The Designer Who Saw the Future of Cameras Before Anyone Else

Every era in photography has seen its share of standard camera designs. For instance, film cameras were rangefinder-style, offering a more or less the same set of built-in buttons. The DSLR era changed that, with newer modern DSLRs having the best of both bulky and smaller desig…

Early Arthropods

Numb Day

So call it a paycast Netflix is pitching their new talk videos as "podcasts." They are not. If you want to know what a podcast really is, go to the blogfather: Dave Winer. Says Dave, "A podcast is a series of digital media files made available over the open web through an RSS fe…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Buttons floating over content were a mistake Thanks juanca for the video

Unlike Influencers, We’re Not Bought!

Let's quickly talk about the economics of running Phoblographer. Real talk: if everyone who came to the site was charged $1, I'd have enough money in under a week to fund the website for the entire year without banner ads. Trust me, if I could get rid of banner ads, I would. But…

A collection of dartboards used in different areas of the UK. “The...

A collection of dartboards used in different areas of the UK. “The closure of pubs and leagues not being fed with new players, unfortunately, leads to some of the boards just being consigned to history.”

Scientists have detected a swole neutrino, a potential signal from a primordial...

Scientists have detected a swole neutrino, a potential signal from a primordial black hole, which may have formed “before there were even atoms, let alone stars”.

The Best Book Covers of the Past Decade

Every year since 2016, Literary Hub has asked a group of book cover designers for their picks for the best book covers of the year. Using 10 years of data, here are their picks for the best covers of the last decade. I’ve included a few of my personal favorites below.…

“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which...

“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox.

Abolish ICE

Several days ago, ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. As is now customary, Stephen Miller interrupted his usual torrent of racist anti-immigrant abuse on Twitter to call out Pretti as an "assassin" and a "domestic terrorist" in an attempt to frame this as some kind…

Vibe Reviewing

Steve Yegge shipped 225,000 lines of Go code he's never read. I just hit 170k lines on a side project without looking at the code. Vibe-coding is old news at this point, but what about vibe-reviewing? And possibly more terrifying: Can we build software without reading the code a…

No, the Price of Your Leica Camera Isn’t Going to Hit an All Time Low

I remember when I bought my Leica M6 from a Sony Artisan. Immediately after purchasing it, I loaded it with film and took a photograph of the Norwood Club, where we did the transaction. The fine gentleman who sold it to me was touched emotionally because he realized that he was…

“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques...

“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.”

M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic...

M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”

Thomas Zimmer on the stakes of Minnesota’s struggle against tyranny. “A society...

Thomas Zimmer on the stakes of Minnesota’s struggle against tyranny. “A society that has any aspiration to be free and democratic cannot — it must not! — tolerate the existence of an agency like ICE.”

ICE/DHS has killed nine people in 2026 (that we know of): Keith...

ICE/DHS has killed nine people in 2026 (that we know of): Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos, Alex Pretti, and Renee Good.

Emily Witt reports on The Battle for Minneapolis for the New Yorker....

Emily Witt reports on The Battle for Minneapolis for the New Yorker. “Federal agents attempting to stop U.S. citizens from monitoring them have broken observers’ car windows, doused them with pepper spray, and shoved protesters to the ground.”

The 3 Best Full-Frame Nikon Cameras That Dominate in High-ISO Shooting

Some Nikon cameras have models that perform better than others in low light. In the DSLR series, the DF, D850, and D750 were additions that offer good performance at night. But with the Z mount now a main component of the company, we have decided to reveal the models that shine…

I was Born Rich. Of Course, I’m a Leica Photographer

If there were ever a single camera company that has positioned itself at the center of the “greatest of all time” conversation, it is Leica. Born in Wetzlar, Germany, the original Leica changed photography and what was possible in it forever. And their fans will never let yo…

Implementing the transcendental functions in Ivy

Towards the end of 2014, in need of pleasant distraction, I began writing, in Go, my second pseudo-APL, called Ivy. Over the years, Ivy's capabilities expanded to the point that it's now being used to do things such as to design floating-point printing algorithms. That was unexp…

An Intro to Screenless Digital Cameras

There have been a bunch of new cameras that have come out in the past few years. But the most fascinating ones for photographers are the new screenless digital cameras available now. These are an ode to a world long gone now, before social media, algorithms telling us what's a g…

Flying Fckery

Go now to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. Cick on the blue Play button and watch The Great Storm of January 25-26 move across the land and cause massive delays at airports in its path. I have a 1.59 GB movie (.mov) of what you just saw. What should I do with it? Bonus image:

Photographers: It’s Time to Give Your Mind a Rest

Dear photographers: it's time to put the camera down for a bit. You don't need to live behind your lens all the time and you need to realize that too much time with a camera can feel like a job that you don't want. So you need to give it a break. But this goes far beyond the cam…