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Camera DecisionReviewsSony FX6 Firmware 6.02 Fixes a Rare Bug That Could Stop Both Card Slots During Backup Recording Sony released firmware 6.02 for the FX6 on November 5. It fixes one thing: in rare cases, when one card had an error during simultaneous recording to both slots, the other card stopped recording too.

Camera DecisionReviewsCamera Decision iPhone App Is Out and Free: Gear List, Packing Checklists, Photo Spots, Reminders and Shoot Planner The Camera Decision app is on the App Store. It puts our photography tools on your iPhone, with a shoot planner, a gear list, packing checklists, saved photo spots, reminders, a light meter, an ND…

Camera DecisionReviewsDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Is Out With Gen 6 Color Science LUTs and Faster Renders on M5 Macs Blackmagic released DaVinci Resolve 21.2 on November 4. It is a free update. The headline items are Blackmagic Gen 6 color science LUTs and film looks, touch support on the new MacBook Pro, and up to…

Camera DecisionReviewsTamron Patents Three Medium Format Primes, a 60mm f/1.8, 75mm f/1.9 and 130mm f/2.6 A new Tamron patent shows three fast primes designed for a 44x33mm sensor, the size Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad X cameras use: a 60mm f/1.8, a 75mm f/1.9 and a 130mm f/2.6.

Camera DecisionReviewsCIPA September 2026: Shipments Fell 12%, and China Took a Third Fewer Cameras CIPA's September numbers are out, and this is the weakest month of 2026 so far. Camera makers shipped 748,169 cameras, 12.1% fewer than a year ago, and the money fell 7.3%. Compacts still grew.

Camera DecisionReviewsA Meike AF 50mm f/1.4 Is Coming, and Nikon Z Only Has Two of Those Meike is reported to be working on an autofocus 50mm f/1.4 for Sony E, Nikon Z and L mount, around 600g, some time in 2026.

Camera DecisionReviewsLomo MC-A Gets a $649 Gold-Plated Edition and a $599 Noir, and Five Fixes From Its First Year The Lomo MC-A turned one on 3 November, and Lomography marked it with two limited editions: a real gold-plated body with brown leather for $649, and a glossy black Noir with textured leather for…

Camera DecisionReviewsCanon DM-E10D Is a 59g Shoe Mic With No Cable or Battery, and the TC-N3 Timer Remote Now Comes With an E3 Plug Too Canon announced two accessories on November 4. The Microphone DM-E10D is a 59g supercardioid mic that clips into the multi-function shoe and takes its power and audio through it, so there is no cable…

Camera DecisionReviewsCanon EOS R3 Is Listed as Sales Ended in Japan, Five Years After Launch Canon Japan's product page for the EOS R3 now carries a "sales ended" heading. The camera is five years old, the R1 and R5 Mark II sit on either side of it, and an R3 Mark II has been rumored since…

Camera DecisionReviewsFujifilm GFX100 II, GFX100S II and GFX100RF Get Bug Fix Firmware on the Same Day, and Fujifilm Lists No Details Fujifilm released firmware for three GFX bodies on November 4: GFX100 II version 2.51, GFX100S II version 1.22 and GFX100RF version 1.14.

Camera DecisionReviewsCanon EOS C50 Gets Speedlite Flash Support in December, and the C80 and C400 Get Autofocus at More Slow Motion Frame Rates Canon has announced firmware updates for the EOS C50, C80 and C400, due in December 2026. The C50 gets Speedlite flash support through its accessory shoe.

Camera DecisionReviewsNikon ZR Firmware 2.00 Grows to Seven Changes, and Arrives Before the End of 2026 Nikon has published the full list for Nikon ZR firmware 2.00, and it grew from three changes to seven.

Camera DecisionReviewsLeica M12 Rumored for Early 2027, and It Would Be the Longest Wait the M Has Had LeicaRumors has updated its Leica M12 list: the M11's 60MP sensor and processor, no IBIS, a bigger screen, buttons moved to the right, and an announcement in early 2027.

Camera DecisionReviewsNikon Z5 IIC vs Z50 II: $443 More Gets Full Frame and Stabilization, but No Viewfinder The Nikon Z5 IIC was the most viewed camera on this site in October, and readers keep putting it next to the Z50 II. For $443 more, the Z5 IIC gives you a full frame sensor and in-body stabilization.

Camera DecisionReviewsDJI Osmo Pocket 4P Shows Up on Amazon.com for $741, but It Ships From Amazon Germany in 6 to 7 Months DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P is now listed on Amazon.com, in the Pearl White Vlog Combo, for about $741. But the seller is Amazon Germany and the page says it usually ships in 6 to 7 months.

Camera DecisionReviewsDJ-Optical Ultra Slim 35mm f/3.5 Goes on Sale for Leica M at 110,000 Yen, 15mm Thin and 140g DJ-Optical's Ultra Slim 35mm f/3.5 MC went on sale in Japan on October 30 for 110,000 yen. It is a 15mm thin, 140g rangefinder-coupled lens for Leica M.

Camera DecisionReviewsMost Popular Cameras and Lenses in October 2026: the Nikon Z5 IIC Is No. 1, and the Top Six Lenses Are All APS-C The most popular camera on Camera Decision in October 2026 was the Nikon Z5 IIC, in its first full month on sale.

Camera DecisionReviewsSony A1 II and A9 III Holiday Deals: $200 and $400 Off, and We Have Seen These Prices Before Sony's US holiday deals started today. The Sony A1 II is $6,798, which is $200 off, and the Sony A9 III is $6,398, which is $400 off.

Camera DecisionReviewsFujifilm X-T6 Delayed a Second Time, on the Day the X-T5 Turns Four FujiRumors says the Fujifilm X-T6's 19 November announcement is off, and nobody has named a new date.

Camera DecisionReviewsShimoda Action X v3 Adds a 35-Litre Carry-On Size That Takes a 200-600mm, and a $130 Insider Sling Shimoda launched the third Action X backpacks on November 1, in five sizes. The new one is the X35, 50.8cm tall to stay inside stricter carry-on limits, and Shimoda says it takes one body with a…

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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