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ePHOTOzineReviewsExcire Foto 2027 Adds Advanced Video Search and Reverse Geocoding in Free November Update Pattern Recognition Company (PRC), the company behind the award-winning Excire software, released a major update to Excire Foto 2027, its standalone photo- and video-management program.

Cinema ExpressIndiaAdam Driver on Heat 2: Confirms antagonist role, shares update on Michael Mann after accidental shooting Actor Adam Driver has confirmed that he will be playing the antagonist in Heat 2 , filmmaker Michael Mann's upcoming follow-up to his 1995 crime thriller Heat .

discuss.pixls.usSoftwareDarktable WCG & HDR Support Hi! It has been a really long-standing problem for darktable to not being able to output wide-gamut and HDR content.

80 LevelVFXStardew Valley's 1.7 Update Might Be Its Biggest Yet ConcernedApe shares Clint and Sandy as marriage candidates are "just the tip of the iceberg."

Fotocult (IT)ItalyCanon aggiorna i firmware delle fotocamere Cinema Eos e lancia il software Camera Control Centre Per le fotocamere digitali il firmware è parte integrante del prodotto e non un semplice complemento da installare a posteriori: alcuni marchi ne hanno fatto una vera e propria filosofia aziendale…

Lightroom Killer TipsSoftwareThis Week on The Grid: Lightroom Tips, B&W Editing & More It was an Open Q&A on this week’s The Grid , with Scott Kelby and Erik Kuna answering viewer questions on everything from Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to wildlife photography, astrophotography…

Camera EggReviewsNikon Z70 Rumor Update: 41MP Non-Stacked Sensor, 8K 60p and a Sub-$2,000 Target? A new Nikon Z70 rumor points to a different sensor than earlier reports suggested: Nikon Rumors now lists a 41MP non-stacked sensor for the anticipated DX camera, alongside ambitious video…

Photo Trend (FR)FranceNikon ZR : le firmware 2.00 apporte la colorimétrie RED en H.265, l’Open Gate prévu en 2027 Le firmware 2.00 de la Nikon ZR apporte la colorimétrie RED en H.265, le focus peaking en R3D NE et plus de personnalisation. L'Open Gate est prévu pour 2027.

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.

ToolfarmSoftwareDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Update Boosts Performance and Workflow The BlackMagic Design DaVinci Resolve 21.2 Update is now available, bringing performance enhancements, workflow refinements, and expanded support for the latest Apple hardware.

Photo District News

Photo District NewsCulturePaint With Pixels: Creating an Illustrative Style in Photoshop Getting booked doesn't have to mean hard selling. This session from Florence James Collective breaks down how to turn everyday social media activity into a sustainable, low-pressure client pipeline…

CG PressVFXV-Ray 7 update 5 brings AI assistant, MCP server New features in the latest version of Chaos V-Ray renderer include: AI assistant that speeds up scene setup, reduces manual work, allows to find or generate 3D assets from a single reference image…

ToolfarmSoftwareChaos V-Ray 7, Update 5 Brings AI Across the Workflow Chaos V-Ray 7, Update 5 expands the Chaos ecosystem with new AI-powered tools designed to reduce repetitive work, accelerate scene creation, and help artists achieve professional-quality results more…

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 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.

ToolfarmSoftwareNew: Wild Construct Lumen Glow is Now Available Wild Construct Lumen Glow is a bloom and optical light system plugin for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. It’s bloom with an optical system behind it.

ON1SoftwareOctober 2026 ON1 Recap: Cleaner Backgrounds, Free B&W LUTs & More You framed the shot you wanted, and then a pipe, a sign, and a row of parked cars stole the scene. In October we showed how Photo RAW 2027 clears them away and opens your RAW files closer to your…

Production ExpertVideoAcon Restoration Suite 3 Analyses Your Audio And Builds The Repair Chain For You #offer ends 17/11/26 Acon Digital has announced the release of Restoration Suite 3, an update to its audio restoration bundle built around a new plugin that listens to a recording, identifies what is…

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…

4K ShootersVideoCanon Announces Major Cinema EOS Firmware Updates and New Camera Control Center Canon is preparing a new round of firmware updates for its Cinema EOS lineup, adding tools for multi-camera color matching, high-frame-rate autofocus, and greater camera customization.

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 .

Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic DesignMakersDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Update! DaVinci Resolve 21.2! Adds touchscreen support for Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, up to 5x faster effects rendering on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, plus support for Blackmagic Generation 6…

Photo ReviewReviewsUnlock image tones with Adobe Photoshop Discover how Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) can help you get the best from your photos, even when you’ve taken them in difficult situations.

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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