Phillip Reeve

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Phillip ReeveReviewsGuest Post: Projector Lenses – A Drug of Choice Introduction To paraphrase a fellow photographer from a forum – if you want the real crazy bokeh, projection lenses are the drug of choice.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsReview: Sirui Vision Prime 15mm T1.6 (Cine Lens) Introduction Today, we’re looking at the Sirui Vision Prime 15mm T1.6, an ultra-wide-angle cine lens with an impressive maximum T-stop of T1.6.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsReview: Viltrox AF 35mm 1.4 Pro FE Introduction Viltrox AF 35mm 1.4 Pro FE on Sony A7rII Viltrox offers several different lens lineups: positioned at the top is the “LAB” series, slightly below that the “Pro” series.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsREVIEW: 7Artisans AF 10mm F2.5 MAX – Fisheye FF Introduction In the last 12 months, I have tested several 7Artisans AF lenses, and I have been pleasantly surprised every time. Most recently, I tested their amazing 135mm f/1.8 MAX.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsNovember / Black Friday Deals 2026 Introduction Christmas is around the corner so everyone wants to sell their goods in November. The industry came up with a bunch of stuff like Single’s Day and Black Friday and many camera and lens…

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Phillip ReeveReviewsAnalogue Adventures – Part 58: Adox Color Mission 200 C-41 Adox Color Misson 200 Adox Color Mission 200 is apparently some old film stock which is being sold by a shop in Germany. I wasn’t overly happy with most of the films with a similar background.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsReview: Nikon Z 35mm 1.2 S Nikkor Introduction Nikon Z 35mm 1.2 S Nikkor on Nikon Zf While Sigma already released a 35mm 1.2 fullframe AF lens in 2019, until early 2025 none of the three major camera manufacturers had a lens matching…

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Phillip ReeveReviewsREVIEW: SIRUI AURORA 35mm F1.4 Introduction Sirui entered the AF stills lens market in 2023, after having already established itself with a range of anamorphic lenses.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsREVIEW: Zhiyun FIVERAY M60 Ultra & Molus X100 RGB Introduction Many photographers use their still cameras, or sometimes dedicated video cameras to record video as well.

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Phillip ReeveReviewsPrime Day Photoshop+Lightroom offer for Amazon Prime Members (EU/UK) | Update: also at B&H It is Prime Day again so a good opportunity to stock up on Lightroom or Lightroom+Photoshop licenses.

10.07

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