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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Five Hundred Five Apologies I neglected to post last week even though it was ready

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Five Hundred and Six

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Five Hundred and Four

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Five Hundred and Three

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Five Hundred and Two

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arhphotographicReviewsKonica Autoreflex T – For Spares and Repair I really don’t need any more cameras, but…. How many times have you said that? What follows is a series of reasons that sound reasonable, no emotions involved, “It was the first camera to include….

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Five Hundred and One

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Five Hundred

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arhphotographicReviews431 Camera Shutter Overture

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arhphotographicReviewsCamera Number Four Hundred Ninety Nine

09.12

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