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ePHOTOzineReviewsSigma 85mm F1.2 DG Art Lens for E-Mount & L-Mount Announced Sigma has introduced the 85mm F1.2 DG Art, a full-frame portrait lens for E-Mount and L-Mount that pairs industry-leading F1.2 brightness with a compact 905g design, dual HLA autofocus, and…

ePHOTOzineReviewsSigma Launches Redesigned Lens Filter Lineup Sigma has released a completely redesigned lens filter lineup featuring four updated models with improved anti-reflection frame treatments and slimmer profiles.

ePHOTOzineReviews5 Top Gig Photography Tips Every Music Fan Needs Here's how you can still produce great gig images even when the lights are low.

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.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNikon Announced Firmware v2.00 for the Nikon ZR Nikon has released firmware 2.00 for the ZR cinema camera with Log3G10 and REDWideGamutRGB support in H.265, High ISO noise reduction, and focus peaking for R3D video.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNIKKOR Z CINEMA T1.9 VV Lenses Now in Development Nikon has announced development of nine NIKKOR Z CINEMA T1.9 VV lenses with an expanded image circle for cinema production, packed with precise autofocus for professional workflows.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNew OM SYSTEM PEN Announced: First Dust and Splash-Proof PEN Camera OM Digital Solutions announced the OM SYSTEM PEN, the first camera in the PEN series to feature an integrated electronic viewfinder and an IPX1-rated dust- and splashproof design.

ePHOTOzineReviewsWorld Sports Photography Awards 2027 Now Accepting Entries The World Sports Photography Awards 2027 has opened free entries for photographers to submit up to 10 images across 24 sports categories, with a Canon Emerging Talent award for photographers under 25.

ePHOTOzineReviews5 Top Tips On Photographing Shop Signs & Window Displays For A City Photo Project Spend some time in your town/city and capture some interesting images of displays and signs which will look great in montages or as triptychs.

ePHOTOzineReviews7 Top Tips For Capturing Better City Skyline Photos Once the sun sets and the lights come on, a city takes on a whole new feel that's well worth capturing with your camera and we've got a few top tips to help you perfect your nighttime skyline shots.

ePHOTOzineReviews6 Top Tips On How To Photograph Stairs & Steps Creatively Stairs and steps can make really interesting, often graphical, photos so next time you're waiting to climb a staircase, why not have a think about how you could photograph it?

ePHOTOzineReviews10 Top Lighting Tutorials That Explore Light In All Its Forms Here are 10 top tutorials where 'light' is mentioned somewhere in the title so you have access to top tips on flash, natural light, low light, winter light and everything in between in one handy…

ePHOTOzineReviewsEarly Morning Landscape Awarded Photo of the Week A quiet sunrise capture of a countryside hill has been selected for the Photo of the Week accolade.

ePHOTOzineReviews6 Top Tips On Taking Photos From Heights It doesn't matter if you climb a mountain or simply stand on a ladder, gaining height will help create a different perspective for your photos.

ePHOTOzineReviews8 Top Tips On Using Your Tripod Safely On Rugged Terrain Here are a few tips on using your tripod safely on rugged terrain when shooting landscapes as your safety is more important than getting 'that' shot.

ePHOTOzineReviewsFujifilm Unveils instax Link WIDE 2 Smartphone Printer with Photo Mixer Fujifilm launches the instax Link WIDE 2 smartphone printer, adding the Photo Mixer app feature alongside expanded customisation options for instant photo printing.

ePHOTOzineReviewsFujifilm Launched instax Pal 2 Ultra-Portable Digital Camera Fujifilm has announced the instax Pal 2, a portable digital camera with optical viewfinder, animation capture and wireless instax printer compatibility.

ePHOTOzineReviews6 Top Tips On Architectural Photography At Night Night photos of buildings can give your collection of architectural shots a nice twist and with our top tips, you'll be armed with the right advice before leaving your front door.

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.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNeurapix Launches Studio Crop AI Feature for Lightroom Portrait Editing Neurapix Studio Crop is a new AI feature for Lightroom that applies consistent, predefined crops to entire portrait batches automatically, eliminating manual cropping for photographers working with…

ePHOTOzineReviewsThe Zero-AI Upgrade the iPhone Camera Has Been Waiting For Photosynthesis is a zero-AI iPhone camera app that merges simultaneous shots from multiple lenses, combining detail and context into seamless composite photos.

ePHOTOzineReviews4 Top Cat Photography Tips From lying down lazy shots to action shots, why not have a go at snapping photos of your pet cat?

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ePHOTOzineReviewsHow To Photograph Rocks As Patterns & Textures To Enhance Your Photos Here's our guide to shooting our rocky landscape to create abstract patterns and textures to use in other photos.

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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