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PhotoActive PhotoActive Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn This Is Scotland with The Scots Magazine This Is Scotland with The Scots Magazine The Scots Magazine Arroe Collins Like It's Live Arroe Collins Like It's Live Arroe Collins Around The Layout - A Model Railroad Podcast Around The Layout - A Model Railroad Podcast Ray Arnott Brushwood Media Network Brushwood Media Network Brushwood Media Network Commuter Bible Q Commuter Bible Q John Ross Dream Chasers and Eccentrics Dream Chasers and Eccentrics Paul Trammell Grandes aprendizajes Grandes aprendizajes Borja Girón Laying the Foundation Laying the Foundation CMBA Architects Een Cursus in Wonderen Dagelijkse Les Een Cursus in Wonderen Dagelijkse Les Een Cursus in Wonderen Agave Road Trip Agave Road Trip Ten Angry Pitbulls, Inc The Bible Breakdown: Daily Bible Reading The Bible Breakdown: Daily Bible Reading Brandon Cannon Designing Success Designing Success Rhiannon Lee New Mercies for Moms New Mercies for Moms KVNE Creatives Like Us Creatives Like Us Angela Lyons Rabbit holes with Aaron Rabbit holes with Aaron Aaron Creative Slash Creative Slash Brad Woodard and Dustin Lee Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day Merriam-Webster Girl Talk with Tay Girl Talk with Tay Taylor Love The Shit No One Tells You About Writing The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra Der Portfolio-Podcast | Kreativ erfolgreich in Illustration und Design Der Portfolio-Podcast | Kreativ erfolgreich in Illustration und Design Dr. Franziska Walther | Die gute Mappe Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books Two Guys to the Dark Tower Came: A Podcast about Stephen King and His Books Jay Russo and Sean McGurr Hotel Jorge Juan Hotel Jorge Juan Vanity Fair Spain The Audiobook Vault: Catholic Sacred & Classic Voices from the Past The Audiobook Vault: Catholic Sacred & Classic Voices from the Past The Audiobook Vault: Catholic Italian Wine Podcast Italian Wine Podcast Italian Wine Podcast ON THE ROAD with MR CA WINE ON THE ROAD with MR CA WINE Chuck Cramer Celebrate Creativity Celebrate Creativity George Bartley Rip It Up: The Renovations Podcast Rip It Up: The Renovations Podcast Jenny Sheahan and Kate O'Driscoll Everyday Beans Podcast - Mostly About Coffee and Other Stuff Everyday Beans Podcast - Mostly About Coffee and Other Stuff Oaks, the coffee guy SUNNY's Podcast SUNNY's Podcast SUNNY ALEX ALEX SUNNY The Cutting Up: A Kiki with Connie & Lina The Cutting Up: A Kiki with Connie & Lina Pride House Media Book Shelter Book Shelter Book Shelter CyberSecurity Summary CyberSecurity Summary CyberSecurity Summary Historias de los Libros Historias de los Libros Historias de los Libros Dentistry Made Simple Dentistry Made Simple Dentistry Made Simple Civil Engineering Made Simple Civil Engineering Made Simple Civil Engineering Made Simple
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Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn

Jeff Goes to the Dark Side (Sony)

July 08, 2026 11:00pm 34 min

We’ve mocked YouTubers who make a fuss about selling all their camera gear to switch brands and systems, only to do it all again later for clicks. Well, the universe has a sense of humor, because that’s just what Jeff ha...

Craig Grannell on Apple’s New AI Photo Announcements

June 21, 2026 6:00pm 40 min

Apple introduced its next OS 27 systems at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which included changes to the Camera and Photos apps that revolve around AI features. Actually, that’s almost literal: the new Spatial Refra...

Obsessive Isn’t a Bad Word

June 12, 2026 11:00am 26 min

We often talk about framing a photo to get the best composition, but sometimes we don’t nail it. Or we realize in editing that a tighter crop would be better. Or something crept into the edge of the frame at the last sec...

Photo Scouting

May 25, 2026 8:00pm 28 min

Before you go out to do some photography, how do you determine where to go? Jeff had a portrait session booked and discovered that the location was fenced and blocked -- but scouting in advance gave him time to find a ne...

What If Apple Makes a Camera?

May 11, 2026 1:00am 26 min

Our conversation in this episode started with news of John Ternus becoming the next CEO of Apple as of September 1, but that led to an intriguing concept that isn’t as far-fetched as it might seem: What if Apple makes it...

DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom Killer?

April 27, 2026 2:00am 30 min

The well regarded video editor DaVinci Resolve just introduced a Photos module inside the app, making some people wonder whether the free software could replace traditional photography tools like Lightroom. We also talk ...

Monochrome Sensors, DNG, and Apple 50th

April 11, 2026 11:00pm 31 min

We remain fascinated by monochrome cameras, and this week we discovered just how tough it is to source the sensors used by the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. We also talk about DNG, Adobe’s universal raw format, becoming an off...

You Can’t Trust Photos Anymore

March 30, 2026 3:00am 32 min

So it’s come to this. Generative AI has quickly gotten so good that it’s hard to distinguish real photos from generated ones. So where do we go from here? We talk about C2PA authentication, trusting your sources, and mor...

Spec Goblins and the MacBook Neo

March 14, 2026 8:00pm 28 min

Apple has announced the MacBook Neo, a $600 laptop running on the same A18 Pro processor that was used in the iPhone 16 Pro. Oh, and it has 8GB of RAM and starts at 256GB of storage. Believe it or not, lots of people on ...

Storage Prices

March 01, 2026 6:00pm 28 min

The prices of digital storage are set to climb this year because AI is eating up all the available inventory. And modern photography is entirely dependent on storage, whether it's the SD cards that store the captured ima...

Do You Have $10,000 to Spare?

February 14, 2026 4:45pm 31 min

The best-selling compact camera in Japan is from... Kodak? We’ve talked about compact cameras in the past, but it remains a fascinating part of the photo marketplace as people look for something different than mirrorless...

Pixelmator Pro Returns

February 03, 2026 3:00am 30 min

Now we know what Apple is doing with Pixelmator Pro after its acquisition of Pixelmator: it’s part of the new Apple Creator Studio bundle. Also, we celebrate the latest black and white camera to hit the market, the Ricoh...

What’s Real

January 03, 2026 1:00am 33 min

Is your phone not accurately capturing the world around you? An article in the Guardian questions whether image processing in smartphones is making photos that aren’t genuine. Also, Leica released a firmware update that ...

All Our Cameras

December 23, 2025 3:00am 39 min

Two Hundred episodes! To celebrate roughly seven and a half years of the PhotoActive podcast, Kirk and Jeff picked some favorite photos from the digital cameras they’ve owned. Hosts: Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos...

Vroom Vroom

December 08, 2025 2:00am 33 min

We get views into two very different types of photography in this episode. Jeff travels to Nevada for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix where the cars’ speed is a challenge to photograph... but not as difficult as the r...

I’m Not an Animal

November 29, 2025 1:00am 36 min

We’ve got several things to discuss in this episode, from little-known settings in the iPhone Camera app, to shooting panoramas, to the Leica M EV1 and to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Hosts: Jeff Carlson: website,...

Overenthusiastic in Your Opinion

November 02, 2025 11:00pm 36 min

What started with a couple of new settings related to the iPhone Camera app quickly devolves into a discussion of Apple’s Liquid Glass effect in iOS 26, changes and consistency in the Camera app’s interface, and whether ...

Has Camera Tech Hit a Plateau?

October 20, 2025 11:30am 34 min

Has camera technology plateaued? We’re seeing technical advancements in image processing and autofocus, but what about the core parts like sensors? Also, we spend three hours talking about the Apple Watch Ultra 3 (not ac...

Hands On with the iPhone 17 Pro

October 03, 2025 2:00am 36 min

Fifty percent of the PhotoActive podcast got a new iPhone 17 Pro, which means one of us has been testing the new cameras and can report back with first impressions. Who could it be? However, fifty percent of the podcast ...

iPhone 17 and Apple’s Fall Event

September 12, 2025 2:00am 41 min

The new iPhone models are here, a yearly event that we look forward to mostly to see what Apple has done with the iPhone cameras. Does a 48 megapixel telephoto camera capable of 8x zoom appeal to you enough to buy a new ...

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