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Video & streaming: 79 stories in seven days, +30 on the week before.

GermanyNikon Z5IIC: Neue Systemkamera für Vollformat-Einsteiger startet ab 1.549 Euro Photoscala

Cinema5 Box-Office Flops That Became Streaming Hits No Film School

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ePHOTOzineReviews5 Top Tips On Photographing Shop Signs & Window Displays For A City Photo Project Spend some time in your town/city and capture some interesting images of displays and signs which will look great in montages or as triptychs.

ePHOTOzineReviews7 Top Tips For Capturing Better City Skyline Photos Once the sun sets and the lights come on, a city takes on a whole new feel that's well worth capturing with your camera and we've got a few top tips to help you perfect your nighttime skyline shots.

ePHOTOzineReviews6 Top Tips On How To Photograph Stairs & Steps Creatively Stairs and steps can make really interesting, often graphical, photos so next time you're waiting to climb a staircase, why not have a think about how you could photograph it?

Canon RumorsRumoursBest Compact Cameras for Travel in 2026 A travel camera needs to do something that isn't always easy: deliver better results than a smartphone without becoming a burden to carry. That's why compact cameras remain so appealing in 2026.

Camera DecisionReviewsNikon Z5 IIC Announced: Full Frame for $1,399.95, About $900 Less Than a Sony A7C II Nikon just made full frame a lot cheaper. The new Z5 IIC puts the Z5 II's 24MP sensor, 7.5-stop stabilization and 14 fps into a slim flat-top body for $1,399.95.

CineDCinemaNikon Z5IIC Announced – 24.5MP Full-Frame, N-RAW to SD Card, EXPEED 7, No EVF for $1,399 Nikon has announced the Z5IIC, a flat-top full-frame mirrorless camera that drops the electronic viewfinder from the Z5II and pairs the same 24.5MP backside-illuminated sensor with the EXPEED 7…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsKids love instant print cameras, but refills are pricey. This new kid camera prints in full color for about 50 cents / 20p each The Photo Creator Instant Color is a kid-friendly hybrid digital-instant camera built to keep the cost of refills down

OpticalLimitsReviewsFujinon XF 90mm f/2 R LM WR ( Fujifilm) Review We’ve been big fans of the Fujinon XF 90mm f/2 R LM WR since we tested it more than 10 years ago. It’s still part of Fujifilm’s lens lineup today so let’s verify again whether this old-time favorite…

CineDCinemaDigitalFoto IRON Damping Magic Arms Introduced – 5kg Vertical Payload, Swappable Heads, Sabertooth Clamp DigitalFoto has brought the second version of its IRON damping magic arm to IBC 2026, now in 7in and 11in lengths with a 5kg (11 lb) vertical payload, swappable F22, NATO and thumbscrew heads, and a…

NewsshooterCinemaAccsoon Camera Control Accsoon has launched a dedicated Camera Control webpage. On the page, you will find everything from camera-side control on the CineView M7 series to wireless operation with the Accsoon SEE App.

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)Techvivo V80 hands-on and camera samples from Bangkok, Thailand vivo will unveil the V80 in India on October 6 at 12 PM local time. It will come in three colors: Sunrise Anthem, Horizon Blue, and Stellar Black.

NikonMakersNikon releases the Z5IIC full-frame mirrorless camera TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce the release of the full-frame/FX-format Nikon Z5IIC mirrorless camera featuring the Nikon Z mount.

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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