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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 01-Nov-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 01 November 2026

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NikoniansReviewsMonthly Update 26-Oct-2026 The latest Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 26 October 2026

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NikoniansReviewsBehind the Image - Cymatics experiment Cymatics Experiment by Andy Ilachinski (ilachina)

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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 25-Oct-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 25 October 2026

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NikoniansReviewsThe challenge of Nikonians Photo Assignments Would you like a challenging way to expand your photography, to try something new?

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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 18-Oct-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 18 October 2026

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NikoniansReviewsBehind the Image - Farm Entrance in the Fall Farm Entrance in the Fall by Koos Erasmus (Rassie)

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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 11-Oct-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 11 October 2026

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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 04-Oct-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 04 October 2026

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NikoniansReviewsBehind the Image - Cloud of Long Life Cloud of Long Life by Laura Jean Zito (auracle)

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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 27-Sep-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 27 September 2026

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NikoniansReviewsMonthly Update 26-Sep-2026 The latest Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 26 September 2026

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NikoniansReviewsWeekly Update 20-Sep-2026 This weeks Editor's Choice images and top discussions at Nikonians - 20 September 2026

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NikoniansReviewsBehind the Image - The Aurora The Aurora by Richard Kendrick (Dockmure)

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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