The Nostalgia Is Real: Why Photographers Keep Coming Back to Our Retro Digital Presets

Every few months, we hear from someone who just discovered our retro digital presets and asks why nobody told them sooner. The honest answer is that nostalgia in photography doesn't really fade, it just goes quiet for a while. The early-2000s DSLR look, the one defined by camera…

The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With...

The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun was extensively modelled on a computer in 1974. “McHenry took all the measurements and simulated the stunt using the equations of the 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler.”

“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems...

“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems to have made them worse than ever. More shameless. More out of touch. Less empathetic. Thinner-skinned. And…angrier. They’re people who consider equality for others oppression for themselves.”

Map of New England Places Everybody Pronounces Wrong

As part of the 30 Day Map Challenge, Maxwell Howe created a map of New England places that many out-of-towners mispronounce (Instagram). As you would expect when you start talking about local pronunciations and accents, he’s getting some blowback: You’re mixing accen…

The Leica M-A and M11-P Hammertone Editions are Truly Beautiful

Leica Camera AG is introducing two new camera iterations in hammertone finish: the Leica M-A and Leica M11-P. The company is known for producing impressive limited edition models, whose market value rarely diminishes after purchase. The new hammertone addition is no different, w…

The Upcoming Canon RF 400mm and 600mm May Get a Different Kind of Built-In Teleconverter

Canon is reportedly working on a new Canon RF 400mm f2.8L and RF 600mm f4L. The launch is set to be before the end of the year, and the new variants are said to come with an in-built teleconverter. However, the latter will be quite different, since the current RF version was ori…

Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read...

Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read Robert Caro’s The Power Broker in 10-minute increments for 4 days. They’re gonna livestream it on YouTube.

Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory...

Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory days, the S.S. United States was fast, luxurious and all but indestructible.” RIP, the United States.

Robyn’s Tiny Desk Concert

NPR recently welcomed Swedish pop star Robyn to their office for a Tiny Desk Concert. She sings four songs, including one of her first hits, Show Me Love. Every choice here is a tender one, down to the teardrop glued to her cheek. Every move is confident, yet comes from a p…

This Hack Gives the Fujifilm Instax Pal 2 the Film Looks Fujifilm Never Did

Ever since I hacked my old Sony cameras to give them the capabilities that Sony took away from us, I've been hungry for more as I've got loads of older cameras around my office. And after looking around on various sub-reddits, I found some custom firmware from user TheWors3. So…

Hensday

Loose links that float ships Starlink as a planetary barometer Yamaha CR-1020. I have one in Santa Barbara. Needs a little love. Maybe I should get this guy to work on it. My answer to What was the one radio program you never wanted to miss growing up? Somewhere back there, I…

A recent documentary called Capturing Bigfoot offers...

A recent documentary called Capturing Bigfoot offers proof that the famous clip of Bigfoot was a hoax in the form of “a lost 16mm film shot in 1966, the year before the famous Bigfoot footage, and what it shows is a kind of rehearsal for it.”

King of No Pain

Yesterday morning, my oral surgeon installed an implant post on which, a few months hence, my #2 molar (top right, forward of the wisdom tooth) will be restored. Half a century after it got a gold crown, it had decay underneath and had to go. It’s the back one you see on the l…

Techno Marching Band!

When someone says “German techno group”, you probably have a pretty good picture in your mind. MEUTE, on the other hand, is an 11-piece techno marching band that plays electronic music with acoustic instruments: tubas, trombones, drums kits, etc. Reset (above) is a single…

Meteor Fear

Staying Cool at the Airport

A comment by Adam Keys about showing grace in airports over on Craig Mod’s site reminded me of this story from the introduction of Genny Rumancik’s book The Wisdom of Feeling: Finding Clarity, Courage, and Connection Through Emotional Intelligence: I was in the last boardi…

Scientists have identified a new species of penguin, the...

Scientists have identified a new species of penguin, the first in 100 years. “Genetic evidence shows that what scientists once treated as a single, widely distributed gentoo penguin species is actually made up of four separate species.”

Every Discount Active for Phoblographer Members Right Now

One of the most underused parts of a Phoblographer membership is the running list of partner discounts that come with it. A lot of members sign up for the ad-free reading experience and never realize how much they're also saving on gear, printing, and editing software. Here's ev…

What Will Starting a Creative Career Look Like in the...

What Will Starting a Creative Career Look Like in the Next Few Years? “We can’t keep asking where all the good designers are if we’re unwilling to help anyone become one.”

Why Does Japan Have Such Good Railways? “Successful...

Why Does Japan Have Such Good Railways? “Successful public policies can be emulated by one good government. Much about Japan’s railway system could be replicable around the world.”

“I Made a Film in Excel, and I Don’t Know Why”

Animation director Maria Tomazou made a short animated film entirely in Microsoft Excel. There’s no reason for this film to exist. Yet, I made it and it took ages to put together. To keep going and keep creating something that is pointless is actually very painful. I wish…

Watch the morning fog flow like ocean waves into the town...

Watch the morning fog flow like ocean waves into the town of Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. (Also on Instagram.)

Meet Other Photographers at the 5 Boro Foto Hang

Based on the incredibly heartwarming turn-out that we had at the 5 Boro Foto Festival back in October, we're listening to the sounds of the garden we've started to grow. And we're announcing our first community event: the 5 Boro Foto Hang. It's happening December 3rd from 6pm to…

Leica Marks Noctilux Anniversary With a 240-Page Book on the Lens Family

Leica has announced a new book that charts the celebration of the Noctilux lenses. The company first introduced the series back in 1966, and since, it continues to be loved by photographers around the world. This launch coincides with the 60th anniversary of the series, making t…

Advice for the incoming Democratic Congress: 8 Bold Ideas...

Advice for the incoming Democratic Congress: 8 Bold Ideas to Fix America. Bold? I dunno…it seems like a lot of this stuff is closer to the floor than the ceiling of what they should be considering.

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated...

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? “It (almost certainly) wouldn’t have even been close.”

Fujifilm X-T6’s “New Sensor” Is Bound to Anger a Few

The Fujifilm X-T6 is reportedly carrying a "new sensor," which has divided the company's user base. The argument does not relate to what was said, but rather, how little information has been disclosed. The report reveals that a new sensor will be part of the X-T6 models, but the…

A Photographer Looks at Old Soviet Cable Cars

One of the great things that photography does for us is memory recording. Obviously, you can do that with your phone and be stuck in the rest of the moment as long as you're not shooting and sharing immediately. But with analog film, you also get the same effect. When you photog…