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BlenderSoftwareBlender Conference 2026 Recap Enjoy the recap of Blender Conference 2026, which took place this September in Amsterdam.

10.13

BlenderSoftwareBlender Survey 2026 Blender Foundation announces its annual user survey.

10.06

BlenderSoftwareCelebrating 20 Years of Open Movies A thank you message for the community that made this possible.

09.25

BlenderSoftwareBlender Foundation Annual Report 2025 The 2025 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available.

09.23

BlenderSoftwareShow your support for Blender projects New update to Blender Development Fund now lets supporters to highlight favorite projects on the Roadmap page, boosting their visibility and demand.

09.21

BlenderSoftwareBlender 5.2 LTS Release Blender 5.2 LTS brings node-powered physics, remote access to asset libraries, major rendering advancements and more with 2 years of LTS updates.

07.14

BlenderSoftwareBlender at SIGGRAPH 2026 The Blender team is back in Los Angeles to present and take part at SIGGRAPH 2026.

07.08

BlenderSoftwareBlender in Annecy 2026 Recap Recap of Blender at the Annecy Animation Film Festival 2026

07.03

BlenderSoftwareBlender in Annecy 2026 Blender attends the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026 and hosts a community meet-up.

06.02

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