Will the Sony A7R VI Outgun the A1 II?

When it comes to choosing the best mirrorless cameras, Sony is one name that often pops up. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned photographer, Sony has a vast range of offerings for your varying needs. The a7 series, for instance, has multiple cameras that are better suited…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: I bought a teapot. It’s not a function of a teapot to show time. This one does, though—it has a computer. It also completely misunderstands how analog clocks work. In a normal clock, the hour hand moves continuously: it starts at the current hour mark, sits half…

What Companies Deserve a Free Customer award?

Customer Commons has taken on the job of opening a true blue ocean: a vast, uncontested market space where customers are free and respected for what they bring to business as independent participants working at full agency. Specifically, free customers— A Free Customer Award w…

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Or re-lives OpenCola lives. HT Cory.

Lightroom’s AI Assisted Culling is Incredible for Sports Photography

Image file sizes are getting larger, the number of photos in each photo session is getting more thanks to higher burst speeds, and hard drives are getting filled up as a result. All of this leads to longer editing and post-processing times. Using AI in a good way for your benefi…

How You Can Help Us Protect Photographers

Remember when Jeff Bezos laid off a bunch of working photographers? We do. And we're working to move more and more away from his grip. We're one of the only publications working to help you make images that AI can't really create. In 2025, I started to do things that otherwise w…

The Olympus EM1 Mk III Now Has a Superpower. Is it Good in 2026?

The Phoblographer's staff is pretty adamant about one big fact: you don't need a new camera despite what some YouTuber or a larger photography website may have been telling you. And nowhere is that more truthful than with the Olympus and OM System Micro Four Thirds lineups. Besi…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Microsoft Teams be like: - A square with the arrow pointing to the top right - A square with the arrow pointing to the top right - A square with the arrow pointing to the top right - Copilot Thanks @yermishkina for the picture #Microsoft #Teams #Icons

From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!

From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set. 7 hours!

The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the...

The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World. The film is showing in select locations around the country and will air on PBS this summer.

Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...

Ultimate Online Phreak Box. “This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box.” (With this and a time machine, you could make free phone calls in the 1970s.)

This Week in the IndieWeb

April 3-10, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, April 8 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany Wednesday, April 8 at 6:00pm NÜRNBERG, Bayern: Fakultät Design Technische Hochschule Nürnbe…

TGI Day

Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start with Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social Media has Become a Freak Show, by Nate Silver. Thing is, more and more people in the U.S. now get their news (if that's what it is)…

Our Presets are Truly Something Very Special

If you use Lightroom or Capture One, you'll love these. For several years now, the Phoblographer has been actively selling presets to our audience. And folks have been loving them. We started with presets designed for those of us who love photojournalism. Then we added the retro…

A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...

A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT. Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.

An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...

An interview with Ronald Wayne, Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)

Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony

From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony. The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was their first single. From Wikipedia: “Ceremony” was one of the la…

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