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Mirrorless bodies: 68 stories in seven days, +31 on the week before.

ReviewsWhat on Earth is this “boring” seven-year-old last-gen APS-C mirrorless camera doing in Japan’s top-10 camera sales? Digital Camera World

ItalyCompatto e luminoso: lo zoom Tamron 20-40mm F/2.8 Di III VXD arriva anche sulle mirrorless di Nikon Fotocult (IT)

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ePHOTOzineReviews5 Ways To Photograph Overdone Scenes Differently There are several places in the UK, and the rest of the world, where you may find your tripod easily fits into three small holes already made by fellow photographers with their kit.

ePHOTOzineReviewsBob's camera, and working out what to buy .photo { border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 15px; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 20px; } .photo small { display: block; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 15px; } This article is Bob’s fault.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNew Clever Cleaner Release Lets You Clean Up Your Photo Library Before Upgrading to iOS 27 - Partner Content - Clever Cleaner’s recent updates have expanded its photo and video cleanup tools, giving iPhone users more ways to reclaim storage before installing iOS 27.

DroneDJDronesDJI’s best Mini drone deal includes more than you think Why settle for less when DJI’s most capable Mini drone bundle is now under $1,000? The Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo with RC 2 has hit $979 , bringing flagship-level imaging, smart tracking, and three…

Amateur PhotographerReviewsThese amazing photos are going to give you some serious travel envy. Find inspiration for your next trip here The theme of the 2026 EISA Maestro Photo Contest was Travelling. Here we share winning Single photographs and Series from the International round of the competition .

Digital Camera WorldReviewsFrom professional wrestler to photography's top prize! Meet the winners of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award Leica has announced the winners of its 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, with photographer Damir Faizulin taking home the top prize, American photographer Laila AnnMarie Stevens winning the Newcomer…

RedShark NewsCinemaASUS ProArt P16, P14 RTX Spark: price, release date ASUS’s ProArt P16 and P14 start at $2599, with first US units due October 16. Top configurations offer 128 GB of unified memory.

Photo RumorsRumoursOM System to announce two new lenses: 40-150mm f/4.5-5.6 R II and 45mm f/1.8 II OM System will announce two new lenses (both will be refreshed versions II of the current models): 40-150mm f/4.5-5.6 R II ( see current version ) 45mm f/1.8 II ( see current version ) The…

DroneDJDronesBeam Global makes a $24 million bet on US drones Beam Global is making a bigger bet on the drone industry, signing a definitive agreement to acquire Norwegian drone technology company ScoutDI in a deal valued at approximately $24 million.

35mmcFilmOsmo Action 4 – Underwater images with a camera made for sports action I’ve been working on a project about my local river Thames. It has been going on for years. I have a lot of images of people beside the river, or with a toe in it, but that was not completely working…

The PhoblographerReviewsWhy Hasn’t China Tried to Make a Digital Leica Clone? Almost 10 years ago, I flew to Photokina and published a first-impressions review of the Zenit M Digital rangefinder. In this case, Zenit and Leica collaborated on making the camera.

British CinematographerCinemaUK Jewish Film Festival returns for “landmark” 30th edition Thirty years after it was established in Brighton, the UK Jewish Film Festival returns for its “landmark” 30th edition, with a programme “built to celebrate the very best of Jewish life and…

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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