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Sports Video GroupVideoPBR Expands Production of Teams Championship With Third Mobile Unit, More Cameras Additional gear includes a second, outside drone; a second slo-mo unit; and a wireless handheld carried by an operator in the ring When the fifth-annual PBR Teams Championship takes over the T-Mobile…

11.06

Sports Video GroupVideoCanon Announces Cinema EOS Lens Kits and EOS C50 Videographer Kit Canon U.S.A. has announced new Cinema EOS Lens Kits and an EOS C50 Videographer Kit. Sales are scheduled to begin in mid-November 2026. The lens kits pair the EOS C50 or EOS C80 with RF zoom lenses.

11.05

Sports Video GroupVideoCanon Marks 15 Years of the Cinema EOS System Canon Inc. is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Cinema EOS System this month, Canon U.S.A. announced.

11.05

Sports Video GroupVideoCanon Releases Firmware Update for Cinema EOS Cameras, Launches Camera Control Center Canon U.S.A. has announced a firmware update for its Cinema EOS cameras, including the EOS C400, EOS C80, EOS C50 and EOS R5 C.

11.05

Sports Video GroupVideoCP Communications Rigs Gravity Media SMARThead Robotic Cameras Over TCS New York City Marathon Start CP Communications worked with Gravity Media to bring Gravity’s SMARThead robotic camera technology to the U.S. for the first time at the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon.

11.05

Sports Video GroupVideoThe CW Goes Big on College Basketball, Expanding REMI Workflows, Specialty Cameras Across Three Conferences, 130 Games Raycom Sports, Pac-12 Enterprises, and Freedom Broadcast Group will power an expanded schedule featuring 100-plus live windows, specialty cameras, and extensive REMI production The CW is preparing…

11.05

Sports Video GroupVideoShifting Gears: The Evolution of Robotic and Automated Cameras No longer just mechanical mobility aids for repeat shots, the world of broadcast camera robotics is evolving.

11.04

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