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1 May 2023

We've just archived Volume 12, Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 18 Features, 14 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 160 items of interest) and two site notes for a total of 60 stories.

Twenty of those stories included 87 images and five featured gear specification tables. We celebrated one holiday and marked the passing of five photographers last month as well.

READERSHIP numbers for April were complete by the time we looked them up this morning. In a departure from our usual routine, we took the last day of the month off (being a Sunday) so we're only retrieving the data now.

And they are just a bit less than March, which had one more day. A wash, in short.

OUR TOP STORIES in April were almost all news stories with the exception of Kwame Brathwaite's obituary. The ExifTool production release led the list with the Canon RF100-300mm zoom and Sigma 17mm close behind. The rest of the top 10 were Around The Horn columns.

Just a few clicks separated the stories in the next 10, though, again showing everything we publish gets read. And, again, the real distinction is how many days a story has been available.

WE'VE BEEN UNABLE to review the new DxO releases and some new Adobe features because they require Apple's Metal framework for hardware-accelerated graphics. We do have two GPUs in our main machine but they aren't supported by Metal.

So we'll be adding a Metal-compatible Mac to our collection soon. You might say "at last." But we've found it instructive to squeeze every last clock cycle out of some rather excellent hardware of another era.

Our plan is to buy something recently released to get the most mileage out of it. But we don't mind plugging Apple's refurbs. Last time we bought a new computer, we had to return it because the Bluetooth chip was dead on arrival. But we've had no trouble with the refurb we bought as our backup in 2011.

Those were the days.


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