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HalfchromeDronesUpgrade Your At Games Legend Ultimate | Create the Perfect Arcade My AtGames Legends Ultimate Setup: Upgrades That Make a Home Arcade More Fun The AtGames Legends Ultimate is a great starting point for a home arcade.

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HalfchromeDronesEMAX Tinyhawk Aero Review: A Racing Whoop You Can Tame When Nick Burns calls a tiny whoop one of the best he’s flown, I pay attention. After flying the EMAX Tinyhawk Aero, I get the excitement.

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HalfchromeDronesDroneer X501 Review: A Premium 6S FPV Drone With Serious Power The Droneer X501 is a new 5-inch FPV freestyle drone designed for pilots who want serious 6S power without building an entire quad themselves.

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HalfchromeDronesDJI Neo 2: Small Drone, Big Potential DJI has been experimenting with ultra-small drones for a few years now, and the DJI Neo 2 might be the most interesting result yet. At first glance it looks like a simple beginner drone.

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HalfchromeDronesBest FPV Video System in 2026: DJI vs HDZero vs Analog vs BetaFPV Choosing the best FPV video system in 2026 is one of the most important decisions for any FPV pilot. Your video system affects image quality, latency, range, reliability, and overall flying…

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HalfchromeDronesBetaFPV’s P1 Digital Artlynk FPV System is Surprisingly Good! For a long time, getting into digital FPV meant spending serious money and committing to a specific ecosystem.

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HalfchromeDronesStartFPV R8 Review: A Beginner-Friendly Tiny Whoop The StartFPV R8 is a 75mm analog tiny whoop designed for beginners. Learn why it’s great for indoor FPV, ELRS setup, and first flights.

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HalfchromeDronesSkyrover S1 Review: 4K Mini Drone Under 250 Grams Skyrover S1 Drone Overview — 4K Camera, 3-Axis Gimbal, and Long-Range Flight The Skyrover S1 is a compact, sub-250 g camera drone designed to balance portability, flight time, and stabilized 4K image…

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HalfchromeDronesVeenix V11 Mini 4K Drone Review – Compact, Capable, & Under 250g An Affordable 4K Drone with a 3-Axis Gimbal The Veenix V11 Mini 4K Drone is a foldable, sub-250-gram quadcopter designed for everyday pilots who want a smooth flying experience without FAA…

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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