The Record
Corrections
3 entries. Appended, never removed.
A newspaper that is willing to tell you what a sink drain is doing owes you an equal willingness to say when it got something wrong. This is where that happens. It is kept in public, at a fixed address, linked from the bottom of every page, because a corrections record you have to hunt for is not a corrections record. It is a filing cabinet.
An entry is owed for anything we published and got wrong. Published means a reader could have read it without being handed a private link. A draft is not published. A staging page is not published, however briskly it answers the door. Correcting those here would be a performance, and we have quite enough of those.
Entries are added and never edited away. A corrections column that loses its worst entry is a marketing page with a serif font. Where the wrong version still exists somewhere — an archived edition, someone's cache — the entry states the right figure rather than pretending the wrong one was never printed.
We would like to report that this page is short because we are careful. It is short because the paper is new. The apparatus for admitting error was built some time before there was any error to admit, which is either admirable or a symptom, and we decline to say which.
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From the Desk: The Database
2026-11-02
- What we published
- The piece counted 362 lenses across six mounts and listed The Bigger Sensor as “20 GF lenses”. One of the alternate headlines the front page could show for it began “Five Mounts”.
- What is true
- On the day it ran, the GF ledger printed 35 GF-mount lenses: Fujifilm’s 20, and 15 from other makers in a separate table on the same page. The total was 377, not 362. There were six mounts, as the piece itself said. The headline had been written before the M42 ledger joined and was not changed with the rest. The piece now gives its counts as of November 2026, which have grown since for other reasons.
- How it surfaced
- A recount of every figure in the piece against the ledgers’ data, made because the November admissions had outgrown several of them. The 15 had been on the page all along; the sum had never been taken from it.
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The Workshop: The Database
2026-11-01
- What we published
- The list of ledgers said a sweep of the native X-mount line-up found “precisely one thing money cannot buy: nothing tilts and nothing shifts.”
- What is true
- Native X-mount tilt and shift lenses exist. AstrHori sells two tilt lenses and an 18mm shift lens in the mount, and Artra Lab a 50mm pan-tilt lens. All four are now in The Glass. The sweep covered only the lenses this desk already listed. What survives is narrower: none of the four says how far it shifts, and only the Artra Lab lens says how far it tilts.
- How it surfaced
- The same sentence had been withdrawn from the data behind the ledger a month before the article ran, and survived in the prose. It came to light when the AstrHori and Artra Lab lenses were admitted to the ledger.
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Corrections — this page
2026-08-15
- What we published
- This column opened, on the day it was created, with two entries concerning pages that had never been published.
- What is true
- They were staging pages: noindex, absent from the sitemap, and listed in no section, edition or front page — reachable only by someone already holding the link. Neither item met the standard set out in the first paragraph of this column, roughly a hand’s width above where the entries were printed. Both have been removed. The underlying errors were real and were fixed at source. They were simply nobody’s business.
- How it surfaced
- A reader observed that the rule and the page were not on speaking terms.
Found something else we got wrong? Good — that is the intended use of a newspaper, and this column has the space.
