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Jeff CableReviewsPantanal Photo Tour: First full day photographing the Jaguars and more! The last two blog posts featured images and stories from the south of the Pantanal in Brazil. In this blog post, we transition from the south to the north, to focus on the jaguars which are abundant…

Jeff CableReviewsPantanal Photo Tour: First time photographing the Red and green macaw! This is the second blog post from my recent trip to the Pantanal of Brazil. We were still in the south Pantanal, but had moved to our second location, with our ultimate goal to photograph the Red and…

Jeff CableReviewsPantanal Photo Tour: Our first days in the South Pantanal When planning my first photography tour to the Pantanal of Brazil, I had a big decision to make: Should I do the trip strictly to the north, or should I include both north and south?

Jeff CableReviewsTwo new videos from B&H Event Space in New York! As you may have seen from a previous blog post, I was back in New York City three weeks ago, making my first in-person presentations since the pandemic.

Jeff CableReviewsAnd Then There Were Two! I was looking at the availability for my upcoming photo tours and noticed something kind of funny. For some strange reason, I have exactly TWO spots left on almost every one of my photo tours over…

Jeff CableReviewsIs the iPhone Duo a great phone for photographers and photo enthusiasts? I have been using Apple products for more than 30 years and really love their computers, phones, watches and AirPods, but that does not mean that I automatically upgrade every time they announce new…

Jeff CableReviewsMy favorite and most used lenses - and why they are! When I was presenting at B&H Photo this week, I did one presentation on "The Best Lenses for Different Subjects".

Jeff CableReviewsFINALLY!!!! I am heading back to B&H Photo for LIVE Event Space presentations! I know this sounds crazy, but I have not presented at the B&H Event Space in New York City since before COVID.

Jeff CableReviewsI have ONE SPOT available on my Pantanal trip at the end of next month!! I have an amazing trip to the Pantanal of Brazil at the end of September, and just found out that one of my guests has to bow out due to an injury.

Jeff CableReviewsThese are NOT my photos from Costa Rica! Today's post doesn't feature any of my own photographs. Instead, I'm excited to share images captured by guests on my recent photography tour to Costa Rica.

Jeff CableReviewsCanon's firmware update (1.3) adds a BIG NEW addition to the R1 and R5 Mark II cameras! Before the Summer Olympics in Paris, when Canon first let me play with the pre-production R1 and R5 Mark II, I was fascinated by certain features.

Jeff CableReviewsYou're Invited: Celebrate the Opening of the Jeff Cable Gallery at Allure Interiors I’m excited to announce that a collection of my fine art photography is now on display and available for purchase at Allure Interiors in Dublin, California.

Jeff CableReviewsPodcast Interview on "Beyond the Lens" with Richard Bernabe Before I left for almost a month in Costa Rica and Richard Bernabe left for the same amount of time in Botswana, we sat down together and he interviewed me for his "Beyond the Lens" podcast.

Jeff CableReviewsTime for a REBRANDING of Jeff Cable Photography If you have been following Jeff Cable Photography here on the blog or other places for a long time, you are likely familiar with the logo below.

Jeff CableReviewsI have two LAST MINUTE OPENINGS for my Costa Rica Photo Tour next week!!! Are you the type of person who likes to make last minute plans? Feeling restless at home and want to get out and see the world?

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Our last stop - Essaouira along the coast This blog post (the last from my Morocco trip) takes you to the last stop on my two week trek through the country.

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Portraits in the Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou I know..I know...yet another blog post from my Morocco trip in April! There were so many unique photo opportunities from this country that they lead to a wide variety of images that deserve their own…

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Visiting the city of Marrakesh for the first time! You can't go to Morocco and not visit the city of Marrakesh. This city is like one giant market, and so much more. There is also a ton to photograph there.

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Portraits and Camels in the Sahara Desert When visiting Morocco, you have to be prepared for a lot of driving, since the best places to visit are spread out across the country.

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Spending some time in the city of Fes On this trip, we ended up spending a day and a half in the city of Fes. In the last blog post, I shared images from the largest tannery in the city.

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: A must visit to the Chouara Tannery in Fes While in Fez, Morocco, we were told that one of the highlights of the city tour was a visit to the local tannery, where they process the hides from cows, sheep and other animals for leather products.

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: The Roman Ruins of Volubilis When you think of Morocco, I'll bet that you don't think of Roman ruins. I know that I didn't have that on my shot list for the visit, but was happily surprised to see some amazing ruins in…

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Visiting the "Blue City" of Chefchaoen! When working on the itinerary for the Morocco photo tour, I knew that the one city that would lend itself most to photography would be Chefchaoen, also known as Morocco's "Blue City".

Jeff CableReviewsMorocco Photo Tour: Visiting the capital city of Rabat After seeing the sights in Casablanca, our driver (Rachid) and guide (Ali) took us to the city of Rabat.

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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