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Rumours & leaks: 26 stories in seven days, +26 on the week before.

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ePHOTOzineReviewsLearn How To Improve Your Landscapes Instantly With Mood As photographers, when we think of mood, we think of stormy, dark and dramatic, but mood can equally relate to any lighting type that evokes a feeling.

No Film SchoolCinema6 Horror Movies To Watch for Hispanic Heritage Month From September 15 to October 15, National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States celebrates and honors the culture and contributions of Hispanic Americans.

NewsshooterCinemaTilta’s new EVF Extension Kit for Sony FX5 Tilta’s new EVF Extension Kit for Sony FX5 is now available to pre-order, and you can save 10% up until the 23rd of October, 2026.

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No Film SchoolCinema14 Years Ago, Ben Affleck Turned an Almost Unfilmable True Story Into an Oscar Winner Ben Affleck was one of the most popular actors on the planet when he turned to directing. He was sick and tired of not getting the kinds of movies he wanted to star in, so he decided to make them…

TechRadar CamerasTechKioxia beats its own world record with the fastest SSD ever produced — new PCIe 6.0 GP1 tops 20M IOPS and is part of Kioxia's plan to challenge DRAM in AI markets Kioxia's upgraded GP drive exceeds 20 million random-read IOPS Third-gen XL-FLASH improves memory access through shorter wiring and additional planes Kioxia LD4 launches with 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB…

SLR LoungeReviewsWhat Is A Dead Pixel? | Test And Fix Our lives today are filled with digital sensors and digital displays, and unfortunately, both of these devices can be affected by what is known as a “dead pixel”.

Camera DecisionReviewsSony FX5 X-OCN RAW Explained, the Best Video on It So Far, and Which Cameras Record RAW Internally RAW video sounds like something only big productions need. Jake Ratcliffe's new video on the Sony FX5 is the clearest explanation of Sony's X-OCN RAW I have seen, and it shows why that is changing.

No Film SchoolCinemaThis New SmallRig Fluid Video Head is Ready for Your Heavier-Duty Camera Loadouts When you're starting out, working with cameras and film and video gear is pretty easy, because you’re usually working with small, lightweight, compact gear.

Engadget CamerasTechWhy are your iPhone photos so blurry (and how to improve it) Blurry iPhone photos can come down to more than just a dirty lens. Here's how to expertly sharpen your shots and fine-tune your camera settings.

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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