Last week, I asked what Patreon exclusive content I should make for y'all (thank you to everyone who replied and please keep 'em coming!). And while I could have predicted the behind-the-scenes, camera/lighting setup content requests, I was completely shocked when some folks asked for the return ...
2025-11-07 17:28:44 +0000 UTC View PostQuick note before we get started- I am gearing up to make a few Patreon exclusive videos and I would love to hear what you want to see. Let me know in the comments! Ok, on with the show.
Happy belated Halloween (the best holiday of the year)! And welcome to two weeks of me talking endlessly...
2025-11-03 16:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostHoly cow, the Oppo Find X9 Pro really surprised me. What do you think? (all images straight outta camera)
2025-10-29 13:32:46 +0000 UTC
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It has been a week of smart glasses for me as I traded the Oakly Meta Vanguard for an Apple Vision Pro.
I loved using the $500 Oakley Meta Vanguards; they are great sunglasses with a decent camera, solid mics, and loud speakers, but I couldn’t help but notice how everyone around me felt about them.
Meta's track record regarding the use of users' data is bad. Like, real bad. Not to mention, ...
2025-10-22 15:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostFirst and foremost, if you're new around here- welcome! This is the newsletter that goes out sometime between Friday and Sunday every week. It's a little bit journal, a little bit internet links, and always hot off the press.
For the last week, I've been deep in the weeds on an 2025-10-20 02:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
My first year on YouTube was the wildest roller coaster I have ever been on (and if you know me, you know that I am not a big fan of roller coasters).
I started out with a little bit of savings and loads of sheer will. Then, I quickly learned that YouTube is just as much about being a busin...
2025-10-14 14:05:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello from my desk in Brooklyn, NY. It has been one of those perfectly gray, sleepy weekends that don't make you feel like you missed out on too much by spending it working on a video.
I put out my big iPhone 17 Pro review this week, and in it are a few of my favorite video editing tricks. So in the spirit of never gatekeeping a good thing, I want to spell just a few of them out for ya!
Sound effects:
I have only recently begun to paint a fuller pic...
2025-10-03 13:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post
At long last! 1,000 photos and videos done with the iPhone 17 Pro. I usually remove the sponsored segment for Patreon, but since it serves as the video section, I left it in. Hope that is ok!
Here are a few of my favorite shots:
Hello from my very messy desk in Brooklyn, NY.
It's been a while since I have spent this much consecutive time in NYC. And while I can't say that I have missed the noise, I have been reminded that there is no better feeling than hopping on a bike and watching the city fly by as you float th...
2025-09-26 20:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the new $500 GoPro Max 2, the long-awaited successor to the 2019 Max. It's a 360-degree action camera capable of shooting spherical 10-bit 8K 30FPS video and 29MP 360-degree photos. Unfortunately, while the hardware feels robust and ready, the software feels stuck in the past.
What ...
2025-09-23 16:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello from the skies. I am en route home from San Francisco, where Meta showed off its latest smartglasses during the company's annual Connect event.
Disclosure: Meta flew me out and put me up for the event.
By far, the best part of the event was the failed live demos (seen 2025-09-19 15:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Phones, cameras, and an assassination. I'll keep this to tech, but god damn, what a week.
First, the iPhones:
A new $999 iPhone Air model
"ProMotion" 120Hz adaptive refresh rate across the lineup
A wider 18MP front-facing camera w...
2025-09-12 14:28:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello from Germany!
For the last few days, I have been deep in the throes of IFA, a large tech trade show held annually in Berlin. And I have been focused on one thing and one thing only-- robots, that I am sad to report are not ok.
They are falling down...
While having dinner with a friend last week, we talked a lot about our reliance/dependence on our phones, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.
A few months ago, I noticed that whenever something becomes even the least bit difficult, for example, when I'm writing a script...
2025-08-25 03:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole shtick of Insta360's GO lineup has always been that it’s a super-tiny camera that can be taken in and out of a larger camera body, which houses more battery, a tiltable screen, additional buttons, and a USB-C port. So, you could use the Go as a more traditional-looking action cam...
2025-08-22 15:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostKyu (https://kyu-core.com/en/product) is a $300 minimalist, video-only camera that, unlike smartphones, which encourage constant content creation, is designed to be intentional and simple. The problem is that in an attempt t...
2025-08-17 18:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostA few weeks ago, while editing my RX1R III video, I fell down a rabbit hole.
away she goesssss
M...
2025-08-15 15:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay, bud. I was lucky to have my family in town for a little NYC weekend. If you are ever here, here are a few of my favs!
Best Pizza: Saraghina Pizzeria, Brooklyn...
2025-08-11 02:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole time I was using Sony's latest full-frame, point-and-shoot camera, the $5,100 RX1R III, something felt off. It's small, light, Sony-sharp, and fast, but for that price, there are far too many compromises that all feel very un-Sony.
Here are some of my favorite photos, all straight...
2025-08-04 14:36:57 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn't care less about what a 360 camera looks like.
That's what I woke up thinking this morning after seeing all of the reviews for DJI's first 360 camera that was released yesterday, the $550 Osmo 360. Shorter, wider, mor...
2025-08-01 14:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello from Newport, Rhode Island. For the next few days, I'll be living the dream - boppin' around the Newport Folk Fest with a beer in one hand and an RX1R III in the other. (If you're here too, say hi!)
In high school, when asked what I wanted to do with my life, I often said, "Travel the...
2025-07-25 12:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis was a really different video for me to make. From the title cards, the lack of traditional a-roll of me talking to the camera, to not leaning on the camera to tell the story, I felt really out of my element in the edit. But I knew that the story of this device was about its size and power, s...
2025-07-22 16:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostFor the last week, I have been using the Z Fold 7, Samsung's newly released $2,000 folding phone, as both my phone and my laptop.
It started like this...
There is so much that didn't make it into this video, from all the people who helped me to the many more challenges I faced (camping, in a field, through some of the brightest lightning and loudest thunder I had ever seen and heard, for example). But the biggest thing I am taking away from this v...
2025-07-11 13:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a fine camera. It's just nothing special.
(I usually remove the ad segment from the Patreon videos, but I left it in so that you can see the footage from this device.)
Here are some of my favorite shots from the Nothing Phone (3):
2025-07-08 13:44:14 +0000 UTC
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I love what Nothing is doing in the tech space. In a world of metal slabs and typical camera bumps, Nothing has continued to bring truly wild-looking devices to market. And the new Nothing Phone (3) is no exception. The phone features asymmetrical camera rings embedded into a cyberpunk-looking ba...
2025-07-04 13:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostBud, I did it.
After six days and 477 miles on a bike, through 2025-06-27 20:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I won't be sending a newsletter this week, as I'll be hitting the road instead! Here goes nothing...
2025-06-20 14:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The video in que...