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PetaPixelReviewsGlyph Continues Its Expansion into Creator Support with New Card Readers Earlier this year, Glyph pushed hard into the creator space with the launch of new SSDs and a line of CFexpress memory cards. It is continuing that trend with the announcement of memory card readers.

PetaPixelReviewsStare Straight Into Your Subject’s Soul With This Strange New Camera South Korean consumer electronics startup Lutra Inc. has launched a camera brand, Humans of Authenticity (HOA). HOA's first camera, the HOA A1, looks weird as hell.…

PetaPixelReviewsIt’s Interesting That Neither Sony Nor Tamron Have Said Anything Regarding Acquisition In late July, news broke that Sony was trying to acquire Tamron, a fact Tamron itself confirmed shortly after. However, since then, it's been crickets. [

PetaPixelReviewsNat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory Deeply Cares About the Wolves He Has Followed for Seven Years In National Geographic's newest television program, Wolves Up Close With Bertie Gregory, the eponymous British wildlife filmmaker, acclaimed photographer, and ardent environmentalist heads to Hudson…

PetaPixelReviewsPixelMeter Now Lets You Compare Specs and Scores on Cameras and Lenses PixelMeter, the first and only review aggregator for cameras, lenses, smartphones, and more, has been updated with the most-requested feature since it launched last month: the ability to directly…

PetaPixelReviewsWandrd Magnetic Camera Straps Review: A Substantive Reinvention of the Humble Camera Strap? Camera straps are one of those accessories that don't always get much attention until something about them becomes inconvenient.

PetaPixelReviewsWandrd Reimagined the Magnetic Camera Strap Wandrd's new Magnetic Camera Strap System is now available, bringing a redesigned approach to how photographers attach and switch camera straps. [

PetaPixelReviewsThe Fifty: VSCO Reveals the Final 25 Photographers in Its Nationwide Billboard Exhibition VSCO has announced the second half of its The Fifty campaign, a nationwide billboard-based exhibition that is celebrating one photographer in every U.S.

PetaPixelReviewsCamp Snap CS-8 Mini Brings Super 8 Retro Video Vibes to Smaller Hands Camp Snap is looping back around to its original target market with a miniaturized version of the CS-8 camcorder it launched last year that more easily fits into a child's hand.

PetaPixelReviewsSony World Photography Awards Honors James Barnor, Ghana’s First Photojournalist The Sony World Photography Awards and the World Photography Organization have revealed that photographer James Barnor is the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography title at the Sony…

PetaPixelReviewsWho Is Responsible for a Camera’s Failure? When news broke that French digital rangefinder maker Pixii had entered liquidation, the response across the photography community was swift and, for PetaPixel, surprisingly personal.…

PetaPixelReviewsApple M5 Max MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Review: Don’t Touch It Apple's new, highest-end MacBook Pro diverged from the last few launches in that it didn't focus on performance at all, but rather leaned on a feature the company famously said would never come to…

PetaPixelReviewsiMac With M6 Review: The Best All-in-One Computer for Photographers The updated iMac with M6 may not bring a new design, display, or major new features, but it is still a competent, straightforward Mac with a lot to offer. [

PetaPixelReviewsThe Laowa 24mm f/2 Zero-D Tilt-Shift Is the Fastest Tilt-Shift Lens Ever Laowa has officially announced the 24mm f/2 Zero-D Tilt-Shift lens. Built for architectural and commercial photography, the full-frame lens also works on Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad XCD medium-format…

PetaPixelReviewsOne Dead and Two Critically Injured After a Helicopter Crashed During a Photography Flight One person has been killed while two others were injured after a helicopter crashed during a photography flight in Miami, Florida. [

PetaPixelReviewsThe Art of the Panoramic Aspect Ratio Panoramic compositions offer another way to present a scene, preserving its horizontal breadth and giving the frame a different sense of scale, movement, and visual balance.

PetaPixelReviewsThe Motorola Signature 27 Has a Dedicated Action Sensor and Ludicrously Bright Screen Motorola debuted its brand new flagship phone, the Signature 27, at Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit in September.

PetaPixelReviewsCanon Announces Timer Remotes for Astrophotographers and a Compact Hotshoe Mic Alongside new Cinema EOS firmware, Canon has announced some new accessories for its mirrorless EOS R System cameras, including timer remote controllers and a hotshoe microphone.…

PetaPixelReviewsOM System Almost Considered Making Full Frame Cameras | The PetaPixel Podcast This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Sarah Teng and Chris Niccolls debate toy cameras: should they exist?

PetaPixelReviewsCanon Technology Used to Perform World’s First Coral ‘Pregnancy Test’ Coral Spawning International (CSI), in partnership with Canon Medical Systems UK and Canon EMEA, has successfully conducted the world’s first ultrasound scan of living coral to identify developing…

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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