The Tokina 16-28mm f2.8 Opera Lens Only Costs $699

Though the Tokina 16-28mm f2.8 Opera lens is quite an interesting focal length choice, it should prove to be more than enough to astrophotographers, landscape photographers, architectural shooters, photowalking and general landscape photography. This is a lens designed for full…

Special Report: Shooting Street Photography With the Ricoh GR III in NYC

If you were to sit there and compile a list of cult cameras, the majority of them would be analog--but in the digital world one can consider the predecessors to the Ricoh GR III to be cult classics. Along with the Fujifilm X100 series of cameras, the Ricoh GR has been fascinatin…

Worlding Raga: 1

I have found a new evil twin, my first new one in a decade. His name is Ian Cheng and he is an artist. In my 2009 post on evil twins, I defined an evil twin as: “…somebody who thinks exactly like you in most ways, but differs in just a few critical ways that end up […]

The Hawaii Darkroom to Bring Community Darkroom Experience to the Big Island

Heads up, film photographers! If you've setup your own darkroom and hope that more people will get to experience its magic, here's a project that definitely deserves your support. With your pledge on Kickstarter, you'll help bring the complete darkroom experience to the film pho…

Mirrorworld

Over on the Failed Architecture site, there’s a piece about Kevin Lynch’s 1960 book The Image Of The City. It’s kind of fun to look back at a work like that, from today’s vantage point of ubiquitous GPS and smartphones with maps that bestow God-like wayfinding. How much…

These Leicas Apparently Saved Photojournalist Gabriele Micalizzi’s Life

Typically when photojournalists survive dangerous encounters in a war zone, it's because of some protective gear that they have--but for Gabriele Micalizzi, his Leica cameras saved him. According to a post made on Reddit, the cameras that saved him are the Leica Q and the Leica…

A tiny lesson in query selection

We have a saying at Clearleft: Everything is a tiny lesson. I bet you learn something new every day, even if it’s something small. These small tips and techniques can easily get lost. They seem almost not worth sharing. But it’s the small stuff that takes the least effo…

Karen Arango’s Portraits Of First Gen American Girls Highlights The Demand For Them To Grow Up Quickly

Over the decades, America has become home to Latin Americans who have settled in the country. For those that left their nation behind, they have brought new culture - whilst trying to adjust to expectations put on them in the place they now call home. But there’s a new generat…

Design sprint?

Our hack week at CERN to reproduce the WorldWideWeb browser was five days long. That’s also the length of a design sprint. So …was what we did a design sprint? I’m going to say no. On the surface, our project has all the hallmarks of a design sprint. A group of people wh…

Jacob Howard’s Gorgeous Landscapes on a Mamiya 7 II with Kodak Portra

Kodak Portra films are among the favorites of today's film photographers for portrait and wedding photography. But if you want to satisfy your curiosity and see how it would perform for landscape shots, we have a fine example for you from Wellington-based photographer Jacob Howa…

Give Me What You Want

As long as the subscription-box market successfully positions passivity as the ultimate convenience, its belief system will encourage customers to detach themselves from their own tastes and from consumerism at large and rechannel their newfound energy into becoming allegedly be…

Four short links: 21 February 2019

Internet of Shite, Parsing JSON, Remote-First, and Biased ML Nike Just Bricked Its Self-Lacing Shoes by Accident -- Android users are experiencing problems. The bug reports (left in app comments) are classic 21C This Is Not The Cyberpunk Future I Was Promised. The first soft…

Review: Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f4 S (Nikon Z Mount)

It can be argued that a camera system is only as good as the lenses available, and this is especially true when launching a brand new camera system, as is the case with the Nikon Z Mount series. One of three lenses that were announced at the launch of Nikon's brand new Z Mount,…

Al Mefer Uses Long Exposures to Reveal the “Phantoms of the Brain”

Memory, thoughts, and emotions are all popular subjects for all kinds of photography pursuits, and we've put the spotlight on a good number of them here. It's always interesting to see how photographers play with some of the most visceral concepts of our humanity. A perfect exam…

A Grand Unified Theory of Work

9 Budget Friendly But Good Sony FE Mount Lenses (Under $600)

Here's the good news: we've tested loads and loads of lenses for Sony E mount; and you can see some in our database right here. And then there's better news: we've scoured through our reviews index to pick and choose some of the best lenses for the money if you're looking for en…

6 Sharp Prime Lenses For Sony E Mount Cameras Under $600

Sony has done an outstanding job with their APS-C camera line up. The old Sony NEX system really started changing people's view about crop sensor cameras. The release of the a6000, a6300, and the a6500 and all of the new technology they brought to the supposedly 'non-pro' APS-C…

Predictable Identities: 1

Your brains are constantly trying to predict incoming signals, like the words you'll encounter in this post.

Then and Now: Beatles Fans in 1964 Ringo Starr Photo Recreate Iconic Shot

Reddit is a treasure trove for all things weird, wonderful, obscure, stuff you might forgotten about or even haven't been aware of. A perfect example is this thread that reminds that Ringo Starr once photographed a group of high schoolers while the Beatles were touring the US in…

Crowd Goes Nuts for Extremely Satisfying DVD Logo Bounce

Popping bubble wrap, sharpening a new pencil, catching a falling glass in the knick of time, waking up before your alarm. Some things are just really, really satisfying. If you’re of a certain age, you’ve probably spent more time than you’d care to admit staring at a TV fo…

FDA rebukes noted vampire Peter Thiel

Beware of Using Young People's Blood to Halt Aging: "There is no proven clinical benefit of infusion of plasma from young donors to cure, mitigate, treat or prevent these conditions, and there are risks associated with the use of any plasma product," the FDA said in a statement…

Launch Conditions

Confessions of an Adventurous Picky Eater

Amanda Mull on How to Stop Hating Your Least Favorite Food: I’ve never had a traumatic barf experience with cucumbers, so my aversion is probably just an innate dislike. And the culprit behind my long-term cuke hatred might be in the vegetable’s smell, more specifically tha…