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LensVidVideoCanon Announces TC-N3 and TC-E3 Timer Remotes for Astrophotography and the Compact DM-E10D Hot-Shoe Mic Canon announced two new accessories on 4 November 2026: the TC-N3 and TC-E3 Timer Remote Controllers for astrophotography and time-lapse shooting, and the DM-E10D , a compact digital microphone for…

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LensVidVideoDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Adds Faster M5 Effects Rendering, MacBook Pro XDR Touch Screen Support and Gen 6 LUTs Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21.2 , an update to the Resolve 21 line that Blackmagic lists on its support page dated 5 November 2026.

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LensVidVideoCanon Announces Cinema EOS Firmware Update: Multi Matrix, High-Frame-Rate AF and More for C400, C80, C50 and R5 C Canon U.S.A. has announced a feature-rich firmware update for four of its Cinema EOS cameras: the EOS C400 , EOS C80 , EOS C50 and EOS R5 C .

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LensVidVideoNikon ZR Firmware 2.00 Preview: Log3G10 in H.265, Four-Level ISO NR, Black-Level Fix and LUT Over HDMI, Download Coming Soon Nikon has detailed firmware version 2.00 for the Nikon ZR , the full-frame Z CINEMA camera it released in October 2025.

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LensVidVideoGoPro Close-Up Filters Add Cinematic Background Blur to MISSION 1 Cameras GoPro has launched Close-Up Filters for its MISSION 1 and MISSION 1 PRO cameras. They are diopter filters, made by PolarPro, that slide over the lens (or over an ND filter) to add…

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LensVidVideoDeity PR-2ii Is a 55 g Pocket Recorder With 32-Bit Float, 20+ Hour Battery and IP54; B&H Lists a Lavalier Kit at $259 Deity Microphones has announced the PR-2ii , a pocket-sized recorder that succeeds the PR-2. Deity describes it as a wearable-first recorder with Tru32 Bit Float Dual ADC recording, a new dual-ADC…

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LensVidVideoGoPro MISSION 1 Series Gets Free Update: Zero-Lag Shutter and Continuous 50MP RAW Photos GoPro has released a free firmware update that changes how the MISSION 1 , MISSION 1 PRO and MISSION 1 PRO ILS shoot stills.

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LensVidVideoSigma 85mm f/1.2, Sony RM-DP5 & 7 Monitors & More from IBC 2026 Part 1 (LensVid Talk 57) Welcome to LensVid Talk, episode 57! In this first of two IBC 2026 episodes, we cover the lenses we saw at the show (Sigma, Viltrox, Sirui, NiSi, 7Artisans and Meike), the Pixboom Spark high-speed…

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LensVidVideoNikon NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S Is Official: A 2.8 Zoom with a Built-In 1.4x Teleconverter for $13,999.95 Nikon has launched the NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S , the lens it confirmed as under development in May.

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LensVidVideoSony Announces RIALTO 65: A 65mm-Class Sensor Camera Head for the VENICE 2 Sony has announced the RIALTO 65 Camera Extension System (model CBK-6510XS) for the VENICE 2 CineAlta camera.

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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