Alik Griffin

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Alik GriffinReviewsMemory Cards for Sony ZV-E10 II – 31 Tested The Sony ZV-E10 II has one SD card slot and no CFexpress option, so the card you put in it decides what the camera can record.

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Alik GriffinReviewsThypoch Black Friday Sale 2026: Up to 33% Off Simera, Ksana, and Eureka Lenses Thypoch started its Black Friday sale early this year. It runs October 20 through December 3, 2026, and nearly the entire lineup is discounted on the official Thypoch store.

10.24

Alik GriffinReviewsThypoch Ksana 35mm f/2 ASPH Review – A Great Everyday Lens The Thypoch Ksana 35mm f/2 ASPH is one of the most interesting compact M-mount primes to hit the market recently.

09.30

Alik GriffinReviewsViltrox AF 75mm f1.8 EVO Review & Sample Photos Quick verdict: The Viltrox AF 75mm f1.8 EVO is a compact APS-C portrait lens (about 112mm equivalent) with excellent edge-to-edge sharpness wide open, beautiful bokeh falloff, quiet autofocus and…

06.09

Alik GriffinReviewsCanon R6 V Recommended Memory Cards The Canon EOS R6 V represents a massive shift in Canon’s full-frame mirrorless lineup, stripping away the EVF to deliver a streamlined, video-first powerhouse tailored for filmmakers, documentarians…

06.02

Alik GriffinReviewsThypoch Simera 28mm f1.4 Review & Sample Photos Quick verdict: The Thypoch Simera 28mm f1.4 is one of my favorite M-mount lenses and the coolest 28mm I own.

05.26

Alik GriffinReviewsMust-Have Canon R10 Accessories: The Complete Setup & Video Guide The Canon EOS R10 is a “goldilocks” camera—it hits a sweet spot for price and performance—but it has specific technical constraints that can trip you up if you aren’t prepared.

05.07

Alik GriffinReviewsThypoch KSANA 21mm f3.5 Review & Sample Photos Quick verdict: The Thypoch Ksana 21mm f3.5 is the minimalist’s choice in the Thypoch lineup: premium build, a focus tab that’s great for street photography, excellent flare resistance and CA control…

05.02

Alik GriffinReviewsViltrox Z2 Flash Review & Sample Street/Lifestyle Photos Viltrox is rewriting the script on compact lighting. While their larger flashes, like the Spark Z3, are about robust features and “cyberpunk” aesthetics, the newly released Viltrox Z2 takes a more…

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Alik GriffinReviewsFujifilm X-E5 Review: Their Best Camera So Far Quick verdict: The Fujifilm X-E5 puts the X100VI’s 40MP sensor and IBIS into a small interchangeable-lens body with a film simulation dial.

03.18

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

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