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ToolfarmSoftwareDaVinci Resolve 21.2 Update Boosts Performance and Workflow The BlackMagic Design DaVinci Resolve 21.2 Update is now available, bringing performance enhancements, workflow refinements, and expanded support for the latest Apple hardware.

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ToolfarmSoftwareChaos V-Ray 7, Update 5 Brings AI Across the Workflow Chaos V-Ray 7, Update 5 expands the Chaos ecosystem with new AI-powered tools designed to reduce repetitive work, accelerate scene creation, and help artists achieve professional-quality results more…

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ToolfarmSoftwareNew: Wild Construct Lumen Glow is Now Available Wild Construct Lumen Glow is a bloom and optical light system plugin for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. It’s bloom with an optical system behind it.

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ToolfarmSoftwareChaos Enscape 4.22.0 Keeps Architects in the Flow Chaos Enscape 4.22.0 introduces new capabilities designed to help architects stay focused on design while reducing the interruptions that often slow down project development.

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ToolfarmSoftwareSave 20% on DaVinci Resolve Studio thru Nov 20, 2026 Get the powerful AI tools in the new Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio 21 and save 20% now through November 20, 2026.

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ToolfarmSoftwareAvid Pro Tools 2026.11 Introduces Extensions and AI Tools Avid Pro Tools 2026.11 is now available, introducing several major additions aimed at music producers, audio engineers, post-production professionals, and sound designers.

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ToolfarmSoftwareChicago from KitBash3D Brings an Iconic City to Your Projects Chicago is the latest city kit from KitBash3D , giving artists, visualizers, and filmmakers a fast way to build one of America’s most recognizable urban environments.

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ToolfarmSoftwareiZotope Photon Brings Fast AI Stem Separation iZotope Photon is a new AI-powered audio processing tool designed for fast stem separation, speaker isolation, and audio enhancement.

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ToolfarmSoftware★ Save Up to 33% on Avid Creative Tools ★ If you’ve been considering an Avid subscription , now is a great time to get started. Through December 31, 2026 , Toolfarm customers can save up to 33% on the first year of select Avid annual…

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ToolfarmSoftwareUpdate: Pomfort Silverstack XT v9.4 – New Camera Formats Pomfort has updated Silverstack XT with new camera formats and a few enhancements. This will also be the last version to support Intel Macs. What’s new in Pomfort Silverstack XT?

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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