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Firmware & software · 108 stories, +50 vs last week

Firmware & software: 108 stories in seven days, +50 on the week before.

ReviewsNikon ZR Firmware Brings Log3G10, 3D LUT Support and More ePHOTOzine

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CineStillMakersAnd The Winner Is… Film Photography! — Shooting CineStill 800T at The Emmy's The Emmys is television’s biggest night, the Super Bowl of the small screen if you will, with all the stars of your favorite shows gathering to vie for the ultimate accolades.

11.07

The PlaylistCinemaBill Hader Says His Upcoming Psychological Horror ‘They Know’ Is Funny, Scary & “Weirdly Sweet,” Cites Kiyoshi Kurosawa Influences Anyone expecting Bill Hader to follow “ Barry ” with a straightforward horror movie might want to adjust their expectations.

11.06

discuss.pixls.usSoftwareHawai'ian Ferns - Hilo, HI - USA IMG_0936.CR2 (22.2 MB) This file is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike . Distant waterfall and exuberant ferns near Hilo on the Big Island. HI-USA.

11.06

ePHOTOzineReviewsNikon ZR Firmware Brings Log3G10, 3D LUT Support and More © Nikon Nikon has released firmware version 2.00 for the ZR, its full-frame compact cinema camera, and it is the first major update since the camera launched.

11.06

Animation World NetworkVFXCoyotes, Ivy, and Explosions: Wētā FX Goes Handmade for 'Wildwood' Senior VFX supervisor Guy Williams spent 6 months in Portland guiding the studio's work on LAIKA's stop-motion epic, from a 12-minute, 400-shot battle to coyote soldiers and a raging ivy storm, all…

11.06

Gold DerbyCinema‘Werwulf’ takes a bite out of ‘The Odyssey’ in this Oscar category Robert Eggers’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Nosferatu is making major gains in several key below-the-line categories, led by makeup and hairstyling.

11.06

DroneXLDronesDJI Ban Outlasts the Midterms: Democrats Can't Lift It Before 2029 Democrats won the House and the Senate on November 3, and the first question in my inbox the next morning was whether that brings DJI back to the United States.

11.06

Camera DecisionReviewsBluetooth HDT Is Nearly 4x Faster: What 7.5 Mbps Could Change for Cameras, and What It Will Not The Bluetooth SIG has adopted Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT), an optional part of Bluetooth Core 7.0. It raises the top bit rate to 7.5 Mbps, nearly four times Bluetooth LE's 2 Mbps.

11.06

PetaPixelReviewsMotorola’s $1,599 Signature 27 Is the ‘World’s Fastest Android Smartphone’ After numerous teases and even a sponsored YouTube hands-on video, Motorola has finally, thankfully, fully unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the Signature 27.

11.06

Animation MagazineVFXNew ‘Steps’ Lyric Video Stars Jennie’s Animated Alter Ego K-pop star Jennie gets a makeover like no other in the official Steps music video for “Someone to Hold.” The Blackpink member appears as an animated character in the style of the new 3D CG fairy tale…

11.06

Camera DecisionReviewsNikon Sold 25% Fewer Cameras in Six Months, and Now Expects a 6.3 Million Camera Market Nikon reported its first half on November 5. From April to September it sold 360,000 interchangeable lens cameras, 120,000 fewer than a year earlier, and 530,000 lenses, down 140,000.

11.06

L-RumorsRumoursPanasonic officially registered a new camera in China! Above, you can see an image of the official registration of a new Panasonic camera in China. The camera has the code “P2502A” and no Wi-Fi 6 support.

11.06

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo