Photo Review

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Photo ReviewReviewsNikon unveils Z5IIC full-frame camera The latest Nikon camera, the Z5IIC, has been designed for first-time mirrorless camera users and features intuitive, automatic shooting modes, although it lacks any kind of viewfinder.

September 25

Photo ReviewReviewsAngie Balzan named Grand Prize Winner in 2026 Spotlight Awards Malta-based photographer, Angie Balzan, has won the Grand Prize in the 2026 Spotlight Awards, which recognise outstanding talent across 14 categories of commercial photography and image creation.

September 23

Photo ReviewReviewsTamara Dean wins 2026 Bowness Photography Prize Tamara Dean has been named as winner of the 2026 Bowness Photography Prize for a work titled ‘Metamorphosis’ (2025), which was created in her purpose-built underwater studio.

September 17

Photo ReviewReviewsNew Panasonic Lumix S 20mm f/.2.5 lens Panasonic has announced the new Lumix S 20mm f/2.5 (S-S20) lens for its full-frame L-mount cameras, offering expansive perspectives in a compact and lightweight design.

September 17

Photo ReviewReviewsCanon’s new EOS R8 Mark II The anticipated second-generation EOS R8 Mark II is the lightest EOS with In-Body Image Stabilisation (IBIS), and features a 24.2-megapixel, full-frame CMOS sensor and Dual Pixel CMOS AF II.

September 16

Photo ReviewReviewsLatest CIPA data shows market decline for ILCs and lenses Monthly data for July 2026 from the Japanese Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) shows on-going declines in the interchangeable-lens camera and lenses markets though compacts stay strong.

September 11

Photo ReviewReviewsEntwined By Gail Hinshaw.

September 9

Photo ReviewReviewsWorkflow: How to handle large quantities of photographs The broad suite of workflow tools in Zoner Studio makes managing large uploads of images and videos straightforward.

September 9

Photo ReviewReviewsOM Digital Solutions launches PEN camera and kit lens OM System has released the first PEN series camera to bear the OM System brand, along with a new, third-generation M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 III standard zoom kit lens.

September 9

Photo ReviewReviewsOM System PEN camera The new PEN camera from OM System brings updated technologies and the series’ first dust- and splash-proof design to a take-anywhere camera for travel and everyday photography.

September 9

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