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This Week in the IndieWeb

November 14-21, 2025 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Thursday, November 20 at 6:00pm DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Xafé im KAP1 BibliothekscaféHomebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for e…

Knokke by Soke Looks Super Exciting For Analog Photographers

There are some photography tools that you want to get out of your way, and then there are others that you want to keep using and admiring. Knokke appears to firmly belong to the latter group. It resembles something milled for a watchmaker’s bench or a sound engineer’s rack,…

5 Best Lenses From 2010 That We Still Love

Old lenses are quite useful even on newer cameras. One of the reasons that they continue to be quite promising is that they offer value and image quality. For those beginning photography for the first time, these lenses hold a lot of promise for your immediate needs. All you nee…

The Best Laowa Lenses Under $600 for Gen Z Users

Third-party lens makers, such as Venus Optics' Laowa, have created affordable lenses that are perfect for many young creators. If you are someone who has just begun your journey but needs lenses that can meet your varying needs, then we have a few options for you. Typically, fro…

The Coolest Compact Cameras You Can Find Under $400 for Gen Z

Compact cameras experienced a slow but explosive resurgence in the photo industry. With about two years of this trend taking over the industry, we take a look back at some iconic models from multiple brands that continue to hold candle even today. If you are someone who is keen…

Linklings

Hiss After AM Cuts, Tesla Dropping FM Radio From Entry Level Models. I want one Companion Intelligence looks very close to what I've been calling for here. What's the opposite? Darius Van Arman has a lot to say about market concentration. (For reasons I can't grok, the long hea…

The Best Prime Lenses from Tamron You Can Find Under $500

Third-party Japanese lens makers have earned their spot in the lens market. Companies such as Tamron have been trying to offer a valuable service to photographers while ensuring they achieve the best image quality. If you're looking for a second lens or a budget-friendly option,…

We’ll see

Daniel Barkhuff has a serious one-liner bio ("Husband, Dad, Emergency Medicine physician, Veteran") and speaks with earned authority from all of them, especially the last two. His latest, On Living Memory, reminds me of two dads. One is my father, who re-enlisted in 1944 at ag…

Photographers: This is Better Than a Warranty

Hey pros! Listen up! Our photography insurance program is designed to be there when photographers really need it! We’re giving you more than the competition can in different ways! Here’s a little-known fact: the warranty of your camera or lens doesn’t necessarily cover wha…

Manuel Matuzovič is speaking at Web Day Out

The line-up for Web Day Out is now complete! The final speaker to be added to the line-up is the one and only Manuel Matuzovič. You may know Manuel from his superb Web Accessibility Cookbook (full disclosure: I had the honour of writing the foreword to that book). Or perhaps y…

Has Camp Snap Secretly Updated Its CS-8 Video Camera?

The Camp Snap CS-8 is one of the more exciting camera releases this year and is easily one of the most recognizable by actual human beings that don’t review cameras for a living. The camera has only been out in the wild for a few months and is constantly on backorder – so im…

A Bright Light Has Gone Out

I’m headed out on an unexpected trip this afternoon, to attend the funeral of Dr. Steve Feller, who was my advisor in college and to whom I owe a great deal. I talked about Doc, as all his students called him, on this podcast with Craig Mod several years ago. From the transc…

Leica’s Q3 Monochrom Is the First Q Camera to Offer Authentic, Tamper-Proof Photos

Since the invention of digital sensors, one often photographs in color and then converts the images to black and white. While this may not significantly impact the image, it does limit one's use of extremely high ISO settings. To help purists who want the best of black and white…

Leica Q3 Monochrom Review: You’ll Make Beautiful Images With This

While I love that the Leica Q3 Monochrom exists, I’m struggling to understand why it exists. There surely are folks who think in black and white and will only ever shoot in black and white. You’d probably think that the sensor would render images similarly, right? Then I rem…

My Pace

Goro Obata went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. In the mountains of Hokkaido, Goro Obata traded ci…

Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original...

Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” Stigler’s law is itself an example of Stigler’s law. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →