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DivePhotoGuideReviewsThe Vital Role of Dive Computers in Macro Photography For macro photographers, your dive computer is one of your most important pieces of equipment

DivePhotoGuideReviewsAn Underwater Photographer’s Guide to DEMA 2026 500-plus exhibitors, 7,000-plus attendees, and an epic 50th anniversary party!

DivePhotoGuideReviewsAnnouncing the DPG Masters Underwater Imaging Competition 2026 The most exciting underwater imaging contest of the year returns with prizes worth more than $90,000!

DivePhotoGuideReviewsPhotographer of the Week – Daniel Flormann DPG Presents Photographer of the Week, Daniel Flormann

DivePhotoGuideReviewsBackscatter Reviews the Nauticam MFO-1, SMC-3, and MFO-3II Backscatter demystify three of Nauticam’s must-have wet lenses for macro photography

DivePhotoGuideReviewsReef Homecoming: Finding Our Way Back to North Sulawesi Anita Verde and Peter Marshall return to Siladen Resort and Coral Eye

DivePhotoGuideReviewsSEACAM Is Moving to Switzerland Under New Leadership Entrepreneur and long-time SEACAM partner Markus Inglin will take over as the new Owner and Managing Director of the high-end underwater brand

DivePhotoGuideReviewsPhotographing Mourning Cuttlefish Bill Gladstone discusses capturing the complex behaviors of one of Australia’s unsung cephalopods

DivePhotoGuideReviewsSEACAM OPP: The Ultimate Underwater Travel Lens? After a nine-week trip to Indonesia and around 7,000 images with the SEACAM OPP, Don Silcock has found his workhorse

DivePhotoGuideReviewsADEX Big Blue Legacy 33rd Edition (Singapore Ocean Week) 2027 Next year’s event is the biggest yet and includes Tek Asia, the ADEX Big Blue Legacy Awards, and the ADEX Ocean Tribes Festival

DivePhotoGuideReviewsPhotographer of the Week – Aimee Jan DPG presents Photographer of the Week, Aimee Jan

DivePhotoGuideReviewsPhotographer of the Week – Min-seok Jeon DPG presents Photographer of the Week, Min-seok Jeon

DivePhotoGuideReviewsADEX Voice of the Ocean 2027 Competition Launching in December ADEX Singapore’s signature competition returns with more awesome prizes up for grabs!

DivePhotoGuideReviewsNew Book by Tim Rock: The 50 Best Dives in Papua New Guinea New guide book details the top dives found across the islands of PNG

DivePhotoGuideReviewsThe Underwater Club Event: Muck-Diving Photography Masterclass, with James Emery Muck master James Emery from Backscatter shares his secrets for eye-popping macro

DivePhotoGuideReviewsThe Reef That Talks Back: A Deep Dive into Wakatobi Resort’s Reef Health Assessment Program Wakatobi is recording and analyzing the sounds of the reef, aiming to transform the way these precious ecosystems are monitored—and protected

DivePhotoGuideReviewsINON Announces ZD Front Mask for MISSION 1 Series New ZD Front Mask is compatible with the GoPro MISSION 1 and MISSION 1 PRO compact cinema cameras

DivePhotoGuideReviewsPhotographer of the Week – Jono Allen DPG presents Photographer of the Week, Jono Allen

DivePhotoGuideReviewsBehind the Shot: Wandering Ocean Moon, Anita Verde Anita Verde reveals the story behind her beautiful image of a Mola mola and freediver

DivePhotoGuideReviewsPhotographer of the Week – Khaichuin Sim DPG presents Photographer of the Week, Khaichuin Sim

DivePhotoGuideReviewsCanon Announces EOS R8 Mark II Mirrorless Camera Upgraded entry-level full-frame mirrorless gains in-body image stabilization, an autofocus joystick, and a new angular aesthetic

DivePhotoGuideReviewsAustralian Marine Conservation Society Unveils 2027 “Amazing Oceans” Calendar Purchasing the calendar helps fund the AMCS’s work to protect Australia’s marine wildlife and their ocean homes

DivePhotoGuideReviewsNaga Biru: Chasing the Blue Dragon Aaron Gekoski follows the building of a luxury phinisi-style liveaboard

DivePhotoGuideReviewsGo Diving Show ANZ 2026 Report The Underwater Club founder and DPG Field Editor Nicolas Remy reports from the third Australian edition of the Go Diving Show

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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