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MacfilosReviewsThe M Files (32): Thypoch Simera 28/1.4 review — the universal rangefinder wide-angle? Episode 32 of the M Files puts the Thypoch Simera 28/1.4 from a young Chinese manufacturer to the test: a fast, compact and affordable M-Mount wide-angle with impressive optics and a few handling…

11.06

MacfilosReviewsLeica Store London Mayfair: Snaps from the opening Snaps from this morning's opening of Leica Store London Mayfair at 14 Dover Street, where the Leica board cut the ribbon, William Klein fills the gallery, and the shop feels more like a club.

11.05

MacfilosReviewsViltrox Air 40mm Review: Leica Q3 43 field of view on a budget The Viltrox Air 40mm f/2.5 offers an impressive optical performance for a budget lens, and an inexpensive way for L-Mount shooters to add the unusual focal length of the Leica Q3 43 to their kit.

11.05

MacfilosReviewsTTArtisan 40mm review: the perfect all-rounder for L-Mount photographers? Ed Lara spends a few weeks with the TTArtisan AF 40mm f/2 on his Leica SL3-S, weighing its compact metal build and aperture ring against sharper L-Mount rivals from Viltrox and Panasonic.

11.04

MacfilosReviewsVintage Digital Cameras: The point-and-shoot revival Noughties digital compacts and classic film cameras are selling for surprising sums, driven by young buyers tired of smartphone perfection.

11.03

MacfilosReviewsLeica opens new London flagship store in Dover Street Leica's new UK flagship opens at 14 Dover Street, Mayfair, with four floors of products, a basement gallery and 14 hand-engraved King Nerd M-A cameras going on sale on 5 November.

11.02

MacfilosReviewsPanasonic Lumix S 100-500mm review: Full reach, light weight Ed Lara reviews his experience shifting from two solid-performing Sigma zooms to the latest L-mount telephoto zoom. Has it proven better?

10.30

MacfilosReviewsGetty Images bankruptcy: Not dead, just going private Getty Images has filed for Chapter 11 and will leave the stock market. Why its customers stopped buying, where the money went, and what remains of the picture-licensing business.

10.29

MacfilosReviewsAll in a Day’s Work: Out and about with the Leica M10-P Ed Lara takes his Leica M10-P off the shelf for a day of shooting around his neighborhood, Manhattan streets, and an evening event, and finds it changes what he sees as much as how he shoots.

10.28

MacfilosReviewsCIPA August 2026: Compacts surge as full frame slumps CIPA's August figures show camera shipments down 3.2% this year as their value rises 3.7%. We look at the full-frame slump, the compact boom, rising prices and the outlook for 2026.

10.27

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