Articles from Lee Morris

The JBL 305P MkII is down to $99 per speaker, 41% off its $169 list price, and it's the studio monitor I ended up recommending as the best speaker for the money after testing six of them on my desk. 

For the last few months, I've been doing something that has completely changed how I run my businesses. I set up agentic AI to handle the parts of business I've always hated: email, bills, bookkeeping, taxes, client follow-ups and advertising. It watches everything, it never forgets anything, and when it needs me, it asks a quick question and I tap an answer. 

The NEEWER Q120 is a new compact 120Ws battery-powered strobe that's packed with features, but the most impressive thing about it might be the price. It sells for $159.99 at B&H ($219.99 list), while its two direct competitors, the Godox AD100Pro II and the Profoto A2, cost $299 and $895. 

Since Apple's keynote I have made two videos about the iPhone 18 Pro's new variable aperture lens, and in both of them I made predictions about how it would actually perform. Both phones are now sitting on my desk. I shot the same scenes on the 17 Pro and the 18 Pro, indoors and outdoors, at every aperture the new lens offers, then pulled all of it into Lightroom and zoomed to 400 percent.

Four days ago I put out a very nerdy video about the variable aperture lens in the new iPhone 18 Pro, and it has since become the most watched thing I have made all year. I did not see that coming. What I really did not see coming was the comment section. 

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro, and the headline camera feature this year is a physical variable aperture on the main camera.  I have been shooting professionally for 20 years, and I sat through that entire section of the keynote thinking the same thing over and over: this does not make any sense. Why would anyone want or need a variable aperture on a phone? 

Apple just had a gigantic keynote. New iPhones, new AirPods, new Apple Watches, and the one everybody was waiting on, a folding iPhone. I sat through the entire hour and a half and took detailed notes, and I came out of it more curious than convinced. 

Laptops have finally gotten fast enough to be true desktop replacements. The one problem is that no laptop can connect to everything on your desk. A MacBook might only give you two or three USB-C ports, so you are going to need a dock. 

AI software for photographers is getting so good that it is both incredible and a little horrifying. Every few months, a new app claims it can save us time, but most of them still only handle one piece of the job. Aftershoot’s newest update feels different. 

If you use a Mac, you’ve probably hit this infuriating UI quirk: when you click "Upload," the macOS file picker displays microscopic thumbnails. Unlike a normal Finder window, there’s no slider to scale them up. Fortunately, there’s a permanent, 30-second fix. We just have to bypass the UI and tell macOS exactly what we want using Terminal. 

Whether you want to record clean audio, or you want a quite room to enjoy music in, room treatment is imperative and usually extremely expensive. Costco just brought the price way down.   

A while back, I made the mistake of comparing my old Polk TSi100 bookshelf speakers against much more expensive speakers. Somehow, my cheap speakers won. Now it's time for round two.  

New AI software can now create incredibly accurate video from still images, and the Real Estate video market is about to change forever.  

Most of us know that shooting in a flat log picture profile will give you the highest quality video footage but the workflow has always been too difficult to deal with. I've created Fstoppers' LUTs for Sony cameras and a shooting and editing workflow that changes everything.  

AI powered photography software is getting so good that it may make us obsolete. This may have already happened with real estate photography.  

After hearing that “no professional would ever use” a cheap laptop, I decided to test it. I edited an entire wedding, about 2,600 RAW files, on Apple’s budget MacBook Neo and compared it to a MacBook Pro. The twist: I let AI do almost everything. 

I’ve been testing the Sony RX1R III and Leica Q3 for three weeks, and it’s got me wondering: who is buying this type of camera? 

Whether you’re a casual shooter or a professional photographer, you might be like me and not really understand this “genre” of cameras. These are compact, full-frame, fixed-lens luxury cameras. The Sony costs over $5,000 and the Leica over $7,000.

I’ve used a ton of wireless systems over the years, and consistently, Saramonic tends to deliver some of the best range and audio quality. What shocked me here is that this is their smallest and cheapest system yet at just $49, and somehow it still holds up. 

After comparing the new MacBook Neo to Apple’s Air and Pro, a lot of people asked the obvious question: what about Windows?  

Yesterday I went to Walmart, bought a $659 Asus Vivobook, and tested it directly against the $600 MacBook Neo using the exact same real-world tasks.

Apple just released the incredibly cheap Macbook Neo for $599 and you might be wondering what it's capable of. In this video I'll put it head to head against the Macbook Air, and Macbook Pro.  

To see the results of each test, you'll need to watch the video above but I'll give you a quick summary of what I discovered. 

I just tested a 50mm lens that cost $7000. I got to compare it directly to five other 50mm lenses starting at just $225. How do you think it stacked up?  

To get the full story, please watch the video above, but I'll give you a quick summary of how each lens performed. 

For the past few weeks, I have been testing the Antigravity A1, the first drone I have ever used with a built in 360 degree camera. I expected a gimmick. What I got was something  genuinely innovative surprisingly fun. 

I know nothing about laser cutter/engravers, and when I offered one to review, I was excited to try. Would I be smart enough to learn how to use it? Would I be creative enough to find a use for it?