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RED Digital CinemaMakersRED Demonstrates Cine-Broadcast Module in Live Sports Environment at NAB 2026 RED DIGITAL CINEMA® will showcase its latest broadcast-focused innovations at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, running April 18–22.

CineDCinemaSony DP7 and DP5 Explained – Native Cinema Line Camera Control, 2,000-Nit Calibrated Panels, Third-Party Wireless At IBC 2026, Nino spoke with Julien from Sony about the RM-DP7 and RM-DP5, the two monitors that double as remote control units for the company’s Cinema Line cameras.

CineDCinemaAtomos Shinobi 7 II & Shogun AV-19M Introduced – First Look At IBC 2026, Atomos was showcasing its new Shinobi 7 II and the Shogun AV-19M, a slim, lightweight, and bright 7-inch HDMI on-camera monitor and a stripped-down version of its 19-inch rack-mountable…

ProVideo CoalitionCinemaiodyne Brings Smarter, More Secure Edge Storage to IBC 2026 Every production relies on storage, but most portable drives remain surprisingly passive. They hold files, collect handwritten labels, and leave the crew to track who has them and whether a transfer…

TV TechnologyVideoNAB Leadership Foundation Announces 2027 Broadcast Leadership Training Class For more than 25 years, BLT worked to prepare nearly 450 senior executives and managers for station ownership and C-suite roles

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.

TV TechnologyVideoFour Themes That Defined the 2026 IBC Show Despite the AI hype, humans are still the most important link in media tech … for now

CineDCinemaOWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI Introduced – Two HDMI 2.1 Ports, 140W Laptop Charging, Full-Speed Downstream Storage OWC brought its new Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI to IBC 2026, a desktop dock that puts two HDMI 2.1 ports directly on the back so a pair of monitors connect without adapters, while a single…

British CinematographerCinemaDJI wins awards for Osmo Pocket 4P and Osmo 360 II at Europe’s IBC 2026 DJI has been recognised with multiple awards at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam. The Osmo Pocket 4P was honoured with Best of Show awards from CineD, TV Tech and ProVideo Coalition.

Nikon RumorsRumoursThe new Nikon Nikkor Z Cinema 50mm T1.9 VV cinema lens spotted at the 2026 IBC show The new Nikon Nikkor Z Cinema 50mm T1.9 VV cinema lens was spotted at the 2026 IBC show (picture credit: Michel Khourny – thanks): The 50mm T1.9 VV is the first of nine new Nikkor Z cinema lenses…

Photo RumorsRumoursNew product announcements at the 2026 IBC show Here are some of the new products announced at the 2026 IBC show (see the full list here): New Sirui Saturn V2 1.6x anamorphic full-frame lenses with vertical support lenses (E/Z/L/X/RF) – previously…

Photo Trend (FR)FranceIBC 2026 : Viltrox décline sa gamme Air en monture L et confirme le 35 mm f/1,4 Pro À l’IBC 2026 d’Amsterdam, Viltrox dévoile quatre focales fixes en monture L, l’AF 35 mm f/1,4 Pro, deux optiques APS-C à f/1,2, un flash et un moniteur.

Streaming MediaVideoDolby Expands Dolby OptiView Platform with New Capabilities at IBC 2026 New Sports Intelligence helps providers better understand and deepen fan engagement, as Dolby Vision comes to the platform alongside updates to Dolby OptiView…

Photo RumorsRumoursViltrox unveiled new lenses at IBC 2026 Viltrox officially unveiled several new lenses at the 2026 IBC show (previously reported here) New Full-frame L-Mount lenses: AF 14mm F4.0, AF 20mm F2.8, AF 40mm F2.5, and AF 50mm F2.0 New Full-frame…

Filmmaker MagazineCinemaLive From Cine Gear Expo 2026 If NAB Show seems to inspire a mini–existential crisis in me each year, as I am forced to reckon with cinema’s diminishing relevance amidst other growth arenas in video, Cine Gear Expo invites more…

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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