Camera Jabber

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Camera JabberReviewsWhy Ilford Ortho Plus is the film every darkroom student should watch develop Ilford Ortho Plus is a slow, fine-grain black-and-white film that ignores red light, which means you can develop it by eye under a deep red safelight.

11.06

Camera JabberReviewsTom Way wins inaugural Remembering Wildlife Photographer of the Year award with giraffe image British wildlife photographer Tom Way has won the first Remembering Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, which is supported by Nikon.

11.06

Camera JabberReviewsStonyhurst pupil wins Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 11–14 category with dung beetle image A pupil at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire has won the 11–14 Years category of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition.

11.05

Camera JabberReviewsNikon Image Space closes: download your images before April 2027 Nikon has closed Nikon Image Space, its long-running online storage and sharing service, and moved those features into Nikon Imaging Cloud.

11.05

Camera JabberReviewsSony ECM-W5 wireless microphone price, specifications and availability announced Sony has announced the ECM-W5, a two-transmitter, one-receiver wireless microphone system for video creators.

11.05

Camera JabberReviewsDJI Dock 4 and Matrice 5TD specifications and availability announced DJI has announced Dock 4, its first drone-in-a-box system with automated battery swapping, along with the new Matrice 5TD enterprise drone it’s built around. The key change is turnaround time.

11.05

Camera JabberReviewsVoigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm F4 Close Focus VM now available to pre-order Voigtländer’s APO-Lanthar 90mm F4 Close Focus VM is now available to pre-order. The Leica M-mount short telephoto was announced by Cosina in July, and retailers including Red Dot Cameras in the UK…

11.04

Camera JabberReviewsLeica Hammertone M-A film camera rumoured as a 1,600-unit limited edition Leica is preparing to announce a new limited-edition M-A film camera with a hammertone finish, according to Leica Rumors .

11.04

Camera JabberReviewsHuawei Ruiying Z10 clips a 1-inch, 10x optical zoom camera onto the Mate 90 Huawei has launched one of the most interesting phone photography accessories we’ve seen in a while. The Ruiying Z10 is a camera module that snaps over the camera bump of the new Mate 90 Pro Max…

11.04

Camera JabberReviewsCanon Cinema EOS firmware update adds Multi-Matrix, high-frame-rate AF and Speedlite support for the EOS C50 Canon has announced a free firmware update for three of its Cinema EOS cameras: the EOS C400, EOS C80 and EOS C50.

11.04

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