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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

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Linhof

Large-format technical cameras and tripod heads.

Founded: 1887 to today
From: Munich, Germany
Status: Active

Its Technika field camera became a reference for large-format precision.

Official site Source: Wikipedia

LANDMARKS

1934Technika

In the library

1934Large format

Linhof Technika

Linhof4x5 sheet film

A precise metal field camera with movements, still in production in later forms.

Source: Wikipedia

1934Large format

Linhof 34

Linhof4x5 in sheet film · Lens board

Linhof view or field camera of 1934 for sheet film, with movements for perspective control.

Source: Wikipedia

1934Large format

Linhof Ur-Technika

Linhof6x9 cm · Lens board

The first all-metal folding field camera, the root of the Technika line.

Source: Wikipedia

1937Large format

Linhof Prazisionskamera 18x24 (Technika)

Linhof18x24 cm sheet film · Lens board

Linhof view or field camera of 1937 for sheet film, with movements for perspective control.

Source: Wikipedia

1937Large format

Linhof Technika II

Linhof9x12 cm sheet film · Lens board

Linhof view or field camera of 1937 for sheet film, with movements for perspective control.

Source: Wikipedia

1937Large format

Linhof Technika Medizin

Linhof4x5 in sheet film · Lens board

Linhof view or field camera of 1937 for sheet film, with movements for perspective control.

Source: Wikipedia