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Film and Digital TimesCinemaNIKKOR Z CINEMA T1.9 VV SERIES "Nikon Inc. announces the development of the NIKKOR Z CINEMA T1.9 VV series of cinema lenses.There will be 9 prime lenses, including the NIKKOR Z CINEMA 50mm T1.9 VV shown above.

September 8

Film and Digital TimesCinemaFDTimes at IBC stand 12.D81 Visit Film and Digital Times at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam September 11 - 14. We're in Stand 12.D81 — at the back of Hall 12, near Easyrig and DJI.

September 8

Film and Digital TimesCinemaSeptember 2026 IBC & Worldwide September 2026 Worldwide Online Edition. Pick up a copy of the print edition at IBC Amsterdam at FDTimes booth 12.D81 in Hall 12. Subscribers: Download the Print-Ready PDF (button below).

September 8

Film and Digital TimesCinemaFDTimes IBC Edition Film and Digital Times goes online and on paper at IBC Amsterdam on September 10. Pick up a free copy at our booth 12.D81 in Hall 12 of the RAI.

September 4

Film and Digital TimesCinemaEleven Sigma Aizu T1.3 FF Primes Now there are 11. Sigma has added 3 new focal lengths to their Aizu Prime Line—the world’s first Full Frame series of cine lenses to achieve a maximum aperture of T1.3 across all focal lengths (as of…

September 1

Film and Digital TimesCinemaAngénieux Optimo Ultra 12x 65 Zoom Angénieux introduced a prototype Optimo Ultra 12x 65 zoom lens at IBC last year. It was paired with an ALEXA 265.

August 22

Film and Digital TimesCinemaARRI cforce MAX lens motor The New cforce MAX from ARRI is light, small and fast. It is twice as fast and just as powerful as the cforce Plus motor it replaces, yet is 15% smaller and lighter.

August 17

Film and Digital TimesCinemaAngénieux EZ-2 65 and EZ-3 65 Zooms Angénieux has been working on EZ65 zoom lenses, expected to be ready this summer. EZ-2 WA 65 27-72 mm T3.6. Image coverage:Ø 58 mm from 27mm to 30mm Ø 60 mm from 31mm - 72mm.

August 14

Film and Digital TimesCinemaZEISS Panoptes 65 Earlier this year, Christophe Casenave, Head of the ZEISS Cinematography Business Unit, teased: “We have a few surprises that address some things we see for the future of cine production.

August 12

Film and Digital TimesCinemaGareth Edwards Interview about Sony FX5 A few weeks ago, director Gareth Edwards and a pre-release Sony FX5 returned from an adventure in Angkor Wat, Bangkok and Katmandu.

July 22

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