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The PhoblographerReviews7 Canon DSLRs Behind Award-Winning Photos Older DSLRs like the Canon 5Ds R, 7D Mk II, 6D, 1D X, 5D Mark III, 5D Mk IV, 90D are still in the hands of photographers and winning awards. That proves that you don't need the newest gear at all.

The PhoblographerReviewsWhy We Raised Membership to $45 a Year (and What It’s Funded So Far) A few months ago, we raised the price of a Phoblographer membership from $25 a year to $45, and we also retired the old $3.99-a-month option entirely.

The PhoblographerReviewsSirui 40mm f2.2 Review: The Perfect Lens for Walking The Sirui 40mm f2.2 is a pretty great lens overall that I kept using and wondering why Zeiss or Sony couldn't make something like this earlier while keeping it super affordable.

The PhoblographerReviewsSirui 20mm f2.4 Review: A Landscape Photographer’s Dream Lens There's something really wonderful about a lens that's lightweight and yet gives you incredible image quality like the Sirui 20mm f2.4.

The PhoblographerReviewsOur Nikon Z5II C Review Has Been Updated. It’s Kind of Mid Nikon, instead of giving photographers the point and shoot camera that we've all wanted, instead gave us the Z5IIC. I originally tried it and liked it after some brief usage.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Fujifilm X-E2s is a Decade Old. And the Sensor is the Secret to Happiness Fujifilm has a plethora of cute, small interchangeable lens cameras. The X-E series is no different. If you are someone who is looking to buy a new camera, then there are some options that you will…

The PhoblographerReviewsThe New Flashback 35 V2 Update Tells a Half Truth I reviewed the Flashback 35V2 camera back in January of 2026 and awarded it an Editor's Choice. It really is an incredible camera in so many different ways that keeps us engaged with shooting and not…

The PhoblographerReviewsThis Medium Format Film Guide Will Get You Started Faster Than Any Video When the time comes that 35mm film or the sensor format just isn't cutting it anymore, consider medium format.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Ricoh GR III Is Seven Years Old. Is It Still the Best Pocket Camera in 2026? The Ricoh GR III featured some great things: nice colors, small size, zone focusing, and nice lens. But it also has its own cons: a lack of weather sealing, no flash, and the menus were confusing.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Phoblographer Pharaonic Preset Pack Is Our Biggest Bundle Yet We just launched our biggest preset bundle yet, and it brings together everything we've built so far in one place.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Best Film Point and Shoot Camera Ever Made I know that this may sound like a sensation title, but I really do mean it. The Fujifilm Natura S is the single best film point and shoot camera that was ever made.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Beloved Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro Lens Could Make a Return Canon, like many other manufacturers, has a limited number of lenses for close-up photographers. The company's current RF range, for example, is only limited to four lenses, which leaves a lot of…

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Nikon D800 Is 14 Years Old. Does It Still Hold Up in 2026? The Nikon D800 is an excellent camera and if you own one, then you'll already know this. It surely is still very capable in 2026 though the newer D850 is arguably a better camera.

The PhoblographerReviewsDigifilm Has a New Camera The new Digifilm camera is going to be on the way soon. And thankfully, it's got a few notable and nice upgrades to it. When the original Digifilm camera was launched, I really liked it.

The PhoblographerReviewsCamp Snap is Suing their Alleged Copycats Camp Snap, the company that has made screenless point and shoot cameras cool again, is going after some of the brands who've also been trying to cash in on this new market.

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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