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TVBEuropeVideoBehind the lens at 18,000 feet: bringing Everest: The Other Side to the big screen Following climbers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they set out to climb and ski down Mount Everest’s North Face was always going to be a formidable undertaking.

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TVBEuropeVideoManchester Met and Versa Studios partner to drive future production expertise Manchester Metropolitan University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Versa Studios Manchester, aiming to combine the organisations’ expertise to advance virtual production, harness AI…

11.04

TVBEuropeVideoCanon brings PTZ and multi-camera setup, control and management into a single platform Canon has introduced Camera Control Centre, a new free software application that brings setup, control and management together in a single platform for PTZ and multi-camera productions.

11.04

TVBEuropeVideoAnniversary launch for new Franceinfo IP-based production centre Grass Valley has revealed details of a collaboration with France Télévisions, with the first phase of the broadcaster’s Genesys production infrastructure renewal programme completed.

11.03

TVBEuropeVideoBlackmagic Design launches UltraStudio Express HD Blackmagic Design has introduced the UltraStudio Express HD high speed capture and playback solution.

11.02

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