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Photographers · 32 stories, +20 vs last week

Photographers: 32 stories in seven days, +20 on the week before.

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ePHOTOzineReviewsTop Tips On Photographing Sunbeams Through Trees The beauty of this time of year is that the sun rises at a more reasonable hour so an early morning jaunt to the woods isn't as painful as it was a few weeks ago.

September 28

ePHOTOzineReviewsHow to Photograph Mountains In 8 Easy Steps Mountain photography, both on and off these magnificent natural structures, is something photographers can capture images of all year round, but there's something about the Autumn and Winter seasons…

September 28

ePHOTOzineReviews10 Reasons Why A Tripod Is An Essential Tool For Landscape Photographers A good support is a particularly important tool for landscape photographers. Even if you're a compact camera user you should consider purchasing a tripod .

September 28

PetaPixelReviewsInstagram’s New Photo Editing Tool Lets You Pixelate Your Partner Instagram has announced a new feature for "soft launching" a relationship. It's called the Pixel effect, and it can cut a person out of a photo and pixelate them.…

September 28

Digital Camera WorldReviewsLeica APO-Macro-Elmarit-SL 100 f/2.8 review The Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-SL 100 f/2.8 is the kind of lens that makes its intentions clear from the moment you pick it up.

September 28

Digital Camera WorldReviewsJessops camera stores leave Dragons' Den to start a new chapter in its 91-year history at AO World Jessops camera store business has been sold by Dragons' Den star Peter Jones to the white goods retailer AO for an undisclosed sum.

September 28

Amateur PhotographerReviewsWho remembers Konica? This once massive Japanese camera maker produced some truly stunning designs – but where are they now? In 1903, Konica made the first Japanese camera . Well, sort of. In fact Japanese camera making goes way back to the 1840s.

September 28

35mmcFilmMinolta Dynax 7000i review – Cards on the table The subject of this review was released in 1988 as a replacement for the Original ‘7000’. With that camera Minolta had shaken up the photographic market.

September 28

The PhoblographerReviewsAre Modern Cameras Useless Without AI and Scene Detection? When you shoot with a modern camera, chances are that you're using some of the more very automated autofocus modes.

September 28

RedShark NewsCinemaLeica LUX 2.0: McCurry look, silver grip, price Leica LUX 2.0 brings a redesigned interface, a Steve McCurry photo look and iPhone 18 Pro support, alongside a new silver camera grip and matching leather cases.

September 28

Canon RumorsRumoursBrightin Star Announces the RF 50mm f/2 TRI-SIGHT with Selectable Bokeh Rendering Brightin Star has officially announced the RF 50mm f/2 TRI-SIGHT manual focus lens with a selectable bokeh rendering to fit your shooting style and the scene in front of you.

September 28

NewsshooterCinemaSmallRig 35mm External Optical Viewfinder for Select Fujifilm / Sony / Nikon / Canon / Ricoh / Leica The SmallRig 35mm External Optical Viewfinder for Select Fujifilm / Sony / Nikon / Canon / Ricoh / Leica cameras works with the following models: FUJIFILM X-E4 FUJIFILM X-E5 FUJIFILM X100VI FUJIFILM…

September 28

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