Nikon recently updated the firmware of their Nikon Zf. And with that, I was truly wondering what had happened. In fact, I was waiting for this specifically. The changes seemed to be very odd until I did some deep testing. What I've found is that Nikon is preparing for a way to s…
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month. For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas…
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender). “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
You're probably about to feel betrayed reading this. Here's a little-known fact: the warranty of your camera or lens doesn't necessarily cover what happens to it in case of dust, inclement weather, etc. That's why we created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with F…
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece. “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).
Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of t…
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. “Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list.”
The debate around artificial intelligence has never been more profound than it is today. Creatives around the world have been consistently rallying to create meaningful guardrails around AI's inclusion in everyday workflow. While there are many concerns that companies are not ye…
“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game.”
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years. “There’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”
Many photographers prefer to get some nice creamy bokeh to make their images stand out. While there are many first-party variants, they cost you thousands of dollars to get one good optical system. Those who can afford it will certainly go after first-party lenses, but those who…
I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter (Instagram, Threads). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”.
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot. “Compassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.”
Humans have often loved and adored the stars. By simply looking up at the dark sky, which shines with glints of diamonds, we realise how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. With many interested in the genre but unsure how to begin, we have decided to list a few suggestion…
Every year when the World Press Photo awards are announced, we do a breakdown of the gear that was used to make the images. It's something that every photographer wants to know about in the same way that photographers want to know about the Nikon camera in outer space. So we did…
Sony has introduced some great sensors, which offer not just good colors but also great speed. Pair this with AI processors, you get yourself a camera that can withstand anything. Look at the a7 V or the a1 II. While there have been reports of the company introducing a 105MP sen…
After the popularity of our review of Imalume software, we here at the Phoblographer decided to partner with them. Imalume is a service that offers photographers a very affordable way to track down if their images are being used without consent and then to move forward with goin…
To hasten hest. Behest, behave, behold, come now — meet kiki. Left from over a machine god awoken from the millennium broken. Designate, determinate, uxn, bqn, k, q, alike but not you — seek kiki. Out past the moon-sea see-moon, where the void-knights ride dead-le…
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”
From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification. It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse. Software becomes increasingly difficult and frustrating to use, w…
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking workshop with Werner Herzog (in the Azores). “Take your camera, get the shot, forgo storyboards, don’t overdo it and, above all else, do the doable.” But also: “What will the local priest think?”
Times are tough out there. I know that a lot of people are looking for work, which can be a very stressful experience. One of the things that can make the job search stressful is uncertainty. There’s a real taboo around talking about salaries. This taboo ends up benefiting em…
Zoom lenses are quite important for photographers. One of the reasons is that they provide a versatile range in one lens, which is the most cost-effective for many photographers on a budget. If you are someone who has recently started using the Nikon system, then let us introduc…
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a collaborative album called (maybe?) Nine Inch Noize. Available April 17.
The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission. It had little to do with science or celestial bodies; instead it was a moment shared by four curious, caring humans, united in purpose, far from home.
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d like to be similarly surprised, stop reading now and just watch the video. … … The sunshine recorder was inven…