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Drone UDronesADU 1412: Can US Drone Makers Truly Replace DJI? The Reality of American Drone Manufacturing Xpece Founder Alex Rodriguez on Supply Chain Bottlenecks, Red Tape, and Building Waterproof Drones In this episode of the Ask Drone U podcast, host Paul Aitken sits down with Alex Rodriguez, founder…

Drone UDronesADU 1411: Part 108, BVLOS, and Fleet Management – What Every Drone Manager Needs to Know FAA Part 108, BVLOS, and Drone Fleet Management Software | Ask Drone U with Brandon Del Priore (ThinkPower) In this episode of Ask Drone U, host Paul sits down with Brandon Priore of Think Power…

Drone UDronesADU 1410: Why Taranis Isn’t Spraying Crops | The Real Business Model Land High-Volume Ag Drone Jobs: How Taranis Flies 50,000 Acres a Day In this episode of Ask Drone U, Paul sits down with Phil Franklin from Taranis to explore how the company maps thousands of…

Drone UDronesADU 1408: Are You a Pro Pilot? Here’s How to Measure Proficiency Online Knowledge Assessments vs. In-Field Operational Testing for Enterprise Drone Programs In this episode of Ask Drone U, Paul and Rob address how enterprise programs and business owners can…

Drone UDronesADU 1409: Drone Battery Myths Exposed – Interview with Patrick from Colorado Drone Chargers Simultaneous Quad-Charging, Battery Longevity, and Safety Secrets with Colorado Drone Chargers In this episode of Ask Drone U, Paul is joined by Patrick from Colorado Drone Chargers to dive deep into…

Drone UDronesADU 1407: How to Stand Out & Beat Established Drone Competitors Winning Strategies for Landing Clients in a Competitive Market In this episode of Ask Drone U, hosts Paul and Rob answer a question from listener Reuben about how a new drone pilot can differentiate…

Drone UDronesADU 1406: How to Measure Construction Drone Program Success | ROI Beyond Flight Hours Stop Tracking Vanity Metrics: How Schedule Adherence, Rework Reduction, and Rapid Communication Drive Real Business Value In this episode of Ask Drone U Enterprise, Paul and Rob dive into one of the…

Drone UDronesADU 1405: How to Measure the Real ROI of Your Enterprise Drone Program Moving Beyond Fluff Metrics to Operational Efficiency, Downtime Avoidance, and Field Adoption In this episode of Ask Drone U, Paul and Rob break down how enterprise organizations and former Drone…

Drone UDronesADU 1404: Why Enterprise Drone Programs Are Ditching Drone Mapping Are You Wasting Money on Drone Mapping? What Enterprises Know In this episode of Ask Drone U, Paul and Rob examine a major shift occurring across large-scale enterprise drone programs: the decline of…

Drone UDronesADU 1403: Should Your Enterprise Drone Program Require Part 107 for Part 108 Operations? Part 107 vs Part 108: Why Enterprise Drone Programs Still Need Certified Pilots In this episode of Ask Drone U, Paul and Rob tackle a crucial question facing enterprise drone program managers: Should…

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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