Street Photography is Having a Reckoning

The latest from the Phoblographer for May 27th, 2025.

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Chris Gampat
May 27, 2025

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Here’s When You Can Expect The Fujifilm X-E5

By Nilofer Khan

May 27, 2025

Fujifilm has some spectacular camera series. From the X100 to the X Pro, the company has various offerings for beginner, intermediate, and advanced practitioners of the medium. While photographers have been waiting to hear about the X Pro 4, there are just as many who are excited to know about the X-E5. While there has been no word on the former yet, it appears the latter has some exciting updates. Let's have a look at them.

Dear Ricoh: Please Weather Seal the GRIV

By Chris Gampat

May 27, 2025

I’m writing this article knowing fully well that Ricoh might not take too kindly to it. In fact, brands in general have often not given the Phoblographer a product because they know that they can control YouTubers a whole lot better. I needed to say that — and I will always stick to it. With …

5 Lenses That Are Ideal For Street Photography

By Nilofer Khan

May 27, 2025

Street photography is a genre that requires crystal-clear images of the entire scene. But you need to consider not only the quality but also the size of the lens and the speed with which it focuses on the subject. In addition, if someone likes to shoot at night, then certainly a brighter aperture is needed to get more light. Keeping these parameters in mind, here is a look at a few lenses for street photography that any enthusiast can pick up today.

What is Street Photography? The Genre is Having a Reckoning

By Chris Gampat

May 27, 2025

It's a question that it seems everyone is trying to gatekeep the answer to -- and everyone thinks that they're right. What is street photography? The genre has been around for many, many years and is often attributed to the founders of Magnum Photos in some ways. While at times, it's also attributed to great photographers like Gordon Parks. Ultimately, it seems to convey a documentary format as the origins are with variants of photojournalism. But how it's defined is really, really odd.

Lightroom for the Web Review: Who Actually Uses This Thing?

By Feroz Khan

May 26, 2025

We live in an era where access to information and data libraries isn't just easily available online, it's also packaged quite neatly into apps for your smartphones. Every company and its subsidiary is out to get you to download their app. They don't just do this in order to give you a more personalized experience; it's also to get as much information out of you as possible while you use these apps. And I suppose we've all become so conditioned to this ideology by now that we hardly give it a second thought. Apps used to just be for applications to run on your phone, but not anymore now. We have apps for every company whose websites we used to frequent often to obtain information of various kinds. Be they news sites, social media sites, bank websites, or government websites - they've all got their own apps across multiple smartphone OS platforms. So it really does make you wonder when a company that has had an established and functional smartphone (and desktop) app for a very long time, now decides to make all those app features available via a website. Adobe's Lightroom for the Web has been around for some years now. Does it really do anything different compared to the existing desktop and smartphone apps that Lightroom offers?

Fujifilm Photographers: These are the Best Presets for You

By Chris Gampat

May 26, 2025

Save your money and spend less using our presets that work so well for Fujifilm cameras! If you're looking for a new way to show off your photos, our presets will inspire you. With the Phoblographer's presets, you can speed up how you work in Lightroom and Capture One. You folks asked for them, and now you've got them! Over the years, the Phoblographer's staffers have tested various cameras and lenses as well as film emulsions. So we decided to make Lightroom presets and Capture One presets that look like the classic film look that you'd see in magazines. In fact, we based it off of old-school photojournalism. That's what we named them for; and we think they're some of the best lightroom presets and Capture One presets that you'll get your hands on. This article gives you visual examples of all 20 presets in our Photojournalism Presets Pack, as applied to various portraits we've taken over the years. And if you want, you can purchase them right here at our store.

The Zeiss Lenses Everyone Forgot About

By Chris Gampat

May 26, 2025

The biggest thing regarding Zeiss and photography that photographers are speaking about are the recently released Zeiss Otus lenses. But perhaps the best lineup that Zeiss had are the Milvus lenses. The Milvus lenses were originally designed for DSLRs and were a fascinating option for Zeiss. The company back then didn't give any sort of weather resistance or sealing to their Otus lenses. But the Milvus lenses got it. In fact, they were the highest end option to have weather resistance. While the Batis lenses had it, they were kind of an odd entry for the company. And Zeiss Loxia lenses had it too -- but only at the mount. So what were the best Zeiss lenses?

A Few of the Camera Brands Might Not Survive

By Chris Gampat

May 26, 2025

I'll never forget the look on a Japanese executive's face when I asked a very curious question. "Hold on, Sony introduced this feature in their cameras recently, how are you all coming out with the same tech at the same time?" He smiled at me, and didn't give me an answer. That was a year before I started the Phoblographer -- and it wasn't until I was a bit further into my career that I learned the crazy truth. All of the camera manufacturers are all using each other's parts, designs, and innovations. Just think about it: if scene detection (otherwise call AI detection) wasn't a top secret thing, then why didn't Sony keep the secret all to themselves? And why does the company's sensors appear in so many cameras? It's made me wonder many times over and over again: if the camera manufacturers stopped working together, could any of them actually survive?

This Nikon Camera is Giving Fujifilm a Run for its Money

By Nilofer Khan

May 26, 2025

In the world of mirrorless cameras, compact cameras have been taking the lead. Per CIPA, compact cameras have been overtaking DSLRs, a trend many did not really foresee. However, it appears that tables are turning again. Last month, OM System topped the best-selling camera list, a small sensor device, leaving behind giants like Canon and Nikon. But this month, the story is different again. Nikon's full-frame camera managed to take the lead in unprecedented ways. Here's a look at the rankings.