Skip to content

Hot Shoe

Signal of the week

Mirrorless bodies · 70 stories, +25 vs last week

Mirrorless bodies: 70 stories in seven days, +25 on the week before.

ReviewsViltrox EVO 26mm f/2.8 Review: My Kind of Pancake PetaPixel

Latest

ePHOTOzineReviewsePHOTOzine Daily Theme Winners Week 1 October 2026 [COMMENT_IMG]portfolio|158535|2993977[/COMMENT_IMG] The latest winner of our popular daily photography theme which takes place in our forums have been chosen and congratulations go to BydoR9 (Day 6…

ePHOTOzineReviewsTop Tips On Photographing British Wildlife Britain is full of wildlife, and autumn's a great time to get out and capture a few shots of the small mammals, birds, deer and other creatures that can be found here. 1.

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.

DroneXLDronesWingtra Ran 180 Simulations in Six Months to Design the RAY Drone Swiss drone maker Wingtra ran 180 aerodynamic computer simulations in six months to get from the WingtraOne to the WingtraRAY , according to a video AirShaper published on October 7, 2026.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsWhy my 16-year-old Canon DSLR camera will always be better than your Apple iPhone for photography If I’m out and about on my daily business and unexpectedly see a great photo opportunity, I’ll automatically reach for my smartphone, it being the camera I always have with me.

Amateur PhotographerReviewsThese fascinating images trace the birth of the modern art photograph – they’re simply beautiful to see A few months ago, Level 3 at Tate Modern was full of confessional artwork by Tracey Emin. Neon signs, paintings, textiles and sculptures all rallied for attention, but it was the bronze death mask of…

PetaPixelReviewsViltrox EVO 26mm f/2.8 Review: My Kind of Pancake Who said full-frame lenses have to be big? Pancake lenses are always popular because of their compact nature, and you can have the image quality of a full-frame sensor in a package that's easy to…

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechOppo Find N7's camera and display details surface It's rumored to pack a bigger battery. The Oppo Find N7 is expected in Q1 2027, possibly March, like its predecessor, the Find N6. While Oppo hasn't...

DIY PhotographyTechPhotographer Erica Connolly Treads the Frozen Path with Great Expedition The Arctic is a region that never truly rests. Between the slow, tectonic groan of massive glaciers and the electric dance of the Northern Lights,...

PetaPixelReviewsHave You Ever Wondered How MLB Home Runs Are Measured? It’s Cameras! Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs are well underway. The on-field action has been great so far. Sophisticated camera technology, often going unnoticed, enriches the spectator experience, including…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsThese two pro Canadian photographers take "high-quality bad photos" – without turning to AI. The response to their 1980s kitsch portraits been overwhelming Recreating the look of a photo from a 1980s mall studio has become a viral AI trend. But one photography duo is taking “high-quality bad photos” without AI and with a heaping serving of humor – and…

Camera JabberReviewsCanon names three UK photographers among 25 new EMEA Ambassadors Suggested publish: Monday 5 October, 07:00 By Alastair Jennings Canon has welcomed 25 new photographers and filmmakers into its EMEA Ambassador programme for 2026, and three of them are based in the…

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