The Pentax K-3 Mark III and Why DSLRs Refuse to Die
The Pentax K-3 Mark III was officially discontinued in Japan in January 2025. The Monochrome variant has been more complicated: B&H's original black Monochrome listing is now marked "No Longer Available," though it points buyers to a current matte-black Monochrome listing still shown as in stock. After roughly four years of production, the K-3 Mark III is being phased out in stages rather than discontinued cleanly, and the last major APS-C DSLR from a major manufacturer is winding down. By the standard industry narrative, this should be the end of the story. DSLRs are dead.
Why Your Camera Choice Is Killing Your Storytelling
Photojournalism and documentary work demand a different relationship with gear than most photography does, and Jorge Delgado-Ureña, co-founder of the Raw Society, has spent nearly two decades figuring out exactly what that relationship looks like.
What Lightroom's Yellow Warning Icon Is Actually Telling You
That yellow warning icon in Lightroom isn't just a minor annoyance you can ignore. It's telling you something specific about the order in which your AI edits were applied, and clicking "update" without understanding what's happening can quietly change your image in ways you won't notice until it's too late.
This Handcrafted Wooden Pinhole Camera Shoots 6x17 Panoramas and Lets You Change Focal Length Mid-Roll
Pinhole photography strips the camera down to almost nothing: a box, a hole, and light. Most pinhole cameras are exactly that simple, but the Mania, handcrafted by German woodworker and photographer Ralph Mann, is a modular wooden pinhole system that pushes what a camera without a lens can actually do.
24-70mm vs. 70-200mm: Which Zoom Should You Buy First?
Choosing between a 24-70mm and a 70-200mm zoom is one of the most common lens decisions you'll face when building a kit. Both are professional staples, both are genuinely useful, and neither obviously replaces the other.
Leica Is the Most Honest Camera Company, and Also the Most Expensive
There is a thing Leica does that no other camera manufacturer is willing to do, and it is the thing that makes Leica interesting even to photographers who will never own one. Leica refuses to pretend to be what it is not.
When Expensive Gear Stops Working
Most photography now lives online. In the feed, in algorithms, in a constant stream of images. This is where the idea of what a photographer is supposed to need gets formed. Cheap did not become better. It became sufficient.
This Photographer Tested 800 Lenses and These Are His Three Favorites for Portraits
After testing more than 800 lenses, Christopher Frost has narrowed his personal favorites for portrait work down to three. The picks span a wild range of price points and design philosophies, which makes the list genuinely worth paying attention to.
The Fujifilm X-M5 Might Be the Best Small Camera You Can Actually Afford
Choosing an everyday carry camera is harder than it looks. You're balancing size, image quality, and price, and most cameras force you to sacrifice at least one of them.
The Art of Noticing: Why Most Photos Are Lost Before You Even Pick Up a Camera
Picking up a camera is the easy part. The harder skill, and the one almost nobody talks about, is learning to see what's actually worth photographing in the first place.
Small Town Photographer? Here's Why You're Still Leaving Money Behind
Pricing your work below what the market can actually bear is one of the fastest ways to stall a photography business, and the problem isn't unique to small towns. Whether you're shooting in a rural county or a major metro, the underlying issue is almost always the same: you're pricing for the wrong client.
Why the Nikon Z9 Is Aging Better Than Anyone Expected
When Nikon announced the Z9 in late 2021, the camera was treated by most of the photography press as Nikon's "we are still here" moment. The brand had spent the early mirrorless years getting beaten in feature comparisons by Sony, criticized for slow autofocus updates, and described in obituary-adjacent language by gear reviewers who had decided Sony had won the format war. The Z9 was supposed to prove Nikon could still build a flagship. It did. Then something more interesting happened over the next four years.
Back to Basics: Relearning Photography Through Mini Projects
The article emphasizes the importance of slowing down and reconnecting with the joy of photography by creating a series of images of simple things that we admire. Let's look at photos of a remote Namibian railway station that show the beauty of decay and history through intentional composition.
Shooting a Full Fashion Editorial With Just One Light Modifier
A while back I was very focused on having complex lighting for my editorial work. I would often create precise setups with many light sources. Yet, as time went on, my setups became simpler. So much so that my recent editorial for Numéro was done with only one light. Here is how.
Why Your Presence Is Ruining Your Street Photos
Street photography lives and dies by your ability to go unnoticed. In a genre where the goal is to capture real moments, your presence is the single biggest variable you can control.
7 Habits That Are Quietly Killing Your Photography Style
Gear has never been better. Autofocus is smarter, noise is lower, and sharpness is almost a given — yet scroll through Instagram or any photo forum and everything starts to look the same.
Photoshop's New Remove Tool Can Find and Erase General Distractions Automatically
Adobe just pushed a significant round of updates to Photoshop, and several of them are directly relevant to cleaning up photos and managing complex edits. If you use Photoshop as part of your workflow, at least three or four of these features will change how you approach specific tasks.
This Swing Lens Camera Forces You to Rethink How You Compose Landscapes
The Horizon 202 is a Soviet-era swing lens panoramic camera that produces a field of view roughly equivalent to 14mm on a 35mm camera, with almost none of the distortion you'd expect from an ultra wide angle lens at that focal length. If you've ever wanted to capture an entire mountain range in a single frame on film, this is the kind of camera that makes that possible.
9 Things I Wish I Knew About Photography Insurance
Insurance is the part of running a photography business that nobody warns you about, nobody teaches you, and nobody finds interesting until the day they need it. Then it becomes the most important conversation of your career, usually too late. Most photographers buy a policy because a venue asked for one, sign whatever the broker recommends, and never think about it again until something breaks, gets stolen, or generates a lawsuit.
Most Photographers Are Boring
There, I said it. Not bad. Not incompetent. Not untalented. Boring. And boring is far worse.
Bad photography can at least be entertaining. It can crash through the wall drunk at two in the morning, bleeding from the forehead, demanding another round. Boring photography arrives exactly on time, wipes its shoes at the door, and asks where you keep the coasters.