A single medium format film shot cost about 470 times what the same scene cost on a digital camera. That kind of math should end the film-versus-digital debate outright, and yet the photos taken on film still mean more to the person who shot them. This is the tension every hybrid shooter runs into once digital quality stops being the question.

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The earliest surviving camera photograph of any continent is a grainy rooftop view that Nicéphore Niépce recorded in the Burgundy countryside in 1826 or 1827, and burning it onto a sheet of pewter took at least many hours of daylight and possibly several days. Every other landmass had to wait. As the daguerreotype spread out of Paris after 1839, cameras reached North America within weeks, then Africa, Asia, and South America, then Australia, and finally, roughly sixty years later, the ice of Antarctica. 

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Today, I wanted to take a break from discussing the cameras that capture our images and look at one of the tools used to make those images better. Let’s have a look at the Peak Design Travel Tripod. 

When it comes to camera-related products, it seems as though Peak Design’s company ethos is right there in the title. The products they produce seem engineered to solve common problems in a unique and elegant way.

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The Fujifilm X-M5 and X-E5 look like siblings, but the price gap between them runs about $1,000 and the experience of shooting each one splits along lines you might not expect. Deciding between an $800 body and one that often sells closer to $1,800 forces a question every buyer eventually faces: how much are premium build and resolution actually worth to you?

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Shooting film is one thing. Developing and scanning it yourself, hundreds of miles from home, inside a van with blackout blinds and a couple of red lights, is a different level of commitment.

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Photoshop's beta build now includes a Refine Edge feature that cleans up the messy fringing left behind when you cut a subject out of one background and drop them onto another. Every click costs 20 generative credits, so the value depends on whether the result beats what you can do by hand.

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