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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Why Does Canon Hate Their Customers?
The very first Canon camera I purchased for myself was the Canon 6D – I used it to start off my photography career. And since then I’ve found myself leaving Canon and coming back, each time with a new regret. This led me to ask, “Does Canon hate their customers?”
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting...
Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting authoritarianism. 1. We need each other. 2. We must move, even when on uncertain ground. 3. Past trauma will bring us down if we do not release its effects on us. And more…
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“The promise of the open web was colonized by...
“The promise of the open web was colonized by internet giants. But the power of LLMs and agentic coding means we can start to take it back. We can build customized, personal software for ourselves that does what we want.”
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Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and...
Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland: only five US states have ever had a Black governor.
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Artemis II: Nikon and GoPro Are Winning Where Canon And Sony Fail
Humanity has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go. While we have unearthed lost civilizations, we have yet to see what resides on the other side of the moon. As Artemis II, the first crewed deep space flight since Apollo 17 in 1972, inches forward to uncover the hi…
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Canon 85mm F1.4 L VCM Review: Why Does Canon Hate Their Customers?
Recently, Canon began releasing several prime L-Series lenses with VCM autofocusing motors. These new VCM lenses are notable for their relatively compact size, weight, fast apertures, and crazy fast autofocusing speeds. The Canon RF 85mm F1.4 L VCM lens is the latest that I’ve…
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How to Work With Portrait Photography Subjects Who Aren’t Models
There are tons of tutorials on the web that teach you how to photograph people who are models; but not a whole lot for those that want to get into it and work with portrait subjects. A lot of this month's articles are around studio photography and ranges from those offered at be…
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The Affordable Workshop for Every Photographer
This has been a very long time in the making, and I'm very excited to finally make this happen. The Phoblographer is launching workshops for photographers who want to find ways to grow beyond just what all the social media content developers and YouTubers tell you you need. And…
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macwright.com (Feed)
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In the Atmosphere
The mascot of ATmosphereConf is a goose, accompanied by the motto we can just do things. I thought about this line often while I was in Vancouver for the event. Everyone was active: writing, managing communities, building side projects or businesses on Bluesky, and building Blu…
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We’ve Got Presets for All Sorts of Photographers
For several years now, the Phoblographer has been actively selling presets to our audience. And folks have been loving them. We started with presets designed for those of us who love photojournalism. Then we added the retro-digital look: which tends to be our most affordable pre…
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3 Rangefinders for a New Film Photographer
Want a rangefinder camera without a whole lot of complications? Look no further.
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Someday
Hope it helps My old pal Dean Landsman pointed me to this post about Fake Fans, and much else, by Eliza McLamb, a musician, and much else. She's great. And she's from Chapel Hill. Go Heels! Anyway, like many musicians, Eliza has problems with how f'd up music/recording/stream…
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An Immodest Proposal for the Music Industry
How music listeners can fill the industry’s “value gap.” This piece was my column for the November 2018 issue of Linux Journal. I’m running it again here for three reasons: 1) It’s still timely and worth resurfacing, 2) Linux Journal’s archives are now absent of imag…
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The Two Best Budget Lenses From Canon
Canon has created some of the most iconic optics in the photo industry. The company never shied away from experimentation, which meant that we had the chance to work with tilt-shift and fish-eye lenses (with distortion) using eaaem. While most of these lenses are quite expensive…
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