The 2 Best Budget APS-C Cameras To Choose Today

When it comes to purchasing cameras today, there are a few options to choose from. Either spend a lot of money to get the best gear, or buy second-hand full-frame options from a decade ago. However, there is a third option: buying a new APS-C camera. Here are two pretty great op…

Help the Phoblographer, Get Free Presets

In December 2025, The Phoblographer turned 16 years old. I, as the Editor in Chief/Founder/Publisher, am pretty proud that I've been able to keep the online magazine around for that long. So for the belated sweet 16 and for the month of my personal 39th birthday, I'm giving a sp…

The Best Camp Snap Pro Presets You Can Download Now

Unlike even my smallest camera bodies, the Camp Snap Pro feels like the perfect companion to moving around and photographing your adventures without overthinking the process. Best of all, Camp Snap as a company has fully embraced its users’ “hacking” of the base camera’s…

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

Eye Day

Cyclops time. Thirteen years ago, when I was just entering the final demographic, I had the cataract in my right eye replaced. It was a quick and easy procedure that left me with 20/10 vision when I walked out the door of the surgery center. It's still that sharp. Which is good,…

This Week in the IndieWeb

February 6-13, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #046 Thursday, February 12 at 10:00am Online! Zoom!Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the we…

If what you want is to see tiny people all over your...

If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has the same effect worldwide: lilliputian hallucinations.

A Brief History of Japanese Art

I know I probably say this every time I post videos like this, but I wish I’d gotten into art & art history earlier than I did. Channels like Behind the Masterpiece are so good at making this stuff come alive and their Brief History of Japanese Art scratches my recent inter…

On historical accuracy in movies (Wuthering Heights,...

On historical accuracy in movies (Wuthering Heights, The Odyssey) and the “anxious, professional monitoring in which the images onscreen must be checked and rechecked for their accordance with the original text and preexisting notions about it”.

These Lightroom Presets are What You’re Looking For. And They’re Free!

In December 2025, The Phoblographer turned 16 years old. I, as the Editor in Chief/Founder/Publisher, am pretty proud that I've been able to keep the online magazine around for that long. So for the belated sweet 16 and for the month of my personal 39th birthday, I'm giving a sp…

The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs . This is...

The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs. This is an interesting and thoughtful read.

Recently released: Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing...

Recently released: Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play. “What magical mushroom could have turned an unassuming playing card company into one of the dominant cultural forces of the twenty-first century?”

A molly guard is a safety cover that you need to move...

A molly guard is a safety cover that you need to move out of the way before pressing an important button. “Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button…”

How Ilford Delta 400 Became My Favorite Film for Street Photography

"For the first time, I had felt betrayed. Years and years of an industry and marketing teaching me that Kodak Tri-X 400 was the absolute best and that there is no reason for you to go out there and try anything else."

Polar explorer and scientist Felicity Aston shares her...

Polar explorer and scientist Felicity Aston shares her beauty uniform. “When I come back from an expedition, my hair is in the GREATEST shape. That whole thing about washing your hair less frequently? It’s true.”

Food Is Love is a collection of essays about “how...

Food Is Love is a collection of essays about “how memory, food, and love are all intertwined”. “We are reminded that food is an expression of love, and sometimes the only way people who loved us were capable of showing it.”

14-year old Miles Wu recently won the top prize at a...

14-year old Miles Wu recently won the top prize at a junior innovators competition for an origami shape that can hold 10,000 times its own weight “that could be used to build deployable shelters for emergency situations like natural disasters”.

The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century...

The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century. I’ve only seen a few of these; I’ve added a bunch to my to-see list. Any particular faves? Or additions to the list?

Comments Are Back On

As I mentioned previously, comments have been unavailable on the site for the past few weeks: There was a rise in casual negativity that felt too close to how social media feels, i.e. a place where even well-meaning folks are not incentivized to think “this isn’t for me”…

The 4 Photographers Who’d Love the Retro Portable Mini Camera

When I came across a $50 digicam on AliExpress that looked like a mini–Mamiya M645, I just had to try it out. This camera isn’t for everyone, but here’s a breakdown of the four kinds of photographers who would love it.

Fun fact of the day: at the height of his quadruple axel,...

Fun fact of the day: at the height of his quadruple axel, Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin is spinning at 350 rpm, “about the same as a kitchen stand mixer”.

We’ve Updated Several Viltrox Lens Reviews for the Sony a7V

I'm one of the journalists in the photography world with nearly every single Viltrox lens in his possession. Viltrox often provides these for free to reviewers -- which is something that the Phoblographer fully declares in our reviews. But I also own various lenses that I've bou…