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Video & streaming: 73 stories in seven days, +33 on the week before.

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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.

September 25

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?

September 25

ePHOTOzineReviews10 Top Lighting Tutorials That Explore Light In All Its Forms Here are 10 top tutorials where 'light' is mentioned somewhere in the title so you have access to top tips on flash, natural light, low light, winter light and everything in between in one handy…

September 25

Digital Camera WorldReviewsA Nikon Noct lens you can actually afford? This new version will also keep your neck warm! Nikon Direct has immortalized its fastest Nikkor lens as a neck warmer and a stack of paper cups

September 25

British CinematographerCinemaNew exposure Digital may dominate modern filmmaking, but film remains in demand. The GBCT’s Film Refresher Workshop ensured camera crews could sharpen analogue skills and learn from experienced industry…

September 25

Camera JabberReviewsSnap’s chunky Specs AR glasses take a different line on the camera-glasses backlash Camera glasses have had a rough time of it lately. Meta’s Ray-Bans work well but have drawn a steady backlash over the discomfort of not knowing when someone’s filming you.

September 25

DroneDJDronesDJI Osmo 360 II gets better night video and cloud backups Imagine filming a sunset, a crowded city street, or a wild mountain trail without ever having to decide where to point your camera.

September 25

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechHMD Aura 2 Pro specs and renders leak HMD launched the Aura in 2024 and the Aura 2 in 2025, and now it's apparently time for the Aura 2 Pro. Almost.

September 25

RedShark NewsCinemaAdobe adds tools to Gemini and Claude Adobe integrates Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and Firefly into Google Gemini, and expands its Claude plugin to more than 80 tools including a new Acrobat editor.

September 25

Digital Camera WorldReviewsSony's lawyers will be paying close attention to this new, PEN-sized Micro Four Thirds camera This Sony-lookalike Chinese camera is raising eyebrows among Alpha and Micro Four Thirds users alike

September 25

DroneDJDronesLowe’s is now delivering tools by drone in as little as 20 minutes Lowe’s is taking the “I need one more thing” problem to the sky. The home improvement retailer has launched a drone delivery pilot in Matthews, North Carolina, allowing eligible DIY customers and…

September 25

NewsshooterCinemaSave $200 USD on the Manfrotto Befree Advanced Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head and Advanced Gear Backpack III Kit For a limited time, you can save $200 USD on the Manfrotto Befree Advanced Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head and Advanced Gear Backpack III Kit and purchase it for $179.90 USD.

September 25

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