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ePHOTOzineReviewsPlaying With White Balance To Create Interesting Images We all aspire to get the correct colour rendition and it is very important, especially with shooting JPEGs, but sometimes it is really fun to shoot with the wrong preset and get weird colours.

ePHOTOzineReviewsAutumn Photography Walk Advice Photo walks are probably something you associate with summer, however with autumn shades decorating our countryside and lights getting switched on sooner in cities, you can capture just as…

ePHOTOzineReviewsExcire Foto 2027 Adds Advanced Video Search and Reverse Geocoding in Free November Update Pattern Recognition Company (PRC), the company behind the award-winning Excire software, released a major update to Excire Foto 2027, its standalone photo- and video-management program.

ePHOTOzineReviewsSeven Tutorials On Capturing Motion And Movement Motion and movement is a wide and varied photographic subject and as a result there are many ways a photographer can create a sense of motion or movement in their shots.

ePHOTOzineReviewsIntroduction To Firework Photography We are only a few days away from this year’s Bonfire Night and we couldn’t really kick November off without mentioning a few tips that’ll help you capture spectacular firework…

ePHOTOzineReviewsAffinity for iPad Is Here With Free Core Tools Canva has launched Affinity for iPad, an app built for touch and Apple Pencil that puts sketch, vector, photo editing and page layout in a single .af file.

ePHOTOzineReviewsLightroom vs Zoner Studio: Which Photo Editing Software Is Right for You? SPONSORED FEATURE | In partnership with Zoner Studio Adobe Lightroom has long been a popular choice for photographers, but it’s far from the only option.

ePHOTOzineReviewsShimoda Launches Action X v3 Outdoor Camera Backpack Range Shimoda Designs has announced the Action X v3 collection, updating its line of technical outdoor camera packs based on user feedback.

ePHOTOzineReviewsBlack & White Cobwebs And Teasels Wins 'Photo Of The Week' Backlit teasels and fine cobwebs make up our beautifully captured ‘Photo of the Week’ (POTW) winning image.

ePHOTOzineReviewsTake A Composition Challenge As photographers, we're always wanting to improve our technique and learn now ways we can take better photos.

ePHOTOzineReviewsePHOTOzine Daily Theme Winners Week 4 October 2026 The latest winner of our popular daily photography theme which takes place in our forums have been chosen and congratulations go to…

ePHOTOzineReviewsSigma 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS Contemporary Lens Review The latest Sigma Contemporary lens for APS-C format completes a trio of optics, all sharing design and handling and sporting fast (bright) f/2.8 apertures.

ePHOTOzineReviewsTips On Shooting Autumn Landscapes In The Lake District Ask most landscape photographers what their favourite season is, and probably 80% will reply "autumn".

ePHOTOzineReviewsHalloween Photography Tips Halloween - it's a perfect time to shoot some portraits and capture some of the small details that make Halloween so spooktacular.

ePHOTOzineReviewsVTOMAN Announces Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals on the Portable Power Stations, Jump Starters and more... VTOMAN, the portable power brand behind the FlashSpeed power station series, is offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing on its portable power stations, solar bundles and jump starters, running…

ePHOTOzineReviewsEpic List Of 30 Winter Photography Tutorials Winter's on its way which may mean dark nights and cold mornings but it does bring ample photography opportunities for those who don't mind braving the cold.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNikon Announces NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S Sports Lens Nikon has announced the NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S, which it describes as the world’s first telephoto zoom lens with a constant f/2.8 aperture and built-in 1.4x teleconverter.

ePHOTOzineReviewsLeica Opens New Flagship Store in London Mayfair Leica Camera UK has announced the opening of the new Leica Store London Mayfair at 14 Dover Street, bringing the brand’s global total of Leica owned stores to 116.

ePHOTOzineReviewsRare Leica BOX Prototype and Salgado Camera Up For Auction in Wetzlar The 49th Leitz Photographica Auction takes place on November 28, 2026, at Leica World in Wetzlar, presenting more than 400 lots of historic cameras and vintage photographic equipment.

ePHOTOzineReviews5 Quick Tips On Taking Twilight Images In Towns 1. Be Early Arrive at your chosen spot about half an hour before the sun's due to set as you'll need time to set your equipment up and to find your angle.

ePHOTOzineReviewsHow to Prepare Your Photos for Large Prints - Partner Content - A favourite photograph deserves more than a quick upload. Here is how to choose a size, protect your composition and prepare a file that will work on the wall.

ePHOTOzineReviews8 Top Images Given A Fisheye Twist As well as having practical uses, fisheye lenses can be a lot of fun. The distortion produced by this type of lens allows the user to take interesting, quirky shots of everyday objects, turning what…

ePHOTOzineReviewsFujifilm Introduces Instax Mini Evo 2 Hybrid Instant Camera © FUJIFILM Fujifilm has revealed the Instax Mini Evo 2, a hybrid instant camera featuring a 4.5-inch LCD touchscreen, new Expanded View and Immersive Movie features, and 100 possible…

ePHOTOzineReviewsXTU S7 Pro Max Action Camera Launches in UK with 4K HDR & RYYB Sensor XTUCAM has officially released the S7 Pro Max in the UK, equipping outdoor enthusiasts and vloggers with a feature-packed 4K HDR action camera built around an upgraded 1/1.28-inch RYYB CMOS sensor.

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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