What You Always Wanted to Know About Nikon Lenses

How many times have you come across a featured specs list and thought, “WTF does this even mean?”  Today, we’re cutting through the jargon to figure out what actually moves the glass inside your lens and why, in one very specific case, your gear might actually interfere w…

Thrust Day

Getting a jump on Friday here. In The Ozempicization of the Economy, Kyla Scanlon discusses "the shift from infrastructure that served everyone to technologies built around the mobile, private individual." She concludes, "Despair right now is extremely convincing and extremely…

Are Color Filters Really That Much of a Pain in the GlASS?

In this digital age, it's easy to emulate the effect of a color filter on a digital image in post-processing, especially when you start with a color RAW file. Furthermore, most digital cameras have a mode that emulates the effects of different color filters when shooting black a…

There’s an upside-down “H” on the...

There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there.

Embrace Nostalgia for Only $5

There’s a lot to love about our presets and how they’ll make your images stand out and shine. Our presets are designed to make editing a minimal task so you can get back to shooting! We’re in love with Retro Digital. Luckily, that’s when we founded the website closer to…

Back in the Straddle Again

New frontiers for reality In case you’re wondering how MyTerms will change everything (for example, by getting you real privacy online and obsolescing cookie notice)s, the first proofs-of-concept will be coming from JLINC. Here’s the open protocol. Here’s the blog. And her…

A Design Engineer Got Tired of Carrying Multiple Film Cameras, So He Built One That Does It All

Medium format is quite popular amongst photographers who want a balance between performance and details. While there various types of medium format cameras around the world, it often becomes a challenge to choose between just one. To beat this, a design engineer decided to built…

A comparison of different sorting algorithms (bubble,...

A comparison of different sorting algorithms (bubble, merge, heap, timsort). You can run them one at a time or race all seven.

The Digital Photographer’s Introduction to Kodak T-Max

Kodak T-Max 400 works in a different way from Kodak Tri-X 400. Let's explore it a bit.

Best APS-C Cameras for Landscapes (There Are Only 2)

Landscape photographers have often needed a camera with immense resolution. One of the reasons for it being that it can capture every detail of the scene with ease. While full frame cameras are known for achieving this, APS-C models are not too far gone either. Here is a look at…

Centimeter Wavelengths

The Phoblographer is Hiring Humans: Arts Writer

In 2025, The Phoblographer is doing something that might seem odd for a lot of publications. We're hiring an arts writer. Specifically, we'd like to hire an arts writer based in London. And we've got a lot of reasons for this. If you're looking for a part-time gig with a solid t…

Stephen Colbert is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie...

Stephen Colbert is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie. “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is set 14 years after the passing of Frodo. Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure…”

Salter Cane gig on Saturday, April 4th in Brighton

People of Brighton, mark your calendars: Saturday, April 4th. That’s when Salter Cane will be playing in The Hope And Ruin. It’s not just Salter Cane though. We’ll be joined by Skyscrapers from Lewes, and The Equatorial Group from Eastbourne. We’ve played with them befo…

Join Us for a Totally Different Kind of Workshop

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…