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Amateur PhotographerReviewsWatch out iPhone – Motorola just dropped the ultimate camera phone with the Signature 27 Motorola has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone featuring a special action sensor used for the first time in a smartphone.

CineDCinemaSteve Yedlin and Rian Johnson Release Chromagraph Camera – Film Color Pipeline for iPhone Stills, Grain, Halation and a RAW Gallery Cinematographer Steve Yedlin ASC, director Rian Johnson and color science programmer Eric Cameron have released Chromagraph Camera, a still photo app for iPhone.

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.

NewsshooterCinemaTilta Khronos OPPO Find X10 Pro Max Creator Kit Tilta has unveiled the Khronos Creator Kit for the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max. The Khronos lineup comes with the camera cage-inspired smartphone case that was built to shield your phone from daily wear…

ShaSha by Camera no KitamuraJapanアップル「iPhone Duo」大画面で写真を楽しめるアップル初の折りたたみ端末はじめに 2026年9月に登場した「iPhone 18 Pro」シリーズに続き、10月23日にはアップル史上初となる折りたたみモデル「iPhone Duo」が発売され、全国のカメラのキタムラ店頭でも大きな注目を集めています。

TechRadar CamerasTechThe iPhone 18 Pro’s new under-display Face ID camera is visible if you look carefully — here’s why Apple moved it there Sometimes, I have to remind myself that not everyone is immersed in the Apple news cycle like their livelihood depends on it.

Camera DecisionReviewsCamera Decision iPhone App Is Out and Free: Gear List, Packing Checklists, Photo Spots, Reminders and Shoot Planner The Camera Decision app is on the App Store. It puts our photography tools on your iPhone, with a shoot planner, a gear list, packing checklists, saved photo spots, reminders, a light meter, an ND…

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechWe checked out Chromagraph, Rian Johnson's viral iPhone camera app Recreates the look of Rian Johnson's films using its own custom imaging pipeline and color grade. Last week, a corner of the internet started going abuzz...

The Verge CamerasTechRian Johnson explains why he had to build his own iPhone camera app Rian Johnson. Rian Johnson is an analog photography devotee. The director of Knives Out and The Last Jedi can often be spotted on set with a Leica M6 at his side, documenting production on film.

fotoMAGAZINGermanyVivo X500 Pro Max im Test Smartphone Vivo X500 Pro Max im Test Mit dem X500 Pro Max hat Vivo vor kurzem ein neues hochwertiges Smartphone in Kooperation mit Zeiss vorgestellt.

Asian PhotographyIndiaiPhone 18 Pro Camera Review | Is It Actually Better? The latest iPhone 18 Pro marks the first iPhone under their new CEO - John Turnus and with that latest flagship brings some interesting additions, including a variable aperture, an upgraded sensor…

Fotografia.itItalyRecensione Oppo Find X10 Pro Max: difficile tornare indietro Sembra che la Spagna sia il Paese preferito da Oppo per il lancio globale dei suoi dispositivi di punta: lo scorso anno Barcellona, quest’anno Maiorca. Differenze? La scelta dei modelli.

Huawei Central cameraChinaHuawei sub-brand phone series may resemble Pura X View camera look Huawei sub-brand series’ first phone is expected to resemble the Pura X View in display and camera design. The new device will likely feature a horizontal imaging module housing enhanced sensors.

Gizmodo camerasReviews‘The Last Jedi’ Director Launches a New Camera App for iPhone (Because He’s a Good Guy) Rian Johnson's new app uses the same image processing he has refined on his movies.

Android Authority cameraReviewsI compared this year’s two best camera phones to crown an ultimate champion Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The OPPO Find X10 Pro Max debuted the industry’s first triple 200-megapixel camera package, setting its sights on the top of the photography rankings.

CamerastuffreviewNetherlandsReview Oppo Find X10 Pro Max – mini-Hasselblad met uitgebreid dynamisch bereik Oppo is nog altijd niet het merk waar veel fotografen aan denken, als ze een smartphone zoeken om mee te fotograferen of filmen.

Imaging ResourceReviewsiPhone Duo Preorders Sell Out Quickly, Pushing Deliveries to January 2027 Apple opened preorders for the highly anticipated iPhone Duo on October 16, and delivery estimates quickly slipped into 2027.

Space.com astrophotographyReviewsAstronaut captures mesmerizing auroras with iPhone from ISS | Space photo of the day for Oct. 13, 2026 Earth's night side is wreathed in colorful auroras in a new smartphone image captured from the ISS. (Image credit: Anil Menon, NASA) NASA astronaut Anil Menon captured a gorgeous view of the northern…

Huawei Central cameraChinaHuawei Pura 90 Pro camera supplier revealed, and it’s not SmartSens Huawei Pura 90 Pro main camera and periscope zoom sensor supplier has now come to the limelight. While many consumers were expecting SmartSens to be the key supplier for the high-end Pura 90…

TiltaMakersKhronos Core Brings Precision Craftsmanship to Everyday Carry A new series of premium iPhone cases within the Khronos ecosystem brings machined aluminum craftsmanship, modular functionality, and personal expression to iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.

ProCamera blogReviewsOne Week with the new iPhone 18 Pro: Exploring Variable Aperture with ProCamera v27.0 Explore what the iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture means for your photos and videos and how ProCamera v27.0 puts this new creative control at your fingertips.

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…

Gizmochina cameraChinaThe 100MP Front Camera Revolution: Necessary or Just Spec Race? Just when you thought your smartphone’s rear-facing camera had reached its peak with 200-megapixel monster sensors, the industry has decided to turn the lens around and aim straight for your face.

Amateur PhotographerReviewsDon’t use this viral iPhone app – it might kill your phone! Seems like you can barely move for iPhone photo apps these days. Some are brilliant, some are good fun, some are perfect for editing on the go. And others are less so.

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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