Y.M.Cinema

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Y.M.CinemaCinemaCanon Wants the Camera to Recognize Who Is Holding It, New Patent Shows Canon has published a patent that explores an unusual idea for future cameras: fingerprint authentication built directly into the camera grip.

September 20

Y.M.CinemaCinemaNikon Patent Explores a New Way to Increase Camera Dynamic Range Nikon is exploring a new image sensor architecture that could improve camera dynamic range by changing the way different parts of the sensor are exposed.

September 19

Y.M.CinemaCinemaAmazon’s Top 5 Best-Selling Full-Frame Camera Bodies: Canon R6 Mark II, Sony a7 IV and Nikon Z6 III All Hit ~$2,000 Amazon’s current full-frame camera ranking reveals a particularly competitive point in the mirrorless market.

September 18

Y.M.CinemaCinemaDaVinci Resolve 21.1 Uses MCP to Let AI Assistants Control the Edit Blackmagic Design has published the September 2026 DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Reference Manual, a document extending beyond 4,300 pages.

September 17

Y.M.CinemaCinemaIs Canon Finally Refreshing Its Camera Design Language? The EOS R8 Mark II Suggests So Canon has just announced the EOS R8 Mark II, and while much of the immediate discussion will naturally focus on specifications, IBIS, autofocus and video capabilities, there is another aspect that…

September 16

Y.M.CinemaCinemaNikon Patents New Camera Control Grip Design: A New Accessory for Z Cinema? Nikon has secured a new U.S. design patent for a device identified only as a “Camera Accessory.” The drawings, however, clearly depict an elongated ergonomic control grip with physical buttons, a…

September 15

Y.M.CinemaCinemaGoPro MISSION 1 PRO ILS Hits Amazon With 7Artisans T1.05 MFT Cinema Lens Bundle The GoPro MISSION 1 PRO ILS ($599 on Amazon) has now appeared on Amazon at $699.99, marking the camera’s arrival at a major retail channel following its August launch.

September 14

Y.M.CinemaCinemaThe Antigravity A1 8K 360 FPV Drone Drops to $1,199 on Amazon The Antigravity A1 Standard Bundle has dropped to $1,199 on Amazon, with Amazon currently marking the listing as its lowest price in 30 days.

September 13

Y.M.CinemaCinemaApple’s Variable Aperture Patent Comes to Life in the iPhone 18 Pro In June 2025, Y.M.Cinema reported on an Apple patent describing a variable aperture system designed specifically for compact camera modules. At the time, the technology was only a patent.

September 12

Y.M.CinemaCinemaVenice 2026 Cameras: ARRI Dominates, but DPs Still Choose Film and Unusual Tools Venice Film Festival 2026 offers a useful snapshot of how leading cinematographers are choosing cameras and lenses today.

September 11

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