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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The Best Budget Zoom Lenses from Sony
Sony has some incredible lenses. The company's decision to shift to mirrorless early on played an incredible role in shaping their optics, with the company also working on some collaborations with Zeiss to make things better. This proves the range of optics they have today, and…
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The New Nikon Zf Firmware Could Mess with Viltrox Lenses
Nikon recently updated the firmware of their Nikon Zf. And with that, I was truly wondering what had happened. In fact, I was waiting for this specifically. The changes seemed to be very odd until I did some deep testing. What I've found is that Nikon is preparing for a way to s…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
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The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month. For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas…
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Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender). “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
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Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
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How the Camera Manufacturers Lie to All of Us
You're probably about to feel betrayed reading this. Here's a little-known fact: the warranty of your camera or lens doesn't necessarily cover what happens to it in case of dust, inclement weather, etc. That's why we created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with F…
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International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece ....
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece. “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).
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The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape
Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of t…
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Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii ....
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. “Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list.”
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VSCO: 83% of Photographers Are Already Using AI, But Not for Creativity
The debate around artificial intelligence has never been more profound than it is today. Creatives around the world have been consistently rallying to create meaningful guardrails around AI's inclusion in everyday workflow. While there are many concerns that companies are not ye…
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“Working with agents feels much less like classic...
“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game.”
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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years. “There’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”
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Bokeh Lover’s Dream: The Best Meyer Optik Lenses
Many photographers prefer to get some nice creamy bokeh to make their images stand out. While there are many first-party variants, they cost you thousands of dollars to get one good optical system. Those who can afford it will certainly go after first-party lenses, but those who…
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Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages
I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter (Instagram, Threads). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design
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Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”.
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This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot. “Compassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.”
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Simple Camera Settings For Astrophotography That Work
Humans have often loved and adored the stars. By simply looking up at the dark sky, which shines with glints of diamonds, we realise how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. With many interested in the genre but unsure how to begin, we have decided to list a few suggestion…
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The 2026 World Press Photo Awards Have an Obvious Gear Trend
Every year when the World Press Photo awards are announced, we do a breakdown of the gear that was used to make the images. It's something that every photographer wants to know about in the same way that photographers want to know about the Nikon camera in outer space. So we did…
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Is Sony Developing a New 67MP Stacked Sensor?
Sony has introduced some great sensors, which offer not just good colors but also great speed. Pair this with AI processors, you get yourself a camera that can withstand anything. Look at the a7 V or the a1 II. While there have been reports of the company introducing a 105MP sen…
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We Partnered With Imalume to Protect Photographers from Thieves
After the popularity of our review of Imalume software, we here at the Phoblographer decided to partner with them. Imalume is a service that offers photographers a very affordable way to track down if their images are being used without consent and then to move forward with goin…
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Oatmeal (Feed)
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kiki
To hasten hest. Behest, behave, behold, come now — meet kiki. Left from over a machine god awoken from the millennium broken. Designate, determinate, uxn, bqn, k, q, alike but not you — seek kiki. Out past the moon-sea see-moon, where the void-knights ride dead-le…
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Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”
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A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification. It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse. Software becomes increasingly difficult and frustrating to use, w…
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What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking...
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking workshop with Werner Herzog (in the Azores). “Take your camera, get the shot, forgo storyboards, don’t overdo it and, above all else, do the doable.” But also: “What will the local priest think?”
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