Blame Canada?

Canadian universities are poaching American academics who could use a more hospitable work and research environment. Here’s McGill’s brag on its bags, one of which is my good friend Ethan Zuckerman, who will be leaving his beloved job at U.Mass Amherst to take a new and prom…

6 Things Every Bird Photographer Should Know This Fall

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the fall is coming and birds will be going on their various migratory paths. Considering the effects of global warming, there are also chances to see birds that you don't typically see in your area. Since the pandemic and since brands have added…

What next for Hugging Face?

Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. That’s what Reuters says The Information says. The latter is behind an expensive paywall, so I’ll take Reuters’ word for it. In The Price Of Independence Was $5.9 Billion, AI Secret says, 🌍 How this hits reality: Last…

Americans Are Nearly as Interested in Travel Photography as Weddings, New Data Reveals

Did you know that travel photography seems more interesting than wedding photography? Considering the economy, it's easy to understand why that might be the case. Looking at Google Trends data is one of the clearest ways to understand what people care about. With a radical shift…

Art Lovers Should Come to The 5 Boro Foto Fest

We're throwing something special in celebration of photographers: it's called the 5 Boro Foto Fest. We've been working on something very big here at the Phoblographer for a long time now. The state of photography trade shows and festivals has needed a fresh new face and ideas fo…

Emptying the Tabs…

Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneou…

The Megadap M2RF Review: A First-of-its-Kind Adapter in Need of Immediate Firmware Updates

Let me start this review by saying, I’m a sucker for a lens adapter that allows me to use my existing lenses with all the features of my modern cameras – namely autofocusing. When we first got the news that Megadap was making an adapter for Canon’s RF mount that allowed yo…

The Ricoh GR IVx Goes for 40mm, Still Lacks Weather Sealing

Ricoh Imaging has finally announced a new camera in their GR lineup: the GR IVx. The device ditches the 28mm lens for a new 40mm focal range, new autofocus, and honestly not much else. The announcement comes less than a year after the GR IV, which then positions the Ricoh GR IVx…

Luminar for Photographers Who Don’t Want a Complicated Editing Workflow

Does photo editing really need to involve dozens of panels, confusing terminology, and hours of trial and error? For many photographers, it doesn’t. The best editing software should help you strengthen an image without getting in the way of your creativity. Luminar offers a st…

Generic Methods

The Go Blog Generic Methods Mark Freeman 26 August 2026 Generics was a profound change for Go—it fundamentally expanded the kinds of programs that gophers could write by adding type parameters to the language. One could now express gen…

7Artisans 10mm f2.5 Fisheye Review: The Most Fun I’ve Had in Years

The 7Artisans 10mm f2.5 fisheye has to be one of my favorite lenses that I've used this year. And in nearly every way, the brand almost totally knocked the ball out of the park. 7Artisans has been making some really solid autofocus lenses this year. After releasing the 135mm f1.…

Get This Before the Holiday Season for Your Next Camera

What's a brand new camera purchase without protection? A while ago, the Phoblographer created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with Full Frame Insurance. It was made directly in response to the camera and lens manufactures not always honoring their warranties base…

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