DIY Photography

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DIY PhotographyTechNASA Captures Earth’s Changing Seasons From a Million Miles Away Four photographs from NASA’s EPIC camera capture how Earth’s tilt and seasons change throughout the year, as seen from more than a million miles away....

September 26

DIY PhotographyTechUnboxing S50 Pro: The Latest Smart Telescope from Seestar I guess I was not wrong to call 2026 the “Year of Smart Telescopes”. Towards the end of last month, Seestar launched its latest smart...

September 25

DIY PhotographyTechSmallRig’s New Light Folds Down to Make Location Lighting Easier SmallRig’s OrBrella FM 60B combines a foldable LED light and diffusion system in one portable unit designed for faster location lighting.

September 25

DIY PhotographyTechESA’s New 50cm Cebreros Telescope Captures Its First Image ESA has a new telescope pointing at the night sky from its Cebreros Deep Space Station in Spain. The 50cm instrument has now captured its...

September 24

DIY PhotographyTechNew Nikon Z5 IIC: Full-Frame Camera Without a Viewfinder, Starting at $1,399 Nikon has officially pulled back the curtain on the Z5 IIc, a full-frame mirrorless camera that strips the electronic viewfinder from the Z5 II formula...

September 24

DIY PhotographyTechAdobe Acquires Topaz Labs to Bring AI Image Enhancement to Photoshop Adobe has completed its acquisition of Topaz Labs, bringing its AI image and video enhancement technology deeper into Photoshop, Firefly, and Creative Cloud.

September 24

DIY PhotographyTechA Reported Bluetooth Flaw Just Put 16 DJI Drones Under the Microscope Something may be wrong with the Bluetooth security of several DJI drones, but it is too early to say that hackers can simply take control...

September 24

DIY PhotographyTechCamp Snap Just Gave the 110 Camera a Digital Second Life The Camp Snap 110D brings the distinctive 110 camera shape into the digital era with an 8MP sensor, built in filters and no rear screen.

September 23

DIY PhotographyTechSubaru’s Deep Image of M77 Reveals an Ancient Galaxy Merger M77 has always been a popular target for astronomers and astrophotographers. Its broad spiral arms surround a bright central region, giving it the familiar appearance...

September 23

DIY PhotographyTechAdobe Premiere Is Now Available on Android It looks like a busy September for Adobe. After updating Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, Adobe Premiere mobile is now available on Android. The app...

September 23

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