Sony Alpha Rumors

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Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursNew Sigma Lens reviews by Petapixel, Northrup and Abbott Preorders are now open: Sigma 85mm f/1.2 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK, ParkUK.

September 20

Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursVenus Optics launched the 35mm f/2.8 1x macro lens Venus Optics announced the new Laowa 35mm f/2.8 1x macro lens at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK.

September 19

Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursSony FX5 shipment start is now Oct 22 in Europe and Oct 15 in the USA According to Foto Erhardt, the Sony FX5 will begin shipping on October 22, while Adorama lists October 15. It is a bit depressing to see Sony continually postpone the shipping date.

September 18

Sony Alpha Rumors

Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursNew SmallRig Nano36 and Nano72 power banks Smallrig announced new interesting powerbanks with some unique features: Smallrig Nano72 at BHphoto, Amazon, Smallrig, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK Smallrig Nano26 at…

September 18

Sony Alpha Rumors

Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursSony 600mm GM review by MathPhotographer: “Exceptional Image Quality & Sharpness” Math published his 600mm GM review and the lens gets his 100% full recommendation! In particular he praises: Exceptional Image Quality & Sharpness: Reviewing around 100 sample frames from an off-road…

September 17

Sony Alpha Rumors

Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursAngelbird’s Boss on the Storage Crisis: It Will Only Get Worse! As you know Angelbird recently launched new Type A cards. In this interview he specifically talked about the current storage crisis.

September 17

Sony Alpha Rumors

Sony Alpha RumorsRumoursPreorder now the new ON1 Photo RAW 2027 You can now preorder the new ON1 Photo RAW 2027 (Click here to see all new features).

September 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