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Gizmodo camerasReviews‘The Last Jedi’ Director Launches a New Camera App for iPhone (Because He’s a Good Guy) Rian Johnson's new app uses the same image processing he has refined on his movies.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsFujifilm’s New Instant Camera Records 4 Seconds of Video Before You Press the Shutter It's kind of like Live Photos on an iPhone. The Instax Mini Evo 2 also has a larger touchscreen.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsFujifilm’s New Square 3 Instax Camera Comes With Analog Filters The instant camera will let you alter the color and tone of photos with no digital assistance.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsGoPro Fixed the One Big Problem With Its Mission 1 Pro Cameras—But Is It Enough? GoPro's 'pro'-level cameras are now better for more than just action footage.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsTP-Link Tapo Doorbell Pro D260 Review: Everything You Need at No Extra Cost TP-Link’s smart home video doorbell has everything you need—no subscription necessary.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsGoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS Review: A Bad GoPro and a Worse Camera You'd be better served with a Mission 1 Pro or a used micro four-thirds camera.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsPolaroid’s New Anti-AI Camera Lets You Mess With Exposure Times and More The Polaroid Mod camera will let you mess with exposure times to create some actually cool effects.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsThis DIY Creator Is Building a Compass That Only Points to Taco Bell Custom hardware maker Tru Narla is transforming a hobby invented by cyberpunks cosplaying dystopia into an artistic vision for how humanity can live in blissed-out harmony with the technology it…

Gizmodo camerasReviewsFujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 Looks Like an Actual Camera, Not a Baby Monitor The little instant camera now has a viewfinder. Innovation!

Gizmodo camerasReviewsDJI’s New 360 Camera Fixes Everything Wrong With the First One Can you buy the DJI Osmo 360 II in the U.S.? Hahaha…wait, you’re seriously asking?

Gizmodo camerasReviewsI Absolutely Must Own This Pikachu-Themed Polaroid Camera Just take my money! Pika pika!

Gizmodo camerasReviewsInsta360 X6 Review: The King of 360 Cameras Reclaims Its Crown The X6 has the best 360 camera quality available now. It still won't be your one and only action cam.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsInsta360’s X6 Reimagines the 360 Shooter as the Everything Camera It’s the most premium—and expensive—360 camera yet, but will it replace all the other lenses in your life.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsInsta360 Luna Ultra Review: This Is the Only Gimbal Camera You Need The Insta360 Luna Ultra is great at vlogging, but that’s just scratching the surface.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsKodak’s New Point-And-Shoot Is a Real Disposable Replacement At just $35, the EC35 is basically a refillable disposable camera.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsInsta360’s Next Action Cam Could Be a Real GoPro Competitor The new X6 360 camera has leaked.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsJust Don’t Use the Super-Long Zoom on Sony’s RX10 V for Anything Creepy, Okay? Your iPhone can't compare to this camera's built-in zoom.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsFujifilm Expands QuickSnap Disposable Lineup for ‘Intentional’ Photography New black-and-white and waterproof options are sure to keep younger generations snapping.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsGoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best GoPro, Just Not the Best Camera GoPro promised us a "cinematic camera system." The Mission 1 Pro is just a better action camera.

Gizmodo camerasReviewsInsta360’s New Gimbal Vlogging Camera May Be Too Capable for Its Own Good Is there a point where vlogging cameras are too excessive and way too expensive?

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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