Gear & location hubs

Every camera, lens and location in the community — find inspiration and recipes for your setup.

What a gear hub actually collects

Every photograph published here carries the EXIF it was shot with and the full editing recipe applied to it. A gear hub is what happens when you group those by one field: all the edits made on a particular body, with a particular lens, or in a particular place.

The point is not the gallery. It is that each photograph on a hub comes with the numbers behind it — exposure, curve, HSL, split toning — so a camera page answers a question no sample gallery can: not “what does this camera look like”, but “what did somebody have to do to the file to get there”. Sensors differ in how they render skin, sky and shadow, and the corrections people reach for are the visible evidence of it.

Two kinds of camera page

Catalogued bodies have a written page of their own: colour notes describing how that sensor actually behaves, and what to watch for when grading it. Those exist whether or not anyone has posted with that camera yet.

Every other camera page is derived purely from EXIF — it appears when photographs shot on that body are published, and grows as more arrive. The catalogue is deliberately small and hand-written rather than generated from a list of every camera ever made; a page per model with nothing on it is worth less than no page, and search engines treat a site full of them accordingly.

Reading EXIF from your own files

You do not need an account or a published photograph to see this data. The metadata reader opens any JPEG, RAW or sidecar in your browser and shows the camera, lens, exposure and every other tag it carries — nothing is uploaded. If you would rather remove that data before sharing a file, the EXIF remover strips it locally.