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Digital Camera WorldReviewsNo polar bears, no wind farms: this outdoor exhibition asked 20 photographers to find new ways of showing the climate crisis, and they didn't hold back When you think of images representing climate change, a number of clichés come to mind. A wind or solar farm; a lone polar bear on an ice floe. You know the kind of thing.

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ProVideo CoalitionCinemaRicoh GR IV: limited edition celebrates 30 year of GR series A limited version of the current GR IV inspired by the original Ricoh GR1 film camera from 1996, the camera will be produced in 6,000 units worldwide.

Digital Camera WorldReviews"I spent a day shooting top-flight football with an entry-level mirrorless camera", student learns pro camera skills at Motherwell FC The 2026-27 soccer season is now in full swing, so for anyone looking to start shooting the beautiful game – or sharpening their skills – it's time to get inspired.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsDeep in the Costa Rican rainforest, an adult tapir teaches a youngster to survive in the most fragile of ecosystems. Here's how this prize-winning photography captured the scene so beautifully Established in 2008, the Fritz Pölking Prize celebrates extraordinary nature photography stories and portfolios. And this year's winning series certainly fits that bill.

35mmcFilmWhat Happens After the Cyanotype? Following Washwater Through The Ecological Wetroom™ I started The Ecological Wetroom™ with a practical question: if cyanotype washing moves chemistry from the print into water, what happens if I refuse to let that water disappear from view?

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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