The Future of Photography

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Chris and Jeremiah have more thoughts on ArtCraft. Also: What if a single frame from a 10-second loop in a gallery suddenly reveals a wonderful photo and why don't we use video instead of stills? The tension between stillness and motion. Chris and Jeremiah take this apart and talk about intent, and the quiet power of a click.

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C: Room Tone

• J: Street Photographer Travels Across 40 Cities Inspired By The American Blues

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Chris and Jeremiah kick things off with a look at Artcraft, which seems determined to politely, and maybe not so politely, clone half of Adobe at alarming speed. They poke at Photoshop-, Lightroom-, and Premiere-like replacements, wonder whether “feature complete” means anything anymore, and muse about AI agents becoming the real interface to creative software. Then things pivot from future-shock to photo nostalgia with a surprisingly serious detour into the View-Master’s past, before wrapping on a tiny e-ink picture gadget that feels equal parts charming, impractical, and very tempting.

Picks of the Week

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C: Viewmaster History

• J: PicPak

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This week, we went properly analog. Chris reports from a weekend of film experiments: pushing, pulling, Rodinal, Caffenol, and the occasional deliberate exposure mistake. What happens when you shoot ISO 400 film at ISO 50? Sometimes, surprisingly good things.

Also in the mix: the Massive Dev Chart, a closer look at Rodinal, and why breaking the “rules” can be useful.

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C: iPhone 18 Pro aperture blades

• A: Dog Photos

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We recently spoke about printing at larger scales. But what to do with those prints? How do you display them? How do you draw attention? As with composition at the start of a photo, framing can play a significant role at the culmination too!

Picks of the week: Affordable Photo Frame Lhouette Instax Pal 2

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Once upon a time... and then 9 years later... we get to celebrate our 400th TFOP show. Thank you hugely to all of you who have travelled with us on any part of that journey! We've indulged in a little reflection on how things have changed - but we don't forget to look forward because, after all, we are The Future of Photography 😀.

Picks of the week:

Cameras in High Speed

Madison Flower

iPhone

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Long-term projects reveal changes we otherwise miss. Inspired by astronaut Don Pettit’s orbital before-and-after views of cities trading orange sodium glow for white LEDs, we explore what has changed in photography—from light, streets, and travel to cameras, sharing, privacy, and trust. Chris also reflects on returning to Nepal: when revisiting a place is a privilege.

Picks of the Week

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C: Toothbrush Street Photography

• A: Leighann Chandler’s Paper Pigeon Post

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There have been a few announcements recently and a few decisions to take. So it's time to discuss new iphones, the OM System Pen, Adrian's annual choice of an editing tool subscription and more!

Picks of the week:

VLT MOONS instrument

Geoguessr

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We all love a print. But something magical happens when you print big. Or BIG. Or BIIIIIGGGG!

Picks of the week: Polarpro Light Leak lens Trail camera

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Chris and Jeremiah are back. This episode rummages through the photographic junk drawer to sort the genuinely useful from the embarrassingly optimistic, with detours through lens caps, hotshoe covers, tabletop tripods, ancient memory cards, dead drones, intervalometers, the gloriously ill-fated Lytro, impulse-bought thermal printers, and one very specific Olympus bird-tracking gadget that sounds cooler than it apparently is in real life. Along the way they poke at Kickstarter temptation, the romance of gear that promises to change everything, and why some gadgets earn permanent residence in a drawer while others occasionally redeem themselves.

Picks of the week

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Global Guide to Photo Book Fairs

• Ernst Haas slideshow

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We are all familiar with how focal lengths change angle of view. And the relative size of objects from front to back. But now we have lots of choices around how to achieve a "focal length". There are 60MP sensors that we can crop into, vlogging cameras with 2 sensors and lenses like our phones, AI that expands your image, other AI that can resize it... the list goes on.

So what do we think about today when we choose which camera and lens to pick up? And what would we look for in future camera systems?

Picks of the week:

DuckDuckGo Glasses

Wallpaper* magazine

Photos of the sun

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Chris and Jeremiah hold the fort while Adrian is still away, and things get only mildly apocalyptic: a surprise Google Earth feature briefly let people generate fake satellite imagery, prompting a lively chat about whether photography’s last “trust me, I was there” refuge has now joined the AI slop era. Along the way they poke at truth, metadata, satellites, politics, and why maybe the unexamined photo is the one truly in trouble—before lightening the mood with a slick Obsbot camera and a camera battery that secretly doubles as an AirTag, because apparently even batteries now have a plot.

Picks of the week

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C: You’ll Always Be Able to Find These New Camera Batteries

• J: OBSBOT

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394 State of the Industry

Jeremiah joins Chris while Adrian is away, and the conversation starts with the 2026 State of the Photography Industry report. They dig into how photographers are actually using AI right now: less as a replacement for creative vision, and more as a partner for administration, organization, writing, and workflow. From commercial pressure and tightening budgets to the enduring value of real photographic experience, they explore where AI fits, where it threatens, and where human intent still matters most. Chris also shares how AI is helping shape and manage his upcoming book, Abenteuer Fotografie, while both hosts swap stories about using AI to tame massive photo libraries and messy Lightroom catalogs.

Picks of the Week

• C: Polaroid: A Chemical, Mechanical and Optical Miracle
• J: The Discipline of Getting Lost

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Chris and Jeremiah roam through a lively, imaging-focused news episode packed with big ideas, surprising tech, and a few delightfully odd turns. From the awe-inspiring to the playful, this conversation teases how pictures, motion, and storytelling keep evolving in unexpected ways.

Cosmic Cinema: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Officially Begins Capturing AI and Imaging: Vesuvius Challenge Success Kickstarter: Beni: Camera Robot or Pet?

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At 105°F, photography gets weird in the best possible way. We talk museums, heat-wave film development, the lure of shooting wide open, why your archive might know you better than you do, and how AI is helping read ancient scrolls that nobody has opened in 2,000 years.

Picks of the week:

• Vesuvius Scrolls
• Happy Shooting Event Calendar
• Light Cones Over Desert Expanses

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This week we learn that Chris' favourite map projection is Winkel Tripel and that Ade prefers an actual globe. How did we get to that? Well, we started with WWDC 2026 announcements about features for photographers - so we promise there is definitely photography content in this weeks' show!

Picks of the week: 2 billion FPS Terrible Maps

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Want a new photo superpower? How about something with a low barrier to entry, zero cost, quick to inspire and create and a whole lot of fun? Enter Dirty Little Zine by Rick Vega.

Picks of the week: Dirty Little Zine Plane against the sun by Andrew McCarthy Pam Connolly

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What is a pure photograph? Yes, we have asked this question before and maybe it's a matter of language as much as anything else. But we now have the ability to generate images so photo-realistic that maybe the only distinction left is the linguistic one.

Picks of the week: DANGER: Hermes Agent Paul Nicklen

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When you are working on a series of images, how you present them is a crucial element of the process. What order? How published? How set out? Is there a text narrative? And if you want to allow your viewers to dive deeper where their interest is sparked, how is that achieved? Well, Chris has built a novel way to do this, which we explore today!

Picks of the week: Dazz Cam Casio A168 Over Journal

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There are a bunch of new opportunities to distribute photos emerging. Well, maybe they have been there before but new ways of working with images and software are bringing them into view. For a few years now, Adrian has shared work on a paid Squarespace website. But here is a free option on GitHub that can be whatever you want it to be! What other options exist out there for us to publish our work?

Picks of the week: You have never seen a real photo Ignant

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