Thomas Rex Beverly

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Thomas Rex BeverlyAudio2025 Hawaii & French Polynesia Expeditions In Collaboration with Sennheiser Into the deep: Thomas Rex Beverly records the songs of humpback whales Wedemark, August 2026 — Nature sound recordist Thomas Rex Beverly has spent years chasing the…

08.28

Thomas Rex BeverlyAudioHydro Drop Rigs PROOF OF CONCEPT (Hawaii) I've wanted to do hydro drop rigs for a long time. I finally (barely) got some to work.

05.22

Thomas Rex BeverlyAudio3D Immersive Hydrophone Arrays Over the years, I've recorded with several types of hydrophone arrays. I started by using a mono hydro (as a contact microphone) to record wind vibrations.

05.16

Thomas Rex BeverlyAudio3D Immersive Microphone Arrays Over the years, I've recorded with many types of microphone arrays. I started with stereo, then moved to various surround sound arrays.

2025.12.18

Thomas Rex BeverlyAudioExtreme Weather Protection for Sennheiser 8000 Series & LOM Usi Microphones How to protect your microphones from wind and water during long duration nature recording sessions. More

2025.12.18

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