Light Stalking

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Light StalkingReviewsWhy Photographers Should Try A Long Lens In The Big City Telephoto or super-telephoto lenses are objects of desire for many of us. The sight of huge barrels and expansive glass is enough to make even Scrooge think of raiding his piggy bank.

11.05

Light StalkingReviewsOctober 2026 Photo Contest Winners: The Art of the Detail The art of the detail in photography is a great way to creatively photograph closer details of grand views or subjects, that usually go unnoticed.

11.04

Light StalkingReviewsDrone Photography Tips: Better Composition, Lighting and Angles There's a common myth in drone photography where users will assume that getting the drone higher automatically produces better photos.

10.20

Light StalkingReviewsSeptember 2026 Photo Contest Winners: Decisive Moments September's photo competition had submissions ranging from sports, to wildlife, street and simple backyard moments.

10.15

Light StalkingReviewsGetty Images Bankrupt! In staggering news from several sources, the famous Getty Images is applying for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and planning to go private.

10.13

Light StalkingReviewsDynamics of Colour Photo Contest Winners One of the interesting things about the entries in this month's colour theme of “the dynamics of colour” is that so many of the strongest entries chose to use a single colour to draw the reader's…

09.25

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