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September 20

NewsshooterCinemaSpatial Capture for Insta360 X6 Insta360 has added Spatial Capture for Insta360 X6 US customers. The feature allows users to record a space with X6 and transform the footage into an immersive, explorable 3D scene through the…

September 20

NewsshooterCinemaDeity PR-4 Firmware update Deity has released the V1.3 firmware update for the PR-4 Portable 4-Input / 6-Track 32-Bit Float Field Recorder.

September 20

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September 18

NewsshooterCinemaRodney Charters, ASC, CSC, NZSC (1945-2026) The industry has lost a legend. Rodney Charters, ASC, CSC, NZSC, died suddenly on September 13th in Amsterdam. He was 80 years old.

September 17

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