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CineDCinemaDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Released – PROLED XDR Touch Support, Gen 6 Color Science LUTs, Up to 5x Faster Rendering on M5 Pro and M5 Max Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21.2, and the headline item is support for Apple’s new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR touch screen.

CineDCinemaSteve Yedlin and Rian Johnson Release Chromagraph Camera – Film Color Pipeline for iPhone Stills, Grain, Halation and a RAW Gallery Cinematographer Steve Yedlin ASC, director Rian Johnson and color science programmer Eric Cameron have released Chromagraph Camera, a still photo app for iPhone.

CineDCinemaARRI Goes Small, Sony Goes Big: HONOR’s ARRI Phone | Sony RIALTO 65 | Held Hostage by Vimeo – Focus Check ep141 ARRI went small, and Sony went big – in the same week. In Los Angeles, HONOR launched a smartphone with ARRI’s LogC3 and color pipeline built in, for a little over €1,000, while ARRI told journalists…

CineDCinemaCanon EOS C400, EOS C80 and EOS C50 Firmware Update Announced – Expanding Cinema EOS Capabilities Canon has announced a new Cinema EOS firmware update for three cameras: the EOS C400, EOS C80, and EOS C50.

CineDCinemaSony RIALTO 65 Explained – Single 65mm Sensor, Universal Lens Mount, Full-Frame Modes Coming Last week, I was at Pinewood Studios in London for Sony’s RIALTO 65 event, and I sat down with Sony’s Sebastian Leske to go through the new 65mm camera extension for the VENICE 2.

CineDCinemaInside PIXBOOM – Factory Tour of the “Spark” High-Speed Camera in China Recently, I packed my bag in Japan and flew to Shenzhen, China to visit PIXBOOM, the young company behind the Spark high-speed camera.

CineDCinemaNikon ZR Firmware 2.00 Detailed – Log3G10 in H.265, Selectable High ISO NR and 3D LUT over HDMI Nikon has published the full feature list of firmware version 2.00 for the Nikon ZR, the first major update for its RED-developed full-frame cinema camera.

CineDCinemaDJI Osmo Pocket 4P Firmware V01.02.1149 Released – 18x Zoom, Smoother Lens Switching and Scene Presets DJI has released firmware V01.02.1149 for the Osmo Pocket 4P, and it is the biggest update the dual-camera pocket gimbal has received so far.

CineDCinemaSmallRig x CineD OrBrella Crowdfunding Ends November 8 – Last Chance to Get the Campaign Price Guys, this is the final week! The crowdfunding campaign for our SmallRig x CineD OrBrella soft light closes on November 8, 2026. After that, the 60W bi-color umbrella light will cost $80 more.

CineDCinemaOFFBIT M1 Announced – E-Paper Display for Lens Charts, Crew Lists and Notes, Three-Week Battery Barcelona-based startup OFFBIT has announced the M1, a small e-paper display for the camera department that replaces the paper lens chart on the camera body.

CineDCinemaInstagram Pays Creators Up to $500,000 for Long-Form Features – 90-Minute Videos, TV App, No Ad Share Yet Instagram is back in long-form video, and this time it brings a checkbook. The new Features format lets selected creators upload horizontal videos of up to 90 minutes, and according to an exclusive…

CineDCinemaNikon Raises Profit Forecast by 50% – but Cuts Its Camera Sales Plan for the Holiday Half Nikon just raised its full-year profit forecast by 50%, and if you only read the headline number, that sounds like great news for a company that lost more than ¥100 billion last year.

CineDCinemaEurocine 2027 Dates Announced – Back at Budapest’s HUNGEXPO From April 29 to May 1 Eurocine returns to Budapest in 2027. The film and TV production show takes place from Thursday, April 29 to Saturday, May 1, 2027, at HUNGEXPO, which makes it one day longer than the two-day edition…

CineDCinemaHeld Hostage by Vimeo – 18 Years of Uploads, Locked Behind a Paywall In 2026, Vimeo started telling the world that storage on its individual plans is unlimited again. Read the fine print, and you’ll discover that “unlimited” covers only a video type almost no…

CineDCinemaBending Time Mid-Shot – Zack Snyder’s Speed Ramp Is a speed ramp merely a gimmick? Nowadays, I feel like it is certainly handled like one. Yet it was once a huge breakthrough in cinematic storytelling, especially after Zack Snyder established it in…

CineDCinemaNikon NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S Finalized – 420mm f/4 Reach, 6.5-Stop VR, and a Lighter Body Five months after Nikon first announced development of the NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S, the finished lens is here, and the details left open in May are now filled in.

CineDCinemaWireless Audio Demystified: Sony’s Markus Warlich on 2.4 GHz vs UHF, Real 32-Bit Float and the Shrinking Spectrum – Focus Check ep140 Your 32-bit float wireless mic might not be recording 32-bit float at all. To our pleasant surprise, this week’s episode turned into an unofficial wireless audio masterclass: Markus Warlich, who has…

CineDCinemaSony RIALTO 65 Announced – 65mm Camera Extension for VENICE 2, 9.6K Open Gate, 16-bit X-OCN Sony’s RIALTO 65 is now official, and it puts a 65mm format sensor into a compact head that connects to an existing VENICE 2 body, on a cable or attached directly.

CineDCinemaFUJIFILM Fujikina NYC 2026 Recap – Real Images, Real Community, and No AI Talk I flew to New York for FUJIFILM’s Fujikina NYC 2026 with no shoot, no interviews and no schedule, just a camera and three days on the Lower East Side.

CineDCinemaSmallHD Focus 504 Announced – 5-Inch 1000-Nit Monitor With 3G-SDI, HDMI 2.0, and Wi-Fi Camera Control SmallHD has brought back the Focus name with the Focus 504, a 5-inch 1080p touchscreen monitor in an aluminum body that weighs 310g.

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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