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LenstipReviewsSamyang AF 24-60 mm f/2.8 FE - lens review We invite you to read our latest lens review. This time, we have taken a close look at the optical and mechanical properties of the Samyang AF 24-60mm f/2.8 FE, a model developed in collaboration…

LenstipReviewsSirui Aurora 35 mm f/1.4 - lens review We invite you to read our latest lens review. This time, we took a close look at the Sirui Aurora 35 mm f/1.4, designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras with Sony FE, Nikon Z, and L-mounts.

LenstipReviewsViltrox AF 55 mm f/1.8 EVO - lens review We invite you all to read another lens test. This time, our procedures focused on a full-frame lens with classic, standard parameters: the Viltrox AF 55 mm f/1.8 EVO.

LenstipReviewsSigma A 35 mm f/1.4 DG II - lens review We're continuing our mini marathon of classic 35 mm lens tests. This time, we've taken a closer look at the optical and mechanical properties of the Sigma A 35 mm f/1.4 DG II. So, read on!

LenstipReviewsSirui Aurora 85 mm f/1.4 - sample shots The next Sirui lens we used for our sample shots was the Aurora 85 mm f/1.4. We invite you to view our photo gallery.

LenstipReviewsSirui Aurora 35 mm f/1.4 - sample shots We invite you to view a gallery of sample images taken with the Sirui Aurora 35 mm f/1.4 lens attached to a Sony A7R V. All images are JPEG files straight from the camera.

LenstipReviewsVilitrox AF 35 mm f/1.8 EVO - lens review We warmly invite you to read another review of a Viltrox lens from the recently introduced EVO series. This time, the Viltrox AF 35 mm f/1.8 EVO is on our grid.

LenstipReviewsSigma C 15 mm f/1.4 DC - lens review Welcome to another lens review. This time, we take a closer look at a wide-angle, non-full-frame f/1.4 lens: the new Sigma C 15 mm f/1.4 DC.

LenstipReviewsSony FE 100-400 mm f/4.5 GM - sample shots We invite you to view a gallery of sample images taken with the recently announced Sony FE 100-400 mm f/4.5 GM OSS lens. We paired it with the A7R VI and A1 II cameras.

LenstipReviewsViltrox AF 55 mm f/1.8 EVO - sample shots We invite you to view a gallery of sample images we took with the Viltrox AF 55 mm f/1.8 EVO lens attached to the Sony A7R V camera. All shots are JPEG files straight from the camera.

LenstipReviewsCanon RF 20-50 mm f/4L IS USM PZ - sample shots We invite you to browse the gallery of sample photos taken with the 4/20-50 zoom presented today, connected to the Canon R5 Mark II.

LenstipReviewsNikkor Z 24-70 mm f/2.8 S II - lens review In August 2025, Nikon decided to present the second edition of its classic 24-70 mm f/2.8 photojournalistic lens. We're talking, of course, about the Nikkor Z 24-70 mm f/2.8 S II.

LenstipReviewsSigma C 15 mm f/1.4 DC - sample shots We invite you to view sample images taken with the Sigma C 15 mm f/1.4 DC lens attached to a Sony A6700 camera.

LenstipReviewsVilitrox AF 35 mm f/1.8 EVO - sample shots Today we invite you to view a gallery of sample images taken with another 35 mm lens: the Vilitrox AF 35 mm f/1.8 EVO, attached to the Sony A7R V camera.

LenstipReviewsSigma A 35 mm f/1.4 DG II - sample shots We invite you to view a gallery of sample images taken with the Sigma A 35 mm f/1.4 DG II lens attached to the Sony A7R V camera. All shots are JPEG files straight from the camera.

LenstipReviewsViltrox AF 50 mm f/1.4 Pro - lens review Welcome to another review of a classic 1.4/50 lens. This time, we took a closer look at the optical and mechanical properties of the Viltrox AF 50 mm f/1.4 Pro, which we tested on the Nikon Z mount.

LenstipReviewsSamyang AF 24-60 mm f/2.8 FE - sample shots We invite you to view a gallery of sample images taken with the Samyang AF 24-60 mm f/2.8 FE lens attached to the Sony A7R V camera. All images are JPEG files straight from the camera.

LenstipReviewsSigma A 35 mm f/1.2 DG II - lens review Welcome to another review of a full-frame 1.2/35 lens. This time, we took a closer look at the second version of Sigma's lens, the Sigma A 35 mm f/1.2 DG II.

LenstipReviewsViltrox AF 50 mm f/1.4 Pro - sample shots We invite you to view a gallery of sample images taken with the Viltrox AF 50 mm f/1.4 Pro lens attached to a Nikon Z8 camera. All images are JPEG files straight from the camera.

LenstipReviewsVoigtlander Apo Lanthar 28 mm f/2 Aspherical - lens review It's been a while since we've reviewed a manual lens. We're making up for it and inviting you to read our review of the Voigtlander Apo Lanthar 28 mm f/2 Aspherical lens.

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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