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Vashi VisualsSoftwareInaugural LA Silicon Valley AI Film Festival 2026: Recap on AI Filmmaking, Creativity & Copyright The 2026 Silicon Valley AI Film Festival (SVAIFF), presented by Star Alliance Culture Inc., brought filmmakers, investors, and technology leaders together at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on…

11.03

Vashi VisualsSoftwareFilmmaking With Purpose: VashiVisuals Honors Onco-Ballet Foundation With a Special Video at October 17 Performance Each year, VashiVisuals supports one nonprofit with a pro bono video. For 2026, I am proud to work with the Onco-Ballet™ Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides free ballet classes to people…

10.12

Vashi VisualsSoftwareCoroner to the Stars Documentary Screening Starring Dr. Noguchi, Directed by Ben Hethcoat I attended a special screening of Coroner to the Stars at Festival Theaters in Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley’s new home for independent, arthouse and community-driven cinema.

08.03

Vashi VisualsSoftwarePerfect Color on Every Monitor! Dell Color Management 4.0 Remote Collaboration In professional post-production, confidence in the image is everything. Color, contrast and saturation are not abstract details. They are the foundation of EVERY creative decision.

06.16

Vashi VisualsSoftwareVisual Recap of the 2026 ACE Eddie Awards Out of the edit cave and off to the 76th ACE Eddie Awards to eat, drink & be merry! Saw old friends and made new ones. Mission accomplished.

05.01

Vashi VisualsSoftwareWin the Monitor I Rely on for Every Project:Dell UltraSharp U3226Q The Dell UltraSharp U3226Q has become central to my process because it delivers what I value above all else: repeatable, measurable color accuracy.

03.03

Vashi VisualsSoftwareMy 2026 Edit Bay Upgrade: Dell UltraSharp 4K Monitor U3226Q (CES Award Winner) I have just completed a 2026 upgrade of my Digital Oasis edit bays using a CES 2026 Innovation Award-winning display as a central part of my post-production pipeline.

01.19

Vashi VisualsSoftwareU.S. Premiere of “Kim Novak’s Vertigo” at Palm Springs International Film Festival “Kim Novak’s Vertigo” directed by Alexandre O. Philippe at the 37th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival was a wild ride.

01.10

Vashi VisualsSoftwareAvatar: Fire and Ash Screening with James Cameron, Stephen Rivkin, ACE, Deborah L. Scott & Team The worldbuilding and craftsmanship continue to grow. Incredible Dolby Cinema 3D screening with Big Jim, editor Stephen Rivkin and the Avatar team on the Disney lot.

2025.12.20

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