Camera Jabber

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Camera JabberReviewsExpressVPN’s Fortify router protects your work on any network This one sits slightly outside our usual patch, but it addresses something every photographer who works away from home should think about more than they probably do: what happens to your files, and…

September 20

Camera JabberReviewsInsta360 X6 turns 360 video into explorable 3D scenes with Spatial Capture 3D scene creation has, until now, been the preserve of people with specialist rigs and complex software. Insta360 is trying to change that.

September 20

Camera JabberReviewsThe 8849 Tank 5 Pro puts a FLIR thermal camera in your pocket Rugged phones usually compete on the obvious things: how far you can drop them, how long the battery lasts.

September 19

Camera JabberReviewsAngelbird completes its CFexpress Type A v4 range for Sony shooters Angelbird has completed its fourth-generation CFexpress Type A line-up at IBC 2026, and the timing is deliberate: with the Sony FX5 and its X-OCN RAW recording now shipping, fast Type A cards have…

September 19

Camera JabberReviewsSilva’s updated Free headlamps light the way to a dawn shoot The clocks go back soon, and for landscape photographers that means the good light and the walk to reach it now happen in the dark at both ends of the day.

September 19

Camera JabberReviewsMoment updates its Camera Case for the iPhone 18 — just as the camera gets serious With the iPhone 18 Pro out and its new variable aperture making it a more serious camera than any iPhone before it, Moment has updated its case line to match.

September 18

Camera JabberReviewsGMKtec K17 Plus pairs Intel’s Arc 140V with a PCIe Gen5 SSD slot GMKtec’s K17 Plus is a small, quiet Intel mini PC that punches above its size for photographers who edit but do not need a full workstation — and one specification lifts it above the usual palm-sized…

September 17

Camera JabberReviewsDJI SDR Transmission 2 price, specifications and availability announced DJI has introduced the SDR Transmission 2, the next generation of its compact wireless video system for small and medium-sized production teams, and this time the biggest change is that every unit…

September 17

Camera JabberReviewsWorld Sports Photography Awards 2027 opens for entries — free, and open to all The World Sports Photography Awards, sponsored by Canon, has opened entries for its 2027 edition. It is free to enter, open worldwide, and the deadline is 23 November 2026.

September 17

Camera JabberReviewsVERYMODEL CFE-B 4.0 Lite brings 8K-ready CFexpress at a lighter price VERYMODEL has launched the CFE-B 4.0 Lite, a CFexpress 4.0 Type B card aimed at photographers and videographers who need 8K-capable storage without professional-line pricing.

September 16

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