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TM Broadcast InternationalVideoTelestream appoints Joseph Hopkins as Chief Revenue Officer Telestream has just announced the appointment of Joseph Hopkins as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Hopkins brings more than two decades of executive leadership experience with the aim of helping media…

Revista de Cinema (BR)LatAmMarket share do cinema brasileiro cresce com “Minha Melhor Amiga” e deve aumentar com “Farofeiros 3” Foto: “Os Farofeiros 3”, de Roberto Santucci Por Maria do Rosário Caetano Passado o período eleitoral e ainda festejando o sucesso de público de “Minha Melhor Amiga”, comédia protagonizada por Ingrid…

PetaPixelReviewsIt’s Interesting That Neither Sony Nor Tamron Have Said Anything Regarding Acquisition In late July, news broke that Sony was trying to acquire Tamron, a fact Tamron itself confirmed shortly after. However, since then, it's been crickets. [

PlaybackCinemaBell Media sees ad, subscriber revenue uptick in Q3 Bell Media saw a 19.9% growth in digital revenue, according to the latest quarterly report from parentco BCE.

DroneLifeDronesBuilding a Drone Cleaning Business: SkyPSI CEO Vic Pellicano on the Drone Radio Show! Can drones help entrepreneurs build successful commercial cleaning businesses? SkyPSI founder and CEO Vic Pellicano joins the Drone Radio Show to discuss the economics of drone cleaning, the role of…

Cinematography WorldCinemaCooke Optics welcomes new CEO Cooke Optics announces that David Hancock has decided to step down from his position as Chief Executive Officer.

Nikon RumorsRumoursNikon’s second quarter financial results Nikon released its second-quarter financial results for the year ending March 2027: In its latest FY2027 second-quarter and first-half financial results (for the period ended September 30, 2026…

Professional SystemGermanyMarco Pardi wird neuer CEO von AVIXA Der Branchenverband AVIXA hat Marco Pardi zum neuen CEO ernannt. Er übernimmt am 1. Januar 2027 die Leitung der „Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association“ und folgt auf David Labuskes, der…

Animated ViewsVFXSeth MacFarlane recalls email from Patrick Stewart that left him “stunned” Related posts: Patrick Stewart passes away; legendary Star Trek and X-Men actor was American Dad! regular as Avery Bullock Stewart's voice could also be heard in Jimmy Neutron: Boy...

80 LevelVFXCanva Announces Layoffs Affecting Over 1,200 Employees Its severance package is also raising questions about how businesses should handle workforce reductions.

Anime News NetworkVFXPlayStation 5 Reaches Over 97 Million Shipments Sony shipped 4.2 million PS5 units for current fiscal year so far

KidscreenVFXSony’s theatrical revenue up more than 1,000% in Q2 And the company has a simple upcoming strategy for getting its anime offering in front of its massive PS5 audience.

TV TechnologyVideoJoseph Hopkins Joins Telestream as Chief Revenue Officer NEVADA CITY, Calif. —Joseph Hopkins has joined media workflow and measurement technologies provider Telestream as chief revenue officer.

80 LevelVFXOpenAI CEO Sam Altman Responds to Backlash Over His Comments on PC RAM Altman says that his words were taken out of context.

Camera DecisionReviewsCIPA September 2026: Shipments Fell 12%, and China Took a Third Fewer Cameras CIPA's September numbers are out, and this is the weakest month of 2026 so far. Camera makers shipped 748,169 cameras, 12.1% fewer than a year ago, and the money fell 7.3%. Compacts still grew.

No Film SchoolCinemaIconic Film Intros: Willy Wonka in 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ Gene Wilder’s iconic performance as the elusive, yet whimsical chocolatier Willy Wonka is upheld by one of the most important buildups and entrances to a character in movie history.

RealscreenCinemaUK gov’t issues Public Interest Intervention Notice on Sky-ITV merger deal UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has given the go-ahead for a public interest intervention regarding the planned acquisition of ITV’s media and entertainment holdings by Comcast-owned Sky.

Camera DecisionReviewsCanon EOS R3 Is Listed as Sales Ended in Japan, Five Years After Launch Canon Japan's product page for the EOS R3 now carries a "sales ended" heading. The camera is five years old, the R1 and R5 Mark II sit on either side of it, and an R3 Mark II has been rumored since…

DroneLifeDronesDronamics to Go Public on Nasdaq Through Merger The business combination values the cargo drone developer at $400 million before new money. Dronamics plans to use the proceeds to scale Black Swan production and launch U.S. operations.

TV TechnologyVideoMaxxKonnect Acquires FCCInfo.com The MaxxKonnect Group has acquired FCCInfo.com , a popular industry data resource, from Cavell, Mertz & Associates. A sample search screen in FCCInfo.com.

CineDCinemaInside PIXBOOM – Factory Tour of the “Spark” High-Speed Camera in China Recently, I packed my bag in Japan and flew to Shenzhen, China to visit PIXBOOM, the young company behind the Spark high-speed camera.

Dronewatch EUDronesStop chasing BVLOS promises and focus on commercial results, urges Flyby Guys CEO Seven years ago, predictions about the future of the commercial drone industry painted an ambitious picture.

Photo RumorsRumoursCanon EOS R3 listed as “Sales Ended”, R3 Mark II coming soon? The Canon EOS R3 camera is now listed as “Sales Ended” in Japan: In the US, the Canon R3 is currently discounted by $1,000 : Canon reps have confirmed that the EOS R3 line will continue in the…

Cartoon BrewVFX‘Wildwood’ Holds Strong; Fathom CEO Interview; Disney Cuts Continue To kick off this week, we spoke with Fathom Entertainment CEO Jason Brenek about the distributor’s growing ambitions.

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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