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IMAGOCinemaIMAGO MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 2027 – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Dear IMAGO Society Presidents and Representatives, We are pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2nd edition of the IMAGO Mentorship Program.

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IMAGOCinemaThe Girl in the Darkroom Now Lights Up the Cinema: Rachel Clark, BSC Long before she operated a camera on a Hollywood blockbuster, Rachel Clark spent her teenage evenings in a shed at the bottom of a garden in Gateshead.

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IMAGOCinemaIMAGO Art & Tech – 5th Edition – Sunday, September 27th 2026. Updated: recording available. We invite you to join us for the 5th edition of IMAGO Art & Tech: NANLUX , taking place on Sunday, September 27 th .

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IMAGOCinemaIMAGO Awards 2027 – Call for Submissions Dear IMAGO Member Societies, As previously announced, IMAGO is bringing back its international awards program to celebrate outstanding cinematography and highlight exceptional work from across our…

09.17

IMAGOCinemaA Study of the DZO Arles Lenses, by Alfonso Parra In this article, we analyze the optical performance of selected DZO Arles lenses, with particular emphasis on resolution, contrast, and the overall consistency of the lens set, in the context of the…

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IMAGOCinemaNickoloz Kachibaia, GCA: The Cinematographer who left home, to find it. Nickoloz Kachibaia GCA and CSC Associate Member will tell you, without much ceremony, that a camera saved his life.

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IMAGOCinemaCradled by a Crane: Jana Hojdová’s Life on Set, From Day One PHOTO CREDIT: Julie Hojdová, prod Silk Films There’s a particular kind of person who grows up on film sets the way other kids grow up in a garden or a garage: surrounded by the family trade…

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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