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15 March 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 the Sony World Photography Awards, nursing homes, Diane Arbus, repairing things, a camera simulator and Samsung on its Scene Optimizer.

  • Alan Taylor presents the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards open competition in 10 categories: Architecture, Creative, Landscape, Lifestyle, Motion, Natural World & Wildlife, Object, Portraiture, Street Photography, and Travel.
  • Matt Sendelsy reports In Nursing Homes, Impoverished Live Final Days on Pennies. "Across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents are locked in a wretched bind: Driven into poverty, forced to hand over all income and left to live on a stipend as low as $30 a month," he writes. With photos by Wong Maye-E.
  • Mike Johnston observes the Diane Arbus Centennial with a photo of her taken by her husband as a film test.
  • Kirk Tuck has been Held Hostage by the Refrigerator Repair Person. "The general approach to repairing things now seems to be just taking a guess at what might be wrong ordering a part from the manufacturer," he writes.
  • Leonardo Bottaro created a free online Camera Simulator "to show my students how each setting on the camera affects the final image output." Aperture, Shutter speed, ISO and White Balance are all adjustable and reflected immediately in the scene. With open source code for the adventurous.
  • Samsung explains its Scene Optimizer that has recently been criticized for adding detail not captured by its Super Resolution multi-frame shots of the moon. "The engine for recognizing the moon was built based on a variety of moon shapes and details, from full through to crescent moons and is based on images taken from our view from the Earth," Samsung concedes. Scene Optimizer, in short, adds detail not captured.

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