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The latest from the Phoblographer for July 22nd, 2025.

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Chris Gampat
July 22, 2025

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VSCO Has the Answer to All the Problems Instagram Makes for Photographers

By Nilofer Khan

July 22, 2025

It's said, "The best camera is the one you have with you." And for many people, that turns out to be their smartphone. With cellphone photography reaching new heights, one can't possibly ignore the cultural and technological footprint it has left behind. To help photographers who still rely on their smartphones, VSCO, a popular platform for photo editing, has announced a standalone app that take one's journey a step further. How? Well, you'll find out.

Was the Sony RX1R Mk III Worth Waiting For? I’m Still Not Sure

By Chris Gampat

July 22, 2025

Upon taking the Sony RX1R Mk III out of the beautiful gray box that Sony delivered their review unit on loan to me, I stared at the camera. It's every bit as gorgeous to behold as the GAS whispers in your mind tell you it is. The Sony RX1R Mk III is small, lightweight, and reminds me so much of what Leica should've done with the Leica CL but failed majorly on. After the excitement of the first announcement and while spending a weekend with the camera, I'm really not sure it was worth the wait. And more importantly, I'm not sure that it's worth the price. But at the same time, I'd be telling you a total lie if I told you that I'm not totally infatuated with this camera.

The 5 Best Zoom Lenses for Travel Photography

By Nilofer Khan

July 22, 2025

Zoom lenses are quite important for a variety of reasons. It allows you to frame your scene without having to move, and makes it easy to capture images on the go, too. As a result, many in travel photography prefer such lenses, which enable them to reduce their workload. So, here is a look at some versatile focal ranges for your needs.

Nikon P1100 Review: The Best Point and Shoot for Bird Photography

By Chris Gampat

July 22, 2025

“The lens takes like 5,000 years to move,” is what Managing Editor Nilofer Khan said to me when I showed the Nikon Coolpix P1100 in our weekly video call. “By the time you zoom in, the bird is gone.” In many cases and situations, she’s not wrong. In fact, in most situations, she was right. And on top of that, there are some oddities to this camera that don’t make it feel like it was made by Nikon. When I put the camera in the hands of one of my fitness instructors, she too thought that it was heavy. Indeed, you can poke a lot of fun at this camera. The amount of times that I’ve made the lens extend out and tell a friend that I’m very happy to see them has brought me and several others lots of laughter. But is the laughter worth nearly $1,100?

Use Our Presets for Those Precious Moments

By Chris Gampat

July 21, 2025

If you photography people, then you're going to want to try this. Our presets are designed to make editing a minimal task so you can get back to shooting! We're in love with Retro Digital. Luckily, that's when we founded the website closer to two decades ago. So we dove into our image archives, looked at how the Adobe Gurus were telling us how to edit, and adapted those methods to create our Retro Digital Lightroom Presets and Capture One Styles. These are in addition to the popular Photojournalism presets that we released a while back.

The 3 Best Cameras That Make Multiple Exposures Effortless

By Nilofer Khan

July 21, 2025

Multiple exposure is one of the few techniques that allows you to make a whole story within one image. For some, it is a creative expression technique to be used sometimes and others utilize it for aesthetic purposes. Either way, multiple exposures can be fun, especially if it's in-camera. If you are someone who is looking for a camera that can achieve this technique, without you having to waste time on your PC in post-production, then here are a few options you can choose from.

How to Give Your Photos the Retro Digital Look

By Chris Gampat

July 21, 2025

The big trend right now is to make your images look like they were shot with cameras from the early 2000s and late 90s. For many photographers, this is a golden era of photography before it became corrupted and too manicured to the point of there being no white to the cuticles. Because so many photographers don't want to pay lots of money for newer cameras, they're buying the older ones. Plus, they're reaching for good point and shoots that have smaller sensors and more of what the engineers have been considering to be flaws. Essentially, they want organic, misshapen produce. Here's how you give your images the retro-digital look.

These are the Best Cameras for Night Photography

By Chris Gampat

July 21, 2025

The best cameras for night photography are, well, how can we put this? There are lots of them. Sony, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Panasonic, and Fujifilm all have incredible cameras designed just for this. And typically, they all have lower megapixel counts. But even those aren't what we'd consider the best. In fact, you might even already own one of the best cameras for night photography. I know that you really want to know, so below, I'm going to let you in on the secret.

The Case for CF Express Type A

By Chris Gampat

July 21, 2025

For the past few Sony camera reviews, I've opted to move away from SD cards. Instead, I've been using the ProGrade Digital CFexpress 2.0 Type A 960GB Gold. They offer very good performance for the price tag. But more importantly, I've accepted the fact that I don't necessarily need to use SD cards. I believe most photographers really just want to use those as they've been the standard for pretty much 20 years. Of course, computers and the need for tons of dongles have changed the way that we've worked. But in this case, I think I'm alright moving on to CF Express Type A.