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Smartphones: 26 stories in seven days, +15 on the week before.

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No Film SchoolCinemaThe 10 Most Unusual James Bond Villains Until about a decade ago, James Bond was pretty unapologetically gimmicky. Villains had goofy names and goofier plans, and M gave Bond ridiculous spy tools to use on his missions.

DroneDJDronesDoorDash goes all-in on its own drone delivery ecosystem DoorDash has spent the past few years bringing drone deliveries to customers through partners including Wing and Flytrex.

TV TechnologyVideoPoll: Alabamans Favor PBS Support, but Many Question Its Political Leanings HUNTSVILLE, Ala .—A majority of state residents polled wants Alabama Public Television (APT) to continue its relationship with PBS, but among those who expressed an opinion slightly more than half…

Photo RumorsRumoursVenus Optics announced the Laowa ACRIS AF 35mm f/2.8 1X Macro APO lens for E/Z/EF/RF/L mount Venus Optics officially announced the previously reported Laowa ACRIS AF 35mm f/2.8 1X Macro APO lens E/Z/EF/RF/L mount. Orders are now open at the Laowa online store ( coming soon to B&H Photo ).

DIY PhotographyTechHONOR Just Turned a Smartphone Into a Tiny Cinema Camera HONOR's Magic9 Pro Max brings ARRI LogC3, ARRI Wide Gamut 3 and 10 bit recording to a smartphone, giving filmmakers a more familiar cinema workflow in a phone.

No Film SchoolCinemaWhy This Free, Open-Source Screenwriting App Should Be on Every Mac Writer’s Radar I have been teaching screenwriting on and off for the better part of the last decade. One of the barriers to entry for most students is the price of screenwriting software .

PetaPixelReviewsMixbook Expands Beyond Photo Books With Redesigned Visual Memories App It's fun to make photo books of precious memories or give them as gifts, but it's much less fun to organize and select all the photos for the book.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsWorld first 👀 This wide-angle macro lens enables you to capture unique 1:1 environmental close-ups Laowa has just announced "the world's first full-frame AF 35mm lens with true 1:1 magnification", promising the unique life-size rendering of a macro lens with the environmental context of a…

No Film SchoolCinemaMeet the World’s First Full-Frame Autofocus 35mm Lens With True 1:1 Life-Size Magnification In what appears to be another world first, Laowa has unveiled its new ACRIS 35mm f/2.8 1X AF Macro APO, which it claims is " the world’s first full-frame autofocus 35mm lens with true 1:1 life-size…

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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