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The Verge CamerasTechCamp Snap made a smaller kid-friendly version of its retro digital camcorder After introducing new color options for its screen-free CS-8 video camera last month, Camp Snap announced a miniature version today that's less than half the size of the original.

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The Verge CamerasTechAnker’s new window-mounted camera monitors the outside of your home from within it Anker announced a new indoor security camera that's designed to watch your yard, driveway, or front porch through a window, instead of monitoring what's inside your home.

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The Verge CamerasTechRian Johnson explains why he had to build his own iPhone camera app Rian Johnson. Rian Johnson is an analog photography devotee. The director of Knives Out and The Last Jedi can often be spotted on set with a Leica M6 at his side, documenting production on film.

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The Verge CamerasTechFujifilm’s Instax Mini Evo 2 adds a touchscreen and video recording Look at that big, beautiful touchscreen. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm is trying to find the right balance of fun and photography with its latest hybrid instant camera.

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The Verge CamerasTechThe Sigma FP2 brings significant upgrades to the ‘world’s smallest’ full-frame camera Seven years after Sigma claimed its original fp was the world's smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the company has announced a similarly compact follow-up with several welcome…

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The Verge CamerasTechBaseus’ new security camera has a spotlight that tracks and follows moving targets The bright spotlight’s focused beam improves the quality of video captured at night while scaring off unwanted visitors.

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The Verge CamerasTechFujifilm’s new square format instant camera adds analog color filters Continuing the analog approach of the Instax Square SQ6 that launched in 2018 and follow-ups like the Square SQ1 and SQ40 , the new Fujifilm Instax Square 2 skips digital functionality while still…

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The Verge CamerasTechNikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI The original first place video used AI in post-processing. | Image: Dr. Ning Xu Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the…

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The Verge CamerasTechApple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video Apple's rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives users text event descriptions instead of video footage.

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The Verge CamerasTechHuawei made a whole camera to attach to its latest phone I’m sorry, this is just a camera that makes phone calls. | Image: Huawei Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses…

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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