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Photographers: 32 stories in seven days, +20 on the week before.

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ePHOTOzineReviewsCalifornian Poppies Still Life Wins 'Photo Of The Week' This week's 'Photo of the Week' accolade has been awarded to ' Californian Poppies ' by chase , a still life full of warm tones and rustic glass that creates a quiet, cozy atmosphere.

ePHOTOzineReviewsTop Tips On Photographing Sunbeams Through Trees The beauty of this time of year is that the sun rises at a more reasonable hour so an early morning jaunt to the woods isn't as painful as it was a few weeks ago.

ePHOTOzineReviewsHow to Photograph Mountains In 8 Easy Steps Mountain photography, both on and off these magnificent natural structures, is something photographers can capture images of all year round, but there's something about the Autumn and Winter seasons…

The PhoblographerReviewsCould Sharper Lenses Really Make Images Look Like AI? The lead image of this article is one that will always stick out to me. It's an image of my good friend, Alex.

No Film SchoolCinemaSigma Has a Tiny and Light New Large-Aperture Medium-Telephoto Lens for Your Full-Frame Cameras Small and beefy is the name of the game for many lenses these days, as pretty much all manufacturers are chasing strong optics and performance while pushing form factors to be as small, light, and…

PetaPixelReviewsBrightin Star’s Wild 50mm f/2 Tri-Sight With Customizable Bokeh Is Here Brightin Star's distinctly unusual 50mm f/2 Tri-Sight lens announced at CP+ has officially launched. The manual focus lens is available for E, L, RF, and Z-mount full-frame cameras and promises three…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsBirdfy Feeder Metal review I have always enjoyed feeding the birds in my garden, particularly during the colder months, but until testing the Birdfy Feeder Metal I had never really considered monitoring exactly what was…

Amateur PhotographerReviewsHere’s another great deal on a fantastic full-frame camera, which excels at most things When we are asked to recommend the best all-round full-frame mirrorless camera, the Nikon Z6III comes very high in the list, as it copes well with a range of genres.

No Film SchoolCinemaFilm Quote of the Day: The 'Children of Men' Line That Sums Up Faith vs. Chance and Everything in Between Children of Men is one of Alfonso Cuarón's masterpieces. It's a dystopian sci-fi story set in a world where the birth rate has plummeted to literally zero—no babies are being born, plunging the world…

DroneLifeDronesWhat Can Cities Regulate About Drone Delivery? Colorado proposal focuses on launch hubs as FAA authority limits local control of aircraft operation The City of Northglenn, Colorado, is considering new rules for commercial drone delivery hubs as…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsOver 300 custom-made camera traps spread across an area the size of Cape Verde make important wildlife discoveries Camera traps continue to provide vital evidence and data for zoologists. A recent study in Tanzania by the conservation organization Panthera involved over 300 camera traps occupying an area the size…

TV TechnologyVideoSpectrum to Demo AI Computing at the Network’s Edge at SCTE TechExpo 26 STAMFORD, Conn.— Spectrum plans to demo new capabilities to its Edge Compute Infrastructure (ECI) enhanced with NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms at the SCTE TechExpo , Sept. 29-Oct.

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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