The Secret to Why Digital Medium Format is Better Than Full Frame

Up until 2 years ago, I only used Leica full-frame equipment (M-system and SL2). Two years ago, in addition to the full-frame Leica equipment, I also started shooting with Digital Medium Format, first with the Hasselblad X1D2 and recently also with the Fuji GFX 100s. I consider…

Two Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon

A site that rates apples. The SweeTango gets a 93/100 and is called "the best apple ever to grace the world of Gods and men". [applerankings.com] "The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything." [tasteatlas.com] --- Note: Quick Links are pushed to…

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“Fox Sports’ US World Cup Coverage Is An Unmissable Abomination”

There are plenty of problematic things about this year’s World Cup, starting with the human rights situation in the host country, but for US viewers, Fox Sports’ coverage is really stinking up the joint. Aaron Timms burns them down in The Guardian: In these circumstances yo…

Three Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

A version of the Eames' iconic Powers of Ten long zoom film done by Adam Pickard using the DALL·E 2 AI system. [twitter.com] Time magazine's list of best inventions of 2022. [time.com] The making of New York magazine's "Reasons to Love New York" cover. The moment I saw the imag…

Landscape Photographers, Check Out This Lens!

Tamron’s 17-28mm lens is discounted from its already great price! The Tamron Holiday 2022 deals are here now, and they last through beyond Christmas into the end of the year. So you’ve got ample opportunity to get the lenses you want. However, considering the massive number…

Destroy the World With This Asteroid Launcher Simulation

Creative coder Neal Agarwal has launched his newest project: Asteroid Launcher. You can choose the asteroid’s composition (iron, stone, comet, etc.), size, speed, angle of incidence, and place of impact. Then you click “launch” and see the havoc you’ve wrought upon the w…

Danny MacAskill’s Postcard From San Francisco

Trials rider and mountain biker Danny MacAskill is one of my long-running obsessions here — I first posted about him all the way back in 2009 and if there’s ever a kottke.org konference, you’d better believe MacAskill will be performing at it. Anyway, MacAskill recently…

Two Quick Links for Tuesday Morning

Becoming Athletic In My 50s. "Specifically, I felt the pleasure of figuring out what my body — and what my willpower — was capable of." [clivethompson.medium.com] Middlemarch and Me by @Rebeccamead_NYC. I read Middlemarch for the first time over the summer and loved it. [new…

We’ve Updated Our Canon RF Lens Guide. Take a Look!

For everyone who’s married into the Canon RF camera system, we’ve updated our lens guide. Within that guide you’ll see a complete library of reviews of Canon RF lenses. And you should also know that, as of today’s publishing, we’ve reviewed pretty much all of them. We�…

Is One Lens Really All a Photographer Needs?

For many, many years, photographers have only ever wanted to carry around a 24-70mm lens. And for equally as long, it wasn't really possible because it was so heavy. But the Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 Di III lens changed that. It delivers comparable quality at an affordable price while…

Five Quick Links for Monday Afternoon

You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World. The book includes code for the popup ad, the bitcoin paper, the Apollo 11 LM (of 1202 error fame), and the first computer worm. [bookshop.org] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was published 42 y…

The Winner of the Billingham Bags

Another month, another contest, right! Our members have enjoyed benefits and so much more since we launched this program. Lots of folks love our app, and you’re spending an average of 17 minutes at a time on there, engaged in the news and information we’re putting out. Most…

The NOW Clock

Based on an illustration she did for a tech blog in 2014, Hallie Bateman is selling the NOW clock, a timepiece that reminds you whatever time it happens to be, it’s also always the present moment. Tags: Hallie Bateman   time

Love a Good Train Station Mosaic

Dang, look at these new mosaics by Kiki Smith and Yayoi Kusama for Grand Central Madison, the MTA’s newest LIRR station. As a former (and future?) New Yorker, I know a lot of the city’s dwellers appreciate the MTA’s commitment to public art and to mosaics in particu…

Three Quick Links for Monday Noonish

Lovely thread of bestselling authors commiserating with debut novelist Chelsea Banning after only 2 people came to her author signing event. Min Jin Lee (Pachinko): "I did a book reading where only my husband’s cousin showed up. One person." [twitter.com] The 2022 Architecture…

Jamie

Jamie Freeman passed away yesterday. I first met Jamie as a fellow web-nerd way back in the early 2000s when I was freelancing here in Brighton. I did a lot of work with him and his design studio, Message. Andy was working there too. It’s kind of where the seeds of Clearleft…

20 Iconic Photos of the Climate Crisis

Gabrielle Schwarz at The Guardian has gathered 20 of the most iconic and meaningful photographs of the effects of the climate crisis. Metaphors abound. I think often of Kristi McCluer’s photograph of the golfers casually playing a round in proximity to 2017 Eagle Creek f…

Some of Our Favorite Tenba Bags Are Discounted

Some of our favorite Tenba bags have the savings, and there’s more! There are discounts on Tenba’s DNA camera bags right now that we think you should check out. We’ve reviewed the Tenba DNA 16 Backpack, Tenba DNA 9 backpack, and the Tenba DNA 16 messenger bag. These are ba…

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