Tamron Breaks Barriers With Its 4.1x Zoom Lens for RF and Z Users

Tamron has been a brand known for its iconic all-round zoom lenses. The company has introduced some wonderful lenses, for both full frame and APS-C models, which has earned praises from people. Tamron is now introducing a new new wide angle zoom lens, that will be of help for bo…

Draftday

The NBA draft is tonight, and will be hugely interesting for fans, because this year's class coming out of college is unusually thick with talent. But what's happening with trades is more interesting to me right now. The Miami Heat just traded most of its team and some valuable…

Canon’s Beloved EOS RP Earns Its RIP After Years of Glory

Canon's reign has been quite an impressive one. The company is the most sought-after in the market, with many young and professional photographers swearing by their cameras. While the DSLR range is more or less discontinued, it appears the same fate has fallen on the initial mir…

Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who...

Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who still needs to hear this in June 2026 but: the US is in the middle of a “rolling coup” by ultra-conservatives who are “well along the path of destroying our democracy”.

Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs...

Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs and trucks have resulted in more pedestrian deaths in the US over the past two decades.

Legibility of Effort

Nolen Royalty on how LLMs have changed the signals we use to gauge human effort #

Where Apple Mail hides ‘All Sent’ in Tahoe

My wife’s Mac laptop has ‘All Sent’ listed under ‘Favorites’ in the left panel of her Apple Mail app. Everywhere my Big AIs and I looked online, however, we didn’t see a way to add it, until ChatGPT suggested I mouse over the Favorites heading to see what appears. Th…

Room Tone

For each of their on-camera interviews with filmmakers, actors, critics, and other film nerds, Criterion records 30 seconds of “room tone” that is used to cut the footage into a seamless video. When trying to explain what room tone is to someone unfamiliar with the concept…

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops...

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times. “The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.”

4 x 3

I’m enjoying this Connections variant made by Hank Green, the scoring provides some additional challenge #

VSCO One Is the System Professional Photographers Didn’t Know They Were Missing

Professional photographers are spoiled for choices today. From Capture One to Lightroom, they have plenty of apps that can help them push them closer to achieving their vision. VSCO is one platform that provides this and much more. Today, the company has announced VSCO One, a pl…

Some Great Deals on Tech Stuff

Amazon is doing their Prime Day sale again this summer and for those with Prime memberships, it’s a chance to upgrade some tech items at rarely seen prices. Here are a few items I’ve got my eye on: The AirPods Pro 3 are still my daily headphones; I really do love them…

Brexit vote: 10 years on . “‘Absolute...

Brexit vote: 10 years on. “‘Absolute nightmare, shambles, and still is to this day,’ says Tony Rutherford a decade after he voted leave to save the British fishing industry.”

Is Viltrox Making a New Camera To Beat Kodak?

Viltrox is one of the few third-party lens manufacturers from China who have seen immense fame. The company's portfolio is diverse, further helping young and serious photographers get the best of their vision. While the company has not yet dabbled with cameras, it appears that i…

Plane Lands/Takes Off In Only 20 Feet

I posted a video earlier today of a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain. Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall speed and short take-off and landing distances. But I had no idea you could land and take off in one in the space of 20…

I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player...

I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player made by Dunstan Orchard and Kristina Dutton. Despite their virtuality, the buttons are delightfully clicky and the attention to detail is impressive.

Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in...

Step into a virtual Criterion Closet. “A walk-in closet of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, read the spines, and pull any one off the shelf to inspect the case.”

Is the Panasonic S5 II Still a Good Camera in 2026?

In the Phoblographer's revisiting of various cameras that we've reviewed before in the past, I'm now addressing the Panasonic S5 II. When the Panasonic S1II E was launched, it seemed as if the S5 II's days were numbered. Afterall, I reviewed it in 2023 and knew just how capable…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Don’t put checkmark on a button. Checkmark means “Saved, done”, not “Press to save” (in the screenshot, settings are NOT saved) #Luma #Button #ActionOrState #Checkmark

A Letter to the Self About Photography and Weight Loss

In this post, Gservo muses on how weight loss effects photography Read more at The Phoblographer.

Sports Commentary

Moss Moss

charming PICO-8 platformer by Noel Cody via Michael Eades #

Is the Leica SL2s Still a Good Camera in 2026?

Everyone loves to hate on Leica cameras, but the truth is that if you know, you know. A while back, I purchased the Leica SL2s and it continues to be my main camera to this day. With the camera being discontinued and replaced by the SL3s, and with the used camera market being wh…

Iceland

Whenever a social media whatever lets me set a header image I pretty much always use a photo of moss that I took from when my partner and I visited Iceland about a decade ago. We just went back and we had a blast. Birding took us way off the beaten path, as did my years long obs…

Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the...

Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the plague 5000 years ago, which goes against the prevailing theory that plague wasn’t that deadly until more recently.

A Lens Beloved by Nikon Users Could Get a Sweet Makeover

China-based third-party lens makers are making waves in the market. They have successfully reduced the price of the optics, while providing some wonderful images. SG-Image is one such brand, whose performance has won the audience over. It now appears that the company is introduc…

A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career ....

A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career. “He’s a terrific collaborator. He himself is a continuous lightbulb flickering on and off with one idea after another, but he’s not terribly protective of an idea.”

Meet the Man Behind the Most Beautiful Books in the World

I appreciate what 2K/DENMARK’s Klaus Krogh says about their ambitions when he and his wife started the company: When I started this company together with my wife, I said we got to become a very very small company. Why? Because we are going to put so much effort into each…