I missed this week’s episode of Candid, but friend of the show Drew Coffman was kind enough to join Marius and Josh for an in-depth discussion on one of the most interesting platforms for photographers of all kinds: Unsplash. This was easily one of the best Candid episodes to date. Absolutely recommended.

Really great piece over at The Billfold:

The most appealing aspect of working as a bike courier — on top of its power to burn calories — is the glimpse it offers you into the private worlds and habits of New Yorkers. I frequently took on the role of an armchair anthropologist, privileged with brief glimpses into the modern dwellings and workplaces of New Yorkers of all stripes.

It’s definitely not all rosy, but if there’s one city in the whole world where I wouldn’t mind trying something like this, it’s gotta be New York.

With Josh unable to join us this week, Marius and I catch up on the news, and then I share some of the many things I learned during my recent trip to Lisbon, including my impressions on the Sony Zeiss FE 16-35mm F4 lens. Along the way, we also answer a listener question, chastise Zenfolio for terrible behavior, discuss photo backups for travel, and I get to make my first-ever baseball reference on the show.

Great piece by Christopher Clarey over at The New York Times:

Michael Phelps and Bolt have been an Olympic one-two punch since 2008 in Beijing, where Bolt emerged to tear up the track while Phelps was already an absolute ruler in the pool.

On Saturday they will overlap briefly once more, with Phelps, now 31, finishing up one of the most remarkable meets of his career, and with Bolt, fast approaching 30, launching his meet with the first round of the 100 meters.

What a generation of athletes. In case it wasn’t obvious, you’ll find me glued to my television both tonight and tomorrow night. If you’re coming over, please bring some cold beverages.

This week we’ve got a couple of excellent listener questions to answer before delving into exposure. We go over ETTR and other techniques and compare exposure rules in digital versus analog photography. I had a lot of fun recording this one.

If you shoot with old manual lenses on your modern digital camera, as I do, you’ve probably noticed that Lightroom doesn’t show up any EXIF information for the lens when you import the images. That’s pretty obvious, since vintage lenses usually have no electronic parts in them at all. The problem is, Lightroom doesn’t allow you to add this missing information to your files later, either.

LensTagger is a Lightroom plugin that allows you to add specific lens metadata to your images without ever leaving the app. It works pretty well, and includes all lens-related information such as lens name, focal length, maximum aperture, actual aperture, and more. Best of all, you can save presets for the different lenses you shoot with, and apply the edits to multiple files with a single click. And as a nice bonus feature, you can also add film-related metadata, including film brand, stock, speed, and more.

If you like to have all your pictures nicely tagged for, say, sharing to Flickr, LensTagger is definitely a great solution.

The images above were both shot with the venerable Canon nFD 50mm f/1.8 lens on the Sony A7 II camera. Click on them to view them on Flickr, including lens metadata.

LensTagger requires ExifTool, which is available on both Windows and OS X. It was developed by Dirk Essl and it’s donation-ware. If you enjoy using it, do send a few bucks his way.

With Josh and Marius back from their respective summer trips, we’re all back together and eager to talk about the latest photo news as well as reflections on travel equipment. This was a fun one.

With Josh still away, Marius & I are joined by friend of the show Drew Coffman. We talk about Drew’s gear, including a new Leica Q, before wrapping up with a detailed discussion of iPad Pro and mobile photography workflows.

My friend and co-host Marius Masalar has been spending his summers in Romania for twenty years. This time around, he decided to share his experience and created this gorgeous photo story to give us a little insight into his beautiful — and sometimes terrible — country. Fantastic work.

My review of the Ascaso i-Mini coffee grinder was published today on Tools & Toys. I’ve owned the i-Mini for over three years now, and it’s one impressive little device.

If you’re at all interested in coffee, you probably know that good, high-end burr grinders are expensive, with the three or four most popular models costing between $350-$1,000. Unless you’re an enthusiast, that’s a lot of money to drop on a grinder.

What’s remarkable about the i-Mini is that it can do almost everything these high-end grinders do, but it does it while keeping the price well under $300. In a community where fancy devices almost invariably carry a hefty premium, that’s no small feat.

If you want to know more about the Ascaso i-Mini grinder, head on over to Tools & Toys for the full review.