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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Did You Get Scammed? A Photographer’s Guide to Buying Used Cameras
Fact: brands like KEH, MPB, and others tend to flood the internet with a ton of ads to get people to come to them to buy used cameras. But are they always honest? Luckily, I've been buying used cameras for around 20 years. The used camera market is also really hot. And inspired…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Verilies
The continuing end of broadcasting Jason Lewis: It's Over—Talk Radio (as well as traditional media) has run its course. A newer beginning Nitin Badjatia has been laying out more and more reasons—and ways—that enterprises will adapt to customers, rather than the rever…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their...
Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones, Helping Them to Communicate Over 6 Miles. “Studying elephant hearing isn’t as simple as asking an elephant to wear headphones…”
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Vertical Panoramas of Churches
From photographer Richard Silver, vertical panoramic photos of churches that emphasize their often incredible ceilings. (via ignant) [This is a vintage post originally from Oct 2015.] Tags: architecture · photography · religion · Richard Silver · timeless…
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This New Voigtlander Telephoto Lens Focuses Closer Than Ever
Third-party lenses have been some of the best options for many young and senior photographers. Voigtlander, owned by Cosina, makes some fantastic options for Leica users. This includes the newly launched telephoto lens that can do a lot for portrait photographers. Have a look.
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Twistday
Uh oh Tornado watch for all five New York City boroughs. How the radar & lightning map looks now. And the last center that holds Mediapost: Sports Is The Last True Mass Medium.
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I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying...
I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era. “It is a future in which other nations or leaders may have an incentive to pursue genocidal policies knowing they will not only get away with murder but may even benefit from it.”
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What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey
I’m currently doing the thing I do after seeing a movie (The Odyssey) I really enjoyed or found interesting: digging into related media. Yesterday I had an hour in the car, so I listened to this episode of The Daily podcast with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson. I think i…
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The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written...
The trailer for Behemoth!, a forthcoming film written and directed by Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Andor) and starring Pedro Pascal & Olivia Wilde. Great trailer: it pulls you in without revealing anything about the plot.
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On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...
On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this case). “A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.”
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Have You Heard of the 5 Boro Foto Fest?
In partnership with others, the Phoblographer is putting on a new kind of festival for photographers. And we're here to put art lovers in front of real photographers. No algorithms. No generative AI. Just humans. And today, we are announcing the 5 Boro Foto Fest: A space for rea…
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“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI
Mission Impossible. Oppenheimer. F1. The Odyssey. Top Gun: Maverick. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inception. Dune. Filmmakers and studios who make movies like these love to emphasize their heavy use of practical effects, i.e. real cars jumping real bridges or real people hanging off of r…
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The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...
The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. They’ve gotten (some of) the band back together — perhaps this will be a return to form for Marvel?
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: You know you have a popup problem when your popups start having popups. #Popup #Onboarding #Calendly
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Our Favorite Canon lens for Everyday Work
Canon has some lenses that are perfect for photographers who work across genres. The company has made models that work not just for landscape users but also for those who are keen on shooting portraits and events. If you are someone who is looking for one such lens, then this op…
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New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...
New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today. “The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now.”
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Hey Photographers: Help Us Promote Your Work
After a long break, the Phoblographer has decided to start featuring photographers again as part of our regular publishing schedule. In light of this news, we've revamped our standards on publishing photography projects. No generative AI can be used, only assistive AI. And in ad…
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Something No One Thinks About in Landscape Photography
On the Phoblographer, we tend to talk a whole lot here about color, black and white, and how incredibly important it is to use them effectively in your photography. We typically apply them to portraiture, but it's also not too terrible of an idea to apply it to landscape photogr…
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Canon’s Biggest Lens Screwup
Back in 2023, Canon released the Canon RF 28mm f2.8 pancake lens. And in our review (linked here), we noted how at the time, the RAW files had a lot of issues with stuff like fringing and all. In my eyes, this lens, even though it's a pancake, is Canon's biggest screw up in the…
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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy. “Still to this day, I’ve never seen such an actively maintained network of knowledge and output, it really sucked me in.”
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Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes
Artist Lewis Prosser describes himself on Instagram as an “absurdist basket-maker”. His costumes for a project called Making Merrie reflect that self-description. Making Merrie explores the material culture of folk theatre. Inspired by mummers’ plays and masked…
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Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...
Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown. “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.”
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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the 14th amendment, “spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get”.
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Our Favorite Canon Lens for Macro Photography
Canon has some wonderful cameras and lenses in its portfolio. The company has its L-series range, which has gained an impressive reputation over the years. However, when it comes to macro photography, there are only a few Canon options that one can choose from. Today, we take a…
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On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...
On Japan’s visible evidence of care. “American service providers, private and public, increasingly run like ghost ships. Japanese technology and design seemed in greater service to humans, their journeys, and enterprises.”
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Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”
57 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 18th year in a row, you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk on a small B&…
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