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Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica M EV1 Summilux Kits Offer Savings Up to $1,250 Today, Leica has launched a new promotion on the recently introduced Leica M EV1, offering savings of up to $1,250 when purchasing the camera together with one of two silver-finish Summilux-M lenses.

09.10

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Introduces Summicron-M 66 f/2 Limited Edition Homage to a Rare Cold War Spy Lens Today, Leica has announced the Summicron-M 66 f/2, a modern reinterpretation of one of the rarest and most unusual lenses in Leica history.

09.03

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Life Lessons Today, August 19th, is World Photography Day, marking the day in 1839 that one of the earliest forms of photography and the first to be publicly available was announced: the Daguerreotype.

08.19

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Releases Firmware Update v2.6.4 for M11, M11-P, M11 Monochrom, M11-D and M EV1 Today, Leica has released a new firmware update for the M11 family, including the M11, M11-P, M11 Monochrom, M11-D and the M EV1.

08.10

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Firmware Update for M10 Generation Cameras Leica has issued new, updated firmware for the entire range of Leica M10-generation cameras, including the M10-R, M10-P, M10 Monochrom, NS M10.

08.10

Red Dot ForumRumoursFirmware Update 4.2.0 for Leica SL3 and SL3-S Today, Leica has released Firmware Version 4.2.0 for both the Leica SL3 and SL3-S, delivering a substantial update with a strong emphasis on video functionality, autofocus enhancements, and overall…

06.25

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH: A Compact Lens with Character Today, Leica is expanding the SL lens lineup with the introduction of the new Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH.

06.25

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica SL3-P: 44MP, Advanced Autofocus, 40 FPS and 8K Open Gate Video Today, Leica has announced the new SL3-P, the latest addition to the SL-System. Pairing a newly developed 44MP full-frame BSI CMOS sensor with Leica’s fastest autofocus system yet, the SL3-P offers…

06.25

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Introduces the APO-Macro-Elmarit-SL 100 f/2.8 Today, Leica is expanding the SL lens lineup with the introduction of the APO-Macro-Elmarit-SL 100 f/2.8.

06.25

Red Dot ForumRumoursLeica Introduces New Metal Gray Paint Finish Today, Leica is expanding its lineup of available finish options with the introduction of a new Metal Gray Paint colorway across select cameras and lenses.

05.28

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