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TiltaMakersHow Jesse Todd Turned the Tilta Float into a Handheld Camera Rig Handheld shooting gives you the freedom to follow a scene, find a new angle, and react as the action unfolds.

11.03

TiltaMakersKhronos Core Brings Precision Craftsmanship to Everyday Carry A new series of premium iPhone cases within the Khronos ecosystem brings machined aluminum craftsmanship, modular functionality, and personal expression to iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.

09.30

TiltaMakersUpcoming Price Adjustments for Select Tilta Products Thank you for your continued support and trust in Tilta gear. Due to sustained increases in raw material, production, and international logistics costs, we will be revising the pricing on select…

08.24

TiltaMakersPulling Focus on Obsession with First AC Casey Schoch First AC Casey Schoch recently discussed his experience running the camera department for the film Obsession.

07.13

TiltaMakersOff White Portable Charging Stations & Batteries Tilta has officially expanded its ecosystem of portable power with the release of the Off White edition for the Tilta Portable Charging Station and the Tilta Battery with USB-C Input (2400mAh) for…

01.20

TiltaMakersBehind the Scenes: Powering the Production of Beast Games Season 2 Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. Filming the largest reality competition in television history requires more than just a large crew.

01.13

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