Some cameras have a tendency to be loved by everyone, despite the decades that have passed since their launch. The Bronica ETRS is one such model that offers photographers the ability to shoot film rolls, and get the best of everything. In fact, it is a medium format film offeri…
The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers on the iPhone Duo. Ten machines included: “Macintosh, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Amiga 500, Windows 95, ThinkPad, iMac G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Windows XP.” XP even crashes sometimes. Love this.
We get some version of this question a lot: should you buy the Retro Digital Presets or the Analog Film Presets Pack? They're both popular, and they both start from the same basic idea, recreating a specific, studied look instead of a generic filter, but they land in genuinely d…
I'm not really a diplomatic person as much as I am an honest one: and I'm very happy that photographers are hacking their cameras using AI. The big manufacturers have been limiting functionality with their cameras and instead telling us all to go upgrade by paying thousands of d…
The Nikon 14-30mm f4 S lens is a wide-angle optic that is primarily meant to be used by landscape and architectural photographers. And in 2026, it's still a very decent option. Nikon has created wonderful lenses in recent years. Models such as the 50mm f1.8 S, the 24-70mm f2.8 S…
I’ve been taking a break from Mastodon as my social home on the web for about six weeks. It has been more difficult than I’d usually admit. I have an amazing local community in my town that I love and am deeply involved in. But nobody here is a programmer, or even a compute…
Likes, follows, and reposts feel like proof a photograph worked. A decade-old quote from photographer Ronya Galka argues that chasing those numbers is exactly the wrong goal -- and it still holds up.
I shut down my web servers on Thursday. I’ve had a home of my own on internet for 27 years. A good innings but a sad day. A home-owner no more! I’m renting now. Old websites have been archived to static HTML and moved to a shared host. I said goodbye to some old apps. You…