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Around The Horn
9 February 2023
In this recurring column, we highlight a few 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 beards, creator cameras, an old problem, Netflix-approved cameras, project ideas, a modified Nikon F2 and darktable.
- Suzanne Sease features Greg Anderson's personal project of portraits from the National Beard and Mustache Championships. "I have made quite a few friends photographing the world of professional bearding and don't have any plans of stopping," he writes. "It's just too fun."
- In Compact Creator Cameras, Thom Hogan writes, "I've come to the conclusion that the camera makers have basically just decided that, while compact cameras are dead, they'll just reinvent them as interchangeable lens crop-sensor cameras and market them for 'creators.'"
- In New Age, Same Old Problem, Mike Johnston takes a magical photo of the moon with his iPhone. So what's the problem? "If you have a magic camera that can take a sharp, clear, well-exposed, well-focused and color-correct picture of most anything, what are you going to photograph?"
- Ryan Hill explains What Netflix's Approved Camera Attributes Mean and which video cameras qualify. He notes that "these requirements are a good reference point even if you're not producing a project specifically for Netflix."
- Dahlia Ambrose suggests some Photography Project Ideas from seven different sources to keep your shutter snapping.
- In How Ben Franke Made a Nikon F2 Shoot Instax Film, Chris Gampat talks to the photographer about the conversion using an old film back.
- In Darktable for MacOS Needs You, Pascal Obry puts out a call for a macOS developer to maintain that version of darktable as the current developer passes the torch after 10 years. "In summary, unless someone steps forwards and commits to the role of OS X maintainer, we will be forced to fully and completely stop supporting OS X, after the next minor release (4.2.1)," he writes.
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