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NewsshooterCinemaTilta Khronos OPPO Find X10 Pro Max Creator Kit Tilta has unveiled the Khronos Creator Kit for the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max. The Khronos lineup comes with the camera cage-inspired smartphone case that was built to shield your phone from daily wear…

NewsshooterCinemaLaowa 24mm f/2 Zero-D TILT-SHIFT Laowa has unveiled its new 24mm f/2 Zero-D TILT-SHIFT, which at least to me knowledge, is the fastest tilt-shift lens ever made for any format.

NewsshooterCinemaFxFactory PhotoAwake 3D for Final Cut Pro FxFactory PhotoAwake 3D for Final Cut Pro is a plug-in that can transform flat, 2D still photographs into immersive 3D-style scenes using AI-driven depth mapping and parallax camera movements.

NewsshooterCinemaAvid Pro Tools 2026.11 Avid has released Pro Tools 2026.11, which features AI-powered stem separation and a new Extensions format that brings third-party sound libraries and creative tools directly into Pro Tools.

NewsshooterCinemaiZotope Photon GPU-powered audio processing software iZotope has announced Photon, GPU-powered audio processing software that features 12 machine learning models and performs high-speed processing for noise removal and audio separation.

NewsshooterCinemaNew Bluetooth HDT Standard A new Bluetooth HDT Standard that provides approximately four times the data transfer rate, increased capacity, better energy efficiency, and enhanced reliability has been officially approved.

NewsshooterCinemaSony FX6 Firmware Update Ver. 6.02 Sony has released the FX6 Firmware Update Ver. 6.02. This is a small update that fixed an issue where, in very rare cases, if an error occurred in one media slot during simultaneous recording from…

NewsshooterCinemaAtomos AtomOS 11.08.01 Firmware Update for Shinobi 7 II The Atomos AtomOS 11.08.01 Firmware Update for the Shinobi 7 II adds Ethernet camera control support for the following cameras: The new firmware update allows you to connect a Canon Cinema EOS C50…

NewsshooterCinemaDJI Osmo Pocket 4P Firmware V01.02.1149 Adds 18x Zoom, Smoother Lens Switching, and Stage and Sunset Presets DJI has started rolling out firmware V01.02.1149 for the dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4P. It is the largest update the camera has received since its June launch.

NewsshooterCinemaSave $150 USD on the SmallRig x Potato Jet TRIBEX SE Hydraulic Aluminum Alloy Tripod Kit You can save $150 USD on the SmallRig x Potato Jet TRIBEX SE Hydraulic Aluminum Alloy Tripod Kit and purchase it for $249.99 USD.

NewsshooterCinemaARRI Reference Tool CMD 1.1.0 ARRI Reference Tool CMD 1.1.0 is now available. The latest version of ART CMD brings new features for on-set and post workflows.

NewsshooterCinemaCanon DM-E10D Compact Supercardioid Microphone for Multi-Shoe Cameras Canon has unveiled its new DM-E10D Compact Supercardioid Microphone, which was designed to offer an upgrade over built-in camera audio in an ultracompact, lightweight form.

NewsshooterCinemaBlackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 21.2 Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21.2, which adds touchscreen support for the Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, up to 5x faster effects rendering on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips…

NewsshooterCinemaPortkeys OVF-Z380 Optical Viewfinder for Sony PXW-Z380/Z300 Camcorders Portkeys has released the OVF-Z380, an optical viewfinder loupe for the Sony PXW-Z380 camcorder, which is sold as the PXW-Z300 in some markets.

NewsshooterCinemaNikon ZR Firmware Version 2.00 Nikon has announced Firmware Version 2.00 for the Nikon ZR. The biggest new addition is arguably the ability to use Log3G10 gamma when recording in H.265, and finally you will get focus peaking when…

NewsshooterCinemaCanon EOS C400, EOS C80 & EOS C50 Firmware Updates Canon has announced upcoming new firmware updates for its Cinema EOS range, including the EOS C400, EOS C80 and EOS C50.

NewsshooterCinemaAdobe adds licensed UMG and Warner Music tracks to Premiere Mobile Adobe has announced a licensing deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) that will put commercial music from both labels inside Premiere Mobile, Adobe’s free video editing…

NewsshooterCinemaSave $500 USD on the Sachtler aktiv8T flowtech75 MS Tripod System You can save $500 USD on the Sachtler aktiv8T flowtech75 MS Tripod System and purchase it for $2,496 USD.

NewsshooterCinemaTARION Titanrig Foldable Production Cart (Base Model, Black) on sale for $299.99 USD The TARION Titanrig Foldable Production Cart (Base Model, Black) is on sale for $299.99 USD, which is a discount of $150 USD.

NewsshooterCinemaDeity has released the PR-2ii Pocket Recorder Deity Microphones has released the PR-2ii, the second generation of its PR-2 pocket recorder. The PR-2ii is now available at B&H for $259 USD with a lavalier microphone included.

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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