Around the Web on a Friday (44th Week of 2017)

• Mystery man: Without doing any searching, can you guess who this fellow is? Hints: he was born in 1885, and his son was an epochal musician who was virtually synonymous with a particular well-known musical style, deeply venerated in the country of his birth and beloved worldwide. (We've obscured the last name in this JPEG.) For the answer, read on.

• Annoyed at Adobe? What Michael Reichmann called "the Photoshop tax" seems to some people to be getting more onerous. With the latest shift in Lightroom to a CC (Creative Cloud) monthly subscription model, it's not hard to foresee a future in which you're consigned to storing your own archive not on your own hard drive (or not only on your own hard drive), but on the amorphous "cloud." Where, of course, your pictures will be safe in perpetuity, we say sarcastically.

Should you happen to be thinking of jumping ship, Greg Scoblete at PDN Online has a survey of "14 Great Image Editing Programs for Still Photographers." (We've been thinking of switching to Capture One ourselves. Not easy, though: we've been using Photoshop for nearly a quarter of a century*.)

• Next up: Next Friday's "Baker's Dozen" post here at TOP will present 13 smartphone photos submitted by readers. I've already received several hundred entries, and there are many gems. To give you a leg up (but do not send these yet) our next "Call for Work" will be for "a picture taken with a Leica lens." Acceptable will be pictures taken with any Leica-branded lenses, from a classic 1920s collapsible uncoated Elmar, to an early 1.5-MP original Digilux pic, to a Mandler-designed, Solms-built Summicron, to a Panny/Leica, to one of the stupendous Leica S lenses, to an R lens adapted to a Canon DSLR, to a macro shot taken with a reversed Focotar. You may submit JPEGs, or digisnaps of physical prints. Points for creativity! And presentation. And you're welcome to include a portrait of your lens itself, although it's not necessary.

The only other requirement will be to tell us something—at least one thing—about your lens: its history, or how you got it, or how much you like it, or what other people have said about it, or who designed it, or who used to own it, or anything else interesting and fascinating—not all those things, just something or other. Again, please do NOT submit these until the call for work appears in the coming week! You'll need to know the subject line for your email or we will certainly lose it in our Brobdingnagian email stack.

• The cavalry to the rescue: Speaking of image processing software, some good news. DxO has purchased the orphaned Nik Collection and is promising to continue to develop it. As you probably remember, Nik was acquired by Google in 2012 because it coveted Snapseed for mobile devices and because it wanted to encourage photographers to use Google+. Later, Google made the rest of the Nik suite available for free, which we all liked, and then discontinued it, which we didn't. Pessimism about Nik's future was justified at that point, so DxO coming to the rescue at this late date, like the cavalry coming over the hill with bugles blaring at the absolute last minute in an old Western, is welcome news. DxO has already integrated U Point into DxO PhotoLab, and will most likely continue to integrate the useful old Nik plugins into its software. (Maybe we should switch to DxO OpticsPro instead of Capture One.)

Sheryl, Christian mom, hates rap, 5 kids

• Doggone: See if you recognize anyone you know in these ten common types. If you really like these, you can follow your nose (and the links) for more (lots more). Ten was enough for us, but they're pretty amusing.

• Die Welt ist seltsam: The picture at the top of this post is a rare surviving photograph of Captain Norval Sinclair Marley, a white British Jamaican of Syrian Jewish heritage. His son, Nesta Robert, had his first and middle names switched around by a passport official who thought "Nesta" was a feminine name, making him Robert Nesta Marley, known the world over as Bob.

Norval Marley, who might or might not have been an actual Captain, was 41 years older than his black Jamaican wife Cedella, Bob’s mother, who he married when she was 18. Norval provided for Bob but seldom saw him. He died in 1955 at the age of 70 when Bob was ten years old.

• On the lens front—sortakinda—there's a big controversy in the art world about that Leonardo (da Vinci, not DiCaprio) that's scheduled to be auctioned off this month. It's been causing a lot of excitement among people who thrill to the news of large sums of money being spent, because it's the last Leonardo in private hands and is expected to sell for approximately the GNP of a small, impoverished African nation. Paintings of saviors of the world shared something of a mannerism in Renaissance Italy in that the savior was often depicted holding an orb, representing the world He saved; Leonardo's orb, like those of numerous other painters, appears to be glass, but he didn't paint it with the image refracting through it the correct way. That's odd in that Leonardo—prototype of "The Renaissance Man"—was a famously fastidious observer and also one of the world's leading experts on optics at the time. Leonardo's most recent biographer, the admirable Walter Isaacson, has chimed in on the issue. (As an aside, a book dealer and voracious reader we knew once told us that Walter's biography of Ben Franklin was the best book he had ever read.) We can't know the truth, but the issue is creating a lot of chatter.

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• Lightning fast: Canon Camera has announced a one business day turnaround for equipment repairs for CPS Platinum and Cinema members. (Gold and Silver level members will have to wait a little longer, but not much longer.) In the event your equipment can't be repaired that fast, CPS will send you a loaner until the repair is finished.

CPS, for those who might not know, is Canon Professional Services, the professional support arm of Canon. Not just anyone can join; entry criteria are strict and you must apply and pass muster. But CPS (and NPS) are among the reasons why professionals prefer to go with the big dogs. When a problem arises, you just call Canon's 24/7 professional hotline (the hotlines are based in the same continent you are.) One business day turnaround is said to be the fastest ever guaranteed to professional customers.

• Unsettling: The always delightful cartoon xkcd, one of cartoon-maven Ctein's favorites, weighs in on the lifespan of digital assets. We dasn't pilfer it to reproduce here, lest lawyers be unleashed on us, but you should see it. Will today's equivalent of that tattered old carte up top of Ziggy's granddad survive?

UPDATE: Not only does xkcd not send lawyers to hunt you, they encourage bloggers to embed the cartoons. Here you go.

• Sony Q: Dan Watson at HuffPost says that the Sony A9 is really the A7III. We might agree, except that soon there will doubtless be an A7III. Some people don't like how these cameras handle, but we're not amongst 'em. They're very nice little cameras that handle fine.

Michael Marten, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, 17 May 2007.
Low water 12 noon, high water 8 pm.

• Prince of Tides: British photographer Michael Marten has produced a dazzling document of the miracle of tides, certain to be an eye-opener for those who have never lived near an ocean. We're told the book is sold out, sad to say. We loved it—a simple idea that was doubtless very difficult to reify and is visually extremely rich. Wonderful project. Do not miss.

• Nine decades: Re Leica lenses, William Fagan of Macfilos compared pictures from a very old Leica and a very new Leica made 90 years apart. His findings might surprise you.

• Best (for now): DxOmark, the French software ninjas who evaluate sensors, have declared the Hasselblad X1D to have the best medium-format sensor, granting the camera its first published sensor rating above 100. (DxO doesn't evaluate the system, just the sensor. Its ratings, although suspect in some quarters, are scientifically sound.) The once iconic Swedish company Hasselblad is now owned by the Chinese drone manufacturer DJI. [UPDATE: Note that DxO doesn't evaluate Fuji cameras and, for no good reason, failed to test the Pentax 645Z.]

• Selfie fatigue: Many millennials (members of the generation that reached maturity early in the 21st century) remember Bill Nye the Science Guy. Apparently many of them bug him to take their picture with him; watching the trailer for his new movie, we were startled to hear him say, "I was asked to talk about selfie fatigue...I'm pretty sure it shortens your life." Does it? He should know, he's a science guy. Now we know why we seldom take selfies. (We use the editorial "we" in Around the Web posts, as you no doubt have noticed. However there is no one in here but us chickens.)

• Don't Kodak St. Peter: So if you get too many selfies taken and the inevitable happens, take your camera with you, but remember to take the photographic advice of the venerable Mark Twain:

"Upon arrival in heaven, do not speak to St. Peter until spoken to. It is not your place to begin. You can ask him for his autograph, there is no harm in that. But be careful, and don't remark that it is one of the penalties of greatness; he has heard that before. Don't try to Kodak him—Hell is full of people who have made that mistake. And leave your dog outside. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out, and the dog would go in."

—Mark Twain, quoted at the end of Ken Burns' American Lives profile of him. (We transcribed this, so the punctuation might not be correct. The emphasis is ours. In any event, we believe the quote itself is a pastiche, most likely all drawn from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. In it, we hear Sam Clemens's own weariness about being "Kodaked," not that much different from Bill Nye's.)

That's it for TOP for this, the 44th week of the year. If there were too many links in this to chew in one sitting, take a bite and come back over the weekend for more; Yr. Hmbl. Ed. will be fighting burnout by staying away for two whole days, a formerly unfamiliar habit known as "taking the weekend off." I still moderate comments all weekend though. Blogging for a living, much like what Mark Twain said of old age, is not for the faint of heart.

Listen to some Bob Marley over the weekend (maybe this, on this! Ha! Snuck vinyl in again, at the last minute!), and join us again on Monday. All are welcome, always.

Mike
(Thanks to Rich Szmyd, Jim Bullard, a commenter named John, xkcd, Nick Hartmann, Gordon Brown, and other friends o' TOP.)

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Robert: "Aperture met most of my needs and I expected it to keep making progress. What a disappointment when it was abandoned. When it was developed it seems as though it was key to re-establishing Apple but the landing of the iPhone led to a new future. As an ex IT person, iCloud and its equivalents all go against my nature i.e. letting it drift off forever or maybe never around the World, out of my control. LR therefore seemed like a good alternative but monthly payments also go against my nature. It would be good if the discussion of alternatives could continue."

Mike replies: I was very interested in Aperture when it came out, but I had been through the Apple-as-Lucy-holding-the-football thing before with their software, and I resisted switching to it because I was afraid it would end up discontinued. And sure enough. Apple is not good about protecting its users who adopt its software. Once burned, twice shy.

We should, indeed, discuss this subject in a different post, one dedicated to the topic. It's a hazard of blogging that important topics often come up piecemeal, and good, informative comments about a certain subject are made but then get lost in the shuffle. It has happened twice in the past few days—the subject of slide/neg rephotography with pixel-shift cameras came up under the A7RIII post, and the subject of LR-replacement editing software came up under this one.

I will start specific threads about both these topics next week, so we can discuss each of them more thoroughly.

Phil: "About that xkcd #1909: go to the source and see the alt-text! Right now! Go here and hover your mouse over the cartoon. I'm not just saying this because I'm a librarian. Really, I'm not.  ;-)  "

GKFroehlich: "Did not know the person in the photo at the top of the post, but the hint 'born in 1885,' and the fact that he's sitting on horseback, made me sure it was Dave Brubeck's father. He was a cattle rancher in northern California, and was also born in 1885 (or 1884, according to some sources). Now I shall go listen to a few Marley tunes, and a few Brubeck tunes...."

Mike replies: Good guess.

Dave Brubeck got a somewhat suspect reputation back in the day because he was a) not black in a field in which many of the very top people were, b) too popular in a field in which many of the top people weren't, and c) suspiciously often the favorite jazz musician of preppies and white Ivy League types back in that quaint time when racism still existed in the USA (satire alert). But he's seriously great and I absolutely love him.

If you still have a way of playing CDs, or a way of ripping them to your hard drive, he perfect introduction to Brubeck and one of the outstanding music bargains on all of Amazon is this 5-CD set for only $17.90. It includes two of Brubeck's best records (the evergreen bestseller Time Out and the even better Time Further Out) and the other three are excellent. Did I mention it's only $17.90 for five outstanding CDs? The sound quality is superb to boot.

Steve Higgins: "Re 'Acceptable will be pictures taken with any Leica-branded lenses,' does that include the one on the front of my Lumix LF1, presumably the same as the one on the Leica C (type 112)?"

Mike replies: Yes, because it's branded Leica, that is, it says "Leica" on the front.

Comments

[Jim Meeks]

If I get to heaven and my dogs can't come, I don't want to go.

[George Janik]

You should checkout Corel Paintshop Pro 2018. There is a standard one plus Ultimate. They were just upgraded so they are on special for $35,$40 for standard to $50,$60 for the Ultimate, which I recommend. You can find coupons, codes on the web.
I refuse to pay monthly fees for a software.
It works similar to the adobe software and is fairly comprehensive
Just to say I'm not a professional, made a few bucks over the years but not enough to live on.

[Chris Norris]

XKCD explicitly allows you to use his comics on your site! https://xkcd.com/license.html

You can even hotlink them so it uses his bandwidth and not yours. What a nice guy!

[John Camp]

About the XKCD cartoon -- non-digital assets also age. The culture moves, the media that records it doesn't, although there is some possibility (as yet unfulfilled) that digital media eventually will. I once wrote a book (a thriller) with a mildly humorous moment at the end where the hero didn't have a desperately needed quarter to use a payphone. That was only 27 years ago. I suspect there are now millennials who have never seen a payphone, much less needed a quarter to use it.

[Rick]

I tried Capture One, decided to switch. Created a new C1 catalog by importing from Lightroom, about 29k files. Took hours. Was ok with that, and Catalog seemed all to be in good order as I scrolled thru it and its functions. Backed the catalog up when closing.

Tried to open it next day and it crashed. Backup also crashed. Looking online, it looks like C1 needs smaller catalogs. So scratch C1 for me.

Rick

[Stephen Scharf]

I don't know that DxOmark's ratings/analysis are scientifically sound because I've never seen them do a statistically valid Measurements Systems Analysis.

And until they do, no one else really does, either.

[John Krumm]

Mostly out of curiosity I did a quick evaluation of the Capture One Pro and DXO Photo Lab. DXO did a wonderful job with implementing the Nik Upoint tech. It feels quite intuitive to use. Capture One has a slightly steeper learning curve for me, but it's good too. Still not ready to give up Lightroom/Photoshop, but if I had to, I'd likely go with DXO Photo Lab (and maybe spend $50 on Affinity for Photoshop type adjustments).

[Dave]

Macphun's Luminar sealed the deal for me against using/needing anything branded 'Adobe'...

[PaulW]

I'm also exploring giving up the Adobe tax and have found Capture One to be an incredibly capable, but not overly intuitive program. (There are great tutorials out there though).
I installed it alongside LR and simply go back and forth between them. I find I like the results of Capture One processing a bit more than results I get with Lightroom, even though I'm extremely adept at Lightroom processing.
I process by feel, so my comparisons are in no way scientific. YMMV.
BTW, don't compare Capture One to Photoshop. Compare it to Lightroom. A better app to compare against Photoshop would be Affinity Photo.
For the price it's got to be one of the best photo software values out there. I find myself using it more and more in place of Photoshop and it supports all of the plugins I use.
So far, with the results I'm seeing, I think a Capture One/Affinity Photo workflow is probably in my future.

[Ken Tanaka]

I understand people being miffed with Adobe’s licensing. But I think it’s a tremendous bargain as long as the products don’t wander far. I’m happy to pay it once annually and just forget it. I’ve had a full license to C1 Pro since it was introduced. Has wonderful features that have improved over the years. But they’re features that are best left to assistants editing PhaseOne files for a commercial photographer. And the cataloging system is relatively new...and shows it.

Re: the DXO X1D rating, hilarious! So it’s now the “Senior Executive Managing Director” of cameradom.

Re: the da Vinci, I’ve long been especially intrigued by art forgery and provenance validation. It’s a very special interest of mine. I read everything I can find on it. Yes, I know this piece has been given the thumbs-up by all parties. But virtually every major discovered forgery passed such an inspection by the best experts of the day. And most also started as newly discovered / newly remembered pieces. Just sayin’. 😏. I think I’ll just buy a Peter Lik to cover that plaster crack in my hallway.

Nice round-up again this week, Mike. I can tell it’s lots of work for you!

Aloha from Hawaii! 🏝 Have a good weekend everyone!

[I actually don't think it's a real Leonardo. I've been looking at Leonardo since I was a kid and it just doesn't feel quite right to me. I also think it has a few too many telltales...like the curls in the hair. Things that are Leonardo-ish that you'd put in if you wanted to reassure people that it was a Leonardo. But if the experts say it is, then it is, and what does anyone care about my opinion? --Mike]

[PDLanum]

As for the X1-D Dx0mark rating..
No it was not the first to get a 100, it was the first PUBLISHED 100. The Pentax 645Z hit 101 but Dx0mark just decided to "not publish" its findings on the 645Z.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/0674315225/this-is-why-the-pentax-645z-dxomark-score-of-101-was-never-published
Please do not pass on fake news.

[I know about that, but if DxO never published a number for the 645Z, and the D850 is 100, then how can the XD1 not be the first published score over 100? QED. --Mike]

[cdembrey]

For less that $1.000.00 you can buy a ready to shoot Leica 1 (converted to Standard lens mount) and a 5cm f/3.5 nickel plated Elmar from the same dealer that William Fagan of Macfilos got his Leica.

Because #cameradoesntmatter, I've considered replacing my 1935 Leica IIIa with a non-rangefinder Leica! like the one above. The only problem I see is being mobbed by photo enthusiasts wanting to look at my new Fuji Pro 8-)

Now that I'm retired I have Affinity Photo 1.6, Pixelmator 3.7, Athentech LUCID which is being replaced with Athentech's standalone Perfectly Clear Complete. AFAIK my former retoucher still uses Adobe CCComplete—why wouldn't she? I don't do DAM, no need to, I use my own file system. From reading blogs, fora, etc it seems like most people shoot more in a week that I have shot in 60+ years. BTW I don't do cloud storage ...yet

[Rene]

After a somewhat obsessive search for an Aperture replacement, I narrowed it down to Capture One and DxO. I found them both to be quite capable programs, although doing different things. Capture One's learning curve was a little more daunting and, since I don't do a whole lot of post processing, I ended up using DxO Elite. This has worked really well for me but I'd have to say you would probably want something like Affinity if you do a lot post work. The recent add-on of Nik technology is a step forward, but DxO Photo Lab as it's now know is not a full replacement for Photoshop. OTOH, if you want a really great Raw developer and have less need for post, then DxO PhotoLab is great alternative (unless you use Fuji).

[SteveW]

Thank you for the Friday Around the Web! Love this.

DxO has updated DxO Optics Pro to DxO Photo Lab. As another reader mentioned DxO has incorporated the Nik U Point technology, and it would be pretty cool if they also added the Nik collection as a plug-in as well. Here's the link:

http://www.dxo.com/us/photography/photo-software/dxo-photolab

[D. Hufford]

I used Capture One before going to LR 2 all those years ago. I have been trying it again over the last month, and although it is hard to relearn, I like the processing and results much more than LR. I expect I will use the final stand alone LR 6 together with Capture One 10...or 11. The only advantage of LR I see now is a better catalog and asset management system and price for the now never to be updated stand alone version.

I have also been trying some of the other alternatives---Luminar, ON1, DxO, but Capture One works much better for me.

[Mahn England]

I use 4 software processors and use them all depending on what I'm trying to achieve.

In no particular order:

DxO Optics Pro: great noise reduction, geometry correction and exports directly to Facebook and Flickr. Not so good with recovering highlights and no local adjustments. No cataloging facility.

Capture One Pro: excellent highlight and shadow recovery, local adjustments in layers, cataloging and/or sessions (I have 46,000 images in one catalogue...yes I know!). Deals with my Canon Raw files much better than DxO colour-wise.

On1 PhotoRAW: a very capable Photoshop alternative.

Picture Window Pro 7: an oldie but a goodie now free. Jonathan Sachs its developer is now working on a new version. I cut my post processing teeth on this as it hides nothing from you...no under the bonnet (hood) stuff.

[GJM Geradts]

I never read George Bernard Shaw, but his remark on photographers being like cods is spot on.

[Doug Thacker]

Shortly after you mentioned it, Mike, and because you mentioned it, I purchased Affinity Photo, and I've been using it ever since. The one thing it's lacking versus Capture One, which I was using previously, is image management. Admittedly, that's a bit of a pain, but I somehow get by. For everything else, I've found Affinity Photo to be a true pleasure every time I use it. Truly intuitive, with (nearly) everything I want, and nothing I don't. The fact it's just $49, including lifetime upgrades, is fantastic. Affinity Photo definitely stands on its own merits, and I love using it -- but the fact it's not Adobe is, I confess, an additional point of great satisfaction.

[Dave Fultz]

"It's been causing a lot of excitement among people who thrill to the news of large sums of money being spent, because it's the last Leonardo in private hands and is expected to sell for approximately the GNP of a small, impoverished African nation."

Until they find the next one.

Dave

[Stephen Scharf]

I have been becoming increasingly unhappy with Lightroom and particulaly Adobe over the last three years. Ever since the whole CC thing launched. It's clear that Adobe has completely lost any sense of customer-centricity and they've become the classic corporation, very internally-focused, emphasizing record profits while completely forgetting about what really matters: providing value to to customers. Just like Apple of late. I'm pretty close to telling Adobe to go f*ck themselves.

Capture One 10 has become REALLY good, and ironically enough, faster for DAM functionality than Adobe LR (though that is not saying much for the last 3 years). I'll grant that their catalog functionaltiy and stability leave something to be desired, but their Fuji X-Trans RAW conversion has always been excellent, and *nobody* does skin tones like C1. Their B&W conversions have also become really excellent, and their keystoning correction is the best in the biz. The only issue I have with Phase One is they need to be able to make the fonts in the interface larger and easier tor read (they are ridiculously small) and they tend to have a rather passive aggressive sensibility about certain things (like not supporting any MF format cameras other than Phase One cameras; this comes across as a willingness to cut their nose off to spite their face that I simply do not understand).

Also, Skylum (aka MacPhun) is scheduled to do big things in 2018, once they launch DAM support, they are really going to get a lot of migration from folks presently using Adobe, and the product is VERY affordable, they are very customer-centric and release meaningful revs on a regular basis. These guys have been on a white hot run streak, and virtually none of the pros I know that use their products have anything negative to say about them. Definitely THE company to keep an eye on for 2018.

[Roger Bradbury]

Bob Marley was a great one for eating donuts. He liked them wi' jam in. : )

[Rodolfo Canet]

I absolutely hate the idea of software suscription and will abandon LR as soon as my perpetual copy doesn't support my cameras. I also own Capture One Pro 10 and the results are great but... the fact that they refuse to include an Edit History is out of my comprehension.

I also archive my pictures using the file system but a good DAM helps search and analyse you work; just don't import the originals to the catalog. Buying Media Pro together with Capture One makes Phase One combo too expensive.

[Bob Johnston]

The DXO rating for the Hasselblad is fairly meaningless as they haven't tested many MF cameras. I know that there's not many out there but what about the Fuji GFX 50?

Thanks Mike for the web roundup. I enjoyed it all.

[jpb]

half of the xkcd comic is hidden in the alternate text. hover over the comic for additional commentary.

[Dave Levingston]

I refuse to rent software from Adobe. I think what they have done is abusive and disrespectful of their customers. I have CS6 and still use it occasionally for tweaks, but I use two other programs for most of my work:

1. I discovered ACDSee in the last century and have used and loved it ever since. I tested Lightroom and could not see any reason to switch to it. I'm now using ACDSee Ultimate 10. It is great for organizing my photos and also has some editing tools that work better for me than anything in Photoshop. And it works with my file system...none of that obnoxious importing required.

2. DxO Optics Pro. This is my RAW processor. When I first got it I did a lot of tweaking to the automatic conversion that it does. I soon learned that I was just screwing things up. The auto conversion usually produces an excellent file that I can then tweak at bit in ACDSee or Photoshop. Pretty much the only adjustment I make in DxO to most files is to increase the highlight priority when it is needed.

I can upgrade these programs when I want to and when it fits my budget, not when Adobe decides it wants to disrupt my workflow. I'm glad to see that there are so many alternatives to Adobe and I have to say, I wish Adobe ill and hope they suffer the effects of treating their long-time users so shabbily.

[Gordon Reynolds]

It will be Luminar for me, but next year after they add the asset manager. I read through a review and watched a video of the newest version of Luminar, now available for Windows, and it looks like a winner. As I recall, the review I read suggested it will be able convert LR catalogs, another positive for me.

[Bear.]

What a post! I thought of plenty of comments I should make along the way but by the time I reached the end, I couldn't remember any of them. Good Sunday read. Thanks.

[Jimmy Reina]

I'm lovin' these Friday posts.
They are a "Weekly Reader" of the photographic diversity that drew me to TOP, and put it first on my daily list of self indulgence.
Thanks

[Jim]

You know, Adobe software is widely pirated. The cc versions are no different. If you want to use it for free, you can. Ethical choice is yours.