The Verge Cameras

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The Verge CamerasTechCamp Snap’s 110D gives slim retro film cameras a digital upgrade Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thin horizontal design first popularized by Kodak film cameras…

September 17

The Verge CamerasTechThe EOS R8 Mark II is Canon’s lightest full-frame camera with stabilization Canon announced the second-generation of its EOS R8 with a new retro-inspired redesign and the addition of in-body stabilization.

September 16

The Verge CamerasTechFujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 is a tiny digital camera that may not disappoint Fujifilm announced a follow-up to its tiny and quirky Instax Pal camera that debuted three years ago bundled with an instant printer.

September 15

The Verge CamerasTechInsta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival you can actually buy in the US Insta360's first compact steadycam, the Luna Ultra, made a splash this year by beating DJI to launch with two lenses.

September 11

The Verge CamerasTechThe variable aperture isn’t the cool part of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera Apple always makes a big show of the latest cameras in its phones, and the major talking point of the iPhone 18 Pro is about the new variable aperture.

September 10

The Verge CamerasTechGoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’ GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week.

September 4

The Verge CamerasTechThis rugged phone’s removable camera can survive and capture your extreme adventures RugOne's Xsnap 7 Pro comes with both an IP68 and IP69K rating, meaning the rugged phone can survive intense water blasts and complete submersion for up to 30 minutes.

September 4

The Verge CamerasTechHohem’s tiny steadycam has a removable action cam Hohem is trying something new with its Eyepic handheld stabilized camera to differentiate it from existing offerings from companies like DJI and Insta360.

September 3

The Verge CamerasTechGoPro has been acquired and is getting into ‘defense, government, robotics and aerospace’ GoPro suddenly looks like a very different company than it did just last week. First, YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach became the company's single largest shareholder, without disclosing that in…

September 1

The Verge CamerasTechMarkiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach has invested enough in GoPro to become its single largest shareholder, with an 8.5 percent stake in the company, Bloomberg reports.

August 31

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