Sony Addict

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Sony AddictRumoursSony Released An Approx. 50-Effective Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Mobile Applications Sony Semiconductor Solutions to Release Approx. 50-Effective Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Mobile Applications With Superb Low-Light Performance and 4K HDR Video Recording Delivering top-tier…

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Sony AddictRumoursSony Savings Return Sony Alpha 1 II (Save $200): B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama Sony a9III (Save $400): B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama Sony a7RV (Save $300): B&H Photo / Amazon / / Adorama Sony a7IV (Save $500): B&H Photo /…

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Sony AddictRumoursLT: Viltrox AF 26mm f/2.8 EVO FE Review – Excellent Image Resolution At The Center Viltrox AF 26mm f/2.8 EVO FE: B&H Photo / Amazon Lens Tips published its full review of the Viltrox AF 26mm f/2.8 EVO FE, which you can read here or check out the excerpt below: Pros: solid, mostly…

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Sony AddictRumoursSony RIALTO 65 Medium Format Video Camera Announced Sony RIALTO 65: B&H Photo Sony Electronics to Launch RIALTO 65 Camera Extension System, Expanding the VENICE 2 Camera to the 65mm Format Sony Electronics will launch the RIALTO 65 Camera Extension…

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Sony AddictRumoursViltrox Launches AF 35mm F1.4 Pro Viltrox AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro: B&H Photo / Amazon Viltrox Launches AF 35mm F1.4 Pro FE/Z A professional-grade large aperture lens with fast, quiet autofocus, and all-weather durability — Every Moment…

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Sony AddictRumoursGodox TT350 II S Thinklite TTL Flash for Sony Godox TT350 II S Thinklite TTL Flash for Sony: B&H Photo / Amazon Godox has announced the upgraded TT350II ThinkLite TTL, a compact yet powerful flash featuring a new menu interface, new focus assist…

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Sony AddictRumoursZhongyi Optics AF 35mm f/1.4 Coming October 25th The Zhongyi Optics AF 35mm F1.4 is expected to be announced for E-mount on October 25th for 2999 yuan or 449.08 USD.

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Sony AddictRumoursTopaz Labs 50% Off Sale: Push Your Sony Alpha Stills and Video Further Topaz Labs is currently running a massive 50% off promotion across its industry-leading AI photo and video enhancement suite.

10.24

Sony AddictRumoursSigma 50mm f/1.4 CL DG | Contemporary Press Release Sigma 50mm f/1.4 CL DG | Contemporary: B&H Photo / Amazon Sigma Corporation (Headquarters: Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, CEO: Kazuto Yamaki) is pleased to announce the Sigma 50mm F1.4 CL DG | Contemporary.

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Sony AddictRumoursSigma 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS Shipments and Shortages Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama Sigma 10-18mm f/2.8 DC DN: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama The Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS…

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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