Smartphone photography (GSMArena)

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Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechPixel 11 vs. Pixel 11 Pro The Pixel 11 models are now available, and many are already shopping for their next Google phone. If you are looking for a compact yet powerful flagship, it's inevitable to ask one question: should…

September 20

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechWeekly poll: will you buy a Redmi Note 17 Pro or a Redmi Note 17 Pro Max? Once paragons of value-for-money, the Redmi Note phones have taken a turn – are they still a smart buy? The series launched globally on September 17 (Thursday), including in Europe and in India.

September 20

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechDeals: iPhone 18 Pro series goes on sale, Galaxy Z8 foldables get discounts The iPhone 18 Pro series is now officially on sale in the UK. However, the latest iPhones are more expensive than last year, so it might be worth considering the iPhone 17 Pro models, which are…

September 20

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechOppo Find X10 series launch set, Galaxy S27 Pro and Ultra to pack M16 OLEDs, Week 38 in review Another week in the books, these were the top stories in the third week of September. Oppo confirmed its launch plans for the Find X10 series.

September 19

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.

September 18

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechApple iPhone 18 Pro Max in for review The iPhone 18 Pro Max could very well have been called the 17S Pro Max. It brings a chip update, some minor tweaks to the camera and new colors.

September 18

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)Techvivo X500 Pro Max's main specs are out just as it receives another certification vivo is unveiling the X500 family on September 21, and ahead of that, today the main specs of the leader of the pack, the X500 Pro Max, have been outed.

September 18

Smartphone photography (GSMArena)TechOnePlus 16's main specs leak OnePlus has started teasing the upcoming OnePlus 16 a few days ago, confirming its 165Hz global refresh rate screen.

September 18

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