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SLR LoungeReviewsFall Photoshoot Ideas and Inspiration from Award Winning Photographers As the leaves start to change color and the weather starts to get cooler, it’s time to think about your fall photoshoot ideas!

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SLR LoungeReviewsThe Best Lens Rental Services As a passionate photographer, you know that capturing those perfect shots often requires the right equipment.

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SLR LoungeReviewsAftershoot Black Friday 2026: 25% Off Annual Plans for the First 500 Buyers, Then 20% Off Aftershoot has launched its Black Friday 2026 sale, taking 25% off all annual plans for the first 500 customers and 20% off once those early bird seats are gone.

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SLR LoungeReviewsDxO ViewPoint 6 Review | Many Giant Leaps For Lens Corrections If you’ve ever taken a photo with any kind of distortion present, you’ll understand the frustrations I am about to describe… Sometimes it is merely the classic “vanishing point” distortion present in…

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SLR LoungeReviewsProfoto Black Friday deals at a glance Profoto’s Black Friday 2026 promotion runs November 1–30, with 25% off the L600C and L600D LED lights and all three Hybrid Workflow Kits, $100 off the A10, A2 and A2 Connect Kit, and a free Connect…

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SLR LoungeReviewsProfessional Lighting for YouTube or Podcast Sets in 4 Easy Steps If you’re thinking about starting up a video podcast or YouTube channel, you’re going to want to learn how to make your set (shooting space) look its best.

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SLR LoungeReviews3 Photography on Black Background Tips A black background in combination with dark colored clothing on the subject creates a powerful, moody and dramatic feeling.

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SLR LoungeReviewsPhotography Contract Template (Updated) By popular request, we’re providing you with a Free Photography Contract. It’s written primarily as a wedding photographer contract, but it can be used as an event photography contract as well.

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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