The 5 Best Cameras from 2015 That You Can Pick in 2026

A good camera, whether ILC or compact, is some of the most opted options today. Compacts make your setup easy, while ILCs allow not only a range of lenses to work. If you are looking for a perfect camera, whether compact or ILC, then these options can be of help.

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The Art of the Copyist

Lovely short video about artist Jas Knight, who is a participant in the Met Museum’s Copyist Program: The Copyist Program offers time and space for artists to develop their own interpretation of an artwork through intimate study in the Museum’s galleries. Copyists have…

Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...

Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project Hail Mary movie was created. The filmmakers didn’t “want it to feel like a human language because he’s supposed to be really more musically communicating”.

These Presets Work with Retro and New Cameras

The lead image of this story is from our Olympus EM5 review, and it has our newest presets applied. Over the years, the Phoblographer has tested cameras and lenses with every major camera manufacturer and lens maker. And so we've got a massive database of images. We've used that…

I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...

I’m Done Using AI. “It made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software.”

Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why...

Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why was no one…even considering the question of human-powered vehicles until the 1400s? Why weren’t there bicycle mechanics in the 1300s, when there were clockmakers, or at least by the 1500s, when we had watches?”

Fendsday

Live and re-learn I've been a citizen of California for 41 years, and I learned here long ago that the narrow staircase-like parallel terraces on many ranchland hillsides were caused by cattle grazing on horizontal paths, because ungulates aren't climbers. I have seen cattle on…

Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert

Death Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Registration and Soul Meets Body. Gibbard noted: I’m starting to realize that some of our earlier records came out a s…

The Camp Snap 2 Just Bought the 90s Back so Hard

Camp Snap has created some wonderful cameras over the years. Screen-free, lightweight, and an analogue appeal in a digital body, are some of the reasons why photographers are going after the devices. As part of their latest color update, Camp Snap is happily announcing the color…

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same. “A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates.”

A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)

Oh wow, Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory has a huge collection of eclipse glasses & viewers (and other eclipse ephemera), some of them dating back to 1793. Here are a few of my favorites: (via present & correct) Tags: design · ec…

Flashback Teases Its Next Camera as Part of Brand ‘Reset’

Flashback, a brand known for reviving film nostalgia on a budget, has recently published a candid video which has raised some eyebrows. One of the founders, who admitted that the brand is a shadow of its former self, has also taken the moment to set the record right: a brand res…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Don’t move buttons from under the mouse. Thanks @The2lb3oz4dr10grOfHedgehogs for the video #Popup #Calendar #Stability

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from other cultures and religions, including the flood myth, the Garden of Eden, etc. I learned about these in a religion & mythology class in college, which cemented my atheism.

How to Keep Taking Photos When Depression is All Around You

In November of 2025, I wrote a note to myself inspired by poet Kyle Tran Myhre's book, "Not a lot of reasons to sing, but enough." Track 9 of the audiobook is a poem that I truly wish I had in my life at the end of 2023: a moment that I consider to be one of the most depressing…

4 Landscape Photography Tips From the Pros We’ve Interviewed

Landscape photography may seem like an easy form of the medium, but the reality is far from this. Landscapes require the same nuance and details as any other genre, which a lot of young photographers forget about. If you are just beginning your landscape photography journey, the…

How to Make Lens Flares Work For You

Camera and lens manufacturers have done everything that they can to eliminate the look that lens flares give a scene. They do this by increasing the contrast -- which in turn also increases how the sharpness and clarity are perceived. As a high-functioning blind man though, I so…

“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...

“Widely regarded as the most complicated board game ever made, The Campaign for North Africa tries to simulate WW2’s North African theater in as granular fashion as possible…” 1500 hours to finish the game — that’s 1h20m every day for 3 years.

New vocabulary term: “soft secession” .

New vocabulary term: “soft secession”.

Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...

Good sentence: “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.”

This Protects Amateur and Professional Photographers From Spending More Money

Let's be honest, you don't need a new camera: but yours is probably designed to fail after some time. 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 manufac…

Toosday

Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab:  We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation."

“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

“Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality. It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”