Puget Systems

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Puget SystemsSoftwareConsultant’s Corner: Custom Testing When a client had a specific use-case question we hadn't yet researched, our Performance Labs team jumped at the chance to find them answers.

11.05

Puget SystemsSoftwareHoudini Hardware Performance: CPU and GPU Benchmarks We tested a range of CPUs and GPUs to see which hardware makes the biggest performance difference across Houdini's simulation and rendering workflows.

10.29

Puget SystemsSoftwareUpdated Houdini Benchmark Testing Methodologies Our expanded benchmark for Houdini adds GPU simulations and rendering. Kelly outlines what each tests for and how they apply to real-world workflows.

10.28

Puget SystemsSoftwareState of ARM Support for Puget Bench The launch of the NVIDIA RTX Spark has inspired us to provide documentation about the state of Puget Bench for ARM devices.

10.22

Puget SystemsSoftwarePuget Systems at Supercomputing 2026 Stop by our booth from November 16th - 19th to meet the Puget Systems team and learn about our customized HPC workstations, servers, and storage systems.

10.16

Puget SystemsSoftwareBuilt Different – Episode 2 Form Studios: Virtual Production Without Limits

10.15

Puget SystemsSoftwareConsultant’s Corner: Network Attached Storage An existing customer needed to add shared storage that all of his team's workstations could access. A Synology DiskStation was the perfect fit.

10.08

Puget SystemsSoftwareNoctua’s Debut 240mm AIO Cooler Impresses Noctua's first entry into the all-in-one liquid-cooling market is the best AIO cooler we have seen, thanks to their expertise and partnership with Asetek

09.29

Puget SystemsSoftwareConsultant’s Corner: The DNA of Storage We were challenged to build a 1U server for running DNAfabric, so we collaborated with StorageDNA to find a compatible solution within our product line.

09.18

Puget SystemsSoftwareBest Professional GPUs For Topaz’s Starlight Models We tested the performance of current-generation professional graphics cards from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA with Topaz Video's Starlight models.

09.17

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