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Firmware & software · 47 stories, +26 vs last week

Firmware & software: 47 stories in seven days, +26 on the week before.

ReviewsGoPro MISSION 1 Camera Gets Zero-Lag Shutter and 50MP RAW Bursts ePHOTOzine

CinemaAnother Blackmagic Camera Update Is Here With Improved Stability and Improvements for Your Cameras No Film School

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ePHOTOzineReviewsVmake Labs Portrait Pro for Talking-Head Ads: More Natural Skin Texture, Less "AI Plastic" - Partner Content - Talking-head ads often have one obvious problem after AI enhancement: the person starts looking too polished.

October 15

ePHOTOzineReviewsLow-Light Product Shots for Shopify: Enhance the Image First, or Retake It? - Partner Content - It's 8:40 pm. You just photographed the last product for tomorrow's Shopify launch . But this time on the kitchen counter, under a single overhead bulb.

October 15

ePHOTOzineReviewsHow to Photograph Fungi In 10 Easy Steps We can't let October pass without mentioning a close-up photography subject many photographers shoot spectacular images of at this time of year and that's fungi.

October 15

L-RumorsRumoursLeica is rumored to announce a new Summaron-M 35mm f/2.8 lens for 2,000 euros Leica is rumored to be announcing a new 35mm f/2.8 lens priced around 2,000 euros. Leica used to have a Summaron 35mm f/2.8 lens (1958-1974): see eBay listings .

October 15

PetaPixelReviewsPixieset Helps Photographers Cull, Edit and Deliver in One Place Pixieset offers a gallery system, a website builder, and a studio manager for bookings, but its new Photo Editor aims to close the one remaining gap in the photography workflow.

October 15

TV TechnologyVideoTNDV, GameTime Productions Expand REMI’s Role With Team Boxing League NASHVILLE, Tenn. —The remote production workflow TNDV and GameTime Productions put in place for Season 4 of the Team Boxing League (TBL) saw a more comprehensive remote integration (REMI) production…

October 15

The PhoblographerReviewsMirrorless vs DSLR: What Actually Changes When You Switch in 2026 When it comes to choosing a camera today, one can often get confused. There is always the debate between mirrorless vs DSLR, but also between phone vs compact camera.

October 15

TV TechnologyVideoRick Kaplan Will Depart NAB Rick Kaplan, a key figure at the National Association of Broadcasters for the past 14 years, will leave NAB at the end of the year.

October 15

TV TechnologyVideoAdobe, NVIDIA Expand Their AI Partnership SAN JOSE, Calif. — Adobe and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership, integrating NVIDIA’s AI technology into Adobe tools like Photoshop, Premiere, Substance 3D, Frame.io and Brand Concierge for…

October 15

No Film SchoolCinemaDP David Kruta on Lensing Deceit and Brutalism in 'Orion' In an era dominated by visual effects and digital imagery, cinematographer David Kruta prefers to tackle the challenge of making everything feel real .

October 15

DroneXLDronesnuWay Ag's Yoder Takes FAA Drone Suspension Over Deer and Sled Lifts Mike Yoder, co-owner of Ohio agricultural drone company nuWay Ag, says he has agreed to a 180-day FAA suspension of his remote pilot certificate.

October 15

No Film SchoolCinemaHow Horror DPs Light Darkness... Being in the dark is scary, especially when you're alone. Even better if you're in an unfamiliar space and you hear a rustle in the night.

October 15

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