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4K ShootersVideoLexar Muse SSD Brings Magnetic Storage and 4K120 ProRes Recording to iPhone External SSDs have become an increasingly important accessory for mobile filmmakers, particularly as smartphones gain more advanced video recording capabilities.

Camera DecisionReviewsSony FX6 Firmware 6.02 Fixes a Rare Bug That Could Stop Both Card Slots During Backup Recording Sony released firmware 6.02 for the FX6 on November 5. It fixes one thing: in rare cases, when one card had an error during simultaneous recording to both slots, the other card stopped recording too.

Camera DecisionReviewsDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Is Out With Gen 6 Color Science LUTs and Faster Renders on M5 Macs Blackmagic released DaVinci Resolve 21.2 on November 4. It is a free update. The headline items are Blackmagic Gen 6 color science LUTs and film looks, touch support on the new MacBook Pro, and up to…

slashCAMGermanyNeue Firmware: Canon EOS C400, C80 und C50 bekommen mehr Farbkontrolle, neue Autofokus-Bildraten und mehr Canon hat neue Firmware-Versionen für seine Cinema EOS Kameras EOS C400, C80 und C50 angekündigt, die im Dezember erscheinen sollen. Diese

Sports Video GroupVideoCanon Announces Cinema EOS Lens Kits and EOS C50 Videographer Kit Canon U.S.A. has announced new Cinema EOS Lens Kits and an EOS C50 Videographer Kit. Sales are scheduled to begin in mid-November 2026. The lens kits pair the EOS C50 or EOS C80 with RF zoom lenses.

Sports Video GroupVideoCanon Releases Firmware Update for Cinema EOS Cameras, Launches Camera Control Center Canon U.S.A. has announced a firmware update for its Cinema EOS cameras, including the EOS C400, EOS C80, EOS C50 and EOS R5 C.

CineDCinemaARRI Goes Small, Sony Goes Big: HONOR’s ARRI Phone | Sony RIALTO 65 | Held Hostage by Vimeo – Focus Check ep141 ARRI went small, and Sony went big – in the same week. In Los Angeles, HONOR launched a smartphone with ARRI’s LogC3 and color pipeline built in, for a little over €1,000, while ARRI told journalists…

LensVidVideoDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Adds Faster M5 Effects Rendering, MacBook Pro XDR Touch Screen Support and Gen 6 LUTs Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21.2 , an update to the Resolve 21 line that Blackmagic lists on its support page dated 5 November 2026.

slashCAMGermanyKostenloses Update: Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 21.2 bringt Touch für neue MacBook Pros, Beschleunigung und mehr Nur https://www.slashcam.de/news/single/Blackmagic-DaVinci-Resolve-21-1-2-bringt-KI-Beschl-20338.html (neun Tage nach dem letzten Update) ha

Kamera & BildReviewsCanons cinemakameror får nya funktioner med ny firmware Canon släpper nya firmwares för EOS C400, EOS C80 och EOS C50. Bland nyheterna finns fler möjligheter att anpassa kamerornas reglage och färgåtergivning, tillsammans med funktioner för både…

LensVidVideoCanon Announces Cinema EOS Firmware Update: Multi Matrix, High-Frame-Rate AF and More for C400, C80, C50 and R5 C Canon U.S.A. has announced a feature-rich firmware update for four of its Cinema EOS cameras: the EOS C400 , EOS C80 , EOS C50 and EOS R5 C .

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Blackmagic DesignMakersNew Blackmagic Converters 12.4.2 Update Blackmagic Converters 12.4.2! Improves NMOS IS-07 control on Blackmagic SDI Expander 8x12G for better conversion between SMPTE 2110 control and SDI tally and camera control.

Asian PhotographyIndiaSony India Launches FX5 Cinema Camera with A Lot of Firsts For the System Sony India has launched the FX5 full-frame cinema camera featuring a newly-developed fully-stacked 16.6 MP CMOS sensor and BIONZ XR2 image processor, delivering over 15 stops of dynamic range when…

Huawei Central cameraChinaHonor has new foldable camera phone in making with ARRI techs Honor has just launched the Magic 9 smartphone series; meanwhile, a new foldable camera device from the brand has started showing up in the leak that will debut soon with ARRI-based imaging features…

Canadian Society of CinematographersCinemaVan Royko csc on the Cinematography of The Ultra Runner Van Royko csc shares the creative and technical process behind the documentary.

TM Broadcast InternationalVideoRethinking virtual production: Neon Vision’s flexible approach with Blackmagic Design For much of its early development, virtual production was associated with large-scale projects. However, this is changing as the technology finds its place in advertising, music videos, branded…

NewsshooterCinemaSony FX6 Firmware Update Ver. 6.02 Sony has released the FX6 Firmware Update Ver. 6.02. This is a small update that fixed an issue where, in very rare cases, if an error occurred in one media slot during simultaneous recording from…

No Film SchoolCinemaThe Latest Version of ARRI’s Reference Tool CMD is Here With Some Big Updates for On-Set and Post Workflows ARRI’s Reference Tool, often shortened to ART, combines many of the company’s previous tools into a single package.

British CinematographerCinemaUK Music Video Awards 2026 winners announced – including for cinematography Romain Gavras’ “epic” video for Gener8ion starring Yung Lean’s “Storm” was the big winner at this year’s UK Music Video Awards on Wednesday night (4 November), claiming five awards including the…

British CinematographerCinemaEvolution Mallorca International Film Festival announces 2026 awards winners – including for cinematography Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival has brought its 15th edition to a close at Palma’s Teatre Principal, announcing this year’s competition winners alongside a screening of The End of It…

CineDCinemaCanon EOS C400, EOS C80 and EOS C50 Firmware Update Announced – Expanding Cinema EOS Capabilities Canon has announced a new Cinema EOS firmware update for three cameras: the EOS C400, EOS C80, and EOS C50.

NewsshooterCinemaARRI Reference Tool CMD 1.1.0 ARRI Reference Tool CMD 1.1.0 is now available. The latest version of ART CMD brings new features for on-set and post workflows.

NewsshooterCinemaBlackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 21.2 Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21.2, which adds touchscreen support for the Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, up to 5x faster effects rendering on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips…

Camera EggReviewsCanon Announces Cinema EOS Firmware Updates: What Changes for the C400, C80, C50 and R5 C? Canon has announced another round of Cinema EOS firmware updates , with the EOS C400, C80, C50 and R5 C named in its November 4 release.

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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