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PhotoxelsReviewsNikon Z5IIC Today, Nikon Canada announced the Z5IIC, a compact full-frame mirrorless camera based on the award-winning Z5II.

09.25

PhotoxelsReviewsCanon EOS R8 II Canon’s has updated its entry-level full-frame mirrorless camera, the EOS R8, with a Mark II version.

09.15

PhotoxelsReviewsOM SYSTEM PEN Features EVF, Dust & Splash Proof Design and Color & Monochrome Profile Control OM SYSTEM has announced its PEN micro four thirds mirrorless camera. While the iconic PEN name has a long legacy within the defunt Olympus camera brand, this is the first camera introduced with the…

09.10

PhotoxelsReviewsFujifilm FUJINON XF400mmF4.5 R LM OIS WR Fujifilm has introduced the XF400mm (equiv. 609mm) f/4.5 super-telephoto lens with 5.5 OIS. The reach extends to 560mm (equiv.

09.04

PhotoxelsReviewsNew OM SYSTEM PEN to Be Revealed on September 9 OM SYSTEM is poised to reveal its new micro four thirds mirrorless PEN camera on Wednesday, September 9 at 6:30 pm.

08.27

PhotoxelsReviewsSony FE 100-400mm F5.6-8 OSS Good news for Sony E mount camera owners looking for a low-cost telephoto lens. Sony has announced the FE 100-400mm F5.6-8 OSS, a super-telephoto 4x zoom lens for its full-frame and APS-C Alpha…

08.05

PhotoxelsReviewsLaowa Aksen 1-5X & 5-10X Ultra Macro APO Lenses Laowa has announced the Aksen series 1–5x (45mm f/2.8) and 5–10x (17.5mm f/1.7) Ultra Macro APO Lenses.

08.04

PhotoxelsReviewsSony Full-Frame Cinema Line FX5 Features RAW, Dual Gain Mode, Base ISO 800, 4000, 12800, Open Gate Sony has announced the full-frame FX5, an upgrade to the FX3 Cinema Line Camera, which is a compact, lightweight and professional quality camcorder targeted to the one-person cinematographer or video…

07.22

PhotoxelsReviewsTAMRON Announces 12-20mm F2.8 for Sony E and Nikon Z Mount PRESS RELEASE TAMRON 12-20mm F2.8 (Model A084) 12mm Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom, Unbelievably Compact Form for Sony E-mount and Nikon Z mount Full-Frame Mirrorless July 15, 2026, Commack, NY – TAMRON…

07.15

PhotoxelsReviewsSony Announces RX10 V All-in-One 25x Super Zoom Camera Sony has announced the RX10 V, its 5th generation All-in-One Super Zoom camera. With its 24-600mm (equiv.) F2.4-4.0 25x optical zoom fixed lens with built-in optical image stabilization, the RX10 V…

07.09

PhotoxelsReviewsLeica SL3-P The Leica SL3-P full-frame mirrorless camera features 44 MP on a BSI sensor, 176 MP Multishot Mode, a new hybrid AF system combining three focus technologies (phase detection (PDAF), depth mapping…

06.25

PhotoxelsReviewsSony A7R VI Sony has announced the A7R VI, featuring a 66.8MP back-illuminated fully-stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor with up to 16 stops of dynamic range and reduced noise in the mid-sensitivity range; 5-axis image…

05.14

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