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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Why Hasn’t China Tried to Make a Digital Leica Clone?
Almost 10 years ago, I flew to Photokina and published a first-impressions review of the Zenit M Digital rangefinder. In this case, Zenit and Leica collaborated on making the camera. That, of course, was a Russian company. And this collaboration has had me questioning something…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US,...
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word. “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
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Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying acros…
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Is The Canon 24-105mm F4L Worth Your Time In 2026?
Canon's L-series lenses have been quite fantastic in varied ways. They not only offer some great image quality, but they are also far more durable than many other lenses. But what happens to those lenses that are now turning a decade old? Do they continue to be relevant or do th…
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Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable...
Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”
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Sony RX10 V Review: We Found the Problems No One Else Mentioned
The Sony RX10 V has a problem that more reviewers aren't talking about. And suspiciously, there's a lot of insanely positive press about the camera despite a few problems that really should be talked about. The Phoblographer wasn't part of the initial wave of reviews of the Sony…
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Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some...
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.”
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Stutterer
Stutterer by Benjamin Cleary won the 2016 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film and is now available to view online for free courtesy of the New Yorker. It’s a thirteen-minute movie about a young London typographer named Greenwood (Matthew Needham). Greenwood stutters, to…
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life...
Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again. “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utopia.”
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Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII, Mosley had founded the British Union of Fascists. BUF had a…
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The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S....
The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S. Next? “Electoral dictators — who identify as presidents and prime ministers — hold uncompetitive and unfair elections after aggressively suppressing political opponents.”
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A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on...
A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on designer Saul Bass and his influence on the art of movie title design. They also did videos on Pablo Ferro and Kyle Cooper.
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What Nigel Barker Taught Me About Portraiture
Around 10 years ago, I conducted an interview with photographer Nigel Barker. The moment felt akin to encountering a legendary Pokémon of some sort -- at least if you're a millennial who loved video games. And as a photographer, it can sometimes feel like an other-worldly exper…
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One of the Best Tamron Lenses Came to Nikon Z Mount
The Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 received a 5 star review from us at the Phoblographer back in 2022 when I reviewed. Notably, I was in love with the bokeh. "The bokeh from this lens is something pretty special," I said in the review. "...With that said, the Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 delivers a…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Time to book your rides
AI isn’t just a “surf’s up” moment. It’s a tsunami. You have to surf that tsunami, just to keep from drowning. Using your time. Your calendar is your surfboard. What’s your best beach for riding that calendar? Well, right now there are countless conferences with ��…
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Great Deals on Apple Stuff Today
Just wanted to dip in here to say that Amazon is running another one of their sales for Prime members, which can be a great opportunity to upgrade some tech items at lower prices, especially with the price increases we’ve seen recently. Just a couple of quick things: The…
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“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that...
“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.”
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