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Austin 360 Right before 9 a.m. on March 6, five or six purple martins swooped acrobatically in the wind above the Austin Water Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend. It was a good sign. The first migratory birds of spring had begun to arrive in Central Texas. To prepare for this annual feathery visit, which peaks in late April, I hit some of the area’s top birding spots on multiple mornings not long after the winter storms. Given the travel deficits imposed by the pandemic, this ...

(To see all the comments, click on the "Comments" link below.) Featured Comments from: Cecelia: "Print size preference for me is entirely related to viewing distance. Instagram is good for an image a few inches from my face, and I love standing 20 feet from a big enveloping painting. "Once, I had a chance to purchase original art for a corporate space, and prints that were 3–5 feet on an edge were successful in modest interior spaces. 8x10 or book-sized prints need to be viewed pretty close a...

(To see all the comments, click on the "Comments" link below.) Featured Comments from: Thomas Mc Cann: "Many years back Braun did a little survey in the U.K. asking what was the preferred pronunciation of their name. The answer was Brawn and not Brown so ever since that is what they use in the promotions. Zyni Moë: " Voigtländer is hard for native English speakers to get right: is a case where the v is /f/ (unvoiced) not /v/ (voiced) which often it is in modern German, which mostly uses w for...

Evidently, I did not make my point clearly enough in the previous post. Such mistakes are usually the writers fault, so mea culpa. What Im saying is that if the camera market were purely rational, Micro 4/3 would be the...

Youre going to laugh at me. But heres how my reasoning went: A few weeks ago, when we discussed it, I decided to take a stab at learning touch-typing. Ive been having increasing trouble with typing; Ive slowed from 60 WPM in my forties to 43 WPM now, and on bad typing days it actually discourages me from writing. And I love to write. One problem is that as my fingers fly around the keyboard, I more often hit two keys instead of one now. So my error rate has been rising. I reasoned that touch-ty...

This just in—B&H has announced a price of $1,000 off the Fuji GFX 50R body, which theyre selling for $3,499 with a free bag and 64GB card. Thought youd want to know. Mike Gear o The Week: If I could...

Ricoh shifts into the digital realm published : 5 Mar 2021 at 04:00 2 Print is dead? Japans Ricoh Co, best known as a maker of copiers, printers, faxes and other office mainstays, has joined those saying so. With the pandemic upending workplace practices around the world, the office-equipment giant on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious shift away from paper and into the digital realm, aiming to transform into a digital-services provider. Investors cheered the move, wit...

Mar 4, 2021 Print is dead? Japan’s Ricoh Co., best known as a maker of copiers, printers, faxes and other office mainstays, has joined those saying so. With the pandemic upending workplace practices around the world, the office-equipment giant on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious shift away from paper and into the digital realm, aiming to transform into a digital-services provider. Investors cheered the move, with the stock surging 16% in Tokyo on Thursday. That’s the most since 1992...

Share A Carl Zeiss Apo Sonnar 135mm F2.8 lens attached to a Sony mirrorless camera. Kenko Tokina has announced a new business alliance with Carl Zeiss that will see Kenko Tokina take over sales and repair services for Carl Zeiss products in Japan, including interchangeable photo lenses. In the announcement, made on Kenko Tokina’s website (translated), the Japanese company says the partnership will start on April 1, 2021. From that point forward, Kenko Tokina will handle the sales and repai...

Share Pentax has launched a quartet of recolored versions of its K-1 Mark II DSLR, which was first released in 2018 and is currently the companys flagship K Series camera. The K-1 Mark II J Limited 01 DSLR seems to be available only in Japan, which was also the case for the companys previous J Limited camera. The Pentax KP J Limited in 2019 was well-received, so Pentax has opted to develop J Limited as a formal factory brand. The K-1 II J Limited 01 will be built on a made-to-order basis and co...