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Professional PhotoCultureBags Review: Bags of Potential Pro Photo Mag: Looking for the perfect camera bag? We take a closer look at the latest releases from Shimoda, Lowepro, Peli and Think Tank, exploring their design, storage capacity, protection and…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Business: Should I Put Prices on my Website Pro Photo Mag: Should professional photographers display their prices on their websites? Web designer Alex Vita explains why pricing transparency matters, how it influences potential clients and why…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Talk Books – Sharing the Flora Pro Photo Mag: Karen Harvey MBE has long been obsessed with photography, and is determined to help others who similarly love the art to get into print and share their work.

Professional PhotoCultureWEX Photo Video – Sign up for Second Hand! Pro Photo Mag: Budgets are tight these days and a close eye has to be kept on the cashflow, but you can still afford to invest in the latest technology by using Wex Photo Video’s simple and risk-free…

Professional PhotoCultureSpecial offer: Save 50% on PermaJet Inkjet Paper Test Packs! Pro Photo Mag: Take advantage of our specially negotiated 50% off offer that makes PermaJet’s extensive selection of test packs even more of a stellar deal, but hurry since this exclusive discount is…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Talk – Canon Lenses on Safari Pro Photo Mag: When Michael O’Sullivan was planning an epic photographic safari to Kenya earlier this year, he needed to consider which lenses to travel with, and he settled on a selection of Canon…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Photo Podcast: Divers, East River 1948 Pro Photo Mag: This month’s classic image being discussed by Cambridge was shot by Arthur Leipzig, and depicts three young men diving into New York’s East River in the summer of 1948.

Professional PhotoCulturePro Lighting Masterclass: Lighting Tall, Elegant Subjects Pro Photo Mag: Portrait subjects come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s important to have a strategy for coping for each and every one of them.

Professional PhotoCulturePro Talk Books: Remembering Giraffes Pro Photo Mag: The Remembering Wildlife series of books has raised huge amounts of money, along with the profile, of many of our most cherished species, and the latest volume celebrates the graceful…

Professional PhotoCultureRoyal Navy Photographers – Life on the Front Line Pro Photo Mag: It may come as a surprise to some to realise that each section of the UK Armed Forces maintains its own internal photographic branch, with a remit to cover everything from standard PR…

Professional PhotoCultureWEX Photo Video – Add Motion to Your Mix! Pro Photo Mag: For many professional creatives the arrival of competitively-priced hybrid kit, coupled with an increasing demand from clients for video, has created a host of fresh opportunities.

Professional PhotoCulturePro Talk – Richard Bradbury – Shooting a Supercar Pro Photo Mag: If you were to conceive a dream assignment the chances are that it might include a hands-on session with a supercar, the opportunity to drive it around some of the most beautiful…

Professional PhotoCultureWEX Photo Video – Food for Thought Pro Photo Mag: If you’re looking to discover the secrets of how to create truly mouth-watering images of food then tune in to Wex, where you’ll find some inspirational how-to videos from leading…

Professional PhotoCultureThe Lisa Devlin Column – Build your Bookings Pro Photo Mag: Describing herself as an accidental educator, Lisa looks back at the reasons why she first decided to set up Photography Farm and examines the question she’s always been asked more…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Awards: Celebrating Event Photography Pro Photo Mag: Professional Photo Editor Terry Hope was one of the judges for the twelfth annual Event Photography Awards 2026, a competition that aims to highlight excellence in this testing and…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Photo Podcast: Bill Biggart and 9/11 Pro Photo Mag: The poignant twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 bombings has just been marked, and Cambridge is looking at the dramatic images taken by American photographer Bill Biggart on…

Professional PhotoCulturePro Talk: Jillian Edelstein – A Touch of Stardust Pro Photo Mag: The inaugural exhibition in the new gallery space at the Hundred Heroines Museum is devoted to the women who shaped the image of celebrity throughout the twentieth century, and one of…

Professional PhotoCultureCanon introduces the EOS R8 Mark II Pro Photo Mag: The latest EOS to join the Canon stable is a lightweight full-frame camera with a particular focus on those on the move, which is designed to sit between the R8 and the R6 Mark II.

Professional PhotoCultureFull Review: Evoto AI Pro Photo Mag: If you’re running a small business and are burdened by the time-consuming requirement to stay on top of your post-processing chores, then AI-driven software packages can offer some…

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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