

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Carmen Troesser, Maisie Crow Honored At FoodPhoto Festival 2017

7 June 2017

Photographers, food stylists and art buyers from 30 different countries across all five continents met from May 18 to 21 in Vejle, Denmark, for the FoodPhoto Festival 2017.

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Around The Horn

7 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Nick Nichols, Adam Elmakias, David Campany and a new bag collection.

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Triggertrap Apps Go Open Source

7 June 2017

In a post on Medium today, Haje Jan Kamps announced "the source code for both our Triggertrap iOS app and our Triggertrap Android app now available for download from GitHub." The company closed earlier this year before releasing its dongle hardware design as open source. The current apps themselves are still available on the Google Play store and Apple's App store.

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Apple Updates iCloud Pricing

6 June 2017

Apple has updated its iCloud storage pricing plans at its World Wide Developers Conference this week. And they're lower. The following chart lists the new pricing plans for U.S. customers...

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Around The Horn

6 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Blaustein's presentation of work from Aaron Hardin, Evgheny Maloletka and Emelienne Malfatto; Dorothea Lange; filters in Photoshop; 12-row bands in the Sony a9; a copyright story; Fiona Tan and a petition for B&H warehouse workers.

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Apple To Drop JPEG Format For HEIF

5 June 2017

At today's World Wide Developers Conference Apple announced it would use a new still image format with the release of iOS 11 this fall. High Efficiency Image File Format or HEIF reduces the file size of every photo taken with iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi claimed.

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Serif Releases Affinity Photo For iPad

5 June 2017

At Apple's World Wide Developers Conference today, Serif's Ash Hewn showed off Affinity Photo for iPad on Apple's new iPad Pro.

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Around The Horn

5 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Jim Hughes, Jane and Louise Wilson, protective filters, the Nik Collection, working at Adobe for 20 years, George Dunbar, the right to repair, ON1 Photo Raw 2017.5 and a copyright decisions database.

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Phase One Announces Free June Webinars

5 June 2017

Phase One has announced several free webinars in June covering the features of Capture One Pro 10, its image editing software.

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Harvey Posts ExifTool 10.55 Production Release

5 June 2017

Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v10.55, the first production release since v10.50 on April 20. The small download is available three formats, including a Windows executable and Macintosh OS X package.

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Matinee: BPPA Award Winners

3 June 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Remembering Marie Cosindas

3 June 2017

Marie Cosindas ended a colorful life at the age of 93 last week.

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Accidents Happen

3 June 2017

The other day a reader asked us why they sometimes see strange characters in our Around the Horn articles. The simple answer is "editorial lapses." But the explanation turned into an adventure.

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Friday Slide Show: Alfa Romeo 4C

2 June 2017

As we were wheeling our bright red Target shopping cart back through the parking lot the other day, we heard a rumbling whoosh and felt the asphalt melt under our shoes. We turned just in time to see a fresh-out-of-the-showroom Alfa Romeo 4C glide by.

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Toyo Tires Announces 2017 Shutter Space Contest

2 June 2017

Toyo Tires has opened its 2017 Shutter Space Automotive Photo Gallery contest for submissions. Entires, due by June 30, should show off "your best car or truck photo," the company said.

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Site Tweak: JSON Feed Images

2 June 2017

OK, we did it. We added images to the JSON feed. If you view the feed using the Maxime Vaillancourt's JSON Feed Viewer, you'll see them.

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Around The Horn

2 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at deadly Mediterranean crossings, Marshall's 'Jazz Festival' images, a Lighting 103 assignment and IIIF images.

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Leica Unveils Jim Marshall with Limited Edition Leica M Set

1 June 2017

Leica Camera has introduced a limited edition Leica M Monochrom set in homage to Jim Marshall, the first and only photographer to be honored with Grammy's Trustee Award. The launch of the set will be accompanied by an exhibit of Marshall's Jazz festival series at the Lecia Gallery LA.

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Sony World Photography Awards Opens 2018 Edition

1 June 2017

The 2018 Sony World Photography Awards are now open for entries, the organization announced today. The 11th edition of the contest has been expanded with two new professional categories and new grant opportunities for the winners.

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CompactFlash Association Announces CFexpress* 1.0

1 June 2017

CompactFlash Association has announced the release of the CFexpress* 1.0 specification based on the PCIE interface and the NVM Express stack to provide high throughput and low latency.

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Around The Horn

1 June 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Tiananmen protest pictures, the Moscow Metro, matching color in grayscale, the Sierra snowpack and Sony a9 self heating.

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May Archived

1 June 2017

We've just indexed Volume 6, Number 5 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 18 Features, 29 commented news stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included well over 100 items of interest) and three site notes for a total of 75 stories. That would make a hefty photography magazine for the May issue but we would have had to cut down some trees.

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May

Make A Wrist Strap For Your Phone

31 May 2017

We use a shoulder strap when we take a walk with nothing but our camera. But when we need another lens, a notebook, a case for our glasses, some house keys, the phone and anything else, we put the camera in a bag after attaching a wrist strap to it. One way or the other, we're so used to having the camera tethered to us that it's unnerving to shoot without a strap of some kind.

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Leica Updates SL Firmware

31 May 2017

Leica has released version 3.0 of its SL system firmware featuring an optimized Flash white balance preset and assignment of aperture and shutter speed settings to either the front or the rear dials. The update also speeds write times for DNG Raw images and improves autofocus accuracy.

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Around The Horn

31 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Irving Penn's platinum prints, humpback whales, influences and Jeremy Lange.

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Sigma Addresses Converter Issue On Sony α9

31 May 2017

Sigma has issued a statement addressing a compatibility issue between the Sony α9 and its MC-11 converter. The statement acknowledges that some of Sigma's zoom lenses "may not focus precisely" on the α9 when using the converter.

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DxO One Update Improves Standalone Mode, Battery Life

31 May 2017

DxO has released version 2.2 of its DxO One app for iOS with a new exposure level meter in standalone mode, better battery management, faster application startup time and automatic firmware updates for the camera.

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Nikon Introduces Coolpix W300 +

30 May 2017

Nikon Inc. has introduced its Coolpix W300, a rugged compact camera designed to capture and share high-quality images and 4K UHD video in a waterproof, shockproof, freezeproof and dustproof body.

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Nikon Announces Three New Wide-Angle Nikkor Lenses +

30 May 2017

Nikon has announced three new wide-angle Nikkor lenses: a 10-20mm zoom, 8-15mm zoom and 28mm f1.4 prime.

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Supreme Court Rules Against Lexmark On Refilled Cartridges

30 May 2017

In a landmark ruling on patent exhaustion, the Supreme Court today held 8-0 that Lexmark's patent rights in toner cartridges sold through its Return program were exhausted by the sale and by a 7-1 count ruled Lexmark also cannot sue Impression Products for patent infringement of products purchased overseas for resale in the U.S.

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Caption Contest

30 May 2017

Sometimes we can ruin a good shot by saying, well, too much about it. This would be one of those times. (And yet we obviously can't help ourselves.)

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Halide Camera App Released For iPhone

30 May 2017

Tech consultant Ben Sandofsky and ex-Apple designer Sebastiaan de With have released Halide, a camera app for the iPhone that features a more intelligent interface to the device's photographic tools.

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Site Tweak: Calendar Submissions

30 May 2017

Over the (long) weekend we added a new form to the site to submit events to our Calendar. You can find a link to it among the calendar links in the top left section of any calendar page.

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Around The Horn

30 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Ofit Barak, interactive deep colorization, Photoshop alignment shortcuts, a solution to Sony overheating problems, ISO 100 noise in the Sony a9, the Venice Biennale and a spring book sale.

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Memorial Day

29 May 2017

Freddie Bacigalupi. 1920-1944.

That day they all happened to be in the kitchen of the second floor flat in the three-story building they had built on 19th Avenue. The door bell rang and Freddie's little sister Inez jumped up to run down the stairs to answer the door.

Freddie's father read the telegram. Then he picked up his chair and threw it across the room. It shattered against the wall.

Staff Sergeant John F. Bacigalupi, Jr. had been killed in action in France.

Named for his father, the family called him by his middle name Freddie. He graduated from high school and worked as a warehouseman until he joined the Army as a private Nov. 19, 1941, just days before Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the 9th Division, 60th Infantry, Company 1.

He used to fish a few coins out of his pocket so his little sister Inez and her cousin Bobbie could go to the movies. That's what he did the last time the two girls saw him.

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Matinee: 'Interview with David Goldblatt'

27 May 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

27 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at rare photos, a red chair, Dronescapes and not a dress -- all treats for the eye.

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Friday Slide Show: Italy In 1999

26 May 2017

And now for something completely different. We rummaged through the closets at the old ancestral home looking for a set of negatives from a trip to Italy our parents took in September and October 1999 to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

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Binded Launches Copyright Platform

26 May 2017

Binded today launched its copyright platform, designed to make "copyright simple." The free service protects your work by creating "a unique fingerprint" permanently saved on the bitcoin blockchain for each image you upload to Binded. You receive a certificate with proof of creation.

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Around The Horn

26 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Stanley Kubrick, the NYT Portfolio Review, photography for yourself, Salton Sea and the 500px/Fotolia connection.

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Adobe Announces 'Make The Cut' Winners

25 May 2017

Adobe has announced the winners of its Make the Cut contest celebrating Premiere Pro's 25th anniversary. The company invited fast of Imagine Dragons and Premiere Pro to cut a video using footage for the band's hit single "Believer," shot by director Matt Eastin.

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Think Tank Photo Upgrades TurnStyle Camera Bags

25 May 2017

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Think Tank Photo has updated its TurnStyle V2.0 sling bag with a new stabilizer strap that holds the bag steady while shooting and tucks away when not in use. Think Tank's sling bag design also promotes easy rotation to access gear and accessories.

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Think Tank Photo: New Rolling Backpack, Upgraded Backpacks

25 May 2017

Think Tank Photo has announced its new StreetWalker Rolling Backpack V2.0, which can switch from a backpack to a roller, and upgraded versions of all three classic StreetWalker backpacks. New features include increased depth for modern dSLR systems and dedicated pockets for both tablets and smartphones.

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Around The Horn

25 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at abandoned places, preserving a photographic heritage, iCloud Photo Library vs. Google online photo storage, Pamela Gentile, removing GPS info and Jinbei studio flash units.

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Ricoh Introduces WG-50 Rugged Compact

24 May 2017

Ricoh has announced its $275.95 WG-50 rugged compact waterproof performance down to 14m, shockproof falls from a height of 1.6m, a freezeproof design to temperatures as low as -10 degrees and crushproof against weights up to 100 kilogram force. The new model also sports Outdoor View Setting mode to instantly change the brightness of the LCD for better outdoor visibility.

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Adobe Updates Camera Raw, Lightroom

24 May 2017

Adobe has released updates to Camera Raw and Lightroom with support for the Panasonic ZD70 and Sony α9. According to Lightroom product manager Sharad Mangalick's announcement on the Lightroom Journal, updates to Lightroom for Android and iOS will also include updated camera support.

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Around The Horn

24 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Holga, Gavin Hooey, Gabriele Micalizzi and the Genaray cutlass wand and ring light kit.

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A Crown of Clouds

23 May 2017

Today is a special day around here. Mom turns 90. And as we prepare for the party, we find ourselves reflecting on a life that has endured nine decades.

It isn't for the complainers, obviously. They wear themselves (and others) out early. And it isn't for the predators either. They never outrun the wheel of justice.

But it would be silly to pretend it's all roses.

Life is not easy. It's unnerving to think, when you are young, that you will never matter to anyone else. And it's crippling to find out you have outlived the one you loved who loved you. In between there are children (whether your own or not) to herd and who grow into adults you never hear from.

And you bear all this with grace. Because you never thought anything about life was easy and you were always strong.

Your reward has been to take such small pleasures that no one ever seemed to notice. A newborn wriggling awake. Sauce on a wooden spoon. The smell of clean laundry. A ride in the country. Your roses in bloom.

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Photokina: Annual May Shows With Expanded Tech

23 May 2017

Photokina has announced a revamped schedule starting with an abbreviated 2017 exhibit from Sept. 26-29 next year followed by an annual May event that will include "the entire range of products, applications and services of relevance for imaging."

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Around The Horn

23 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the greatest show on earth, more Photoshop shortcuts, the Godox AD200 and therapeutic photography.

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Luminous Landscape Honors Reichmann With Founder's Page

22 May 2017

Luminous Landscape has launched The Founder's Page under its About menu to honor founder Michael Reichmann who passed away last year.

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Adorama: Sony α9 Giveway, Trade-In Offers

22 May 2017

Adorama has announced it will refund the full cost of one Sony α9 to one customer who pre-orders the camera before May 25. At $4,498, it's an expensive contest to enter but the upside for the winner is huge.

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Around The Horn

22 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Maryam Majd, Baidu's facial recognition, a 1998 SMC Pentax-FA 100mm f3.5 macro lens, Gerhard Steidl and Dayanita Singh.

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Matinee: 'In The Eyes Of Children'

20 May 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Remembering Stanley Greene

20 May 2017

Stanley Green was born in Brooklyn to parents who were both actors. And in his 68 years on this earth, he played many roles himself.

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Friday Slide Show: Urs Fischer At The Legion

19 May 2017

On our recent visit to the Legion of Honor to see Monet, we were startled by an army of what appeared to be clay figures melting in the bright courtyard of the entrance.

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Court Rules Against FAA Non-Commercial Drone Registration

19 May 2017

A Washington, D.C., federal court ruled today that you do not have to register your drone with the Federal Aviation Administration if you only fly it non-commercially. The FAA has required registration since 2015.

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Around The Horn

19 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at scavengers at Chernobyl, Pablove Shutterbugs, a Hernandez photo book, Greg Heisler talking to David Hobby and Kevin L. Ferguson on Jason Shulman.

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SFMOMA Is Exclusive U.S. Venue For Walker Evans Retrospective

18 May 2017

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will be the exclusive United States venue for the retrospective exhibition Walker Evans, on view Sept. 30 through Feb. 4, 2018. Walker Evans' 50-year body of work documented and distilled the essence of life in America, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire generations of photographers and artists.

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Around The Horn

18 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Dead Sea, New York's standpipes, a 3D attachment for your mobile device, S Magazine and the Db Hugger.

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Site Tweak: A JSON Feed +

17 May 2017

With the announcement of a JSON feed today by Manton Reece and Brent Simmons, we've added a JSON feed of the site to our other ways to follow developments here.

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Google Photos Adds Three New Ways To Share

17 May 2017

In a blog post today, Anil Sabharwal, vice president of Google Photos, announced "more than 500 million people use it every month, backing up more than 1.2 billion photos and videos per day." And to mark the milestone, the company has introduced three new ways to share those photos and videos.

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Olympus Announces Tough TG-5

17 May 2017

Just in time for summer fun, Olympus has announced its Tough TG-5 featuring a fast f2.0 lens with a 25-100mm 35mm equivalent range, BSI CMOS image sensor, TruePic VIII image processor packed in a rugged shell that is waterproof, crushproof, freezeproof and dustproof. It can capture Ultra HD video and Full HD slow motion, too.

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Sony Introduces Two Wide-Angle Full-Frame E-Mount Lenses

17 May 2017

Sony has announced its 16-35mm f2.8 GM, which completes the E-mount f2.8 G Master "trinity," and its 12-24mm f4 G with the widest angle among all full-frame E-mount lenses.

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Around The Horn

17 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Berenice Abbott, UV filters, Reznicki on the Stepables judgement and flower photography.

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Beyond The Velvet Rope

16 May 2017

A few weeks ago we wrestled with an image of a sculpture that we had composed perfectly. We were standing in front of it just where the sculptor had expected us to stand. We had lined up the shot squarely and given it generous borders.

It was a very dramatic scene but it just fell flat as we looked at it on the monitor. The figures seemed two dimensional not three, frozen not tense.

We'd tell you more but we're not done with it yet. We went back and took a different approach that looks a lot more promising.

And that approach was simply to avoid standing behind the often invisible velvet rope. That velvet rope represents a viewing position of centuries past. Today we're much more involved in the scene.

And you can blame photography for that.

A wide angle lens begs you to step closer to the scene, the distortion adding a sense of movement both toward the viewer and away at the same time. Objects in the mirror, you know, are closer than they appear. Which is to say closer objects are further and distant objects look further than they are.

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Adobe Announces Six New Creative Residents

16 May 2017

Adobe has announced six new Creative Residents who have pledged to use their talents "to make a positive impact in both the creative community and around the world." In return the company will provide "access to the best creative tools and resources plus the opportunity to share their learnings and creative insights across a larger creative community."

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Around The Horn

16 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Photoshop Week, Fred Lyon, the upgrade line, getting around a document in Photoshop, discounts on Adler's posing guide, film photography blogs and Esther Dyson's Flickr albums.

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Around The Horn

15 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Shinji Aratani, cleaning your gear, retouching tips and Shiftcam.

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Matinee: 'Cave Photography'

13 May 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

13 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at James Pomerantz, the Sony FE 100mm f2.8, the CCS StrapShot and FilmLab.

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Friday Slide Show: Early Monet

12 May 2017

The Legion of Honor exhibition Monet: The Early Years ends May 29, so we made sure to visit it a second time this week. And this time we brought along a camera (or two).

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Around The Horn

12 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Mexican landscapes, a postmortem on a shoot, a pilot copyright program, shutter shock and Apple iPhone tutorials.

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Some Days Are Like That

11 May 2017

Sympathy is a lost art. You overhear someone claiming about something and you want to change the station, push the Mute button, pull the plug out of the wall.

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Around The Horn

11 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Ed Caraeff, the group shot, storing images in the cloud, capturing flowers, bird photography, Nikon's year and Lloyd Chambers' lens sale.

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Stories Not Told

10 May 2017

We've long prized a tattered book titled Twice-Told Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. We bought it for 50 cents at a used book store somewhere around here a long time ago.

It dates to 1893, making it a bit too fragile to read three times. But it sometimes reminds us, just by sitting within view on the shelf, that there are stories that are never told, too.

And not just stories. There are photos never shown. And being never shown are never seen.

Which, on the whole, is welcome relief. Far too many photos are shown, an unhealthy percentage of which are also seen.

We suspect you are groaning in agreement.

It's easy to dismiss a story untold or a photo unseen. But a second look will often find some gem in the rock. Well, not often. But sometimes. Surely.

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Around The Horn

10 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at making a Mother's Day card, the National Geographic Travel Photography contest, Vanexus Photography, a Rocky Nook deal, a Pier 24 catalog and how to learn new things as an adult.

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Phase One Launches Cultural Heritage Camera System

10 May 2017

Phase One has announced the iXG Camera System, a new capture solution for Cultural Heritage digitization projects of documents, books, transparent film, glass plates, etc.. The industrial-build, fully-integrated camera is available in 50-Mp and 100-Mp configurations with exchangeable repro-lenses (72mm and 120mm macro) guaranteeing one million actuations.

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Phase One Announces 100-Mp Achromatic Digital Back

10 May 2017

Phase One has announced the IQ3 100MP Achromatic, the world's first 101-megapixel achromatic digital back, according to the company. Featuring a new CMOS sensor design and state-of-the-art focus on classic black and white photography with a top ISO of 51,200, it stands out as the most light sensitive medium format digital back available.

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An Old Photo

9 May 2017

No one will ever accuse us of writing salacious headlines. We prefer a more subtle approach. "What's that?" you say. "Oh, nothing," we begin. And you know that isn't the half of it.

So an old photo is just where the story begins. And it began a long time ago.

LONG AGO

It's a photo of three children at the turn of the 20th century. They seem to be about seven or eight, two and not-quite-one years old. The two oldest are boys. And the oldest is, befitting his rank, wearing a watch.

The middle child is Mom's father. And that's how it came to be in our family. It was tucked away, out of sight, among his old photos.

But these days, Mom has the old print propped up near her computer. So whenever we're working on something with her, we see the three children.

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Around The Horn

9 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Hiroshi Sugimoto, automatic Mother's Day movies, Lindsay Adler on Make It, Pixomatic 3, the Sigma 50-100mm f1.8 and vacation gear.

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A Marketing Lesson

8 May 2017

We had just come in from the parking lot through the double doors at Macy's yesterday when we stopped dead in our tracks. A table display of yellow and blue tableware greeted us brightly. Dishes, bowls, salad plates, cups were laid out among plate mats, microfiber tablecloths, napkins and even utensils -- all of them yellow and blue.

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Around The Horn

8 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at famous photographs, air travel with gear, working with color in Photoshop and Smart Previews.

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Matinee: 'The Infinite Now'

6 May 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Lunch At Luna Blu

5 May 2017

The last time we had lunch in Tiburon was memorable. But a funny thing about memorable moments. They're not easy to repeat. Still it was such a good memory that when the same relatives came back for a wedding and we had a free afternoon, we all decided to relive our adventure.

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Around The Horn

4 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Jacqui Kenny, color balancing home lighting, astrophotography with Sony cameras, Editors Key Lightroom keyboard and merging Lightroom catalogs.

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Phase One Releases Capture One Pro 10.1

4 May 2017

Phase One has released Capture One Pro 10.1 with new features requested by customers and improvements to existing features that are designed to enhance the Capture One workflow.

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Around The Horn

4 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Matthew O'Brien, photochrom postcards, 30-bit color monitors and a request for help.

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DNP To Give Away Printer In May Photo Contest

3 May 2017

DNP has announced a contest running through National Photography Month "encouraging all to rediscover the joy of a print." Throughout May, the company will accept entries on its Facebook page or Instagram #DNPPhoto page that include your favorite photo and why you should win.

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Around The Horn

3 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Marcia Bricker Halperin, the Panasonic G85, photographing property, a bokeh simulator and Hubert L. Dreyfus.

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Deals: Peter Krogh's New Book

3 May 2017

In an email today, Peter Krogh announced the upcoming publication of Digitizing Your Photos, after which, he said, "I'll resume work on The DAM Book 3, which will be available later this year." Both titles are now available at pre-publication discount prices.

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Deals: Alien Skin Software 30 Pct. Discount

3 May 2017

Alien Skin has announced a 30 percent discount on all of its software, including the Advanced Layers update for Exposure X2, through May 10.

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Two Slide Show Fails

2 May 2017

After a recent wedding, we uploaded a set of images to Google+ to share with family and friends. We also made copies on a thumbdrive so we could view them without Internet access. It was revealing experience.

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Around The Horn

2 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Viktor Macha, Franck Bohbot, the Arab Image Foundation, hot cameras and Joan Wilkinson Sadler.

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Freelancers Cite Favorite Publications

1 May 2017

In Freelance Photographers Say These Are the Best Outlets to Pitch, 30 photojournalists interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review recommended six outlets and their going rates.

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Around The Horn

1 May 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Meridith Kohut, cropping tips, flying to South America, the scanning process and transforming a model's appearance.

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April Archived

1 May 2017

We've just archived Volume 6 Number 4 of Photo Corners with 16 Features stories, 28 commented news stories, 21 Editor's Notes, four reviews and four site notes, bringing you another 73 stories.

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April

Matinee: 'Harry Gruyaert'

29 April 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Hippocrates On Parnassus

28 April 2017

This summer will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. The de Young Museum has already started the party with The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll. But we thought we'd get in the mood by visiting Hippocrates on Parnassus.

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Around The Horn

28 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Exif.co, the Epson P7000, the Macphun Filters project, Lightroom performance issues on Windows, a SilverFast printer calibration offer and the Getty's Chris Edwards.

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An Apple Photos Project

27 April 2017

Ah, the right tool for the right job. That's always the trick, isn't it? That's what we were thinking at Mom's the other day when we helped set up her new iMac.

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Around The Horn

27 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at holy clowns, model releases, archeological drone imagery, weatherproof Olympus cameras and DxO Optics Pro 9.

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Miops, Photography Life Announce Fujifilm X-T20 Giveaway

26 April 2017

Miops and Photography Life have announced a Fujifilm X-T20 giveaway open to anyone worldwide. To be eligible, you have to follow both companies on Instagram.

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Adobe Updates Ease Contributing To Adobe Stock

26 April 2017

Adobe has released several updates for Adobe Stock Contributors to make it more efficient to upload and submit photo, video or other assets to Adobe Stock.

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Breaking News +

26 April 2017

Someone (who won't say who) neglected to enable the Do Not Disturb feature of their smartphone last night. So at three in the morning the little Zen-like chime of a text message woke us up.

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Around The Horn

26 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at masks, clouds, punks, Apple and a BorrowLenses deal.

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Wherefore Art Thou?

25 April 2017

There is no denying the romance of this balcony. We came across it on a recent walk and had to laugh. It's sort of a door to nowhere. Which answers the question, "Wherefore art thou?"

No point going to the expense of building a porch for the thing. The prudent remodeler might have turned it into a window except there already was one. The cheaper remodeler would have just closed it in.

You don't need much imagination to build walls.

But here the architect (let's call the person no less) imagines Shakespeare's Juliet leaning over the iron railing, only a foot on the small pedestal porch to lean out and look for her beloved.

But it works for the pizza delivery guy, too. The front door is just underneath at the left.

Practical but romantic. Romantic but practical.

Editing this Raw file was tricky because there was no really dark element in the image beyond the black, detail-free iron work. And no shadows means no drama. And without drama, there's no Shakespeare.

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Around The Horn

25 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Cinthya Santos-Briones, the Sigma 135mm Art lens, diptychs, bokeh aji, Lightroom's Visualize Spots tool and Moonrise prints.

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Around The Horn

24 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Markus Lindstrom, Julieanne Kost in Antarctica, more on the Fujifilm GFX 50S experience and the Sigma 10-20mm zoom.

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Matinee: 'Eric Wolfinger -- Beyond the Plate' +

22 April 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Luminous Endowment Grant Winners Announced

21 April 2017

Kevin Raber has announced the April 2017 winners of the Luminous Endowment Grants. The grants were established by Michael Reichmann.

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Friday Slide Show: Mount Davidson

21 April 2017

Every now and then we revisit the site of a previous slide show. Our earlier visit to Mount Davidson amounted to only three black-and-white images so we thought this week would be a nice time to return to the tallest peak in the city.

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Canon Opens Entries for New Cosmos Photo Contest

21 April 2017

Canon has announced it is now accepting entries for its 2017 New Cosmos of Photography photo competition. the 40th edition of the contest "seeks entries depicting new creative photographic expressions that provide a glimpse of the next frontier," the company said.

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Around The Horn

21 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at event photography, using gels to shift ambient light, LivePhotosKit JS, actual and red flag knowledge of infringement, Instagress and pods and the White House returns to Flickr.

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Sony World Photog Awards Announces Grand Prize Winners

20 April 2017

The World Photography Organization has announced its 2017 Grand Prize winners. The contest receaived over 227,000 entries from 183 countries, making it the largest in the world, organizers said.

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Installing Sierra +

20 April 2017

We only installed El Capitan in July of last year so we may be accused of rushing things with our installation of Sierra only nine months later. Enthusiasm wasn't the reason.

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Harvey Posts ExifTool 10.50 Production Release

20 April 2017

Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v10.50, the first production release since v10.40 on Jan.14. The small download is available three formats, including a Windows executable and Macintosh OS X package.

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Around The Horn

20 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Eugene Richards, Sony's new full-frame mirrorless, sunlight at high noon and focusing the Fujifilm GFX 50S.

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Panasonic Announces Micro Four Thirds Wide-Angle Zoom

19 April 2017

Panasonic has introduced the Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm f2.8-4.0 ASPH. as he second lens in its Leica DG Vario-Elmarit f2.8-4.0 series. The company said it plans to extend the series with la 50-200mm (100-400mm 35mm equivalent) telephoto zoom lens as well.

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Adobe Releases Creative Cloud Video Updates

19 April 2017

Focusing on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, motion graphics, live animation and audio, Adobe has released updates today to its Creative Cloud suite of video applications. It's the first time the company has released updated video applications at the same time as the announcement.

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Panasonic Lumix DC-ZS70 Announces ZS70 Travel Zoom

19 April 2017

Panasonic has introduced its Lumix ZS70, the newest member of its Travel Zoom ZS series. With a 20.3-megapixel sensor, the ZS70 features a 30x optical zoom with the 35mm equivalent focal range of 24-720mm in a pocket-sized body that enables 4K Video/4K Photo capture. The new tiltable rear monitor allows users enjoy a variety of selfie shots including 4K selfies and panoramic selfies.

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Sony Announces α9 24.2-Mp Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera

19 April 2017

Sony has introduced its full-frame mirrorless α9 featuring a 24.2-megapixel Exmor RS CMOS sensor, high-speed and blackout-free continuous shooting at up to 20 fps, 60 AF/AE tracking calculations per second and a maximum shutter speed of up to 1/32,000 second. The sensor is matched to a new BIONZ X image processor.

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Sony Announces FE 100-400mm Zoom

19 April 2017

Sony has its longest E-mount lens, the FE 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 GM OSS super telephoto zoom featuring fast, precise AF capabilities in a lightweight, portable design with a variety of professional functions and customizability.

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Test Drive: Capture One Pro Keyboard

19 April 2017

There are, by Phase One's account, 500 Capture One keyboard shortcuts. You can learn them (of course you can), but don't ever take a two week vacation.

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TIPA Honors WhiteWall As Best Photo Lab

19 April 2017

The Technical Image Press Association has selected the German photo lab WhiteWall as the Best Photo Lab Worldwide for 2017. This marks the second time WhiteWall has won the prestigious award, judged by 29 photography magazines from around the world.

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Around The Horn

19 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the North Korean Border, Instagram street photographers, tips for a bridal shoot and a guide to shooting the solar eclipse.

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Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall

18 April 2017

We'd taken a long hike on the last weekend of spring training with the Final Four still in contention for the NCAA crown. So long a hike, in fact, that we knew we couldn't make it home without a hamburger. So we slipped into the Parkside Tavern for sustenance.

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Eizo Announce ColorEdge Prominence DCI-4K Monitor

18 April 2017

Eizo Inc. has announced its ColorEdge Prominence CG3145, a 31.1-inch reference monitor with DCI-4K resolution (4096x2160) for the professional HDR post production workflow.

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Around The Horn

18 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at black-and-white photography, Team Sky, Chris Buck and observation as a skill.

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Around The Horn

17 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Bob Dylan, Kost's Japan photos, approaching people on the street and Sony.

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Happy Easter! Happy Passover!

16 April 2017

Mount Davidson is the highest peak in San Francisco and nearly in the center of the city. The concrete cross on top of it has become a memorial to the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

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Matinee: '1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia'

15 April 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: 17 Mile Drive

14 April 2017

It was 2005. We had come to the end of the long ride up the Salinas Valley from Pismo Beach in the heat of summer. I peel off Highway 101 to drive west to Monterey and the cool coast.

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Around The Horn

14 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Holy Week, Corey Arnold, the Sony FE 85mm f1.8, Steven Klein, Andy Yang's AMA and LaserSoft's Easter discount.

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Test Drive: Think Tank Photo Signature 13 Bag +

13 April 2017

Frankly, luxury photo bags give us the creeps. If they don't scream, "Steal me!" they at least whisper, "Look at me!" So we've steadfastly avoided them. And that has included Think Tank Photo's Signature series.

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Site Tweak: Corner Ratings

13 April 2017

With today's publication of our Signature 13 bag review, we're iconizing our Photo Corners' ratings under the table of contents. Why? Because we can.

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Around The Horn

13 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the end of the California drought, the Sigma 135mm Art lens, deadly selfies and Tom M Johnson's portfolio visit to New York.

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Alpine Labs Kickstarts Spark Camera Remote

12 April 2017

Alpine Labs has launched a kickstarter campaign for Spark, which the company said is "the most compact, adaptable and affordable camera remote ever designed."

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Nikon Introduces D7500 DX dSLR +

12 April 2017

Nikon has announced the Nikon D7500, a DX-format dSLR camera featuring the same 20.9-megapixel image sensor, EXPEED 5 processor and wide ISO range as the Nikon D500, Nikon's flagship DX-format dSLR. The new 7500 also offers "impressive speed, astounding low-light ability and 4K UHD video capture to fit the needs of a diverse array of image makers and creators," the company said.

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Adobe Releases Camera Raw, Lightroom Updates

12 April 2017

Adobe has released updates to both Camera Raw and Lightroom "to provide additional camera Raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom," according to a blog post by product manager Sharad Mangalick.

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Around The Horn +

12 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Todd Webb, Ricoh following Panasonic out the door, Stephen Robinson and journalism contests.

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Here's Looking At You

11 April 2017

We enjoy spending our Friday afternoons winding things down at the bunker by scouring the Web for a photography-related video clip to feature as a Saturday Matinee.

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Around The Horn

11 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Stockholm, the Olympus PEN-Fa, Joe McNally at a bar, Hank Willis Thomas and a BorrowLenses discount.

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DNP Announces Single Roll Media For DS40 Printer

11 April 2017

DNP has introduced a single roll mobile media option for its DS40 dye sublimation printer. The new media option, which includes one paper roll and a dye transfer ribbon, produces 400 4x6 prints or 800 2x6 strips in a matte or glossy finish.

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2017 Pultizers For Photography Awarded

10 April 2017

Among the Pulitzer Prizes announced today were two photography honors in the categories of Breaking News and Feature Photography, each of which carry awards of $15,000.

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There Are Two Sides To Every Mushroom

10 April 2017

We don't belong to a gym. To break a sweat, we practice the ancient art of yard work. Today's session included hauling some storm damage out of the weeds, sawing it down so it fit in the recycle bin and dusting out hands off.

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Fotofabriek Shows Your Photobook In Production

10 April 2017

Fotofabriek has announced its commitment to "public production" of its photobooks by installing cameras in its equipment that follow a photobook through several phases of production.

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Around The Horn

10 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Julien Legrand, Milagros Caturla, Lauren Greenfield, Ten & One, Charles Gatewood, Lumist and disabling GPS when texting.

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Matinee: 'The Lifeboat Station Project'

8 April 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Site Tweak: Month Subheads

8 April 2017

One thing often leads to another around here. When we archived our calendar of exhibits earlier this month, we snuck the year into the big black bar at the top of each archived calendar.

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Friday Slide Show: Spring Before The Storm

7 April 2017

As the thermometer crept over 70 degrees, we made a point each day to levitate out of our office chair and land in our bicycle seat for a ride up Twin Peaks. When we got home we took further advantage of the weather either by touching up a few rust spots on the exterior of the old bunker or pulling some weeds in the yard.

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Around The Horn

7 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Harry Borden, W. Eugene Smith, the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8, Linda the llama, gelled flash in ambient light and Apple Clips.

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Exposure

6 April 2017

This scene stopped us in our tracks. It was just an old window that seemed to have been a late addition to the building and now was an afterthought, its wooden frame rotting away.

But the morning sun strafed the stucco and gave it life. We could see the paint drips on the wall, the uneven stucco, the paint chips on the frame, even the dust on the glass in high relief.

It was a quick snapshot which we edited in Capture One Pro, straightening it out first, then cropping out some intruding shadows until just the frame looked back at us. We exported it at this size, so no other photo editing application came into play.

THREE ASSOCIATIONS

A lot of images go through life untitled but this one was Exposure from the minute we captured it. For three reasons.

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Canon Announces EF-S 35mm f2.8 Macro IS

6 April 2017

Canon has announced its EF-S 35mm f2.8 Macro IS STM prime lens "designed to help both entry-level and advanced amateur dSLR photographers discover the incredible possibilities of macro photography."

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Canon Announces PowerShot SX730 With 40x Zoom

6 April 2017

Canon has announced its compact PowerShot SX730 featuring a 20.3-megapixel CMOS imaging sensor and a 40x optical zoom lens (equivalent to 24-960mm). The SX730 also has a 3.0-inch LCD that rotates 180 degrees plus WiFi, NFC and Bluetooth technology.

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Around The Horn

6 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at spring, selfies powered by Adobe Sensei, HR 1695, a Professional Photographer Magazine cover, the Zeiss Batis 135mm, mirrorless v.dSLR sales and David Merron.

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500px Changes Membership Plans

6 April 2017

In an email to members today, the image sharing site 500px announced new features and new pricing for its membership plans which will take effect on April 10.

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Around The Horn

5 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Fujifilm GFX/Hasselblad X1D, The Scent of a Dream, portraying with scale and a copyright registration tip.

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Meyer-Optik Announces Primagon 24mm Development

5 April 2017

Meyer-Optik has announced development of its new Primagon 24mm f2.8 with seven individual lenses, including one aspheric lens. It features a 84-degree angle of view, image quality, compact size and weighs just 9.0 ounces. The company said the hand-assembled lens will be available for practically all mirrorless cameras.

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Zeiss 135mm f2.8 Batis To Ship in May +

5 April 2017

Zeiss has announced its 135mm f2.8 Batis will ship in May for $1,999. The new Batis is the first 135mm autofocus lens for Sony's Alpha 7 E-mount system.

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Sigma Releases sd Quattro Firmware Update

4 April 2017

Sigma has announced the release of firmware update 1.04 for its sd Quattro cameras to boost performance and add capabilities of the cameras.

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Book Bag: In Camera

4 April 2017

The full title of Gordon Laing's new book is In Camera: Perfect Pictures Straight Out of the Camera and that says it all. Laing, who created and edits CameraLabs.com, show you just how much the camera alone can do during capture.

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Around The Horn

4 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Arctic, Graciela Iturbide, freezing motion and cleaning your camera sensor.

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Canon, Panasonic, Sony Offer Instant Rebates

3 April 2017

It's apparently instant rebate season with Canon, Panasonic and Sony releasing long lists of gear eligibile for rebates at Adorama. Here's the list...

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Nikon Celebrates 100 Years With Commemorative Models

3 April 2017

Nikon has announced the availability of "a number of commemorative models and goods celebrating Nikon's 100th Anniversary, which falls on July 25."

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Phase One Announces More Free Capture One Webinars

3 April 2017

Phase One has announced several free webinars in April covering the features of Capture One Pro 10, its image editing software.

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Around The Horn

3 April 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at White House photography, 50mm lenses, a marketing generator and a free Lightroom tips PDF.

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Matinee: 'Crazy Carl'

1 April 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Site Tweak: Calendar Archive

1 April 2017

We just hate to delete anything. That's why there have been so many closed events listed in the Calendar. But we've finally come up with a solution for that: a calendar of events archive.

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March Archived

1 April 2017

We've just archived Volume 6 Number 3 of Photo Corners with 19 Features, 34 commented news stories, 24 Editor's Notes (which included well over 100 items of interest), three reviews and one site note for a total of 81 stories.

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March

Friday Slide Show: Silverado Concours d'Elegance

31 March 2017

Once upon a time, as every fable begins, there was a Concours d'Elegance auto show on the driving range of the Silverado Golf Club.

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Adelman Archive To Be Housed At Library of Congress

31 March 2017

Thanks to an anonymous gift of 575,000 high-quality images, the Library of Congress will house the archives of Civil Rights photographers Bob Adelman, who passed away last year.

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Sigma 100-400m Contemporary Lens To Ship In April

31 March 2017

Sigma has announced its 100-400mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary lens will ship late in April for $799

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Around The Horn

31 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at World Backup Day (today), Alaska, Sony's Kenji Tanaka, Tabitha Soren, more on the Panasonic FZ2500's problems, Galaxy S8 facial recognition and a Canon deal.

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Matthew Jordan Smith Workshops To Visit 26 Cities

30 March 2017

Nikon Ambassador Matthew Jordan Smith has announced he will be traveling to 26 cities in the U.S. Canada and Europe to present his all-day workshop on professional photography.

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Around The Horn

30 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Patty Carroll, the Panasonic FZ2500, Guetzli compression, new clouds and the Internet.

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Portrait

29 March 2017

The other evening we stopped in a little bar we have been frequenting for years where we usually have the shrimp louie and a glass of white wine for lunch. It's not a fancy place but the people there all know each other.

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Around The Horn

29 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Underground Railroad, Ming Thein on his Hasselblad appointment, a free photo guide from National Geographic, a new NASA image library and a few of Moose Peterson's tricks.

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Hasselblad Appoints Ming Thein as Chief of Strategy

28 March 2017

Hasselblad has announced the appointment of photographer Ming Thein, a former Hasselblad ambassador and publisher of a popular photo blog, as chief of strategy.

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Alien Skin Adds Layers, More With Exposure X2 Update

28 March 2017

Alien Skin Software has updated announced Exposure X2, its non-destructive Raw photo editor, with advanced layer tools, additional presets, quick exports, expanded workflow options and selective presets.

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Around The Horn

28 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Russian anti-corruption protests, Catherine Leroy, Panasonic's plans, cropping bird feet and George Saunders.

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Steve Sanders Is Dead At 64

28 March 2017

Will Chambers, editor-in-chief at Steve's Digicams has announced that founder Steve Sanders has passed away at the age of 64.

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Best Single Photos Announced By Sony World Photo Awards

28 March 2017

Ten photographs from over 105,000 entries have been selected as winners of the Open categories of the Sony World Photography Awards. Also announced were the winners of the National awards for the best single photos taken by local photographers in 66 countries.

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Mac Creative Cloud Update Hogs CPU

28 March 2017

On Ric Ford's Macintosh today, contributor Christopher Moss reports a Creative Cloud 4.0.0.185 update "is hogging the CPU with 100-200 percent usage and fans going full blast."

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Lemkesoft Releases GraphicConverter 10.4

27 March 2017

Lemkesoft has released GraphicConverter 10.4, the Swiss Army knife image editing utility, with 18 new features and 7 updated ones in addition to a few bug fixes. It's the first update since version 10.3.1 was released on Jan. 6.

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Around The Horn

27 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Sarah Lewis, Jean-Christian Rostagni, Mickalene Thomas and Fujifilm camera rebates.

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Matinee: 'Master Pinelands Photographer Albert Horner'

25 March 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Remembering Don Hunstein

24 March 2017

Don Hunstein, who was Columbia Record's in-house photographer from 1955 to 1986, passed away in Manhattan last Saturday at the age of 88. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

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Friday Slide Show: At City Lights Bookstore

24 March 2017

For years we have been trying to remember what's written on the four hand-drawn paper posters that have hung for years in the top panes of four windows on the top floor of City Lights. We never can. We have to find the photo, reproduced below, to see what they have to say: Open Door, Open Books, Open Mind, Open Heart.

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Around The Horn

24 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the week in review, a to-do list, an inexpensive LED and a GFX 50S review.

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Curtis Waltz Named HP Aerial Photographer of the Year

23 March 2017

At its annual conference Saturday, the Professional Aerial Photographers Association has announced that Curtis Waltz has won the association's HP Aerial Photographer of the Year award.

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Around The Horn

23 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Rocio De Alba, PBS NewsHour photo of the day and photo essays, Becca and Dan, and the new Drobo 5n2 NAS.

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Around The Horn

22 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Huapeng Zhao, Alfred Stieglitz, Louis Vignes and Derrick Story.

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Tuesday Slide Show: Taking Our Own Advice

21 March 2017

We revisited the de Young's Bouquets to Art exhibit on Saturday and this time we took our own advice. We used a WhiBal to help calculate the white balance of the museum lighting.

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Snapseed Update Adds Three New Tools

21 March 2017

Snapseed 2.17, which is rolling out today, add three new tools to its image editing suite...

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Book Bag: TreeGirl

21 March 2017

The full title of this coffee table book by the photographer and arborist Julianne Skai Arbor is TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature. It's something of a three-in-one book, presenting luscious photography, detailed botanical information and even some spiritual teaching, too.

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Around The Horn

21 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Overseas Press Club awards, Guetzli on an iPhone image, a Rocky Nook sale and a BorrowLenses deal.

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Apple Announces Clips For iOS

21 March 2017

Apple has introduced Clips, an iOS app designed to create "expressive videos" from video, photos and music. The videos can be shared through the Mssages app or on social networks. But it requires iOS 10.3, which has not yet been released.

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Oberwerth Introduces Donau Leather Lens Cases

20 March 2017

Luxury bag maker Oberwerth has announced a new line Donau leather lens cases handmade in Germany. The lens cases, which are available in four sizes, feature luxurious leather exteriors and wool felt interiors.

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Portraits For Good Turns Your Photo Into Art

20 March 2017

Founded in December 2015 by Alix Greenberg, Portraits for Good is a group of five artists who can turn your photograph into a work of art. And, as a bonus, a portion of the proceeds from each sale goes to one of over a dozen non-profit charities partnering with the company.

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Meyer-Optik To Offer Trioplan 35+ In Five Colors

20 March 2017

Meyer-Optik said its recently announced Trioplan 35+ will not only be the first lens that brings "soap bubble bokeh" to a wide-angle but will also be the first lens the German company makes that will be available in five different colors.

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Beyond The Bars Takes On Conditions At European Zoos

20 March 2017

On the thirty-third anniversary of founding of the Born Free international wildlife charity, it has published a virtual book entitled Beyond the Bars to highlight the stark reality of life for wild animals in captive facilities around the world today.

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Around The Horn

20 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Henryk Ross, wide angle zoom behavior, work-for-hire in California and a Luminous Endowment deal.

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Matinee: Food Photography With Scrivani, Kang, Şahin

18 March 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Bouquets To Art 2017

17 March 2017

Once again we took a moment to take in Bouquets to Art, the de Young Museum's annual conversation between art and nature "where the most in-demand floral designers from the Bay Area and beyond create stunning arrangements inspired by the de Young's collection."

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

17 March 2017

We're not sure why St. Patrick's Day isn't a national holiday but having slaved away all morning to bring you the news (with more slaving slated for this afternoon), we bemoan the decision.

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Around The Horn

17 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Xyza Cruz Bacani, Imaginarium, super 'bridge' cameras and a Grateful Dead photo.

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Google Releases Open Source Guetzil JPEG Encoder

17 March 2017

After developing Guetzil, a new JPEG encoder featuring "excellent compression density at high visual quality," Google has released the source code on GitHub. Guetzil, which means "cookie" in Swiss German, creates JPEGs that are compatible with existing browsers and image processing applications.

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Sigma 135mm Art Lens To Ship In May April+

17 March 2017

Sigma has announced its 135mm f1.8 DG HSM Art lens announced at CP+ in February will ship in May for $1,399.

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The Old Sill

16 March 2017

Character. We were using the word the other day in reference to our kitchen window sill. Three layers of paint, dings and chips, caulk curled from the afternoon sun. A mess.

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Around The Horn

16 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Syria, another lighting lesson from David Hobby, seven iPhone drawing apps and Joe McNally.

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Of Violins And Cameras

15 March 2017

We awoke this morning to the sweet strains of violinist Mira Wang playing the newly-restored Totenburg violin. Stolen by a student 36 years ago, the Stradivarius was recovered by the FBI last year and returned to the stage in Wang's hands March 8.

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SFMOMA To Exhibit Sultan, Mandel

15 March 2017

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present two photography exhibitions this spring highlighting a pair of artists with different visions and a shared past: Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.

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Around The Horn

15 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Elliott Erwitt, Behance/Portfolio grids, Nikon Transfer fail and #Photography Magazine.

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Premiere Turns 25

14 March 2017

Just five years after the debut of Illustrator Adobe scaled the highest peak in graphic arts automatic, conquering video with Premiere. Looking back, that's like getting to the moon with a pocket calculator.

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'Harry Benson: Shoot First' Now On Digital HD

14 March 2017

Magnolia Home Entertainment has released Harry Benson: Shoot First on Digital HD today. The documentary details the decades-long career of legendary photojournalist Harry Benson and features slide shows of his stills along with Benson and a long list of subjects, friends and colleagues -- including Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin, Dan Rather and Ralph Lauren-- who reflect on his career, methods and pranks.

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Around The Horn

14 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Holi 2017, Jerry Dantzic's Billie Holiday images, the supply of high-end cameras and IoSafe.

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Kevin Faingnaert Wins 2017 Zeiss Photography Award

14 March 2017

The World Photography Organization and Zeiss has announced Belgian photographer Kevin Faingnaert as the winner of the Zeiss Photography Award "Seeing Beyond." Faingnaert is recognized for Føroyar, a photographic series about life on remote and sparsely populated villages on the Faroe Islands.

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A Lesson In Software Development

13 March 2017

We're always looking for ways to levitate ourselves out of our chair. The sedentary life will kill you if you let it. And one of the ways we stay alive is performing (and it is theater the way we do it) small home repairs at the bunker. Like recaulking and repainting the window frames.

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Around The Horn

13 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Eric Pickersgill, ingestion software, Iridient Digital's X-Transformer, the Pentax KP, the Fujifilm GFX 50s, the U.S. Copyright Office's new blog and yet another fix for LG's 5K UltraFine monitors.

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Adobe Illustrator Turns 30

13 March 2017

You had to be there. Of that time, in that room. A pristine room with a Macintosh cabled to a Linotronic, Illustrator running on the Mac. No ruling pens, no bottles of ink, no rubber cement, no waxer, no white paint, no Letraset rub-on graphics. Just a computer and imagesetter that spoke Postscript to each other. And, well, Bezier curves.

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Matinee: 'Photo Marathon 2016'

11 March 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Spring Forward

11 March 2017

Public service is in our blood. Twice a year, anyway, when we feel the urge to remind you that Daylight Saving Time (for those of us who observe it) takes effect at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 3 a.m.

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Rineke Dijkstra Wins Hasselblad Foundation Award

11 March 2017

The Hasselblad Foundation has awarded Dutch portrait photographer Rineke Dijkstra its International Award in Photography of $110,000. The Foundation praised Dijkstra as "one of the most significant contemporary artists working in photographic portraiture" whose works "recall the visual acuity of seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture, offering intimate portrayals of her sitters whilst also suggesting the situated aspects of their being."

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Friday Slide Show: City Walk From A While Ago

10 March 2017

We've been mining our old images for Friday Slide Shows on the theory that modern image processing software can breathe new life into them. But it struck us the other day that the one review camera we haven't resuscitated was the Nikon I V1.

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Aerial Photogs Sponsor Charity Auction

10 March 2017

You have until March 18 to bid on the Professional Aerial Photographers Association auction for Hope for Honduran Children/Noreen Macbean Children's Center, a foundation that provides housing, education and occupational training to orphaned boys in Santa Lucia, Honduras.

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Around The Horn

10 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Niko J. Kallianiotis, the Panasonic FZ2500, Storyglory and Amazon Prints.

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Around The Horn

9 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Stephanie Calabrese, Fukuushima's wild boars, Genaro Bardy and some scans of old photos.

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Meyer-Optik Launches Trioplan 35+ Kickstarter

9 March 2017

Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a 35mm f2.8 lens to bring the Trioplan soap bubble bokeh to a wide-angle lens for the first time.

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Epson FastFoto: Conclusion

8 March 2017

We write our conclusions around here a little differently. For a multipart review like this, we cover the arrival, installation and basic operation as we experience them. Then we dig into whatever special issues come up.

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Around The Horn

8 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Snapchat, photos in the dark, Artistic Eye, a simply gorgeous sunrise, the ICS vintage camera fair, searching for photos on iOS and OS X and a tribute to 80 years in print.

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Phase One Celebrates International Women's Day

8 March 2017

To celebrate International Women's Day today, Phase One is highlighting the work of several women photographers including fashion and beauty photographer, Andrea Zvadova.

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Adorama Celebrates Women's History Month

8 March 2017

Adorama and New York photographer and activist Dorie Hagler will team up for a series of in-store events and activities to celebrate the female photographer. The events kick off this evening on International Women's Day when you can drop by Adorama to have your photo taken by Hagler.

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Storm Clouds On The Ridge

7 March 2017

We were, for a time yesterday, fixated on the storm clouds moving south over the ocean. They were enormous, casting dramatic dark shadows on the water. Then we looked to our left at the ridge.

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Adobe Updates Lightroom, Camera Raw

7 March 2017

Adobe has updated both Lightroom and Camera Raw with new camera and lens profile support in addition to some bug fixes. The update to Camera Raw provides the Lightroom camera and lens profile support to Photoshop.

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Google Rolls Out Snapseed 2.16

7 March 2017

In a blog post today, the Snapseed team announced the rollout of version 2.16 of the Google photo editing app.

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Around The Horn

7 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the EPA in photos, optical finder or EVF, Victor J. Blue in Mosul and the end of the line for Popular Photography and American Photo.

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Lightroom Mobile Update Supports Raw HDR Captures

6 March 2017

Adobe has updated Lightroom mobile with a new Raw HDR capture mode that takes three DNG exposures and automatically aligns, merges, de-ghosts and tone-maps the image to deliver a 16-bit floating point DNG.

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Around The Horn

6 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Turnley captures Vladimir Putin, the Pentax KP, the Mitakon Zhongyi Speedmaster 50mm f0.95 and Foodphoto Festival 2017.

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Matinee: 'Photograph'

4 March 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Remembering Ren Hang

3 March 2017

Chinese photographer Ren Hang died on Feb. 24 in Beijing at the age of 29. Newspaper reports said Ren, who suffered from depression, had jumped off the 28th floor of a building.

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Iridient Developer 3.1.4, X-Transformer beta 3 Released

3 March 2017

Iridient Digital has released Iridient Developer 3.1.4, its MacOS Raw conversion software and Iridient X-Transformer, a Fujifilm RAF to DNG processor, for macOS and Windows.

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Friday Slide Show: Diamond Heights

3 March 2017

Today's presentation is more of an exercise than an exhibit. A mental exercise. Yoga for the brain. Pilates for the mind. An ordeal, in short.

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Remembering David Rubinger

3 March 2017

On March 1 the Israeli photographer David Rubinger passed away in Jerusalem at the age of 92, ending a remarkable life.

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Around The Horn

3 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at lens adapters, Google Photos, the Canon EOS M5, using warming gels, copyright infringement, Debra Fadely-Raber joining Luminous Landscape and 100 Photoshop tutorials.

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Don't Jump

2 March 2017

This peculiar structure was erected over the sidewalk down the hill recently. It solves the problem of dumping roof debris into a truck when the house itself is set back from the street and there is no driveway.

We walked around it.

And we suspect the grammar school kids from the two schools in the neighborhood would not even be tempted to try climbing the thing should the roofers take a day off. It looks more like a diving platform than a scaffold.

Still, there's something uplifting about the shot. It picks up your spirits just looking at it as it rises from the hazy fog of the horizon to the deeper blue atmosphere. You could launch rockets from the thing, Elon.

The image itself happens to be something of a scaffold.

There's the 1980s-era Nikkor 35mm f2.8 with circular polarizer that focuses the image on the 2005 Nikon D200's 10-Mp sensor. The Raw Nikon NEF file was converted into an Adobe DNG Raw file on import from the CompactFlash card.

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Around The Horn

2 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Smithsonian finalists gallery, manual camera apps, location portrait shooting and U.S. Copyright Office Web site.

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Spacemap Introduces Beoncam Wrist Camera

1 March 2017

Spacemap has announced a Indiegogo project for Beoncam, which it claims is the world's first smart wearable that features a removable 360° panoramic/190° hemispheric camera.

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Around The Horn

1 March 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Egypt's endangered journalists, a commercial contract review, a five-photo wedding book layout and Suzuki Shin'ichi.

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Smith Fund Grant Open For Entries, Increased To $35K

1 March 2017

The W. Eugene Smith Fund has announced it is now accepting applications for its grant, which has been increased to $35,000. Since presenting its first grant in 1980, the Fund has awarded more than one million dollars to exemplary photographers whose works, created in the tradition of Eugene Smith, representing the very best of humanistic photography and photojournalism.

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February Archived

1 March 2017

We stayed up late last night to archive Volume 6 Number 2 of Photo Corners with 17 Features, 22 commented news stories, 23 Editor's Notes (which included over 86 items of interest), two reviews and two site notes for a total of 66 stories.

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February

Smithsonian Magazine Announces Photo Contest Finalists

28 February 2017

Smithsonian magazine has released the finalists of their 14th Annual Photo Contest after receiving over 48,000 submissions from photographers in over 146 countries and territories.

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Around The Horn

28 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Vanity Fair's Oscar party portraits, iPhone portraits, Joel Sartore's photo ark, a free Luminar video on portrait retouching, SilverFast version 8.8.0r8 and Lieko Shiga.

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Sony World Photography Awards Reveals Shortlist

27 February 2017

The World Photography Organization has announced the top 10 shortlisted and top 50 commended photographers for its 10th anniversary competition. Photographers entered 227,596 images across the awards' Professional, Open and Youth competitions, WPO said.

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Late Afternoon Skyscape

27 February 2017

When we climb out of the bunker to take our afternoon break, we usually pop into the kitchen for an espresso. And as we wait for the espresso machine to warm up, we are often blinded by the beauty over the ocean.

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Around The Horn

27 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 74th Pictures of the Year International competition, hardware, a free Davis webinar and an Olympus trade-in offer.

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Phase One Announces Free Capture One Webinars

27 February 2017

Phase One has announced several free webinars in March covering the features of Capture One Pro 10, its image editing software.

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Matinee: Ron Edmonds' 'I Am Not The Enemy' +

25 February 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Mission Bay

24 February 2017

On the eastern side of San Francisco, Mission Bay has been transformed into a medical community with small industrial shops still clinging to the other side of the tracks that run under the freeway.

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Dancing Clouds

24 February 2017

The pale blues, the deep ones, the ocean its own blue and the distant orange clouds, the big nearby puffs of gold with purple shadows all make you think, strangely enough, of oil paintings. Only because, we suspect, we are much more likely to see a reproduction of a painted sunset than a real one.

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Around The Horn

24 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the border from both sides, the Sony FE 70-200mm f2.8 GM OSS, Sebastian Rich and Bert Monroy.

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DNP Introduces WPS Pro Wireless Print Server

23 February 2017

DNP has introduced its new WPS Pro Wireless Print Server for the company's DS40, DS80, DS620A, DS-RX1HS and DS820A dye-sublimation printers, providing a 802.11 b/g/n WiFi connection to them.

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Running On Rims

23 February 2017

We were tempted to call this Whistler's Mother because, like that painting, it's an Arrangement in Grey and Black. But after finishing our coffee, we decided Running on Rims said Arrangement in Grey and Black just as well.

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Around The Horn

23 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at iPhone portable printers, Instagram's new Galleries, Michael Blanchette and STAS picture hanging solutions.

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The One-Eyed Man

22 February 2017

We wish we could tell you this image was staged. But it wasn't. We found this lens sitting unscratched on the rough sidewalk we were navigating last week after some rain.

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Around The Horn

22 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at protest photos, mirrorless sensor cleaning, reliable USB 3 backup enclosures and Olympic venues.

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Around The Horn

21 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Dorothea Lange, photos of Deadheads, moving from Canon to Pentax and Moment 2.0.

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Sigma Announces Four Global Vision Lenses +

21 February 2017

Sigma announced four new Global Vision lenses, that will be on display at the CP+ Show in Tokyo, Japan, which opens on Thursday.

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Presidents' Day

20 February 2017

Every dog has its day, we're told, even presidents who, in the hierarchy of things, rank lower than dogs if you can believe their approval ratings.

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Site Tweak: Mike's Method

20 February 2017

We spent a little time over the weekend tweaking our Perl script to search the over 3,235 articles on Photo Corners. We just refined how we strip HTML for lines that have only one delimiter, which happens with our rollover buttons. So that isn't really news.

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Around The Horn

20 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the unimportance of camera reviews, camera reviews that matter, a Raw file repository and Gassers closing.

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Matinee: 'Surprise Darkroom Engagement'

18 February 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Mission Dolores Cemetery

17 February 2017

Eleven years ago we made our way through the gift shop at Mission Dolores, paid a small fee to get into the restored mission itself and exited to what was left of the old cemetery. We had a Fujifilm FinePix S5200 with us on an overcast day.

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Cruick Launches Camera Strap Kickstarter Campaign

17 February 2017

Cruick, a British firm founded by photographer Grant Cruick, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new line of leather camera straps "designed with longevity and quality in mind," according to the company.

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Around The Horn

17 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the New Yorker's photo department (yes, Virginia, they have one), Martha Rosler, Photoshop's New Document dialog box and MyPostcard.

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IPI Offers Insurance For Journalists

16 February 2017

The International Press Institute has announced Insurance for Journalists, an insurance package for journalists, freelancers, fixers and other news professionals.

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Around The Horn

16 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at professional on the profession, three female conflict zone photographers, 31 rolls of film from the 1940s and RawTherapee.

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Around The Horn

15 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the future of photojournalism, underwater photography winners, editing Antarctic photos and wedding photography tips.

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Canon Introduces Rebel T7i, 77D, 18-55mm Zoom, Bluetooth Remote

15 February 2017

It's the 30th year since Canon introduced its EOS system and the company expanded the line with two new dSLRs, a redesigned kit lens and a Bluetooth remote, in addition to the M6 mirrorless it announced earlier today.

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Canon Announces M6 Mirrorless, New EVF

15 February 2017

Canon has announced its M6 mirrorless camera featuring a 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, a DIGIC 7 image processor and Dual Pixel CMOS AF speed. the company also announced its EVF-DC2, a high-performance electronic viewfinder for the M6 with 2.36 million dots.

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DxO Releases OpticsPro 11.4

15 February 2017

DxO has updated OpticsPro, its flagship image editing software, to version 11.4 with support for seven new cameras. New camera support has been extended to both DxO FilmPack v5.5.12 and DxO ViewPoint v3.1 as well.

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Je T'Aime

14 February 2017

When we took our walk in the rain, we passed by this metal sign on a fence in front of a little cottage. We tried to get the shot but it was dark, we were in a rush and we took what we could get. An apt description of most romantic adventures, when you think of it.

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Book Bag: A Beautiful Anarchy

14 February 2017

David duChemin has written an unusual book and Rocky Nook has had the courage to publish it. The Canadian photographer has put down his camera, picked up his pen and captured his thoughts on the creative process.

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Around The Horn

14 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at World Press Photo contest winners, photography subreddits, Venice from space and Cupid.

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Think Tank Photo Launches Signature Bag Series

13 February 2017

Think Tank Photo has launched its Signature Series of high-end camera bags featuring hand sewn, advanced fabrics with leather accents and metal hardware. The series is available in two sizes and two colors.

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Think Tank Photo Updates Airport TakeOff Roller

13 February 2017

Think Tank Photo has redesigned its Airport TakeOff roller to be 15 percent lighter. The roller fits most U.S. domestic and international airline carry-on requirements, the company said.

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Dedicated Capture One Pro Keyboard Announced

13 February 2017

Phase One and LogicKeyboard have announced a dedicated keyboard for the Mac version of Capture One Pro. The Capture One Pro keyboard for Mac is initially available in American English, British English and German with additional language support on request.

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Around The Horn

13 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at World Press Association photo of the year, taking two photo books apart, Pentax lenses and photos of the Cloud.

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Nikon Cancels Long-Delayed DL Series Digicams

13 February 2017

Nikon has announced the cancellation of its DL-series compact cameras. Announced a year ago, the series includes three never-produced models, named after the focal length of their zoom lenses: the DL24-85, DL18-50 and DL24-500.

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Matinee: Making A Living

11 February 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Around The Horn

11 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a few think pieces for the weekend from Roger Cicala, Kirk Tuck, Derrick Story and Brandon Tauszik.

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Friday Slide Show: A Walk In The Rain

10 February 2017

The story this week is more about the walk than the photos. It was raining. But that didn't stop us. We took a two-hour stroll through the neighborhood snapping photos with a dSLR as if the sun were out.

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Swann Auctions To Hold Sale Of Rare Photos

10 February 2017

On Feb. 14 at 1:30 p.m. ET, Swann Auctions will begin the sale of 321 lots of rare photographs and albums on eBay's Live Auctions platform.

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Around The Horn

10 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at time warping, a lawyer pops off, Tullo's black-and-white dog show photos and Friday's celestial event.

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Test Drive: SilverFast SRDx Plug-In

9 February 2017

When LaserSoft Imaging announced the availability of its SilverFast SRDx plug-in we called it "a significant productivity improvement."

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Leica Offers Custom M Series Configurations

9 February 2017

Leica has announced an M-Sets Sale, a limited time sales offer in which you can choose a camera to pair with any of 19 M-series lenses to create a customized set. Available options can be seen at the Leica site.

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Around The Horn

9 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Syrian ruins, a potbelly stove train ride, Matteo Archondis and Remembering Rhinos.

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Going Places

8 February 2017

Life, you may have heard, is a journey. That little tip is particularly likely to be hurled at you if you're in a hurry by someone who is not. But the inescapable fact is that we all spend a lot of our time traveling.

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Around The Horn

8 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Dorothea Lange's internment photos, a free wedding book page layout, Open Access at the Met and Lino Manfrotto.

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Partial Pano: The City Under Clouds

7 February 2017

Atmospheric conditions provided a rare opportunity for a panorama of the city the other day. The cloud cover was menacing but distributed a wonderfully diffuse light quite different from the gloom the fog spreads. It was like having a big silk hanging just over the city.

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Sony Introduces E-Mount 100mm, 85mm Plus Remote Flash

7 February 2017

Sony has announced two new E-mount prime lenses and a radio-controlled flash. The primes include a fast 100mm f2.81 and an even faster 85mm f1.8 optic. The new HVL-F45RM flash provides wireless control for the company's A7 full-frame cameras.

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Epson Announces Print Layout Software

7 February 2017

Epson has announced Epson Print Layout, software designed to simplify the print and color management workflow for photographers.

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Around The Horn

7 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Roger Minick, Pete Souza, Nikon live streaming events and Joe McNally.

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Tamron Announces Fast 70-200mm Zoom

6 February 2017

Tamron has announced its SP 70-200mm f2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A025) featuring improved autofocus speed and precision, better Vibration Compensation and closer minimum object distance. New features include eBAND coating, moisture-proof and dust-resistant construction, fluorine coating and full compatibility with teleconverters.

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Tamron Introduces 10-24mm APS-C Zoom

6 February 2017

Tamron has announced its 10-24mm f3.5-4.5 Di II VC HLD (Model B023), a new ultra-wideangle zoom lens for APS-C dSLR cameras, which updates the company's 2008 10-24mm model with improved optical performance and new features.

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Around The Horn

6 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at returning veterans, Lightroom mobile questions, a portrait of Harold Davis and two new emulsions.

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Matinee: Super Bowl Cameras

4 February 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Public Works

3 February 2017

The little triangular park down the hill that runs along Laguna Honda had been taken over by a construction crew for a staging area. The project on the next block over was to replace a sewer line with clay pipe designed to last over a hundred years.

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Remembering Chuck Stewart

3 February 2017

He was getting an allowance of 25 cents a week when, turning 13 in 1940, his mother gave him a Six-16 Brownie box camera. That same day he went to work as a photographer, taking it to school to photograph the singer Marian Anderson.

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Around The Horn

3 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Sigma 85mm Art lens, how to gel big lights, Eric Chan's photography and LG's fix for its 5K Mac monitor.

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Hasselblad Opens Masters 2018 Competition

2 February 2017

Hasselblad has opened its Masters 2018 Competition for entries in 11 categories including a new Aerial sector honoring the company's history in that field, which includes the first landing on the moon.

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Remembering Lennart Nilsson

2 February 2017

Swedish photographer and scientist Lennart Nilsson passed away on Saturday in Stockholm at the age of 94. He combined his love of photography with curiosity about the natural world to produce images never before seen using medical instruments in the service of photography.

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Phase One Updates Capture One Pro

2 February 2017

Phase One has released Capture One Pro 10.0.2 "with new camera and lens support and yet more bug fixes to improve the Capture One Pro experience," the company said.

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Around The Horn

2 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a Ferrari 250 GT PF coupe, Camera Restricta, a photo of hope and PhotoAlliance's portfolio review.

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How To Advertise

1 February 2017

We'd just parked the car behind the REI store on Brannan St. Our mission was to investigate a pair of sturdy hiking shoes. We weren't worried about the ice pack in the Sierras or the rocky trails in Yosemite so much as the uneven asphalt and concrete of San Francisco.

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Around The Horn

1 February 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at conservation photography, the Statue of Liberty, the Canon 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS II and hard drive reliability.

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January Archived

1 February 2017

Volume 6 Number 1 of Photo Corners has just been archived with 18 Features, 39 commented news stories, 22 Editor's Notes (which included over 84 items of interest), one (big) review and four site notes for a total of 84 stories.

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January

InFocus Opens Entries For Zuber Photography Award

31 January 2017

InFocus, the photography support group of Phoenix Art Museum, has opened entries for its InFocus Sidney Zuber Photography Award. The $5,000 award, open to U.S. residents, is granted biennially to an emerging or early career photographer who demonstrates artistic promise.

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Gear Lessons Learned From Golf

31 January 2017

It hadn't occurred to us all these years until the other day, quite by accident, when the notion just popped into our head. What notion? That our approach to photo gear has its origins in our experience with golf equipment.

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Snapseed Adds Curves Tool

31 January 2017

In a blog post today, the Snapseed team announced the first update to the smartphone image editing app in 2017. Among the new features are the addition of a Curves tool, improved Face Detection, improved grain quality in Black & White and improved line wrapping in the Text tool.

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Around The Horn

31 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at last weekend's protests, Sage Sohier, high key lighting and LG's 5K displays near routers.

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Triggertrap To Close Up Shop

31 January 2017

In an email to customers posted on Medium, Triggertrap officials announced today the company would be going out of business.

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Phase One Launches 2017 Digital Artists Workshops

30 January 2017

The Phase One has announced its Digital Artist Series international photography workshops will kick off in April with an all-expenses-included photo excursion to Cuba. The series, which outfits each participate with a Phase One XF IQ3 medium format camera, includes six other workshops at varies photogenic sites around the world.

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Adobe Retires Creative Suite 6

30 January 2017

Although the company has made no official announcement, Adobe has retired the perpetual license option for its Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop. Those versions have lagged behind the most recent Creative Cloud releases for some time now with a number of CC features not supported in the CS versions.

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Phase One Announces Free February Capture One Webinars

30 January 2017

Phase One has announced several free webinars during February covering the features of Capture One Pro 10, its image editing software.

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Around The Horn

30 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at an Arabian Disneyland, Christian Feichtner, a carry-on backpack and dealing with Lightroom warnings.

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Site Note: Benefits Page Update

29 January 2017

Just a brief note to alert subscribers that we've made a slight change to our Benefits page access that may require you to reenter your password. The change saves us a housekeeping step (and we hate housekeeping).

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Matinee: 'Freezing Time' With Mark McInnis

28 January 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: On Chenery To Church +

27 January 2017

We took a walk last weekend down O'Shaughnessy, which follows Glen Park Canyon, to see if a slide area had been contained. But we kept going into Glen Park itself and followed the main street Chenery up and over the hill into Noe Valley.

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Craighead Named White House Photographer

27 January 2017

Shealah Craighead, who served as staff photographer for President George W. Bush, has been named chief White House photographer for President Donald Trump, according to a Politico report.

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Bram To Replace Oosting At Hasselblad

27 January 2017

Hasselblad has announced that CEO Perry Oosting will step down by the end of the month and Paul Bram will become interim CEO. The news follows Hasselblad's acquisition by DJI earlier this month.

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Around The Horn

27 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Stephen Hilger, a mysterious White House portrait, how to gel a speedlight and capturing lava flow.

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Sunrise, Sunset

26 January 2017

Swiftly flow the years, as the song from Fiddler on the Roof goes. For many of our swiftly flowing years we rarely saw a sunrise or sunset. But, as you may be tired of hearing, we get our fill now with a captivating view of the Pacific Ocean.

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Around The Horn

26 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Sigma 85mm f1.4 Art Series lens, sensor technology, curating a photography book and getting the right kind of lawyer.

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Ricoh Annnounces Compact Pentax KP

25 January 2017

Ricoh has announced the Pentax KP dSLR with a compact, weatherproof body that inherits many of the Pentax K-3 features. Along with a new 24-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor with ISO sensitivity to 819,200, the KP is the first Pentax APS-C camera to use Shake Reduction II, the company's five-axis mechanism to compensate for camera shake up to five steps.

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Adorama Announces Orlit TTL Flash Solutions

25 January 2017

Adorama has announced a new line of through-the-lens flash solutions that including three initial offerings...

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PhotoFairs San Francisco Opens Tomorrow

25 January 2017

The first U.S. edition of PhotoFairs will be held Jan. 27-29 at Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion. The fair includes 34 national and international galleries, representing 14 countries and 22 cities worldwide with an array of special events.

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Around The Horn

25 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at a photo fact check, Robert Shults, starting from scratch and Pixelmator for 99 cents.

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Epson Announces Expression 1200xL Large Format Scanner

24 January 2017

Epson has announced its Expression 12000xL large-format color flatbed scanner featuring 2400x4800-dpi, tabloid-size scanning in two configurations: the Expression 12000xL-GA designed for professional graphic artists, museums and forensic labs and the Expression 12000xL-PH designed for photographers and film preservationists.

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Around The Horn

24 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Bridging Stories, Landon Nordema, Photoshop for the elderly and automation ideas.

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Adobe Unveils Chromebook Creativity Apps

24 January 2017

Adobe has announced the upcoming release of updated Android applications optimized for select Chromebooks to help students harness their creativity. Later this month, Adobe Creative Cloud apps will be available for free download as part of the Google beta announced today, giving students using Chromebooks the tools they need to be more creative.

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Adobe Accepting Applications For 2017 Creative Residency

23 January 2017

Adobe has begun accepting applications for its 2017 Creative Residency which provides six creatives (like photographers) a year-long apprenticeship at Adobe to work on a project, sharing the process with the creative community as it proceeds.

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Monday Slide Show: Marching In Washington

23 January 2017

Photos by ANGELO PASINI

Our correspondant Angelo Pasini attended the Women's March in Washinton, D.C. yesterday and filed a handful of photos from the event. "I thought I'd share some of the moments I captured on camera from on the ground in D.C," he wrote. "These signs were my personal favorites of those I saw."

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Around The Horn

23 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Women's Marches, the Leica M10 and Fujifilm GFX 50S, Pier 24's Collected catalog and a Sony trade-in event.

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Matinee: Burk Uzzle on Preparedness in Photography

21 January 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Friday Slide Show: Morro Bay

20 January 2017

The town of about 10,000 inhabitants called Morro Bay takes its name from Morro Rock, a volcanic plug that rises 576 feet above the ocean and is home to a few peregrine falcons. The plug is one in a line of nine such, known as the Nine Sisters.

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Around The Horn

20 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at no new White House photographer, parades, zooming in Google+ and bad clients.

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Around The Horn

19 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the Leica M10, portraits of shooting victims, 60-second Lightroom tips and a SnapBridge test.

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Fujfilm Announces Next Generation X100F

19 January 2017

Fujifilm has announced its new X100F premium rangefinder featuring a unique Advanced Hybrid Viewfinder that can switch between an optical viewfinder and electronic viewfinder. The new X100F is the fourth generation release from the series that introduced the first hybrid viewfinder.

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Fujifilm X-T20 Updates X-T10 With Touch Control

19 January 2017

Fujifilm has announced its new Fujifilm X-T20 interchangeable lens camera as the successor to its X-T10. The updated model features a new APS-C sized 24.3-megapizel X-Trans CMOS III sensor and X-Processor Pro image processing engine.

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Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Mirrorless Coming in February

19 January 2017

Fujifilm has announced its GFX 50S medium format mirrorless digital camera will launch late February with three Fujinon lenses to be followed by an additional three lenses later this year. The initial lens lineup includes the GF63mmF2.8 R WR (50mm equivalent), the GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR (25-51mm) and the GF120mmF4 R LM OIS WR Macro (95mm).

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Today's Lesson

18 January 2017

We'd gone through the Diane Arbus exhibit at SFMOMA twice, burning our favorite images into the old bean so we'd have something to think about on the streetcar ride home. It was a press event so we were discretely escorted out of the building into the rain.

But first we thought we'd stop in at the Mechanics' Institute to make a few notes in those large, quiet (and dry) rooms. We only had to go two blocks to get there but the rain was coming down hard enough we thought we just might have to resort to the umbrella we'd stuffed in our coat pocket.

Still, we bravely (obstinately even) walked alongside the buildings in Minna alley to avoid the rain drops as long as we could. And as we did, we had to swerve into the street to avoid a box of garbage.

There was nothing particularly attractive about that garbage. It was just garbage and in our way. But there we noticed some easily read text staring us in the face as we passed.

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Leica Introduces Leica M10

18 January 2017

Leica has unvield its M10 rangefinder featuring the slimmest body of any digital M camera, a new 14-megapixel CMOS sensor, WiFi, a physical ISO dial, higher magnification optical viewfinder. Missing in action is video recording, however.

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N.Y. Times Opens Fifth Annual Portfolio Review

18 January 2017

Once again the New York Times will hold its free New York Portfolio Review, otherwise known as "an opportunity for people in the photographic community to meet, trade ideas, help each other -- and have fun." According to the official announcement...

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Around The Horn

18 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at wax figures, the Feiyu MG V2, five Lightroom shortcuts and #GriddyCenter.

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FastFoto: Scan Comparison

17 January 2017

In this installment of our multi-part review of the Epson FastFoto, we'll show how FastFoto's scan of a print compares with several other methods of digitizing the same image, including a scan of the negative, a flatbed scan of the same print, a camera shot of the print and Google PhotoScan app's reconstruction of the print

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Around The Horn

17 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Pennsylvania's bygone lumber industry, senior track and field athletes, flash card reliability and using big data to target a client.

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Meyerowitz Receives the Leica Hall of Fame Award

17 January 2017

Leica has awarded photographer Joel Meyerowitz with the Leica Hall of Fame Award in recognition of his lifetime achievement. An exhibition at Leica Gallery Wetzlar during the A Celebration of Photography from Jan. 19 to March 31 will showcase his photography.

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Parr Awarded Sony Outstanding Contribution Title

17 January 2017

British documentary photographer Martin Parr has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Photography title by the World Photography Organization. The title will be bestowed at the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards ceremony held in London on April 20.

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Phase One Releases Capture One Pro 10 Update

17 January 2017

Phase One has released Capture One Pro 10.0.1 with new lens support and minor bug fixes in both the OS X and Windows versions of the software. Details follow...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

16 January 2017

As our country is about to take what generously might be called a step backward in its long evolution toward justice for all, we stop to celebrate the life of a man who pushed forward against the tide.

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Harvey Posts ExifTool 10.40 Production Release

14 January 2017

Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v10.40, the first production release since v10.36 on Nov. 24, 2016. The small download is available three formats, including a Windows executable and Macintosh OS X package.

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Matinee: 'Finding Home With Christopher Anderson'

14 January 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Remembering Antony Armstrong-Jones

13 January 2017

Better known as Lord Snowdon -- a title he acquired after marrying Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1960 -- Antony Armstrong-Jones died Friday at home in London at the age of 86.

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Friday Slide Show: Dry Creek

13 January 2017

After all the rain around here this week we needed a break and what better break than to revisit Dry Creek, whose name alone does the job. Except our "revisiting" was confined to looking through our photo archive for images of the valley rather than hazarding a trip there.

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Remembering Martha Swope

13 January 2017

She spent her career capturing the most ephemeral arts. Dance and the theater. "The important thing is that actors and dancers and theater people be recorded and remembered because it was a wonderful era, a terrific era," she explains in this nearly eight-minute tribute...

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Around The Horn

13 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Lighting 103, Google's RAISR technology, 72 copyright law answers and burst mode in Lightroom's camera.

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Leica Announces 2017 North American Workshops

12 January 2017

Leica Camera has expanded its Leica Akademie programs for 2017 in North America to include the inaugural international Destination photography trips to India and Myanmar.

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Around The Horn

12 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Xyza Bacani, a voice-controlled editing demo, Hedi Slimane and Sal Soghoian.

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Site Tweak: Bing

11 January 2017

We started the year with a dire warning about our bandwidth being gobbled up by Google as it indexed our site repeatedly each day which we reported so you'd know about it too.

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After The Deluge

11 January 2017

Let the buildings keep our children dry," Jackson Browne sang in Before the Deluge. January has been brutal around here with torrential rains pelting the place and 65-mph gusts rattling the old bunker's walls. We watch the water being blown uphill until the windows bowing in scare us back to the computer screen.

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Epson Introduces SureColor P5000 17-Inch Inkjet

11 January 2017

Epson has introduced the SureColor P5000, a 17-inch inkjet that uses the UltraChome HDX 10-color pigment ink set. The new printer replaces the Epson Stylus Pro 4900.

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Around The Horn

11 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Ming Smith, J.R. Mankoff, modifying sunlight and six photographic sins.

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On Image Editing Software

10 January 2017

We find ourselves in the midst of reviewing (or juggling, as it's known in the circus) a few image editing packages at the same time. It's mind boggling. And we have a lot of sympathy for the Aperture gang that feels compelled by Apple to move on.

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Around The Horn

10 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at roller coasters, a perspective on the Hasselblad-DJI deal, a perspective on CES 2017 and catching up with Andrew Darlow.

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Homeless Movies With The Locardi Family

10 January 2017

This morning SmugMug Films, the video arm of the photo storage and sharing site, released a short documentary featuring the "location-independent" travel photographers Elia and Naomi Locardi.

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Leica Announces Return Of 37th Oskar Barnack Award

10 January 2017

Leica has announced it will be open for entries to the 37th Oskar Barnack Award on March 1. Named for the invention o the Ur-Leica, the award honors photographers in both professionals and newcomer categories.

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Around The Horn

9 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 10th anniversary of the iPhone for one photographer, how easy it is to make photographs, a Sony a6300 video setup and what to do with wet gear.

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DNP Unveils DS820A 8-Inch Dye Sub Printer

9 January 2017

DNP has expanded its line of commercial-quality dye sublimation printers with the addition of the DS820A featuring print sizes from 4x8 to 8x23 inches.

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Matinee: Pete Souza

7 January 2017

Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?

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Audubon Accepting Entries For 2017 Photo Awards Contest

6 January 2017

The National Audubon Society in association with Nature's Best Photography has opened its annual bird photography contest for 2017.

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Friday Slide Show: The Golden Gate

6 January 2017

Between the Marin headlands and the San Francisco headlands lies the strait of the Golden Gate. The bridge that takes its name from the strait steals all the attention but the strait itself is its own wonder of the world.

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Around The Horn

6 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at London's Comic Con, animals in the news, the "innovative" Nikon D5600 and some autochromes.

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Kodak To Bring Back Ektachrome +

6 January 2017

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday Kodak announced it plans to "reformulate and manufacture Kodak Ektachrome Film for both motion picture and still photography applications." The film, which will be produced in Rochester, N.Y., won't be available until the fourth quarter of 2017.

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Fujifilm: New Rugged XP120, New Flagship Finishes +

5 January 2017

Fujifilm has announced its ruggedized FinePix XP120 featuring a 16.4-megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor and a 3.0-inch LCD in a compact body that can be submerged 65 feet.

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Around The Horn

5 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at third-party wide zooms, the best f-stop, sensor pitch and arranging 19 flashes.

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Raber: Hasselblad Acquired By Drone Maker DJI

4 January 2017

Kevin Raber of the Luminous Landscape is reporting that Chinese drone maker DJI, a minority stockholder, has acquired Hasselblad. The revered camera-maker had previously entered into agreements with DJI for develop joint aerial products.

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Panasonic Promises GH5 March Launch +

4 January 2017

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today Panasonic announced it would ship its new flagship Micro Four Thirds GH5 in March. "Packing a host of innovative advancements in picture quality, response and performance into an unimaginably small-sized body," the company said, "the new Lumix GH5 opens the door to a new stage of photographic and cinematographic culture."

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Panasonic Unveils GX850 Compact Mirrorless +

4 January 2017

Panasonic announced the compact GX850 mirrorless camera with a flip-up rear monitor and new features like 4K Photo mode. The GX850 pairs a 16-megapixel Digital Live MOS sensor without a low-pass filter to the new Venis Engine image processor.

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Panasonic Introduces Lumix FZ80 Superzoom +

4 January 2017

One digicam category smartphones haven't been able to touch is the superzoom and Panasonic set the bar a little higher today with its FZ80 featuring a 60x optical zoom that's the equivalent of a 20-1,200mm 35mm optic.

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Panasonic Refreshes Lumix G Lens Lineup +

4 January 2017

Panasonic announced four new Lumix G lenses today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Those include...

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Nikon Brings D5600 to U.S., Announces Two Coolpixes +

4 January 2017

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, Nikon announced it would bring the D5600 it announced in November to the U.S. later this month. At the same time, the company announced two new Coolpix cameras, the W100 and the A300.

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Canon Announces G9 X Mark II, More At CES +

4 January 2017

At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Canon announced the PowerShot G9 X Mark II, a video kit for the PowerShot G7 Mark II and three new Vixia camcorders.

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Around The Horn

4 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at becoming an American, Kost's annual review, copyright knowledge and Josh Sinn.

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Around The Horn

3 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Pete Souza's picks, an assignment, tumbleweeds and One Shot.

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Phase One Announces Free Capture One Webinars

3 January 2017

Phase One has announced several free webinars this month covering the features of Capture One Pro 10, its image editing software.

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An Island In the Middle Of The City

2 January 2017

We'd hiked up Twin Peaks last week lugging our Nikon D300 and 18-200mm Nikkor along just to burn off a few more holiday calories. But as we circled the crowded overlook and turned for home, we hadn't taken a single shot.

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Site Note: A Bandwidth Quota Warning

2 January 2017

We tripped over a bit of unwelcome news in our email this morning. "If your current usage trends continue, we estimate that your over-quota usage will result in a charge of $1,356.30 at the end of the month," our Internet Service Provider informed us.

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Around The Horn

2 January 2017

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 (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at the 2016 MacBook Pro, 2017 for photographers, the Viltrox 35mm f2 and scanning to Dropbox.

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December Archived

1 January 2017

We're happy to start the new year by announcing that Volume 5 Number 12 of Photo Corners has been archived with a nice table of contents to catch up on anything you missed in the last month.

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It's 2017!

1 January 2017

Once again (and we're not complaining when we say it), the New Year brings its own rituals here. We've snuck away from the breakfast table to scribble, "It's 2017!" on a Post-it note we immediately stuck to a spot our eyes can't avoid.

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