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Around The Horn
20 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Close-Up Photographer of the Year, Kowloon Walled City, The Americans, Black Rein, a street poet and Sigma's RF lenses.
Sony Announces 28-70mm f2-GB Master
20 November 2024
Sony has introduced its 28-70mm f2-GB Master, the first Sony zoom lens with a constant f2 aperture in the 77-lens Sony E-Mount lineup. The full-frame lens remains compact, lightweight and well-balanced.
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Sony Introduces Alpha 1 II Flagship
19 November 2024
Sony has announced the Alpha 1 II, its new flagship full-frame camera. The Alpha 1 II combines high resolution, speed and AI-driven technology.
Around The Horn
19 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, the Governors Awards Red Carpet, layered starling murmurations, Robin de Puy, Tuscany, digicams and Apple's Clean Up.
Around The Horn
18 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Jeff Keller, the bee project, Diana Walker, Japanese leaf art, LensWork's Rust bonus edition, two photography rules, Nikon and the Rokinon Remaster Slim.
Matinee: 'Stanley Kubrick, Photographer'
16 November 2024
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
16 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Beaver supermoon, "abstract" photography, Ukraine and automation.
Friday Slide Show: The Room
15 November 2024
If you thought the slide show of the kitchen last week was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. We've been spending a lot of time at a run-down skilled nursing facility with a family member lately. So naturally we thought we'd take a few photos.
Time Machine Diary +
15 November 2024
After our upgrade to Sequoia, we lost Time Machine's ability to back up to our networked drive attached to an Archer router. Since then we've had intermittent success after some puzzling problems.
Around The Horn
15 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 two skaters, Market Day, contest winners, reflections, composites, a violin, the Caldigit TS4, another supermoon and Capture One.
Around The Horn
14 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, space shots, Gregory Halpern, Frank Ockenfels 3 and ACDSee for Mac 11.
Around The Horn
13 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, Canon's World Unseen, Haiti, 3D printing accessories and the Fujifilm tilt/shift lens.
Sequoia For the Trees +
12 November 2024
When Photoshop complained that it needed macOS 15, we knew we wouldn't be able to wait as long as usual to update our operating system.
Around The Horn
12 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 RPS awards, Eirini Androulaki, Denis Cherim, Haiyun Jiang, GIMP, 4K TVs and rumors.
Veterans Day
11 November 2024
This old print barely survived a flood. The fountain pen ink identified everyone in Platoon 68 of the U.S. Marine Corps in San Diego in 1945 except one private. That was our father, who wrote down the names of his fellow Marines.
Matinee: 'Cambridge Faces: Elsa Dorfman'
9 November 2024
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
9 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Detective Sam DeGrave, Día De Los Muertos, Raoul Minot and an M4 Mini.
Friday Slide Show: The Kitchen
8 November 2024
We were inspired yesterday by Paul Melcher's piece on Biases in Photography: What We Capture and What We Share. Particularly this paragraph...
Around The Horn
8 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 remnants of the Berlin Wall, Emerging Photographers, symmetry, Nigel Shafran's personal journals and the Nikon Z50 II.
Around The Horn
7 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Southern California fire, cigars, biases, old digicams and ACDSee Photo Studio.
Nikon Announces Z50 II APS-C Mirrorless Camera
7 November 2024
Nikon has announced the Nikon Z50 II, a compact, full-featured APS-C mirrorless camera featuring film-inspired looks and easy sharing, the company said.
Hasselblad Announces Lightweight XCD Portrait Lens
7 November 2024
Hasselblad has announced its XCD 3,4/75P with a 59mm full-frame equivalent focal length and the largest aperture in the XCD P series at f3,4. It's designed for capturing portraits, street scenes and still life with effortless precision, the company said.
Lowepro Launches ProTactic III Collection
7 November 2024
Lowepro has announced its updated Lowepro ProTactic III collection. designed to meet the needs of photographers, videographers and content creators.
Around The Horn
6 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Photo Fair, Venezuela, sports week and the presidential election.
Around The Horn
5 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Election Day, the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, No Woman's Land, Lightroom post mortem and gathering photos for a memorial tribute.
Election Day
5 November 2024
What a strange moment in history we inhabit. And yet here we are. And once again go to the polls to cast our votes.
Around The Horn
4 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 campaign, Quincy Jones, Halloween, Calabria, a symposium, the Hahnel Cube Charger, a backup camera, a book review, wildlife cameras and Storyglory.
Matinee: 'Orotone Photography: How It's Made'
2 November 2024
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
2 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Dodgers parade, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Altaf Qadri and Photo Mechanic.
Fall Back
2 November 2024
You might want to stay up with a stimulant or two before you hit the sack 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.
Friday Slide Show: Halloween Parade
1 November 2024
The grammar school up the street has a nice little Halloween tradition. The kids wear their costumes to school (early dismissal included) and before any blackboard gets defaced, they parade around the block twice. The parents hang around after dropping them off to take photos.
Around The Horn
1 November 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Halloween, the week, 13 Harris-Trump debate photos, Jacaranda season, waterfalls, Pixelmator and archives.
October Archived
1 November 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 10 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 6 commented News stories, 28 Editor's Notes (which included 162 items of interest) and two site notes for a total of 50 stories.
Around The Horn
31 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 vintage Halloween pictures, Halloween at the White House, human-sized fungi, Weather Photographer of the Year, Scott Montgomery, photography in the Tropics and recommended Mac hardware.
Site Tweak: Find Improved
31 October 2024
Imagine our surprise when, using Mike's Text Search for our site index, we saw some scrambled accented characters. We'd forgotten to address that when we switch our site display from ASCII to UTF-8 characters.
Canon Announces Three Hybrid RF L Lenses
30 October 2024
Canon has announced three new RF L series hybrid lenses: RF24mm f1.4 L VCM, RF50mm f1.4 L VCM and RF70-200 f2.8 L IS USM Z. The new lenses are designed for "professional visual storytellers who need to switch between photography and video," the company said.
Around The Horn
30 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Valencia, giant mythological puppets, Raphaël Neal, Iceland, Close-Up Photographer of the Year, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf, and a new approach to cameras.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.00 Production Release
29 October 2024
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.00, an update to the recent v12.76 and the first production release since v12.76 on Feb. 7. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Around The Horn
29 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, sports week, +Rosser and Lebeau, the iPad Mini A17 Pro and manually focusing.
Around The Horn
28 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, Dodger fans, Hemingway's bullfighting photos, Andrea Modica, Dolorès Marat, a Filipino jeepney, Brook Jensen, Z questions and preservation.
Matinee: 'Alanna Airitam on W. Eugene Smith'
26 October 2024
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
26 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Ramon Espinosa, Helga Stentzel, Odesa, Clean Up and Kim Weston.
Friday Slide Show: Oliveria Engineering
25 October 2024
Monday we got a ride to Oliveria Engineering in Berkeley, where Glenn Oliveria had agreed to work on our 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Veloce. While we waited for the car to be towed from San Francisco, we had a look around.
Around The Horn
25 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 photos of the day, an Israeli bomb, the Fujifilm X-T50, Google Photos, a cloned drive and macOS Sequoia 15.1.
OM System Week to Run Oct. 24 to Nov. 3
24 October 2024
OM Digital Solutions has announced OM System Week 2024, a global celebration now in its third year that honors the creativity, durability, and innovation inherent in OM System cameras. Running from Oct. 24 to Nov. 3, this year's event is themed around the tagline Creativity. It's in our nature. and will serve as a platform to engage with and educate photography enthusiasts.
Around The Horn
24 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, the Magnum agency's print sale, Robert Doisneau, Renny Maslow, corporate worklife, real photography, the Leica M Edition 70 and lens mugs.
Tired
23 October 2024
It's been a rough year around here and it hasn't gotten easier. The details don't matter. But a couple of days ago as we were filing a Medicare appeal for Joyce, who remains both hospitalized and discharged, and waiting for a tow truck (which never arrived), we saw this tire in the shade. And it spoke to us.
Around The Horn
23 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 exhibition, lowriding, increasing impact and Auto ISO.
Around The Horn
22 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 day, high-quality compact cameras, focal length congestion, the AirPods Max and ON1PhotoRaw.
Around The Horn
21 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 masks, a $40 tripod, Fujifilm and three favorite Macs.
Matinee: Ken Light
19 October 2024
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
19 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, feeding a family, Dikye Ariani, ambient light and AI in wedding photosd.
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Friday Slide Show: City Puzzle
18 October 2024
You don't have to have a concussion with three brain bleeds and double vision to become disoriented in the city. All you have to do is look out the window from a different floor.
Around The Horn
18 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, the Lion King, a miner's job, Jonathan Jimenez, the Midwest Camel Clinic, Adobe's latest sneak previews, the Mac Mini Pro, Photoshop 26.0.0 and NAS storage.
Fujifilm: 16-55mm Zoom, 500mm Prime, X-M5
17 October 2024
Earlier this week, Fujifilm made three product announcements. It introduced a new 16-55mm zoom, a 500mm prime and its X-M5 mirrorless camera for content creators. Details follow.
Around The Horn
17 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition, the U.S. Army in North Carolina, Miops Spark, the Z system upgrade path, miniature succulents, Adobe MAX sneaks and art as medicine.
Remembering Paul Lowe
16 October 2024
British photojournalist Paul Lowe was fatally stabbed on a hiking trail n the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. His teenage son, who he had not returned home after more than two months and struggled with his mental health, has been arrested for murder, according to police.
Around The Horn
16 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, sports, hunters, landscapes and Wild Eye Magazine.
Around The Horn
15 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Comet of the Century, Vincenzo Pagliuca, PhEST, Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Poltergeist, Herlinde Koelbl, a disturbing offer, Anthony Smith, the Fujifilm X-T1, Sequoia vs. Time Machine Synology NAS, Tuck quits (again) and Ward Christensen.
Happy Indigenous Columbus Day
14 October 2024
This holiday we could use a little help from Dr. Henry Gates, Jr. and the staff at Finding My Roots, the PBS program that researches the genealogy of celebrities.
Matinee: 'Wild Cherry Blossoms'
12 October 2024
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
12 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Ziaul Huque, Big Sky, M series lenses and work experience.
Friday Slide Show: Decorating for the Month
11 October 2024
Except for August, every month has a federal holiday. We know because we celebrate them religiously. With two in November, that works out to 12 days off a year for us.
Around The Horn
11 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, LensCulture Black & White Awards, the Northern Lights, Davide Monteleone and A Brief History of Photography.
Around The Horn
10 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Hurricane Milton, the Walkley Award, Anna Rothkopf, Ken Light and The Joy of Printing.
Bus Stop Sunset
9 October 2024
We left the house in the morning, a friend picking us up to take Joyce to her appointment at the clinic for wound debridement. We thought we'd be home for lunch.
Around The Horn
9 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, Amazon's drought, a cloud and autofocus Z-mount lenses.
Panasonic Announces Compact Zoom, Firmware Updates
8 October 2024
Panasonic has announced the new Lumix S 18-40mm f4.5-6.3 lens for the L-Mount system standard.
Around The Horn
8 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, sports, e-waste, ephemeral moments, Johnston's real estate job, Durango, some questions and APFS incompatibilities.
Another Approach
7 October 2024
Almost a year after updating our iPhone 6 Plus to the iPhone 16 Max Pro, we found ourselves avoiding the 5x telephoto lens. Too many times we saw a nice image on the phone only to find a pixelated JPEG on our laptop.
Around The Horn
7 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 images they can't forget, human towers, Tokyo's underground temple, Suni and the Seven Princesses, Socks Davis, the digital camera niche and the Zeiss Milvus 35mm.
Matinee: 'Final Show Creative Retreat'
5 October 2024
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
5 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, the world, the year in the Middle East and a graffiti blitz.
Friday Slide Show: The Old Embosser
4 October 2024
We spent 30 years of our life working for a weekly magazine that had been founded more than half a century before we came on board. All production from typesetting through paste-up to lithography to printing to binding to mailing was handled in house.
Around The Horn
4 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 Israeli survivors, Abbey Road Music Photography Awards, Andrei Savin, Luke Dray, Ng Han Guan and Terry White.
Around The Horn
3 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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, Jarman Award nominees, scanning film to negative film, Robin O'Neill's climbing partner and fall foliage frenzy.
Around The Horn
2 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 photos of the month, Iranian missile attack, Epson International Pano Awards, Michael Ormerod, new digital holsters, Grant Petersen and single-use cameras fail.
Yucca
1 October 2024
Like a child's drawing of the rays of the sun, this Yucca plant spilled over the sidewalk. We'd already stepped around it when it occurred to us it might be worth a shot.
Vivid-Pix Releases Memory Station Software For Most Scanners
1 October 2024
In celebration of Family History Month this month, Vivid-Pix has announced its Memory Station Software now works with most existing scanners, including scanners from Brother, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, HP, Lexmark, Ricoh as well as all-in-one printer/copier/scanner devices.
Around The Horn
1 October 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 sports week, Adra Pallón, print multiple images to one JPEG, the Zeiss ZM Biogon 35mm, the size of a bag, Jason Row reflects, Jimmy Carter, Elements 2025 and USB on macOS Sequoia.
September Archived
1 October 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 9 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 18 Features, 15 commented News stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included 175 items of interest), one review and one site note for a total of 60 stories.
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