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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

PHOTO · PHONES

Kyocera

Ceramics and electronics group that made Contax and Yashica cameras until 2005.

Founded: 1959 to today
From: Kyoto, Japan
Status: Active

Kept the Contax name alive through its best-known film compacts and SLRs.

Official site Source: Wikipedia

In the library

1984Rangefinder

Contax T

Kyocera35 mm film

A small luxury rangefinder with a Zeiss Sonnar lens.

Source: Wikipedia

1991Compact

Contax T2

Kyocera35 mm film

A titanium-bodied premium autofocus compact.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: User:Gisling, CC BY-SA 3.0

1994Rangefinder

Contax G1

Kyocera35 mm film · Contax G

An autofocus interchangeable-lens rangefinder.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: [email protected] (Panda41 at de.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 de

1996Rangefinder

Contax G2

Kyocera35 mm film · Contax G

Refined the G1 with faster autofocus.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: Hiyotada, CC0

1999Medium format

Contax 645

Kyocera120 film · Contax 645

An autofocus 6x4.5 SLR with Zeiss lenses.

Source: Wikipedia

1999Phone

Kyocera VP-210

Kyocera0.11 MP

One of the first mobile phones with a camera, designed for video calls.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0

2002Digital SLR

Contax N Digital

KyoceraFull frame · Contax N

Among the first full-frame digital SLRs.

Source: Wikipedia

1974SLR

Contax RTS

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Contax SLR of 1974; it marks a stage in through-the-lens viewing on 35 mm film.

Source: Wikipedia

1979SLR

Contax 139 Quartz

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Introduced in 1979, this reflex camera paired 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount in Contax's system.

Source: Wikipedia

1980SLR

Contax 137 MD

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Contax SLR of 1980; it marks a stage in through-the-lens viewing on 35 mm film.

Source: Wikipedia

1981SLR

Contax 137 MA

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Contax SLR of 1981; it marks a stage in through-the-lens viewing on 35 mm film.

Source: Wikipedia

1982SLR

Contax RTS II

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

A 1982 single-lens reflex from Contax, framing through the lens on 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount.

Source: Wikipedia

1984SLR

Contax 159 MM

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

A 1984 single-lens reflex from Contax, framing through the lens on 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount.

Source: Wikipedia

1986SLR

Contax 167 MT

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Contax SLR of 1986; it marks a stage in through-the-lens viewing on 35 mm film.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: Goldsztajn, Public domain

1990SLR

Contax RTS III

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

A 1990 single-lens reflex from Contax, framing through the lens on 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount.

Source: Wikipedia

1992SLR

Contax ST

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Introduced in 1992, this reflex camera paired 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount in Contax's system.

Source: Wikipedia

1992SLR

Contax S2

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Contax SLR of 1992; it marks a stage in through-the-lens viewing on 35 mm film.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: Goldsztajn, Public domain

1994SLR

Contax S2b

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Contax SLR of 1994; it marks a stage in through-the-lens viewing on 35 mm film.

Source: Wikipedia

1994SLR

Contax RX

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Introduced in 1994, this reflex camera paired 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount in Contax's system.

Source: Wikipedia

1996SLR

Contax AX

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

Introduced in 1996, this reflex camera paired 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount in Contax's system.

Source: Wikipedia

1998SLR

Contax Aria

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

A 1998 single-lens reflex from Contax, framing through the lens on 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount.

Source: Wikipedia

2002SLR

Contax RX II

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax/Yashica mount

A 2002 single-lens reflex from Contax, framing through the lens on 35 mm film with the Contax/Yashica mount.

Source: Wikipedia

1994Rangefinder

Contax G1

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax G mount

Introduced in 1994, this rangefinder used 35 mm film and the Contax G mount, a step in Contax's line.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: [email protected] ( Panda41 at de.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 3.0 de

1996Rangefinder

Contax G2

Kyocera (Contax)35 mm film · Contax G mount

Introduced in 1996, this rangefinder used 35 mm film and the Contax G mount, a step in Contax's line.

Source: WikipediaPhoto: Hiyotada, CC0