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PomfortSoftwareJust released: Check out Silverstack v9.4 Today, we released version 9.4 of Silverstack XT and Silverstack Lab! This version adds support for new camera formats and several other updates, including: Sony FX5 support: Work with clips from the…

11.03

PomfortSoftwareOperation look and color: Anton Badstuber’s DIT workflow for spy series The Agency (S2) The Agency follows CIA agent Martian (Michael Fassbender) as he navigates secret missions, international conflicts, and a life lived undercover.

09.24

PomfortSoftwarePomfort at IBC 2026 It was great seeing so many of you at IBC this year! For anyone who couldn’t make it, here’s a quick look back at what we had on display at the Pomfort booth: With Livegrade, we showcased the latest…

09.17

PomfortSoftwareServing looks at Paris Fashion Week with DIT Thomas Briant Macgregor and Livegrade In this Production Insight, DIT Thomas Briant Macgregor takes us front row at some of the biggest fashion shows in Paris!

09.10

PomfortSoftwareIn-house video production with Silverstack As brands and organizations continue to create ever more content across a wide range of channels, many have incorporated in-house studios into their production strategies.

09.02

PomfortSoftwareLivegrade frontier edition: Get early access to new features for film and live productions As Livegrade evolves, internal testing takes us far. But a feature’s true value is ultimately measured under real production conditions.

09.01

PomfortSoftwareMy VTR Setup: Kevin Binnemans Meet Brussels-based VTR Operator Kevin Binnemans, whose credits span television, commercials, feature films, and live productions.

08.06

PomfortSoftwareJust released: Check out Silverstack 9.3 Exciting news for the Silverstack community! Today, we released version 9.3 of Silverstack XT and Silverstack Lab.

07.21

PomfortSoftwareSky’s “Prisoner“: Inside a combined on-set DIT and overnight dailies workflow Prisoner is a Sky Original action series that follows prison transport officer Amber Todd after an ambush leaves her handcuffed to a dangerous inmate.

07.16

PomfortSoftwareJust released: Livegrade v7.2 is out now From exciting hardware integrations to monitoring and faster interaction, Livegrade 7.2 delivers a range of improvements designed to make your everyday work smoother and adapt more easily to…

07.07

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