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NikonMakersNikon Museum Holds Special Exhibition “Secrets Behind the Viewfinder — Take a look at the world through the camera's eye” | News The Nikon Museum, operated by Nikon Corporation, will hold the special exhibition “Secrets Behind the Viewfinder — Take a look at the world through the camera's eye” beginning October 22, 2026.

DPReviewReviewsSony FE 400mm F4.5 GM sample gallery: animals from Oregon to Montana From close-up zoo subjects to distant Montana wildlife, here's how Sony's lightweight 400mm F4.5 GM performs in the field.

PetaPixelReviewsPhoto Exhibition Imagines What Emmett Till’s Life Could Have Been A photo exhibition imagines the life Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago. [

ApertureCultureThe Artist Who Spent Fifty Years Bringing Museum Dioramas Back to Life Hiroshi Sugimoto has photographed the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History since 1975. Now his series is coming to a close. Did he find what he was looking for?

British CinematographerCinemaZurich Film Festival reveals Cary Joji Fukunaga and Sine Plambech as jury presidents Zurich Film Festival has revealed Cary Joji Fukunaga and Sine Plambech as its jury presidents. This year, ZFF once again presents 14 films competing for the Golden Eye in each of its Feature Film and…

DOCMAGermanyRAW Photo Festival Worpswede: Eröffnung gegen Fotomesse Das RAW Photo Festival Worpswede startet am Samstag, 3. Oktober 2026 unter dem Motto „Zurück in die Zukunft“ in seine fünfte Ausgabe.

Fuji RumorsRumoursExhibition of the “GFX Challenge Grant Program 2025” at T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO Exhibition of the “GFX Challenge Grant Program 2025” at T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO Dates: October 16 (Fri) – October 26 (Mon), 2026 (Open throughout the day) Venue: KYOBASHI EDOGRAND 1F Galleria…

The Guardian PhotographyCultureFire, ice and family: Australia’s 2026 Bowness photography prize – in pictures Here are 26 images by the shortlisted artists who submitted works for the 21st William and Winifred Bowness photography prize. Tamara Dean has been named the winner.

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1854 British Journal of PhotographyCulturePhotoworks Festival 2026 regenerates in Brighton & Hove Its first in-person undertaking since 2018, this year’s Photoworks Festival embraces the possibilities of uncertainty with a series of events across Brighton &…

1854 British Journal of PhotographyCultureA tribute to Ian Berry, 1934-2026 Magnum Photos' Ian Berry passed away on 13 September at the age of 92, a committed documentary photographer whose work made a real difference

Magnum PhotosCulture9/11: Stories from Magnum Photographers Magnum photographers recall how they documented the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 25 years ago

ePHOTOzineReviewsePHOTOzine Daily Theme Winners Week 1 September 2026 Enjoy viewing the photos for this week's Daily Theme entries, and see the selected photo honoured as the overall weekly pick.

ePHOTOzineReviewsePHOTOzine Daily Theme Winners Week 2 September 2026 Enjoy viewing the photos for this week's Daily Theme entries, and see the selected photo honoured as the overall weekly pick.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsPeople were arguing about what "real photography" was more than a century before anyone had heard of an Instagram filter, as highlighted by this exhibition on the Pictorialism movement Light and Magic at London's Tate Modern traces Pictorialism's rise across multiple continents, from the 1880s to the 1960s

PetaPixelReviewsBritish Museum Bans Photography of Historic ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ Days After Blockbuster Exhibition Opens The British Museum has reversed its policy on allowing photography of the Bayeux Tapestry, banning visitors from taking photos of the nearly 1,000-year-old work less than a week after it went on…

Amateur PhotographerReviewsThe world’s best food photography competition is open for entries! Submit your tasty images to win the top £5,000 prize The 2027 edition of the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini are open for entries! Full details here

Digital Camera WorldReviewsRarely photographed Shark Nebula showing oceanic predator prowling the skies above Kuwaiti desert wins world's largest astrophotography competition. It took over 28 hours to capture it, says award-winning photographer 650 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus, the Shark Nebula is made of dense interstellar dust. Now, this outstanding, detailed photograph wins a prestigious astrophotography…

PetaPixelReviewsThe 31 Out-of-this-World Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year Photographer Ali Alobaidly won this year's Royal Observatory Greenwich ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18 competition.

Amateur PhotographerReviewsTo infinity and beyond: these award-winning photographs of our universe will blow your mind The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18 winners have been revealed, and the images are spectacular!

Amateur PhotographerReviewsDon’t miss legendary photographer Tim Walker’s stunning new exhibition, with its whimsical erotic energy Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends celebrates over 50 years of Queer activism, love, culture and community. On at National Portrait Gallery this…

CineDCinemaIBC 2026 Overview & Best-of-Show Winners | iPhone 18 Pro Gets a Variable Aperture | Teradek Bolt 7 – Focus Check ep134 The iPhone 18 Pro is the first iPhone with a variable aperture on its main camera – four fixed positions from f/1.48 to f/4, with the wide-open setting half a stop faster than before.

DPReviewReviewsSony FE 600mm F6.3 GM sample gallery: a Montana field test of Sony’s lightest 600mm prime We put the lens through its paces on real wildlife in the field. Check out our full sample gallery, including downloadable Raw files.

British CinematographerCinemaBFI programmer Isabel Moir previews London Film Festival 2026 FRAMING THE FESTIVAL As the 70th BFI London Film Festival approaches, programmer Isabel Moir discusses the enduring appeal of the big-screen experience, the importance of discovering emerging talent…

British CinematographerCinemaUK premiere of A Woman’s Life to launch French Film Festival London 2026 The French Film Festival London will showcase an “expertly curated and exclusive programme of outstanding new films” when it returns to the newly refurbished Ciné Lumière, the home of French cinema…

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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