Fstoppers
Photography News and Community for Creative Professionals
From estimate to final retouch: how we planned, lit, and photographed 25 Tempur-Pedic and Tempur Sealy products for Walmart and Wayfair in 11 production days.
The Olympus 17mm f/2.8 pancake is old, slower than most modern primes, and easy to find used for very little money. On Micro Four Thirds, where much of the appeal is keeping the camera small, that raises a fair question about whether a lens this modest still deserves a place on a current body.
Your photos come out soft, noisy, or flatter than you hoped, and a new camera body looks like the obvious fix. A body and a lens solve different problems, and spending on the wrong one can leave the original issue sitting right where it was.
The Mania MFZ is a pinhole camera built from solid oak and magnets, with no lens, no viewfinder, and no shutter button, yet it shoots 120 film in several formats and at more than one focal length. A camera like this removes the automatic aids you lean on every day, which makes it a direct test of how well you can see a picture before it exists.
Photoshop 2027 and the Camera Raw update that came with it add a long list of features, with more already waiting in the Photoshop beta, and many of them draw on Adobe's generative credits, so plenty of clicks now carry a cost on top of your subscription. Knowing which tools hold up at full resolution and which ones soften your files decides whether an update speeds up your editing or adds cleanup work.
The desk I film at every day looks great. Professional lighting, professional audio, all of it. But that isn't where I actually work. My real desk was a cheap IKEA table with four aging Dell monitors that looked like they were about to give up. So I tore it all down and built a new workstation powered entirely by Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro. It took two full days and I trashed my office in the process, but I'm really happy with where it ended up.