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Lens And ShutterReviewsKodak Charmera review: a fun toy at the right price The Kodak Charmera makes sense as a tiny photo toy. Here are its real limits, card and charging needs, blind-box pitfalls, and our buying verdict.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsPanasonic ZS300 review: long zoom, no viewfinder A pocketable 15x zoom and 1-inch sensor make a strong travel case, but the fixed screen and missing viewfinder demand a careful buying decision.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsCanon R50 vs R100: Which Camera Kit Should You Buy? Choose between the Canon R50 and R100 using matching lens kits, your shooting needs and the total budget—not headline megapixels or body-only prices.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsFujifilm F200EXR Review: Is This Used Digicam Worth It? The Fujifilm F200EXR trades megapixels for better highlights and lower noise. See its real limits, exact battery and card needs, and what to check used.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsCanon EOS R8 Mark II Review: IBIS, Specs and Buying Advice Canon adds IBIS and an AF joystick, but keeps the small battery and single card slot. Our R8 Mark II launch review weighs the upgrades, lens choices and alternatives.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsMost Popular Digital Cameras in the US (2026) The most searched camera models in the US, new releases worth watching, and practical advice for choosing a compact, zoom or video camera.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsBest Canon Rebel T3i Lenses: 6 Smart Used Buys The best Canon Rebel T3i lenses for portraits, travel, wildlife, low light, and everyday photography—plus compatibility and used-buying advice.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsCanon T3i vs T7: Which Used DSLR Should You Buy? Canon T3i vs T7 compared for image quality, screens, video, autofocus and used value. See why the older T3i can be the smarter buy.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsNikon B500 vs B600: Which Used Superzoom Should You Buy? Nikon B500 vs B600 compared for zoom, screen, batteries, image quality, video, and used value. See which discontinued superzoom fits your photography.

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Lens And ShutterReviewsNikon B600 vs B700: Which Used Superzoom Should You Buy? Nikon B600 vs B700 compared for zoom, EVF, RAW, controls, video, battery life, and used value. See which 60x superzoom is the smarter buy.

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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