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SonyAlpha.blogRumoursViltrox 35mm F1.4 Pro The Viltrox 35mm F1.4 Pro, priced at 859 euros, offers excellent image quality with sharpness improving from F2, good bokeh, and solid build.

10.29

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursZhiyun Molus X100 RGB The Zhiyun Molus X100 RGB is a compact, powerful 100W portable RGB light offering professional color accuracy and various mounting options.

09.21

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursAstrHori 85mm F1.8 II The AstrHori 85mm F1.8 II is a well-constructed lens priced at 329 euros, featuring excellent sharpness, good autofocus performance, and relatively smooth background blur, though it is not the…

09.19

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursTTArtisan 85mm F1.8 AF The TTArtisan 85mm F1.8 is an affordable lens retailing at 100 euros, intended for use with 24/33Mp cameras. It offers decent image quality, good color rendition, and pleasing bokeh.

09.15

SonyAlpha.blogRumours7 Artisans 10mm F2.5 AF The 7 Artisans 10mm F2.5 AF fisheye lens offers a 185° view and autofocus, a rarity for fisheyes, priced at $449.

08.26

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursTTArtisan 50mm F1.8 Neo The TTArtisan 50mm F1.8 AF lens is an affordable option priced at $89, ideal for budget-conscious students.

08.07

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursTamron 12-20mm F2.8 The Tamron 12-20mm F2.8 is a unique ultra wide-angle zoom lens starting at 12mm, priced at 1700 euros.

07.29

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursViltrox 26mm F2.8 The Viltrox 26mm F2.8 lens is a compact, lightweight pancake lens ideal for street photography. It offers excellent sharpness at F2.8 in the center, with improved corner sharpness at F5.6.

07.22

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursMeike 56mm F1.7 The Meike 56mm F1.7 lens, priced at $159, offers exceptional sharpness, color rendition, and bokeh, making it a strong choice for portrait photography.

06.17

SonyAlpha.blogRumoursTTArtisan 17mm F1.8 The TTArtisan 17mm F1.8 is a budget-friendly wide-angle AF lens for Sony APSC sensors, priced at 139 euros. It offers good center sharpness, nice bokeh, and satisfactory color rendition.

06.16

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