Nothing Rhymes This Week
Six times through the pile and it still hasn’t sorted itself into a story. So, once more, proximity in place of a thesis. The markets end opens on rotation rather than collapse: a read on what…
Six times through the pile and it still hasn’t sorted itself into a story. So, once more, proximity in place of a thesis. The markets end opens on rotation rather than collapse: a read on what…
The pile refills faster than it empties. Here’s another pass across it, no order implied. Money first, and it’s a big number: the reported Stripe and Advent bid for PayPal at roughly $53 billion, a…
Marvell enters the 6G cycle from a position of strength that is quietly eroding. The company supplies the custom baseband silicon at the heart of the non-Chinese RAN — OCTEON Fusion processors and…
The country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs that defined the first year of Trump’s trade agenda are gone, struck down in court. But the tariffs on imports have not disappeared. They have been rebuilt on…
Some weeks refuse to organize themselves around a single theme, and this is one of them. The tabs pile up, the reading list sprawls, and the only honest way to write it down is to let the pieces sit…
Some subjects simply don’t cooperate with eye level. Arches, coffered ceilings, hanging signage, and upper facade details all sit above the natural sightline of a standing photographer, and craning…
An open kitchen is one of the least cooperative environments you can point a camera at. The light source is whatever the restaurant installed for cooks, not photographers, and it rarely agrees with…
Carrying two camera bodies at once looks like overkill until the moment it isn’t. The setup shown here is a common one: two Sony bodies on separate straps, a longer lens raised overhead for a detail…
Cosina has officially announced the Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm f/4 Close Focus, moving the lens from its CP+ 2026 prototype showing to a confirmed product for Leica M-mount. Shipping is expected to…
The Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75mm f/2.8 VM is the sibling lens to the newly announced APO-Lanthar 90mm f/4 Close Focus — both shown as prototypes at CP+ 2026 — but it reached market first. Cosina gave…