{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Mike Pasini's Photo Corners", "home_page_url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/index.php", "feed_url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/index.json", "description": "Mike Pasini's Photo Corners is a Web-based publication covering the digital photography industry with reviews of software, accessories and industry developments, making it a \"scrapbook of solutions for photographers.\"", "user_comment": "This feed allows you to read the posts from this site in any feed reader that supports the JSON Feed format. To add this feed to your reader, copy the following URL -- http://mikepasini.com/corners/feed.json -- and add it your reader.", "favicon": "https://jsonfeed.org/graphics/icon.png", "author": { "url" : "https://twitter.com/Photo_Corners", "name": "Michael Roy Pasini" }, "items": [ { "title": "A Keypad for Photoshop", "date_published": "2024-03-18T17:48:32-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/18-photoshop-pad/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/18-photoshop-pad/index.htm", "content_html": "
\nWe've been using Photoshop for well over 30 years now and in that time we must have moused over to the menu bar or panels enough times to have circled the globe, gone to the moon and set off for Mars.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-18T16:04:18-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/18-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/18-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Houston's Fotofest, Igor Malijevský, Albrecht Voss, Greg Mo, stuff said and shooting in the raint.
" }, { "title": "Happy St. Patrick's Day", "date_published": "2024-03-17T16:03:54-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/17-st-patricks-day/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/17-st-patricks-day/index.htm", "content_html": "\nWe have struggled to find an appropriate way to celebrate Il Giorno di San Pasquale. And we realize that as the years pass we have fewer chances left to get it right.
" }, { "title": "Matinee: 'Ready for the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse?'", "date_published": "2024-03-16T16:15:28-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/16-matinee-photo-ephemeris.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/16-matinee-photo-ephemeris.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-16T16:14:09-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/16-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/16-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 director Peter Chelsom's stills, Mexican fireworks, Mount Tamalpais State Park, photographic calculators and a Sonoma 14.4 USB fix.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: Spring Training", "date_published": "2024-03-15T17:32:06-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/15-ss-spring-training/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/15-ss-spring-training/index.htm", "content_html": "\nWe had some errands to run in the village so we hiked down Portola one sunny afternoon. On the way, we noticed something in the weeds along the sidewalk. We took a closer look and discovered it was a baseball card.
" }, { "title": "Smith Fund to Hold Free Virtual Awards Ceremony", "date_published": "2024-03-15T16:20:44-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/15-smith-fund/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/15-smith-fund/index.htm", "content_html": "\nThe W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund has announced a virtual awards ceremony to honor recipients of the 2023 Eugene Smith Fund grant, fellowship and finalist Award on Tuesday, March 26, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-15T15:52:30-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/15-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/15-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 AP's week in pictures, British Wildlife Photography Award, \"The Black Chord\", film simulations, Nikon firmware, the Zhiyun Molus X60 CoB, Critics' Choice Awards and macOS Sonoma 14.4 issues.
" }, { "title": "Ice Plant", "date_published": "2024-03-14T17:28:55-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/14-ice-plant/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/14-ice-plant/index.htm", "content_html": "\nAs a kid, ice plant was no friend. There's a steep embankment behind the housing development we lived in that was, in those days, covered in the stuff. It's a low maintenance, drought-resistant ground cover.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-14T16:05:53-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/14-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/14-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Elliott Erwitt, ászló Kupi, Ellen Jantzen, one strobe, the Leica X, using gels, color management, questions answered, circles of confusion and a lens sale.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-13T15:22:40-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/13-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/13-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Ramadan, monochrome, fruit merchants, Scheherazade Tillet, Lamington National Park Rainforest, street portraits, a solar eclipse, a comet and a BorrowLenses used gear sale.
" }, { "title": "Red Hot Poker", "date_published": "2024-03-12T22:02:59-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/12-red-hot-poker/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/12-red-hot-poker/index.htm", "content_html": "\nIt's been raining at night this week. Very convenient. We can walk down to the village to run our errands without getting wet. And even take a little stroll on the way back.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-12T16:30:24-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/12-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/12-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition winners, medium format, climate resilience, a second lens and battery management.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-11T16:28:58-07:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/11-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/11-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Oscars, camera makers, nuts and bolts, photo festivals and fairs plus a princess edits her family photo.
" }, { "title": "Spring Forward", "date_published": "2024-03-09T17:57:27-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/09-spring-forward.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/09-spring-forward.htm", "content_html": "Spring doesn't officially spring upon us until March 19 but it will be one hour closer tomorrow when Daylight Saving Time (for those of us who observe it) takes effect at 2 a.m. Which instantly becomes 3 a.m.
" }, { "title": "Matinee: 'Photographer Pam Ponce'", "date_published": "2024-03-09T17:46:56-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/09-matinee-ponce.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/09-matinee-ponce.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-09T17:43:08-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/09-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/09-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 AP's week in pictures, Melbourne, LightStalking contest winners, Cityscapes V, Honesty and Jeremy Gray.
" }, { "title": "Site Tweak: A QR Code", "date_published": "2024-03-08T21:01:23-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-site-tweak-qr-code.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-site-tweak-qr-code.htm", "content_html": "As a card carrying member of the Anti Text Completion and Smartphone Keyboard Society, we have come to appreciate the simplicity of a simple QR code to get where we are going.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: A Little Painting", "date_published": "2024-03-08T19:54:47-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-ss-painting/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-ss-painting/index.htm", "content_html": "\nWe don't spend a lot of time in Joyce's office but we lost our inside phone circuit when the exterior painters removed the ancient, calcified cabling from the stucco.
" }, { "title": "Ingrid Pollard Named 44th Hasselblad Award Recipient", "date_published": "2024-03-08T17:21:50-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-pollard/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-pollard/index.htm", "content_html": "The Hasselblad Foundation has named British photographer Ingrid Pollard as the 44th recipient of the Hasselblad Award, which honors individuals whose work significantly impacts the field and pushes artistic boundaries. Past winners have included Ansel Adams (1981), Cindy Sherman (1994), Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001), Dayanita Singh (2022) and 2023 laureate Carrie Mae Weems.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-08T17:18:47-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/08-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 International Women's Day, Leica Women Foto Project, Alpha Female Award Winner and Shortlist, bad jobs, an Istanbul commuter ferry, the Leica SL3, BorrowLenses and selling your gear.
" }, { "title": "LensRentals Acquires BorrowLenses", "date_published": "2024-03-07T22:00:37-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-borrowlenses.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-borrowlenses.htm", "content_html": "In an email today, BorrowLenses announced LensRentals has acquired the BorrowLenses brand. The transition takes effect for current rentals on March 10.
" }, { "title": "Leica Announces SL3", "date_published": "2024-03-07T18:29:24-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-leica-sl3/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-leica-sl3/index.htm", "content_html": "\nLeica has announced the Leica SL3 \"combining state-of-the-art technology, extraordinary design and masterful manufacturing,\" the company said, while making it \"more compact, lighter and even more user-friendly than its preceding model.\"
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-07T17:57:24-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Paris Fashion Week, Haiti, Blood Generation, The Kimberley, the Leica SL3 and an Affinity sale.
" }, { "title": "Nikon to Acquire RED", "date_published": "2024-03-07T17:17:08-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-nikon-red.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/07-nikon-red.htm", "content_html": "Nikon has announced its agreement \"to acquire 100 percent of the outstanding membership interests of RED.com, LLC whereby RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon.\"
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-06T19:57:43-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/06-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/06-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 1924, the Middle East, the English steam engine scene and Apple silicon memory/storage scheme.
" }, { "title": "Sometimes Your Heart Breaks", "date_published": "2024-03-05T20:09:36-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/05-breaks/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/05-breaks/index.htm", "content_html": "\nSundays, while everyone else is resting, we drive over to the old house and go through a few more drawers. That's something we would never have done when Mom was alive. But it's our job now.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-05T16:54:26-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/05-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/05-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 \"Today/Tomorrow\", \"My Sweet Elora\", \"Lovers in a Paris Bar\", Daniel Beltra, film simulations and diminishing returns.
" }, { "title": "Nikon Launches '8 Days with Z 8' Challenge for Content Creators", "date_published": "2024-03-04T19:39:17-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/04-eightZ8/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/04-eightZ8/index.htm", "content_html": "\nNikon has launched 8 Days with Z 8, a campaign spotlighting diverse visual storytellers who had adopted the Nikon Z 8.
" }, { "title": "Quick Fix: Photoshop's GPU Complaint", "date_published": "2024-03-04T19:15:12-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/04-camera-raw/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/04-camera-raw/index.htm", "content_html": "\nRecent releases of Photoshop have upped the ante on supported hardware so if you're running on older hardware and updating regularly via Creative Cloud, you may be (as we were) stunned to launch the Camera Raw filter only to find it won't come up because your GPU is no longer supported.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-04T17:08:12-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/04-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/04-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Pictures of the Week, Sierra blizzard, Kurdish women, Black rodeo culture, Russell Brown, video, full-frame 25mm lenses and the M3 MacBook Airs.
" }, { "title": "Matinee: 'Natalie Keyssar, Documentary Photographer'", "date_published": "2024-03-02T17:44:27-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/02-matinee-eyssar.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/02-matinee-eyssar.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-02T17:42:20-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/02-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/02-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 an intriguing image, Corsica and Sardinia, testing a lens and resizing an image.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: The Wooden Barrel", "date_published": "2024-03-01T20:11:47-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-ss-puzzle/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-ss-puzzle/index.htm", "content_html": "\nThe only games we are fond of all have officials you can curse. So this Japanese wooden barrel puzzle has sat in an open frame attached to the end of a bookcase in the studio for decades without being disturbed.
" }, { "title": "Hasselblad Celebrates Its Heroines", "date_published": "2024-03-01T18:09:45-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-heroines/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-heroines/index.htm", "content_html": "\nHasselblad has announced a six-month social media campaign to celebrate the Hasselblad Heroines honored over the past four years.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-03-01T16:42:25-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 wildflowers, stories, wacky inventions, small sensor cameras and instant cameras.
" }, { "title": "February Archived", "date_published": "2024-03-01T15:48:45-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-february-archived.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/03/01-february-archived.htm", "content_html": "We've just archived Volume 13, Number 2 of \"Photo Corners\" on the Archive page with 17 Features, 10 commented News stories, 24 Editor's Notes (which included 160 items of interest), one review and one site note for a total of 53 stories.
" }, { "title": "Early Magnolia", "date_published": "2024-02-29T18:22:57-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-magnolia/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-magnolia/index.htm", "content_html": "\nThe magnolia trees are starting to bud and blossom already. We attribute it the early phenomenon to leap year. Or all that rain. Still, it was a surprise.
" }, { "title": "USPS to Release Ansel Adams Stamps", "date_published": "2024-02-29T17:00:42-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-adams-stamps/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-adams-stamps/index.htm", "content_html": "\nThe United States Postal Service will release a set of 16 First Class Forever stamps featuring the photography of Ansel Adams on May 15. The set was designed by art director Derry Noyes using existing photographs.
" }, { "title": "Cyme Updates Peakto With Centralized Deletion", "date_published": "2024-02-29T16:58:11-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-peakto-111/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-peakto-111/index.htm", "content_html": "\nCyme has released Peakto 1.11 with a new Trash function providing \"centralized deletion\" from the underlying catalog. The new version includes some important bug fixes as well.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-29T16:47:38-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/29-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 500 redheads, flowers, perspective and AI-generated headshots.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-28T17:03:56-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/28-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/28-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 mushroom clouds, Justin Mott, charging a battery, shutter latency, a lens game, old pictures and old prints.
" }, { "title": "A Backdoor Restoration", "date_published": "2024-02-27T16:24:10-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/27-color-restore/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/27-color-restore/index.htm", "content_html": "\nRestoring old photos has always been challenging. But who isn't up for a challenge? And these days, armed with even more powerful retouching tools, the odds are shifting in our favor.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-27T16:18:13-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/27-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/27-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Bedouins, a splash, abstract nature photography, photography blogs, \"Nikon Z9/Z8 Guide\" and Susan Meiselas.
" }, { "title": "The Photo Sleuth", "date_published": "2024-02-26T19:00:36-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/26-sleuth/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/26-sleuth/index.htm", "content_html": "\nThere are moments of desperation going through someone else's treasures. \"What could this possibly be?\" you wonder, a bit embarrassed that something saved for so long by someone you knew so well could be a mystery.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-26T17:36:05-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/26-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/26-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 week, vintage hot rods, \"Insieme\", mushrooms, another eye, a Lightroom Classic guide, pixels, a portfolio box, iPhone Macro Control, camera shutters and bokeh.
" }, { "title": "Matinee: 'On Becoming a Photographer'", "date_published": "2024-02-24T16:51:36-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/24-matinee-griffiths.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/24-matinee-griffiths.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-24T16:49:57-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/24-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/24-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Ukraine, Ernest Cole, Kyaw Zay Yar Lin, Focus on Photography and Erwitt's studio.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: An Old Passport", "date_published": "2024-02-23T19:54:48-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/23-ss-passport/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/23-ss-passport/index.htm", "content_html": "\nYesterday the mail brought a surprise from the dear departed past (as Dave Frishberg used to call it). Among a few other things in a padded orange envelope, an uncle had sent us our great great grandmother's passport.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-23T16:58:24-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/23-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/23-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 New Year's project, Jack Lathan, throwing photo shade, the X100VI's price and the Art Institute of Chicago.
" }, { "title": "Panasonic Unveils Lumix S 28-200mm Macro", "date_published": "2024-02-22T17:31:21-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/22-panasonic-28-200/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/22-panasonic-28-200/index.htm", "content_html": "\nPanasonic has introduced its Lumix S 28-200mm f4-7.1 Macro O.I.S. zoom lens for the L-Mount system. The new Lumix zoom is \"the world's smallest and lightest long zoom lens,\" the company said, measuring 3.67 inches long and weighing 14.57 oz.
" }, { "title": "Lensbaby Announces New Sweet 22", "date_published": "2024-02-22T17:27:46-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/22-lensbaby-22/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/22-lensbaby-22/index.htm", "content_html": "\nLensbaby has announced a new version of its Sweet 22 pancake lens featuring \"the smallest sweet spot with the most blur outside the sweet spot of any Lensbaby lens.\" The mirrorless-only compact lens also features a metal body and can focus five inches from the front element.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-22T16:49:02-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/22-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/22-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 being homeless, Palestine, the Deutsche Börse Prize, Cossacks, a Lightroom update, building a studio, mount licensing, iCloud throttling and bad advice.
" }, { "title": "Sony Introduces Compact FE 24-50mm f2.8 Zoom", "date_published": "2024-02-21T19:37:28-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/21-sony-24-50/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/21-sony-24-50/index.htm", "content_html": "\nSony has introduced its FE 24-50mm f2.8 Zoom with a constant f2.8 maximum aperture and a versatile 24mm to 50mm focal range housed in a compact form.
" }, { "title": "Sigma Announces 500mm, 15mm Primes", "date_published": "2024-02-21T17:37:48-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/21-sigma-lenses/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/21-sigma-lenses/index.htm", "content_html": "\nSigma has announced two new primes, a 500mm telephoto and as 15mm fish-eye, for Leica L and Sony E mounts. Details follow.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-21T16:54:51-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/21-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/21-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Underwater Photographer of the Year, U.K. power stations, Sidney B. Felsen, Osborne Macharia, Kenny Hurtado, the Fujifilm X100VI, Profoto softboxes and looking at art.
" }, { "title": "Fujifilm Announces X100VI", "date_published": "2024-02-20T18:22:58-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/20-fufjifilm-x100vi/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/20-fufjifilm-x100vi/index.htm", "content_html": "\nFujifilm has announced its X100VI digital camera featuring a compact, lightweight body with Fujifilm's Film Simulation modes, along with in-body image stabilization and enhanced video capabilities.
" }, { "title": "Venus Optics Announces Laowa 10mm Prime With Autofocus", "date_published": "2024-02-20T17:37:23-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/20-venus-10/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/20-venus-10/index.htm", "content_html": "\nVenus Optics has announced the Laowa 10mm f2.8 Zero-D F prime lens, the first autofocus lens in its Laowa lineup. The wide perspective of the lens mates with a bright aperture, making it especially usseful for capturing landscapes, architecture, and nature.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-20T17:16:58-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/20-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/20-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 AP's week in photos, Zebus, aquatics, black female photographers, GOATs, your best shot, external SSDs, Elliott Erwitt's house, boredom and a Sling sale.
" }, { "title": "Presidents' Day", "date_published": "2024-02-19T16:33:45-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/19-presidents-day/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/19-presidents-day/index.htm", "content_html": "\nThe third \"Official Results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey\" are now in. And what better day to review them than Presidents' Day?
" }, { "title": "Matinee: 'Phil Sharp -- Unified Theory'", "date_published": "2024-02-17T18:01:24-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/17-matinee-sharp.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/17-matinee-sharp.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-17T18:00:13-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/17-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/17-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Navalny, Tina Signesdottir, older gear and RawTherapee.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: Flaming Flora", "date_published": "2024-02-16T20:01:41-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/16-ss-flora/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/16-ss-flora/index.htm", "content_html": "\nOne of the hazards of publishing daily is that a certain time of day is precluded from anything else. So while we curate an \"Around The Horn\" for you six mornings a week, the sun rises in the sky to light scenes we never see.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-16T16:52:57-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/16-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/16-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Alexei Navalny, Francisco Gomez de Villaboa, an urgent border scene, Harold Davi, Chronolog, the Leica M240 M-E, the Intrepid enlarger, photo card services, 700 rubber ducks and a Rocky Nook discount.
" }, { "title": "Review: Joby Beamo Studio Creative Kit", "date_published": "2024-02-15T21:04:09-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/15-joby-beamo-kit/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/15-joby-beamo-kit/index.htm", "content_html": "When Joby announced its Beamo Studio Creative Kit late last year, we confess we were confused. The only way to clarify things, we thought, was to get our hands on one. So we did.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-15T17:22:21-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/15-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/15-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Valentine's Day, hummus, Glen McClure, the Nikon Zf and a new photography standard.
" }, { "title": "A Valentine", "date_published": "2024-02-14T17:51:25-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/14-valentines-day/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/14-valentines-day/index.htm", "content_html": "\nTucked in the corners of drawers, saved beyond the occasion, reminders of what matters, the old Valentines from Dad to Mom and Mom to Dad now come to light again as we clean out the house.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-14T17:10:39-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/14-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/14-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Tine Poppe, Mother Nature, Black photographers, limited palettes, comments combined, NX MobileAir, authenticity, \"Double Click\" and Backblaze drive stats.
" }, { "title": "Absolute Power", "date_published": "2024-02-13T18:57:10-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/13-power/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/13-power/index.htm", "content_html": "\nDuring our recent deluge, we had a couple of multi-hour power failures that reaffirmed the utility of some older technology like gas stoves and oil lamps.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-13T17:42:44-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/13-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/13-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Sue Ogrocki, Bert Hardy, Chad Unger, a new Adjustment Brush tool, rangefinderS, third party lenses, winners and Snap Pro Camera.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-12T16:45:43-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/12-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/12-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Sunday, Sacha Goldberger, sstriking Chinese seamen, a family portrait, the Voigtlander 90mm lens and four-shot pixel shift.
" }, { "title": "Matinee: Kganye's 'The Sea is History'", "date_published": "2024-02-10T16:47:49-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/10-matinee-kganye.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/10-matinee-kganye.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-10T16:39:51-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/10-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/10-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 AP's Week in Pictures, NFL camera tech, interesting photography, a darkroom plan, \"Dusk to Dawn\" and Nikon Live videos.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: House Surgery", "date_published": "2024-02-09T20:07:56-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/09-ss-surgery/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/09-ss-surgery/index.htm", "content_html": "\nAfter the atmospheric river passed through this week (during which we lost power for two hours while cooking brunch and seven hours while cooking dinner on our fortunately gas stove with oil lamps), the painters called to say they would come by to pressure wash the house.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-09T16:58:32-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/09-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/09-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Paul McCartney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Art Photography Awards, Cityscapes and more on the Z8 C2.00 firmware updat.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-08T17:01:17-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/08-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/08-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 British Press Photographers' Association winners, the Rathkopfs, Sebastião Salgado at 80, MLLM-guided image editing and an Adorama discount.
" }, { "title": "Harvey Posts ExifTool 12.76 Production Release", "date_published": "2024-02-07T18:08:36-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/07-exiftool-1276.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/07-exiftool-1276.htm", "content_html": "Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v12.76, an update to the recent v12.75 and the first production release since v12.70 on Nov. 24, 2023. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-07T16:38:27-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/07-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/07-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 astrophotoraphy, Sony short listers, the kiss, Year of the Dragon, Generative Fill, Nikon Z8 firmware 2.0, Light Stalking's new contests and memory quality.
" }, { "title": "Ingester Gets Some AI Help", "date_published": "2024-02-06T16:56:21-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/06-ingester/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/06-ingester/index.htm", "content_html": "\nSince we last looked at Ingester, our Keyboard Maestro macro to import images from a variety of sources to our archive, we've been enjoying the streamlined efficiency of the latest version. Actual, pure, unfiltered enjoyment, yes.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-06T16:49:16-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/06-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/06-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 that atmospheric river, Alexey Kondakov, Valentin Goppel, the best enlarger, limoncello and eight estimates.
" }, { "title": "Executor With a Camera", "date_published": "2024-02-05T18:52:38-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/05-executor/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/05-executor/index.htm", "content_html": "\nMom had dnamed us as the executor of her will. That means we're charged with dealing with a lifetime of things that remain in the house. More than once, as we go from room to room, we've thought of Emily Dickinson's \"The Bustle in a House\".
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-05T17:03:44-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/05-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/05-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Edward Burtynsky, Michael Robinson Chávez, Jaisingh Nageswaran, year end statistics, wide angle monochromes, a Vision Pro FAQ, digitizing slides and Samsung's notion of reality.
" }, { "title": "Cyme: FindMySnap Runs on Apple Vision Pro", "date_published": "2024-02-05T16:09:17-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/05-findmysnap/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/05-findmysnap/index.htm", "content_html": "\nCyme has announced the expansion of FindMySnap, its photo exploration app for iOS and macOS, to visionOS, the new Apple Vision Pro platform. The app on visionOS reinvents how users interact with their photo collections, the company said, providing an immersive and enjoyable experience.
" }, { "title": "Matinee: 'Eric Draper, Former Chief White House Photographer'", "date_published": "2024-02-03T17:18:41-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/03-matinee-draper.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/03-matinee-draper.htm", "content_html": "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?
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-03T17:01:42-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/03-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/03-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 AP's week in pictures, a Steve Boyle composite, Azim Khan Ronnie, collective nouns for photographers and Willie Mays Day.
" }, { "title": "Friday Slide Show: Hiking Twin Peaks", "date_published": "2024-02-02T19:58:07-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/02-ss-twin-peaks/index.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/02-ss-twin-peaks/index.htm", "content_html": "\nLast weekend as the weather warmed into the 60s, we jumped into our hiking boots, grabbed the Nikon D300 with the 18-200mm lens (which gives us a 300mm equivalent reach) and set off for Twin Peaks.
" }, { "title": "Remembering Brian Griffin", "date_published": "2024-02-02T17:27:19-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/02-brian-griffin.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/02-brian-griffin.htm", "content_html": "British photographer Brian Griffin, acclaimed for his album covers for Depeche Mode, Iggy Pop and Elvis Costello, has died at the age of 75.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-02T17:06:19-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/02-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/02-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Joel Meyerowitz, Marco Polo, Anne Lass, the Leitz Focomat IIc, Brookes Jensen and Jason Row.
" }, { "title": "Around The Horn", "date_published": "2024-02-01T19:21:42-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/01-horn.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/01-horn.htm", "content_html": "In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Ecuador, a kayak, file sizes and selling stock images.
" }, { "title": "January Archived", "date_published": "2024-02-01T19:19:15-06:00", "id": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/01-january-archived.htm", "url": "http://mikepasini.com/corners/2024/02/01-january-archived.htm", "content_html": "We've just archived Volume 13, Number 1 of \"Photo Corners\" on the Archive page with 15 Features, 7 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 167 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 50 stories.
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