Imaging Resource

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Imaging ResourceReviewsGodox TT350II Thinklite Flash Adds Color Display, Modeling Lamp, and Hybrid Hot Shoe Godox has announced the TT350II Thinklite, the second generation of its compact TTL flash for mirrorless cameras.

10.18

Imaging ResourceReviewsiPhone Duo Preorders Sell Out Quickly, Pushing Deliveries to January 2027 Apple opened preorders for the highly anticipated iPhone Duo on October 16, and delivery estimates quickly slipped into 2027.

10.16

Imaging ResourceReviewsAstrHori MF 8mm F/2.4 Fisheye Offers a 220-Degree View for Medium Format Cameras AstrHori has announced the MF 8mm F/2.4 Fisheye, a manual-focus lens for Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad XCD medium format cameras.

10.16

Imaging ResourceReviewsViltrox AF 26mm F/2.8 EVO FE Gets New Mist Silver and Graphite Gray Colorways Viltrox has introduced two new color options for its AF 26mm F/2.8 EVO FE pancake lens, adding Mist Silver and Graphite Gray finishes to the existing black version.

10.15

Imaging ResourceReviewsVoigtländer Color-Skopar 35mm F/2.5 100th Model Celebrates Lens Series Anniversary Cosina has announced the Voigtländer Color-Skopar 35mm F/2.5 100th Model, a limited-edition lens celebrating the 100th anniversary of the company’s Skopar lens series.

10.15

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