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Matinee: 'Liquid Lens'
29 March 2025
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?
Around The Horn
29 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters' photos of the week, a partial solar eclipse, a masked protester, the shopper-photographer scale and the Homestead.
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Friday Slide Show: Worry Dolls
28 March 2025
If you have a problem, the legend goes, share it with a worry doll. Tell one worry to a doll, then put them under your pillow when you go to bed. While you sleep, the dolls will carry your worries away.
Around The Horn
28 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Myanmar quake, Reuters' week in pictures, wildlife and Kevin Raber.
Remembering Herb Greene
27 March 2025
Herb Greene, who photographed the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin in the mid-1960s, died from pancreatic cancer on March 3 at his home in Maynard, Mass. He was 82.
Around The Horn
27 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at World Press Photo winners, DC cherry blossom, Hawaii's erupting volcano, dancing spirits, the poor focus problem, Colorsuite and clothing photography.
Around The Horn
26 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Northern Lights, a dragon boat paddler, sketching, a product photography contract and AI illustrations.
Eucalyptus
25 March 2025
We interrupted our usual evening reverie to admire the canopy of inflamed clouds over a stand of eucalyptus trees that have not been cut down on Edgehill Mountain.
AFP Demands Release of Photojournalist Yasin Akgül
25 March 2025
Agence France-Presse has demanded the immediate release of its photojournalist Yasin Akgül, who has been detained along with nine other journalists by Turkish authorities after covering protests over the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.
Around The Horn
25 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at South Korea's wildfires, Nick Hannes, photobooks by women, a revealing question, GIMP 3.0.2 and Raw camera settings.
ICP To Present 'Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration'
24 March 2025
The International Center of Photography has announced The Great Acceleration, the first solo institutional exhibition of photographer Edward Burtynsky's work in New York City in over twenty years. "The exhibition will reveal the depth of his investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, showing their present fragility and enduring beauty in equal measure," ICP noted.
Around The Horn
24 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at José Luis Ledesma, Turkey, a controversial copper mine, the GFX100RF, image stabilization and lighting kits.
Matinee: 'Nutrient Concentration'
22 March 2025
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?
Around The Horn
22 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at anti-Trump/Musk protests, the swirling green Chicago River, a DJ and bomboloni.
Friday Slide Show: The Garden Prepares For Spring
21 March 2025
Thursday is garbage night so we take our green bin or yellow bucket, depending on the damage, and go around the garden cleaning things up. A bit. This week, though, we noticed a few signs of spring. Subtle but spring.
Around The Horn
21 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Heathrow, British Wildlife Photography Awards, more wildlife, visual metaphors, the Fujifilm GFX100RF, AI and copyright, 1960s San Francisco and the worst digital cameras.
Fujifilm Announces Fixed-Lens Medium Format GFX Camera
20 March 2025
Fujifilm has announced its Fujifilm GFX100RF mirrorless digital camera, Fujififilm's first GFX camera with a fixed lens. It features a large-format image sensor, "approximately 1.7 times larger than a typical 35mm full-frame sensor," the company said.
Around The Horn
20 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the International Day of Happiness, Dona Ann McAdams, family-owned farms and ranches, new Camera Raw enhancements and high-speed flash photography.
Around The Horn
19 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters, scanning backs, the niftiest 50, a perpetual usage contract and Group f.64 at SFMOMA.
Around The Horn
18 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at St. Patrick's Day, Format 2025, Joseph Seif, Dima Markov and Walker Pro Series backpacks.
Cyme Releases Peakto 2.3 With Peakto Connect
18 March 2025
Cyme has released Peakto 2.3 with a compelling new feature for the macOS media manager: secure remote access. With the new Peakto Connect, you can access your remote media from anywhere, across multiple devices, without uploading your content to the Cloud.
Around The Horn
17 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Jon Tonks, Toby Binder, an industry problem, #MeToo in photography, SSD issues and AI image generators.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
17 March 2025
We have such a small inventory of Irish-themed images that this year we resorted to collaborating with an acquaintance who works as a Lephrechaun Investigator. We'll let him take it from here...
Matinee: 'Photoshoots for Workday Sports'
15 March 2025
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?
Around The Horn
15 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Festival of Colors, Canberra Balloon Spectacular, the Global Ability Photography Challenge, a pole vaulter, three young men, unconventional lenses and a contract.
Friday Slide Show: Netsuke
14 March 2025
We have always been besotted by scrimshaw and netsuke. Scrimshaw is not easily enjoyed or acquired these days but affordable netsuke reproductions can sometimes be found in art museums and gift shops around here. That's where this one came from.
Around The Horn
14 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Mahé Elipe and Ariana Drehsler.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.25 Production Release
13 March 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.25, an update to several recent releases this month and the first production release since v13.10 on Dec.20, 2024. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Book Bag: Minor White's 'Memorable Fancies'
13 March 2025
We have usually read through the whole book before we review it. But after a few weeks paging through Minor White's Memorable Fancies, we decided we'd rather stretch our pleasure out a bit and make it last, as Harvey Mudrick used to say at UCSB about deliciously long books.
Around The Horn
13 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at deportees, Covid lockdown revisited, Glen McClure, normal lenses and a backyard garden.
Mr. Head Again
13 March 2025
Our neurologist has been sending us to the Imaging Lab for CT scans of our brain every six weeks (or so) to monitor the brain bleed we mentioned Aug. 22 last year.
Around The Horn
12 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Sony World Photography Awards, Maria, Murray Fredericks, photo book services and the blood worm moon.
Around The Horn
11 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at International Women's Day, Florian Schulz, making a print a day, swings and misses and more interesting things.
Remembering Flo Fox
10 March 2025
Flo Fox, who captured the "ironic reality" of New York City in 180,000 photos, died on March 2 from complications from pneumonia in her apartment in Manhattan. She was 79.
End of the Show
10 March 2025
All our TVs (we have two flat screen LCD TVs) are older than our cameras. The remotes are balky but the pictures are still clear. And there's no way we'd ever be able to connect our peripherals to a modern, port-challenged one.
Around The Horn
10 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Holi, a wedding, a refrigerator, small lens performance, step sizes for macro photography and cruise ship photography.
Spring Forward
8 March 2025
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.
Matinee: 'Echoes of the Palisades'
8 March 2025
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?
Around The Horn
8 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at International Women's Day, AP's week, Bloody Sunday 1965, Can Manap, black-and-white emulsions, filters and Karen Russell.
Friday Slide Show: Knockash Hill Trees
7 March 2025
We've had a few atmospheric rivers flow through San Francisco this winter. Part of the cleanup was to cut down a few of the Eucalyptus trees on Knockash Hill. We suspect they were threatening the homes below them on Kensington Way.
Around The Horn
7 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Syrian refugees, Vienna's Ball Season, the Congo rainforest, sled dogs, gels in studio and DEI photo purge.
Historian Reveals Identity of 'Miss Atomic Bomb'
6 March 2025
It took him 25 years but historian and founding Atomic Museum member Robert Friedrichs has revealed the identity of the woman wearing the mushroom cloud outfit at the dawn of the Atomic Age. She was Anna Lee Mahoney from the Bronx.
Around The Horn
6 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at re-photography, Carnival, Greenlanders, Beth Galton and favorite normal lenses.
Around The Horn
5 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters, cotton mills, Eric Meola, a food images contract, new Macs and internal SSD size.
Around The Horn
4 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the sound barrier, PhotoVogue, the Nature Photography contest, fairytale homes and minimalism.
The Horizon
3 March 2025
The horizon as a concept is no mystery. It's "the apparent junction of the earth and sky," as Webster's puts it. Tell anyone to look at the horizon and they'll know just what to do.
Around The Horn
3 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Oscars, Ramadan, compact travel cameras, normal lenses, CP+ and Ctein.
Female in Focus Award Winners Announced
1 March 2025
The British Journal of Photography, in conjunction with Nikon, has announced the winners of the 2024 Female in Focus award, dedicated to championing the work of women photographers.
Matinee: 'Photographers of Paris -- VuThéara Kham'
1 March 2025
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?
Around The Horn
1 March 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at pictures of the month, Tracy Barbutes, Pradiptamoy Paul and big normals.
February Archived
1 March 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 2 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 19 commented News stories, 24 Editor's Notes (which included 131 items of interest) and 3 site notes for a total of 61 stories.
Friday Slide Show: An Absence in the Air
28 February 2025
The other day we scrolled through all the thumbnails of the slide shows we've produced for Photo Corners. That would be 581 thumbnails (but it went fast).
ICP Announces 41st Annual Infinity Awards
28 February 2025
The International Center of Photography has announced the award recipients for the 41st Annual Infinity Awards Gala to be held April 1 at Tisch Skylights at The Shed.
Around The Horn
28 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the week in pictures, World Nature Photography Awards, Martin Parr, Gorton, a white camellia blossom, Kost on Photoshop on the iPhone and unwanted system updates.
Around The Horn
27 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Milan Fashion Week, Antarctica, a modern dancer, impending motherhood and the AirTag Camera Plate.
DxO Announces PureRaw 5
27 February 2025
DxO has announced DxO PureRaw 5, the latest evolution of its Raw pre-processing software. Available from April 15, this version sets "a new benchmark for image quality," the company said, "combining groundbreaking noise reduction, enhanced optical corrections and a streamlined workflow."
Sony Unveils 400-800mm f6.3-8 G OSS Super Telephoto Zoom
26 February 2025
Sony has introduced its 400-800mm f6.3-8 G OSS zoom, its longest-range full-frame E-Mount lens. With an internal zoom mechanism to ensure stable handling, its advanced optical design delivers creamy bokeh and sharp, detailed images. Its fast and accurate autofocus system combines with a durable, versatile build.
Sony Announces 16mm f1.8 G Full-Frame Prime
26 February 2025
Sony has introduced its 16mm f1.8 G, a full-frame E-Mount lens that packages an ultra-wide 16mm focal length in a compact, lightweight build. The new prime features high-resolution image quality, smooth bokeh, precise autofocus and a bright f1.8 aperture.
Around The Horn
26 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the house in the Tenderloin, Mark Laita, Photoshop on iPhone, shooting a wedding, springtime for photographers and the creative spark.
Zeiss Continues Otus Optics for Mirrorless With ML Line
25 February 2025
Zeiss has announced the Otus ML family, a new series of lenses designed to bring the Otus brand to the mirrorless world. The first of the Otus ML lenses will be available in two focal lengths: a 50mm lens and an 85mm lens, both with an f1.4 maximum aperture. Mirrorless mounts will include the Sony E, Canon RF and Nikon Z.
Panasonic Announces Lumix S1RII Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera
25 February 2025
Panasonic has announced the Lumix S1RII, the latest high-resolution model of its full-frame mirrorless Lumix S Series. The Lumix S1RII features a newly-developed 44.3-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and high-performance engine with L2 technology.
Around The Horn
25 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters, Paolo Pellegrin, Sony World Photography Awards, Walker Evans and Retrospective bags deal.
Datacolor Introduces the LightColor Meter
25 February 2025
Datacolor has announced its Datacolor LightColor Meter, a multi-functional device to measure both the light and color temperature of any light source, including changing outdoor light, tungsten, LED, HMI, fluorescent, strobe and more.
Adobe Releases Photoshop on the iPhone
25 February 2025
Adobe has released a free version of Photoshop that runs on the iPhone, with an Android version "coming soon."
Sigma 300-600mm f4 DG OS | Sports Lens Announced
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced its 300-600mm f4 DG OS | Sports lens, which it calls "a revolutionary large-aperture ultra-telephoto zoom lens that delivers all the convenience and versatility of a zoom lens with the superior optical performance of an ultra-telephoto prime lens."
Sigma 16-300mm f3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary Announced
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced what it calls "the world's first mirrorless lens with an approximate zoom ratio of 18.8x." The 16-300mm f3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary features a maximum magnification ratio of 1:2 with a High-response Linear Actuator motor providing fast, smooth and accurate autofocus.
Sigma Announces 'Radically Simple' Sigma BF Camera
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced it BF camera with a unique user interface designed to provide "a new sense of connection between the photographer and the camera" in an aluminum unibody with pressure-sensitive haptic buttons and dial. It includes a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor and a dual autofocus system as well.
Sigma Announces I Series Lens Updates
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced its plans for releasing updates to its I series of lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras.
Around The Horn
24 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Ukraine, Ukrainian Soldiers, Women in Trees, the SAG Awards and Aïda Muluneh.
Matinee: 'Capturing the Modern Prairie'
22 February 2025
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?
Around The Horn
22 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Barbara Ramos, Sutro Tower, Richard Chambury, national park employees and AP Sues White House.
Friday Slide Show: An Arcade in Stonestown
21 February 2025
A friend was early for her Apple Genius appointment to reset her iPad, which had locked her out after she forgot her password. So she showed me the new arcade and bowling alley at Stonestown Galleria.
Site Tweak: OpenAI, ChatGPT
21 February 2025
We were more than a little shocked this morning to see the site has been hit with seven times the traffic by OpenAI and ChapGPT. Fortunately the software we wrote to monitor traffic warned us about the intrusion before our bandwidth allocation was threatened.
Around The Horn
21 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Nations Face-Off Final, Greenland, Underwater Photographer of the Year, Ariana Gomez, file organization, a wooden camera and Visual Intelligence.
Epson Releases Free Videos on Epson Media Installer
20 February 2025
Epson recently released version 2.0 of Epson Media Installer, its configuration software for SureColor P-Series and SureColor T-Series printers, and has now released three short videos on its Epson Print Academy YouTube channel to help explain the new features...
Leica Updates Its Summilux-M 50mm f1.4
20 February 2025
Leica has announced a new silver version of its Summilux-M 50mm f1.4, originally launched in 1959 as the first "maximum light" Summilux lens. This is only the second version of the 50mm Summilux.
Around The Horn
20 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters, Hugh Holland, Kenya, Guittard Chocolate and Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall.
Around The Horn
19 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Photoshop at 35, Face Magazine, Eric Kogan, Maggie Shannon, a Super Bowl image, a camera question, a contract and an NEA protest.
Free Ink
18 February 2025
HP's Instant Ink program, once upon a time, promised free ink in return for a per page print charge on its printers. And if you printed no more than 10 pages a month, you could even avoid that.
Around The Horn
18 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Venice Carnival, ancient Baobab Trees, restoring family photos, the Turkish Highlands, the Chinese New Year Parade and Colin Sussingham.
Presidents' Day
17 February 2025
It's pushing it to celebrate Presidents' Day with a felon in the White House. And let's be honest, he hasn't shown any new-found respect for the Constitution since he moved back in. In fact he seems to be wielding the Supreme Court's immunity grant as a Constitutional condom.
Matinee: 'The Time Thief'
15 February 2025
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?
Around The Horn
15 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Valentine's Day, Mary Ellen Matthews, a sunflower garden, Pixelmator, McClymonds High and the Optimizing Impulse.
Friday Slide Show: The Merry Wanderer
14 February 2025
After graduating from high school, we found ourselves among a group of about nine fellow grads shepherded by one adult on a trip through Europe in a VW van. To express our appreciation, we brought a Hummel home for our parents.
A Valentine
14 February 2025
This heart can be found at French Hospital in San Francisco's Richmond District. The hospital is now a Kaiser campus with its own pharmacy and various services, including Kaiser's Memory Care Clinic.
Around The Horn
14 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters's week, Lachlan Turczan, a platinum palladium print, Joshua Rothman and photography's path to survival.
Nikon Introduces Nikkor Z 28-135mm f4 PZ
13 February 2025
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 28-135mm f4 PZ, a full-frame power zoom lens for the Nikon Z mount, featuring a versatile focal range, customizable power zoom function, precise manual controls and agile handling.
Remembering Hugh Holland
13 February 2025
Hugh Holland, whose photographs defined the golden era of skateboarding in Los Angeles, has died. He was 82.
Wacom Redesigns Intuos Pro Tablet
13 February 2025
Wacom has redesigned its Intuos Pro tablet with tactile controls and the new Pro Pen 3, the same pen technology in the Cintiq Pro displays.
Around The Horn
13 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Mount Etna, girlhood, Atlanta, Adaptive Profiles and more Interesting Things.
Roped Into It
12 February 2025
Suddenly we find ourselves immersed in the estates of three people, only one of whom we can actually discuss matters with. And even then that would entail talking to ourself.
Around The Horn
12 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Westminster Dog Show, Farmer Guðjón, American Photography, chess carving in India, the OM-3, calibrating an Apple display, scanning old photos and AP on Oval Office access.
Around The Horn
11 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at New York Fashion Week, Lumberjills, shooting film again and the Python Imagining Library.
The Shuttle Stop
10 February 2025
Here's a tip for you if you ever find yourself taking Muni and SamTrans to get from San Francisco to Daly City and back (no one? just me?). SamTrans gives you a two-hour free transfer window from when you first board. So if it can get somewhere in half an hour and you can do what you have to do in an hour and half, you can get a free return trip.
Around The Horn
10 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Super Bowl LIX stills, Super Bowl Commercials, the OM-3, software and tillman crane.
Matinee: 'A Lens on London's Wildlife'
8 February 2025
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?
Around The Horn
8 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Critics Choice Awards Red Carpet, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, down time and creative blocks.
Friday Slide Show: The Folding Corona
7 February 2025
Among the things we are now in charge of dusting is Joyce's folding Corona portable typewriter. Its patents are listed from 1913 to 1917, making it a Corona 2 or 3, we suppose with no authority.
Around The Horn
7 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Arthur Tress, ice fishing, Karan Kapoor, Superb Owl, AI Detector and an old photo.
OM Announces OM-3 Camera, Three Lenses
6 February 2025
OM Digital Solutions has announced the OM System OM-3 Micro Four Thirds camera, its M.Zuiko 100-400mm f5.0-6.3 IS II and two primes: the M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f1.8 II and 25mm f1.8 II. Details follow.
Around The Horn
6 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Lone Cypress, Larry Clark, Mexican troops and the Unpro camera app.
Nikon Announces the Coolpix P1100 With 125x Optical Zoom
5 February 2025
Nikon has announced the Coolpix P1100, a compact digital camera featuring a 125x optical super-telephoto zoom, which can be pushed digitally to 250x. The camera also features Dual Detect Optical VR for a 4.0-stop improvement at the center of the frame and 4K UHD/30p and superlapse movie recordings.
Nikon Announces the Nikkor Z 35mm f1.2 S
5 February 2025
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 35mm f1.2 S, a medium wide-angle prime lens with a fast f1.2 maximum aperture.
Around The Horn
5 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Santorini, Uncanny, London's Square Mile and real photography.
Old Men
4 February 2025
We rode the 28R up 19th Avenue to Park Presidio and Geary Blvd. where we caught a 38R down to 40th Avenue for a tour of a room-and-board for people who need 24-hour care. We were a bit early for our 4 p.m. appointment.
Around The Horn
4 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at A Day Without Immigrants, Rebecca Norris Webb, Oded Balilty at Auschwitz, 1970s England, prime lenses, photo gamut mapping, film photography and 1960s San Francisco.
Remembering George Tice
3 February 2025
George Tice, the "Bard of New Jersey" died in ary at his New Jersey home from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 86.
Around The Horn
3 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Grammys, Alexander Gronsky, Black photographers and Nikkor telephotos.
Matinee: 'Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage'
1 February 2025
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?
Around The Horn
1 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's Photos of the Month, the immigration crackdown, Reginald Kofi Boateng, free benches, off-season photography and shooting film.
Site Tweak: Highlights
1 February 2025
We've been a little concerned about the size of our Highlights indices. Each month we add about nine thumbnails to the collection, so over 12 years, that's a lot of thumbnails to download.
January Archived
1 February 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 1 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 19 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 156 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 51 stories.
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10 December 2012
It would almost always catch us by surprise. We'd advance the film on our Nikon FM2 only to find out we'd already taken the last shot.
Sometimes that happens in life, too.
After 13 years as the editor of the Imaging Resource Newsletter, we have parted ways. It's going one way, we're going another.
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