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The PhoblographerReviewsRAW File vs. JPEG: What You Actually Lose Shooting JPEG Only Whenever you photograph a scene or a person, there are two ways your camera can process the details. In one, you get a compressed, color-corrected image; in the other, the image is unprocessed…

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DroneXLDronesAmazon North Haven Drone Hold Disputed as Legislators Meet Oct. 5 Amazon ’s North Haven, Connecticut, drone plan is on hold until residents, state legislators and regional mayors have been heard at meetings the company will run, First Selectman Michael Freda wrote…

PetaPixelReviewsThe Historic Practice of the Hidden Mother in Photography The “Hidden Mother” is a genre of photography that has been practiced since the infancy of the photographic process. Many examples date back to 1839 and the daguerreotype.

Fuji RumorsRumoursFujifilm Instax Deals: Save up to 21% on Instax EVO, Square Link Printer, LiPlay+ and More Fujifilm has launched rebates on some of their Instax gear. I find particularly interesting the 15% rebate on the Instax Mini EVO and the 21% discount on the Instax Square Link printer.

DIY PhotographyTechMaven’s Talon Is a Folding LED Light Designed to Save Bag Space After a $500 excess baggage fee pushed him to rethink his lighting kit, Maven Filters founder Michael Andrew spent seven years developing the Talon, a six panel LED light that folds into a compact…

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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