Deity Microphones

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Deity MicrophonesMakersRELIABLE RF, SMARTER POWER: HOW DEITY THEOS KEPT JON’S AUDIO ROLLING ON SET If you’ve ever had to sprint toward your talent mid-take just to keep a wireless signal from dropping, you know the exact mix of panic and frustration that sound mixer Jon from Cebu, Philippines…

09.28

Deity MicrophonesMakersRecording on the Roof of the World “The entire production was completed in relay style, with just one crew member handling both video and audio capture simultaneously.

07.08

Deity MicrophonesMakersDeity PR-4 Nominated for Best Recorder After the most anticipated piece of audio equipment was released by Deity at NAB 2026, the Deity PR-4 4-Channel Recorder WON best audio product at NAB 2026 in Las Vegas!

06.22

Deity MicrophonesMakersDelivering Rock-Solid Audio in 40°C Heat and Water Scenes in Vietnam The scorching midday sun beat down on the rural fields of Vietnam, pushing temperatures past a gruelling 40°C.

06.15

Deity MicrophonesMakersTHEOS Car Rigs, Critical Sync, and the IFB Upgrade Three feature films. Three countries. Igor Marlot’s honest breakdown of what held it all together. A field report by a Deity-equipped production sound mixer.

05.01

Deity MicrophonesMakersThe Sidemen Upgrade to Deity In the final working hour of Halloween 2025, the UK’s biggest and most popular YouTube group, The Sidemen, urgently required 30 (yes 30) Deity PR-2 pocket recorders.

2025.12.16

Deity MicrophonesMakers30 Channels of Deity THEOS used on ‘Why You So Smart’ Reality TV is chaos. You’ve got talent everywhere, locations changing by the hour, and zero room for “let’s do that again, the audio dropped out.

2025.11.13

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