Skip to content

Hot Shoe

Signal of the week

Mirrorless bodies · 73 stories, +30 vs last week

Mirrorless bodies: 73 stories in seven days, +30 on the week before.

TechSigma’s New 16-300mm f/3.5-6.7 and 50-120mm f/2.8: Practical APS-C Lenses for All Situations DIY Photography

ReviewsSave Up to $1,000 on Fantastic Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras PetaPixel

Latest

ePHOTOzineReviewsLeica Oskar Barnack Award 2026: Winners and LOBA Women Grant Announced Preserving Nature as Preserving Ourselves © Damir Faizulin/LOBA 2026 The winners of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) were revealed at the World of Leica in Wetzlar, Germany.

ePHOTOzineReviewsDisk Drill 6.3 Adds Panasonic RW2 Support and Faster TIFF Detection for Photographers - Partner Content - CleverFiles has updated its Disk Drill photo recovery software with broader support for Panasonic RW2 files and faster, more stable TIFF detection.

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.

No Film SchoolCinema10 Creative Challenges to Take Your Filmmaking to the Next Level Last week I started a new spec . It was a genre that I haven't worked on since, like, 2017, and it was immediately hard.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsHalf of Japan’s trendiest lenses are f/2.8 zooms, but the number one lens? It’s actually a five-year-old cheap telephoto that’s just gives you f/8 at 400mm The f/2.8 zoom is often considered the standard for a high-quality lens – and that type of lens makes up half of Japan’s top ten lenses. But the number one lens?

PetaPixelReviewsNikon Disqualifies Winner of Small World in Motion Competition for Using AI The winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition has been disqualified after Nikon determined that the winning video broke its rules regarding artificial intelligence.…

DroneLifeDronesFAA Part 107 Drone Pilot Test Changes October 26: What Applicants Need to Know New image-based questions will require applicants to interpret aviation charts, while existing Part 107 regulations remain unchanged.

No Film SchoolCinemaSony’s New Spatial Audio USB-C Mic Aims to Bring a New Level of Immersion to Content Creators The new era of immersive content is coming, or, in some ways, already here. The question is more about timing than anything else at this point, so if you want to get ahead, now might be a good time…

DroneLifeDronesDroneClear Launches ChatGPT App to Help Travelers Navigate Thailand’s Drone Rules AI-powered service provides information on drone registration, insurance, and flight restrictions. DroneClear Thailand has introduced a ChatGPT app designed to help recreational drone operators…

DIY PhotographyTechTamron 20-40mm f/2.8 Packs Constant Aperture and Close-Focus into a Travel-Friendly Package Tamron has introduced the 20-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD, a compact, constant-aperture zoom for Sony E and Nikon Z shooters. At $729, it sits well...

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Beats YouTuber’s Defamation Lawsuit Over Comments on ‘Suggestive’ Youth Wrestling Videos A sports photographer has beaten a YouTuber's defamation lawsuit over comments she allegedly made about "suggestive" videos of youth wrestlers. [

DroneLifeDronesDo Cleaning Drones Actually Work? 15 Apellix Before-and-After Jobs Show the Results Cleaning drones offer a commercial use case providing one of the clearest examples of drones handling the “dark, dirty, and dangerous” jobs. But are they effective?

On the calendar

· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

On view

This week, from that corner the newest stories from the corner of the industry you picked

The wire their own posts, translated

How pictures get made in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

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