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Backcountry GalleryReviewsNikon 120–300mm F/2.8 TC: A Wildlife Photographer’s Review My first-look review of Nikon’s new 120–300mm F/2.8 TC is up! I was lucky enough to use a pre-production lens in Florida, and I can’t wait to share what I discovered with you.

10.29

Backcountry GalleryReviewsSony a7r6 Wildlife Review: One Month in Africa Is This The Best Overall Wildlife Camera? I recently spent a month in Africa shooting with the new Sony a7r6, and let me tell ya, this camera really surprised me!

10.24

Backcountry GalleryReviewsTravel Photo Backup: Are Your Best Shots Really Safe? Imagine finally capturing the wildlife moment you’ve spent years hoping for – and then losing the photo, even though you made backups.

09.23

Backcountry GalleryReviewsWildlife Shutter Speed: You’re Using the Wrong One Soooo……Think you know shutter speed? In this video, I’ll share the shutter speeds I actually use for wildlife, from 1/20 second for creative motion blur all the way to 1/8000 for fast action.

08.19

Backcountry GalleryReviewsThe Wildlife Settings We BOTH Agree On (And Where We FIGHT!) Jan and I just released another video! This time, we talk about our wildlife settings – find out where we agree and where we fight!

08.14

Backcountry GalleryReviewsSony 100-400mm F5.6-8 Review: What Do You Really Give Up? I just finished testing Sony’s new 100-400mm F5.6-8, and this little lens turned out to be more…umm…interesting than I expected.

08.12

Backcountry GalleryReviewsBest Nikon AF Setup for Wildlife Photography (Nikon Z Series) OK, we all know Nikon’s autofocus system is incredibly capable, but it’s also easy to feel like you’re in over your head.

08.01

Backcountry GalleryReviewsMake ISO 12,800 Look Like ISO 400! Lightroom Workflow 2026 Lightroom’s noise reduction tools have changed quite a bit over the last few years, so I just put together an updated video showing my current 2026 denoise workflow for high ISO wildlife photos.

07.14

Backcountry GalleryReviewsSony RX10 V Review for Wildlife Photographers Don’t make the mistake I almost did. When Sony asked if I wanted to review the new RX10 V, I almost passed. It’s a superzoom, and that’s not exactly my normal wheelhouse.

07.09

Backcountry GalleryReviewsHow Pros Think In The Field This week, Jan Wegener joins me for a fieldcraft-heavy wildlife photography conversation. We get into how pros think in the field, lenses for wildlife, sharpness, what lens we’d use if we could only…

06.24

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