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AJA NewsMakersCatch AJA on the road this November Next month, the AJA team will be out in full force at events across the country and overseas. If you’re in SoCal or Minneapolis, join us on November 4 at the VMI Broadcast AV Showcase or FORTE Live .

AJA NewsMakersAJA Heads to A.B.I.S. 2026 in Mumbai AJA is heading to A.B.I.S. 2026! Join us 10/22–24 at Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai for broadcast innovation, insights, and networking.

AJA NewsMakersAJA to talk cloud broadcast workflows with TV Tech On October 13 at 2pm ET, AJA will join TV Tech’s online tech talk "Transform Broadcast Workflows with Cloud Technology.

AJA NewsMakersBantaray brings niche sports to growing audiences with AJA From track and field to pickleball, traditionally niche sports are drawing dedicated online followings, driving production demands that rival those of major sports leagues.

AJA NewsMakersNew FS-HDR and FS4 Firmware Now Available for Download AJA today released free firmware for its FS-HDR and FS4 frame synchronizers. The new FS-HDR v4.3.3 and FS4 3.1.3 updates improve the Motion Adaptive Deinterlacer control on both devices to prevent…

AJA NewsMakersKean Production Services delivers live event color with AJA Today, live event audiences expect flawless visuals, but when projection and LED displays share the same stage, their natural color differences can create visual mismatches.

AJA NewsMakersAJA Joins Vimeo’s 2026 Short Film Grant to Help Filmmakers AJA is proud to join Vimeo, Panavision, and ShotDeck in supporting the 2026 Vimeo Short Film Grant, which returns for its second year offering a collective $300,000 prize pool to five emerging…

AJA NewsMakersAJA Releases HELO Plus v2.1.7 AJA today released HELO Plus v2.1.7, a new update that improves the protection of diagnostic information and addresses a security vulnerability in the system’s REST API.

AJA NewsMakersAJA Debuts FS8 12G-SDI/SMPTE ST 2110 Media Processor Big news! AJA debuted FS8, a next-gen 12G-SDI/SMPTE ST 2110 Media Processor. From navigating mismatched framerates, rasters, and color spaces, to audio routing and management, FS8 simplifies complex…

AJA NewsMakersAJA Unveils OG-FiDO-4 Family AJA debuted the OG-FiDO-4 family, expanding its line of OG-FiDO openGear-compatible SDI/fiber conversion cards.

AJA NewsMakersAvailable now: BRIDGE LIVE IP v1.20.3 We've released a new software update for the AJA BRIDGE LIVE IP, delivering new feature and workflow improvements as well as important security updates.

AJA NewsMakersAvailable now: BRIDGE LIVE v1.20.3 We've released a new software update for the AJA BRIDGE LIVE SDI Family, delivering new feature and workflow improvements as well as important security updates.

AJA NewsMakersOne month to go: AJA gears up for IBC 2026 reveal IBC 2026 is just around the corner, and we can't wait to share what we've been creating. On September 1st, AJA will unveil its latest innovations ahead of the show, so mark your calendars.

AJA NewsMakersNow Available: HELO Plus v2.1.6 Firmware Update AJA HELO Plus v2.1.6 released today, addressing vulnerabilities in the SRT library. AJA recommends users download the free update as soon as possible for optimal security and performance. Update now .

AJA NewsMakersShipping Alert: Io Xpand Now Available AJA's new Io Xpand Thunderbolt™ 5 expansion chassis is now available through AJA’s worldwide reseller network.

AJA NewsMakersExplainer video: AJA BRIDGE LIVE license In the latest video from AJA Support, Reuben Cohn breaks down all the different BRIDGE LIVE licensing options.

AJA NewsMakersWatch now: Recording to an SMB Share with AJA Ki Pro GO2 In a new tutorial, AJA Director of Product Management Paul Turner demonstrates how to set up Ki Pro GO2 for recording and playback using remote NAS or SMB storage.

AJA NewsMakersAJA eMini-Setup v2.4.5 arrives for macOS AJA today released eMini-Setup v2.4.5, an update for its free macOS utility that helps users configure network settings and apply firmware updates to AJA's Mini-Converter, streaming, and routing…

AJA NewsMakersAJA releases whitepaper on IP Video AJA has published a new white paper introducing the fundamentals of video over IP and the major IP technologies used in modern media production.

AJA NewsMakersNew Video: Converting SDI to IP streaming with BRIDGE LIVE In AJA’s latest BRIDGE LIVE video tutorial, Reuben from AJA Technical Support walks you through how to convert SDI video to IP streaming formats in minutes.

AJA NewsMakersVideo Spotlight: Setting up an IP workflow in BRIDGE LIVE Building an IP-based contribution and streaming workflow has never been simpler than with AJA BRIDGE LIVE.

AJA NewsMakersAJA at Mediatech Africa Expo 2026 AJA is heading to Mediatech Africa Expo 2026 this month, where we’ll will showcase innovations in IP, streaming, recording, routing, and color management.

AJA NewsMakersVideo Alert: Get to know AJA Io Xpand This week at InfoComm 2026, we unveiled Io Xpand. Built for production, live events, post, and ProAV environments, the portable, Thunderbolt 5-enabled PCIe expansion chassis delivers desktop-level…

AJA NewsMakersIo Xpand Thunderbolt™ 5 PCIe expansion chassis unveiled AJA today introduced Io Xpand , a high-performance Thunderbolt™ 5-enabled PCIe expansion chassis designed for AJA KONA and Corvid video and audio I/O cards.

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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