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OpticalLimitsReviewsPanasonic Lumix S 20mm f/2.8 announced PRESS RELEASE Panasonic is pleased to introduce the new LUMIX S 20mm F2.5 (S-S20), an interchangeable lens based on the L-Mount system standard.

September 19

OpticalLimitsReviewsSony FE 600mm f/6.3 GM OSS and FE 400mm f/4.5 GM OSS announced PRESS RELEASE Sony today announced two new G Master™ super telephoto prime lenses for the Alpha™ full-frame E-mount system, the FE 400MM F4.5 GM OSS with a focal length of 400 mm and the FE 600MM…

September 15

OpticalLimitsReviewsNikkor Z 28mm f/2.8 Review The Nikkor Z 28mm f/2.8 is another budget prime lens in Nikon’s lens lineup. It very much resembles the Nikkor Z 40mm f/2 that we reviewed just before this one.

September 15

OpticalLimitsReviewsFujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR ( Fujifilm ) Review The Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR has been with us for quite a while. We reviewed the initial version back in 2015.

September 15

OpticalLimitsReviewsNikkor Z 40mm f/2 Review The Nikkor Z 40mm f/2 is one of the budget prime lenses in Nikon’s lens lineup. It is actually available in two different flavors: with a modern-style look as shown below or as SE (“Special Edition”)…

September 14

OpticalLimitsReviewsSigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART (Nikon F) Review Introduction It’s time for another blast from the past review – this time covering the Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART in Nikon F mount.

September 11

OpticalLimitsReviewsNikkor Z 24-50mm f/4-6.3 Review So you’d like to purchase a new system camera but can’t afford any of the fancy lenses in the Nikon lineup? Nikon (and all the others) have something for you then – a “kit” lens.

September 11

OpticalLimitsReviewsViltrox to showcase new lenses at the IBC2026 PRESS RELEASE Viltrox IBC2026 Press Release Media Highlights• Viltrox will attend IBC2026 at RAI Amsterdam, Sept 11-14, Hall 11, Stand 11.A39• To debut wide-ranging new products under the theme “MORE…

September 10

OpticalLimitsReviewsFujinon XF 30mm f/2.8 R LM WR macro ( Fujifilm ) Review The Fujinon XF 30mm f/2.8 R LM WR macro is one of the three macro lenses in Fujifilm’s lens lineup for the X-mount system.

September 9

OpticalLimitsReviewsFujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR ( Fujifilm ) Review The Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR is an older design “recently” enhanced with weather-resistance (hence the WR) to keep the lens relevant.

September 8

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