Skip to content

Hot Shoe

Latest

On the calendar

· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

On view

This week, from that corner the newest stories from the corner of the industry you picked

The wire their own posts, translated

How pictures get made in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

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

← Hot Shoe Archive

LomographyFilm

Meet the Joseph Petzval Métamorphose 35 f/1.8 Lens: Rediscovering Optical Imperfections

September 30

Introducing the new Joseph Petzval Métamorphose 35 f/1.8 Focus-Coupled Bokeh Control Art Lens – a rediscovery of optical history's rejected formula.

Read at Lomography ↗

Related

FilmA Love Letter to Hong Kong by Night: Photographer Ber Captures the City’s Fading Glow in Dreamlike Light Lomography

FilmA Natural Approach with Emma Ledwith and the Joseph Petzval 55 f/1.7 Focus-coupled Bokeh Control Art Lens Lomography

ReviewsHuawei muestra un módulo fotográfico 24-240 mm f2-4.5 con sensor de 1 pulgada para el Mate 90 Photolari

ReviewsThis multi-mount, compact metal lens controls bokeh bubbles with a slider – but that’s not the only unusual feature Digital Camera World

RumoursJust announced: New 7artisans 18mm f/2.0 APS-C E lens Sony Alpha Rumors

Japan1950年代の名玉「Zunow 50mm F1.1」に着想した大口径標準レンズ真ちゅう＋アルミの金属鏡筒に金色のマウント基部 Digital Camera Watch

More from Lomography on Hot Shoe.