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Unmanned Tech blogDronesThe fun of designing your own FPV frame Fixed arms or folding ones? One maker’s printed prototypes put the pleasure of designing centre stage.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesWhat if your next flying spot was Mario 64? libfpv brings Betaflight into familiar game worlds. Plus: a Goggles 3 viewer gives more computers a spectator seat. A familiar game world looks rather different when you can explore it by quad.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesBefore you bin that O4 clip A possible second chance for O4 footage, a flying room on wheels, an AI argument at the bench—and a reminder that four motors aren't compulsory.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesOpenDrone: bring your questions, not just your soldering iron The FPV Fancy finding out what goes on between a flight controller's solder pads? OpenDrone's published electronics designs give curious pilots a way to follow the circuit and ask why it's built that…

Unmanned Tech blogDronesRaceGow 6 FPV Training: Build a Small Track, Not Another Shopping List Your next improvement in FPV probably does not need a new flight controller. Nick Burns makes the case for RaceGow 6: a free global event that turns a small home-built track—or a simulator—into a…

Unmanned Tech blogDronesEmax Tinyhawk Aero Review: Brilliant Whoop, Awkward Compromises The Emax Tinyhawk Aero is a 65mm 1S whoop that appears to fly far above its weight class, then immediately asks whether you fancy buying into another battery connector.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesBetaflight GPS Bug: Stop a Flight Controller Freeze Before Take-off The Betaflight GPS, for a long time, had a serious issue that could easily lead to a flight controller being frozen in mid-air, thus transforming it into a quad similar to the drop of a powered…

Unmanned Tech blogDronesGEPRC TriPro LR60 Review: a 6-Inch Cruiser, Not a Tiny Racer The GEPRC TriPro LR60 is a light 6-inch cinematic cruiser built around flight time, DJI O4 recording and modularity, not repeated attempts to occupy the same tree branch at 90mph.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesVoltara ESC Gen 2 Firmware: Betaflight Compatibility, Minus the Smoke Voltara’s Gen 2 firmware turns an ESC once aimed squarely at KISS Ultra into a far less fussy option for Betaflight and other flight controllers.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesCaddx Ascent Lite Plus and VRX Pro Review: Better, Still Odd Caddx has given its budget digital FPV system more power, audio, 120fps modes and a receiver with rather more computer hiding inside it.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesRadioMaster GX15 Review: 250 mW, Bling and the Screen Debate The RadioMaster GX15 is not merely a line-of-sight transmitter wearing an FPV costume. It is a full-size ExpressLRS radio with a logical screen position, a serious switch count, and one specification…

Unmanned Tech blogDronesThe Best FPV Simulator Is the One You Will Actually Practise In Updated July 2026: we rebuilt this guide from the original 2018 article using current simulator listings, official feature pages and current platform requirements.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesELRS Finder: The Free EdgeTX Tool That Helps Find a Lost Quad Quick answer: ELRS Finder turns a compatible EdgeTX radio into a simple signal-strength tracker for a missing quad.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesBetaflight 2026.06 Tuning Course: Blackbox Data Beats Guesswork A quad that merely flies is not the same thing as a quad that feels locked in, keeps its motors sane, and does not turn every propwash event into a minor engineering inquiry.

Unmanned Tech blogDronesFlywoo DJI O4 Wide Air Unit: Wider FPV View, Heavier Micro Build The Flywoo DJI O4 Wide Air Unit fixes the cramped field of view that made the original O4 Lite awkward indoors.

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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