This Protects Amateur and Professional Photographers From Spending More Money

Let's be honest, you don't need a new camera: but yours is probably designed to fail after some time. 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 manufac…

Toosday

Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab:  We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation."

“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

“Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality. It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”

If the New Sony RX100 Has a 50MP Sensor, Noise Could Be an Issue

Sony has some wonderful compact cameras in the industry. The RX1R and the RX100 are two lineups that are designed for a certain audience in mind. The former helps professional photographers while the latter is designed to help young image-makers get exciting photos. It now appea…

I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...

I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context): “The uni-context is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts. There’s just one set of norms you should follow all times, irrespective of context.”

“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subject and apparently been working on it for 30 years, the tren…

VSCO is Turning American Highways into a Nationwide Photography Exhibit

There are only a few photography platforms that offer a balance of performance and reach. Adobe was ideal for performance, but in the age of AI, people are looking for ways to grow their business without depending too much on artificial intelligence. As part of their new initiat…

Big AI Tech is Messing With Phoblographer. We Need Your Help

For the past months, big AI tech has been messing really hard with the Phoblographer. They’ve made our traffic have a major drop even though we’ve got clear evidence that we’re still reporting on the stories that you folks want to read. With that said, I’m pleading with…

“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...

“Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years… For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10.2 billion years of full health gained.”

The Photography Technique that Landscape and Portrait Photographers Love

Several years ago, I had my original Sony a7 converted to full-spectrum infrared by the folks over at Kolari Vision. What it allowed me to do is something that genuinely challenges and stimulates my mind in a way that otherwise never happens. Just by using certain filters, I can…

Sirui 35mm f1.4 Aurora Review: Japanese Quality for 1/4 of the Price

The other day when taking the Sirui 35mm f1.4 Aurora out for a photowalk with a new friend, he asked me what made it special and unique vs every other 35mm f1.4 lens out there. And that question has been in my head for the entire time that it's been mounted to my Leica SL2s. Thi…

The Tamron 25-200mm is Essentially a Macro Lens Now

Even though it seems like they're going to be sold to Sony, Tamron is still not done doing some really good stuff. Just recently, the company announced their latest 3.0 firmware update for the Tamron 25-200mm f2.8-5.6 G2 lens. The new update promised to make the close focusing c…

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease.” The key difference: “the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change.”

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant...

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives”. Like: “I keep a to-do list in a paper notebook, but my boss believes I have an AI task-keeping assistant via Claude.”

The Godox C100 has Retro-Future Looks. Is it Worth the Frustration?

While many of the big camera companies have largely decided that cheap, simple-to-use digital cameras are just not worth making, an entire subgenre of photography appears to be emerging. The success of other, quirky low-res cameras has, in no small part, contributed to the explo…

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in...

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in Malta. “Come tax season, the Broomfield, Colo., company has claimed that all its global profits were actually earned in this two-person office.” The US is not a serious country.

How to Give a Eulogy

Tom Chiarella shares his rules for giving a eulogy. It may hurt to write it. And reading it? For some, that’s the worst part. The world might spin a little, and everything familiar to you might fade for a few minutes. But remember, remind yourself as you stand there, you are…

An tuath ’s ceart

I spent the last three weeks in the north of Ireland. Myself and Jessica flew to Belfast where we spent the first night. We managed to get to a session that evening where we were warmly welcomed. The next day we travelled to Donegal. A train from Belfast to Derry. A bus from D…

The Doulas Who Help Us Die . “Instead of assisting...

The Doulas Who Help Us Die. “Instead of assisting in the birthing room or the nursery, end-of-life doulas could keep vigil over people during their last hours, providing comfort and companionship and helping a family find peace.”

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the...

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the idea of releasing a swarm of tiny probes (weighing only a few grams each) into Saturn’s rings to study them up close.

Unotherday

Beyond wet and dry Bruce Li in Hackernoon:  AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think Pull-quote:  The data centers rising out of the desert didn't create the water crisis. They did something arguably more useful: they made it legible. A 200-megawatt facility asking a sma…

Whetherday

Check them out Hackernoon today: Cyber Libertarians: Esther Dyson & The Knowledge Age. Esther is an old friend and one of my favorite people. Front burner for her right now is .agent. Exit signals Last night we were suffering through one of the most annoying movies we've ever s…

How to Begin Your Portrait Photography Journey

One of the first genres that people dabble with as photographers are street and portraits. Sometimes, the latter takes precedence, with some photographers often finding it challenging to start their journey. If you are someone who is unsure what to do in the initial stages of yo…

Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk

So, I’m not exactly sure what this is, but what it appears to be is a fan-assembled album of the recording sessions for Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk & Joseph Trapanese. 67 tracks in this YouTube playlist and 61 tracks from the Internet Archive (not sure of the overlap here…)…

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole...

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed. “A whole lot of people under the age of 45 no longer believe that indicators such as wages, unemployment, or the number of college degrees that are handed out…have much to do with a healthy economy.”

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not...

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not Understand Where AI Is At. “There’s a huge gulf between a chatbot that’s just putting text into your brain and an agent that uses code to interact with an external environment.”

Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People...

Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People (and don’t just treat them like ATMs). “The best of them are running campaigns that acknowledge that to win, Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.”

The Nikon 600mm f6.3, Popular With Birders, Gets Suspended

Nikon has some wonderful lenses in their portfolio for young photographers. Models such as the 40mm f2, the 24-120 f4, and the 600mm f6.3 are some budget offerings from the company. It now appears that Nikon is suspending the order of the 600mm lens, effective from August. Why i…

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