The Ricoh GR IVx Goes for 40mm, Still Lacks Weather Sealing

Ricoh Imaging has finally announced a new camera in their GR lineup: the GR IVx. The device ditches the 28mm lens for a new 40mm focal range, new autofocus, and honestly not much else. The announcement comes less than a year after the GR IV, which then positions the Ricoh GR IVx…

Luminar for Photographers Who Don’t Want a Complicated Editing Workflow

Does photo editing really need to involve dozens of panels, confusing terminology, and hours of trial and error? For many photographers, it doesn’t. The best editing software should help you strengthen an image without getting in the way of your creativity. Luminar offers a st…

Generic Methods

The Go Blog Generic Methods Mark Freeman 26 August 2026 Generics was a profound change for Go—it fundamentally expanded the kinds of programs that gophers could write by adding type parameters to the language. One could now express gen…

7Artisans 10mm f2.5 Fisheye Review: The Most Fun I’ve Had in Years

The 7Artisans 10mm f2.5 fisheye has to be one of my favorite lenses that I've used this year. And in nearly every way, the brand almost totally knocked the ball out of the park. 7Artisans has been making some really solid autofocus lenses this year. After releasing the 135mm f1.…

Get This Before the Holiday Season for Your Next Camera

What's a brand new camera purchase without protection? A while ago, the Phoblographer created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with Full Frame Insurance. It was made directly in response to the camera and lens manufactures not always honoring their warranties base…

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Everything to Know About the New Polaroid Pokémon Edition Cameras

Polaroid and the Pokémon company have announced a new set of instant cameras, with pre-orders beginning from today. These Polaroid Pokémon Edition cameras are one of the smartest marketing tools, enabling Polaroid to increase its brand reach by tapping into a large, but niche,…

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly, but some vari…

The benchmarkpocalypse

There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse. While it's become easier than ever t…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: An Italian energy company puts a black overlay over their website and claims to be “saving energy” this way. Thanks @FaviFake for the picture #Overlay #Energy #Bullshit

Or It Didn’t Happen Wants to Be Your Instagram Replacement

There's a new app for photographers, it's called Or It Didn't Happen. It aims to be a new photo app designed to make the actual aspect of being social a whole lot easier for photographers, not content creators. Social media apps are at the center of every conversation. If you ar…

The 135mm Lens that I Keep Dreaming Of

I'm very critical of Sigma's lenses partially because I really think that giving us an ultra-crystal clear render of the world isn't what we need in the face of generative AI. Yet at the same time, I also acknowledge when they do some really, truly remarkable things. And for the…

Placemark is now fully open source

Context: Placemark is a tool that lets you view, create, and edit geospatial (map) data. I ran it as a company for a while and open sourced it when I shut down that company. Yesterday Placemark got a pretty big PR from Birk Skyum, replacing its dependency on Mapbox GL JS with Ma…

The Golden Hour Portrait Photo Tricks Everyone Forgot

Way too many photographers are shooting portraits and then showing off the edits on social media. And it's all just to get more views. But what about actually making better photographs with intentionality in the first place? That's what we're discussing today -- and how it start…