{"id":44667,"date":"2023-11-22T17:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/?p=44667"},"modified":"2023-12-11T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T07:49:36","slug":"2023-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/2023-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 – Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/h2>\n
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Sony A7III | Laowa 35mm 0.95 | f\/0.95<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A lot has happened in 2023 and a few of those things I want to highlight and talk about here.<\/p>\n

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New author: Martin<\/h2>\n

As many of the remaining authors phased out over time, I had been looking for new ones for quite some time. Actually several times I talked to people that were interested at first, but not much came out of it. After all: writing lens reviews requires a lot of time and effort and you are rarely getting something in return.<\/p>\n

\"\"Luckily, Martin from Stockholm joined me this year. He is doing reviews on Nikon Z cameras, which might actually extend the reader base a bit, and he has way more interest in macro photography than I do, so that is a field we will also still have covered in the future.<\/p>\n

Martin definitely helped me with keeping up a steady (weekly) stream of articles coming this past year.<\/p>\n

Have a look at some of his articles<\/a>, in case you missed them.<\/p>\n

Social media<\/h2>\n

In the beginning of 2023 I made a little survey asking you what social media platforms you are using and how you would like to be brought up to speed on the latest articles.<\/p>\n

\"\"As result of that survey I set up a Discord server<\/a> in the beginning of 2023, which has almost 400 members now. What I like about it (despite getting in direct contact to you) is that I can share information with you, without being victim of some annoying algorithm that ultimately decides what you get to see.<\/p>\n

\"\"Martin also volunteered to take over our Instagram account<\/a>, so also there you will be notified of new articles now.<\/p>\n

For the future I am still debating options like Youtube videos or podcasts, but truth be told, I was already fully occupied working on reviews this year, which brings me to the next point.<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/h2>\n

One change I made this year is, that now at least once every week there will be a new article. In the past it sometimes happened, that one week there were three new articles, but then none for a month, which isn’t really that smart. As I generally see a small increase in visitor numbers (in a declining market) I take that as a successful change.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year I updated and restructured many of the guides<\/a> (also the website itself), as these are our most read articles. Keeping these up-to-date is a lot of work, so I try to do that on a yearly basis (mainly doing that in the winter months). I will not update the FE-List though and I may remove it from the header bar, as it becomes too outdated.<\/p>\n

There have also been a lot of reviews this year. We published reviews of:<\/p>\n