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The PhoblographerReviewsNikon 50mm f1.8: Is Still the Best First Prime Lens in 2026? Nikon's pivot to mirrorless has been no short of a miracle. The company's Z series cameras and lenses are some of the best equipment we have tested in a while.

The PhoblographerReviewsWhat Is Focus Stacking, and When Should You Actually Use It? There are some techniques in photography that are helpful to young image-makers. Pixel stacking helps you get to higher megapixel photos, while exposure stacking helps one to get properly lit images.

The PhoblographerReviewsHow to Meditate While Doing Street Photography, Sort Of My name is Tom Souzer and I'm a self taught photographer from Pittsburgh PA .I've been shooting the streets of Pittsburgh for about 2 years now.

The PhoblographerReviewsBuying the Nikon Z6 Series in 2026. Which Ones Are Still Worth It? The Nikon Z6 series sits in the middle of the company's mirrorless lineup. The Nikon Z8 and Z9 are designed for professionals, the Z50 series is for beginners, while the Nikon Z6 series offers a…

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Nikon D4 in 2026: Still Going Strong I've owned the Nikon D4 for several years, and to this day, I still bring it with me on professional photography gigs. But I stuck with it; and it stuck with me.

The PhoblographerReviewsNo Algorithms, No AI: Why the 5 Boro Foto Fest Is Different There's no shortage of ways to discover photography online right now, and almost all of them run through an algorithm or, increasingly, generative AI.

The PhoblographerReviewsFractures Will Make You Rethink What Photography Is There have been many, many times where I have wished that photographers would be less all about trying to document reality. The truth is that a camera can't document how we really see.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Best Nikon Camera for Black and White Photography Black and white photography has been one of the most popular genres of the medium. Black and white photographs bring out tonality, but also help with making a moment stand out.

The PhoblographerReviewsWhat It Actually Costs to Build a Home Photo Studio in 2026 If you're looking to start up a home photo studio, you'll be happy to know that you don't really need to spend over $1,200 to get it done properly. What really matters is getting the results.

The PhoblographerReviewsIs the Panasonic LUMIX FZ47 Worth Buying in 2026? The CCD sensor in the Panasonic FZ47, is positively one of the best things about this almost vintage camera. Well, that, and the fact that there's a massive optical zoom lens.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe New Camp Snap 110D is the One Gen Z Will Love The folks over at Camp Snap surely know how to play with a millennial heart; at least that's what the new Camp Snap 110D is making me think.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Third-Party Lens Sony Photographers Should Own for Every Day Work Sony photographers have a wide array of lenses to choose from. The company creates the best lenses, and then you have some of the most fantastic ones from third-party makers.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Fun in Multiple Exposure Portraits Let's be honest, standard photography is really, really boring. AI can do it. Do you want to make images that AI can make?

The PhoblographerReviewsWhat You Actually Get With a Phoblographer Membership A Phoblographer membership costs $25 a year, and while the headline benefit is an ad-free reading experience, that's not the only thing members get.

The PhoblographerReviewsBest Concert Photography Lenses for Shooting in Low Light Music events, such as festivals and concerts, are a pretty impressive opportunity for photographers. One can get some really creative images, thanks to the mixed lighting set-up, and some truly…

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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