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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.

Camera JabberReviewsInsta360 X6 turns 360 video into explorable 3D scenes with Spatial Capture 3D scene creation has, until now, been the preserve of people with specialist rigs and complex software. Insta360 is trying to change that.

ProVideo CoalitionCinemaBetter sensor has more pixels per pixel At the same time attendees were desperately searching this year’s IBC for something not brought to us by the letters A and I, broadcasters themselves were putting out pieces titled No ‘effective…

TV TechnologyVideoElement Launches New TiVo-Powered Smart TVs in the U.S. 50- and 65-inch 4K models with the TiVo OS are now available

Adorama 42WestReviewsHow to Use Open Gate to Improve Your Videos The number of cameras offering Open Gate functionality has increased significantly over the past few years, and many creators are asking the same questions.

TV TechnologyVideoOperative Launches Unified Platform for Advertising and Broadcast Management Connected agentic ecosystem is designed to boost revenue growth for media companies

RedShark NewsCinemaAdobe Premiere: IBC2026 video Adobe's Jason Druss demos Premiere Beta's IBC 2026 update: three new Color Mode modules, one-click Auto Color, HSL masks and a Tangent Wave 2 partnership.

Streaming MediaVideoHow to Balance Complexity, Efficiency, and Scalability in Hybrid Streaming Infrastructure Design Strategic discussions about migrating streaming infrastructure to the cloud typically revolve around a few key issues like CapEx vs. OpEx and which elements should or must remain on-prem.

Streaming MediaVideoPremion and Advertiser Perceptions Study: 73% of Advertisers Plan Live Sports Streaming Investment as Measurement Demands Grow New research from Premion and Advertiser Perceptions finds that nearly three-quarters (73%) of advertisers plan to allocate budget to live sports streaming/CTV advertising over the next 6-12 months…

DroneDJDronesDJI SDR Transmission 2 brings 4K HDR to crowded film sets DJI is taking another swing at one of the less glamorous, and surprisingly frustrating, parts of professional filmmaking: getting a clean camera feed where it needs to go.

VideomakerVideoCanon’s EOS R8 Mark II shoots 4K 60p oversampled from 6K Canon's EOS R8 Mark II records 4K 60p oversampled from 6K, adds 7.5 stops of IBIS and ships in the second half of October.

Sony Alpha UniverseMakersNew On Alpha Camera Academy: Video 201 With Jeven Dovey The newest free course on Alpha Camera Academy, Video 201, helps creators move beyond the basics and start shooting with greater purpose.

Streaming MediaVideoVertical Video and the CTV Viewing Experience Vertical video is all the rage these days, from straight-to-vert microdrama to the AI-powered verticalization and clipping of legacy IP libraries.

VideomakerVideoBenQ launches Creative Pro PV50 4K monitors for video editors and post-production BenQ's new Creative Pro PV50 series brings two 4K monitors to video editors and colorists, the 32-inch PV3250U plus the 27-inch PV2750U.

Broadcast BeatVideoMagewell Launches Director Plus 4K All-in-One Production System at InfoComm 2026 More signals, higher quality, and outstanding ingest and streaming flexibility deliver professional results in a small, all-in-one footprint NANJING, China — June 2, 2026 — Magewell, a developer of…

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch The Split Up online for FREE — stream legal drama from anywhere A family tragedy sheds new light on the successor to the Kishan family law firm in new legal drama from the world of The Split. Here's how to watch The Split Up online from anywhere.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsHigh capacity and high speed: Angelbird's new CFexpress Type A cards have it all Recording uncompressed 8K video should be no problem

Camera DecisionReviewsSony A9 III 120fps Lenses: 53 Sony Lenses Keep Autofocus Tracking at Full Speed The Sony A9 III shoots at 120 frames per second, but only some lenses let the autofocus keep up. Sony's own compatibility data says 53 of its lenses track at full speed, including every current…

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Photo District NewsCultureFrom Photographer to Content Creator: How to Add Video to Your Wedding Business Many photographers complain about content creators at weddings, but what if you could make content yourself and bring more value to your photography business instead?

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Photo District NewsCultureHybrid, Not Harder: How to Add Video to Wedding Coverage Taylor Jackson started doing hybrid photo and video coverage at weddings back in 2010, and it's only gotten easier since.

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechFirst iPhone 18 Pro teardown video is here The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max have been released today, and there's already a teardown video of the former available on YouTube.

Camera DecisionReviewsDJI Osmo 360 II vs Insta360 X6: Same Sensor Size, and Only the X6 Is Sold in the US The DJI Osmo 360 II and the Insta360 X6 came out three weeks apart, and underneath they are closer than the marketing suggests: both use two square 1/1.1-inch sensors.

TV TechnologyVideoNew TVU Pocket Offers Broadcast Features In Phone-Sized Unit TVU Network’s new device leverages vivo imaging hardware and its own transmission and cloud tech

DPReviewReviewsThis 2.5-hour Leica restoration video is basically camera ASMR for film photographers The footage follows every disassembly step, cleaning pass and reassembly sequence of a classic Leica body, in real time, with no flashy cuts, no commentary and no music.

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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