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ProCamera blogReviewsOne Week with the new iPhone 18 Pro: Exploring Variable Aperture with ProCamera v27.0 Explore what the iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture means for your photos and videos and how ProCamera v27.0 puts this new creative control at your fingertips.

09.30

ProCamera blogReviewsWhat’s New in ProCamera v26.3 – Photo Stacks, Timelapse Export, New Gallery, Aperture Control, Constant ISO Bracketing ProCamera v26.3 introduces Photo Stacks, Timelapse Export, New Gallery, Aperture Control, Constant ISO Bracketing and more!

09.04

ProCamera blogReviewsWhat’s New in ProCamera v26.2 – Smart Portraits, File Format Display, Studio Redesign, New Supported Devices ProCamera v26.2 introduces Smart Depth for beautiful depth blur, a studio redesign, new file format display and more

03.20

ProCamera blogReviewsWhat’s New in ProCamera v26.1 – AirPod microphone, External Storage, Log 2, ProRes RAW and more! Big update to end the year with a bang: Video pros get faster setup and new high-end formats, while photo enthusiasts gain a powerful external-drive workflow for their iPhone.

2025.12.19

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