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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsFall Photo & Video Expo: November 19–22, 2026 Our Fall Photo and Video Expo is Coming to ALL Colorado and Northern California locations – And Black Friday Savings will be in effect along with

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsNovember’s imaging special: Custom greeting cards & ornaments This month, we’re offering more merry, twice the cheer. Yes, it’s already that time of the year! Take 20% (that’s one fifth!) off the price

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsThe NIKKOR Z 120–300 f/2.8 TC VR S is built for the field Billed as “the ultimate expression of a professional super-telephoto zoom lens,” the just-announced NIKKOR Z 120–300 f/2.8 TC VR S promises the quality expected…

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsWider. Brighter. Lighter. Tamron’s latest lens is coming soon to Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, and Canon APS-C mirrorless cameras all around the world! The 16–50mm f/2.8 A is small,

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsFresh Sigma glass, fresh perspective Two new lenses from Sigma cater to two very different… focuses. Ready to shake up the way you see things? 50–120mm f/2.8 DC OS |

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsEarly bird savings on custom photo calendars are BACK Every day, faster and faster, die Zeit rennt; time is blasting through the cosmic fire hose and slipping through our collective fingers no matter how

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsCapture the spark—introducing the Nikon Z5IIC Sometimes, those special moments in life (both the ordinary and the exceptional) just… click. You know them when you see them, and you need a

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsThe new LUMIX S 20mm f/2.5 is a compact tool to capture more of every scene Panasonic’s latest L-mount lens offers a dynamic wide angle and bright aperture in a compact and totable frame. The LUMIX S 20mm f/2.5 will be

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsThe Canon EOS R8 Mark II was created to explore Canon’s newest full-frame EOS body is the lightest-weight EOS camera yet released with in-body image stabilization! Available in late October, the EOS R8 Mark…

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Mike's Camera BlogReviewsExplore freely with twin telephoto titans Serious reach is coming to portable packages near you: at a fraction of both the cost and heft of their f/2.8 and f/4 versions—but retaining

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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