half way through 2026 so here are a few reading recs

my love of (addiction to?) rss outweighed my loathing server maintenance, so, I plugged a screen into my 11 year old Mac mini and got it cooking again. A power outage a few weeks ago rendered it kinda dazed and confused enough that I couldn’t just reboot it over and over agai…

Nitecore BB nano Review: How Did a Blower Get Any Better?

Air blowers aren't really accessories that photographers get excited about, but the Nitecore BB nano might just change your perspective on that. This tiny little gadget makes cleaning your cameras, lenses and even sensors so much quicker and convenient, that we're marking it as…

Sony Doesn’t Know How to Make a Point and Shoot Anymore

If you look at the Sony a7 series, you can see and mostly tell that the brand has done some pretty big overhauls to their cameras over the years. We can discuss the weather resistance, sensor protection, battery life, burst shooting, shutter styles, AI autofocus integration, etc…

New Membership Benefit: 15% off 7Artisans Products

Today, the Phoblographer is announcing it's latest benefit for our members: 15% off the 7Artisans store. This comes in addition to all the other recent benefits that we've been announcing. If you haven't signed up for $25/year yet, then you're missing out on one of the best prog…

Toasting Marshmallows

This Week in the IndieWeb

July 3-10, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, July 8 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, July 8 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany Wednesday, July 8 at 6:00pm NÜRNBERG, Bay…

Tell Everyone You Know Who Wants to Support Photographers

The state of photography trade shows and festivals has needed a fresh new face and ideas for a very long time. 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 spac…

This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years...

This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years ago still contains traces on the original colors. (Wtf, I have old watercolor paints that look older than this…)

Even in 2026, the X-Pro 3 Still Brings Me Great Joy

if you’re looking for a camera that will help you focus on the process of making an image – no distractions before or after you hit the shutter – then the Fujifilm X-Pro 3 should be on your wish list.

Fun thread: “sodas with a doctorate” (e.g. Dr. Pepper).

Fun thread: “sodas with a doctorate” (e.g. Dr. Pepper).

Flyagain Day

I leave shortly for fun family matters in Minneapolis. Meanwhiles, here are some worthy tabs to close: While finding this kindness by Kaliya Young (quoting a now-vanished utterance by the late and very great Craig Burton) published in 2005 on her IdentityWoman blog, I also dug h…

VoiceDot : “Every dot on this globe is a real...

VoiceDot: “Every dot on this globe is a real person’s voice — a short story about a place, a memory, a feeling. Tap one and hear someone from the other side of the world.” And you can record your own for others to hear.

Is Nikon Finally Building a True D500 Replacement?

Nikon has created some wonderful APS-C cameras over the years. The company's D7000 series, the D3000 series, and the D500 are some innovations that have benefited beginners and serious enthusiasts. It now seems that Nikon is keen on introducing a new camera that can help those w…

Want a Discount to Capture One? We’ve Got It!

In 2025, I started to do things that otherwise would seem crazy for a publisher of a niche photography online magazine to do. For starters, this year, the Phoblographer may actually make a printed magazine again. But in addition to that, we didn't sell any ads to the big camera…

Polaroid’s Anti-AI Ads Cover Up a Dark Secret

Recently, Creative Bloq published an article about how Polaroid is taking a stab at AI. They're doing this with several printed billboard campaigns in big cities. "Taking a stand against over-digitisation, Polaroid's campaign centres around a large billboard situated on Coney Is…

Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island

I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience. An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do ev…

Publishers prepare to opt-out of Google search over AI training

I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15 #

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art ....

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art. “Before crowds jostled for biennale parties and gondola rides, Venice’s waterways witnessed scenes of an even more violent kind…”