My salary history

Times are tough out there. I know that a lot of people are looking for work, which can be a very stressful experience. One of the things that can make the job search stressful is uncertainty. There’s a real taboo around talking about salaries. This taboo ends up benefiting em…

The Best Budget Zoom Lenses From Nikon

Zoom lenses are quite important for photographers. One of the reasons is that they provide a versatile range in one lens, which is the most cost-effective for many photographers on a budget. If you are someone who has recently started using the Nikon system, then let us introduc…

Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a...

Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a collaborative album called (maybe?) Nine Inch Noize. Available April 17.

The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It...

The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission. It had little to do with science or celestial bodies; instead it was a moment shared by four curious, caring humans, united in purpose, far from home.

The Sunshine Recorder

I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d like to be similarly surprised, stop reading now and just watch the video. … … The sunshine recorder was inven…

Overton

Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy...

Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy single-handedly building a “billion-dollar company” using AI: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI. Oopsie!

The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi...

The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the secretive inventor of Bitcoin, names cryptographer Adam Back as the likeliest suspect. John Carreyrou has won Pulitzers & helped expose the Theranos scam, but his evidence seems thin.

Join Us for a Very Special Photography Workshop

This has been a very long time in the making, and I'm very excited to finally make this happen. The Phoblographer is launching workshops for photographers who want to find ways to grow beyond just what all the social media content developers and YouTubers tell you you need. And…

Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers

NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download. Basic Apple Guy has made some wallpapers of his own (that are slightly larger than NASA’s and better for iPhones). I have also made a few of my own: Ear…

Fendsday

How to prevent the all-knowing and all-doing from doing wrong. Very wrong. Just one approach. Wired: Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything When you whack a hornet's nest with a baseball bat while standing naked, what are the hornets going to do?…

Why The OM System OMD EM1 was Peak Micro Four Thirds

Olympus has launched some important cameras over the years and the EM1 is one of them. The device was launched in 2013 and was designed specifically to replace the old E5, a DSLR. What EM1 offered was not just a better design but also impressive features. For instance, it was a…

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI...

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.”

TinyStart

Sometimes I look back through my blogging archives and notice what’s changed over time. For example, I used to write quite enthusiastically about the arrival of a new operating system from Apple. That is no longer the case, to put it mildly. I’m currently holed up on Sequio…

Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada...

Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada might release some new music soon. Please let this be true, we need this!

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: What Siri does when you ask her to set alarm to 8am every day Thanks @nzrff for the picture #iOS #iPhone #Alarm #Siri #Apple

Profoto Did Something Cool, Finally

Not long ago, Profoto updated their Profoto Connect Pro transmitter with new firmware. It includes a lock screen and new TTL improvements for Nikon cameras. So I decided to update our review. And after even more time away from the product that I willingly spent money on, I've be…

This Brightin Star Lens Outdoes Sony, Canon, and Nikon’s Offerings

When it comes to third-party lens makers, there are only a handful who are trying to offer something different. One brand that is growing rapidly in this market is Brightin Star, a Hong-Kong based company, that has been offering some great primes for many Sony, Nikon, Leica and…

The Two Best Point-and-Shoot Cameras for New Street Photographers

Street photography is a genre that requires one to be less intimidating. One of the reasons being that your device should not scare people away. The only way to achieve this is with the help of smaller cameras, ones that can easily fit into your pocket. If you are someone who is…

Pentax Did Something Insanely Unique

Camera technology has seen immense change over the years. While there are devices that push the medium forward, there are some that tend to find solutions in the most unique ways. Pentax managed to achieve the two in one go with a specific camera that was designed for outdoor sh…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: The smaller the window, the more you can see! Thanks @valery_kirichenko for the video #Scaling

A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...

A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple products in order to charge the quickest. (Your charger’s wattage really matters when the device’s battery level is 0-50%. After that, less so.)

SG-image 35mm f2.2 Review: The Best Street Photography Lens?

It’s always refreshing to see a new player manufacture lenses, especially one that isn’t trying to compete with the usual heavyweights, opting instead to carve out its own niche. That’s exactly what SG-image has done with their AF 35mm f2.2 Full Frame Lens. Compact, lightw…

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon

This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the cr…

I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....

I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago. Kidder wrote the excellent The Soul of a New Machine, which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming...

Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming book, “a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto”.

Twos Day

Even more dead now The AP is abandoning its surname.

The Handmade Digital Camera That Could Have Saved Polaroid

When it comes to the world of cameras, there are some that left a mark, while there are others that, despite innovation, continue to be elusive in our memory. An example of the latter is the Polaroid PDC-2000, a device that was let go of too soon due to the changing environment.…

A Catalog of an Entire House/Life

In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics… absolutely everything. 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects.” You can explor…

Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage...

Teenager Michael Haskell “buys abandoned storage lockers at bargain prices…with the aim of selling their contents for profit”. But: “Two years into his pursuit, he knows all too well that every locker tells a story, many of them bleak.”

Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from...

Shoe Pop Dream Gaze, a three-hour playlist from Christina Hendricks’ all-vinyl DJ set. (You may remember Hendricks as Joan on Mad Men.)

My Complex Relationship with Ilford HP5 Plus 400

"Why someone told me that it's a great film for street photography is honestly a bit beyond my comprehension."