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Digital Camera WorldReviews"A tool that allows everyone to enjoy photography easily, just like a paper and pen" – The designer of this 1959 camera called it “a huge failure", but compact mirrorless models are still being inspired by his design The original Olympus PEN was designed to be as simple to use as a pen. But how muchh does that translate into the new OM System PEN?

Digital Camera WorldReviews"I am the camera": How a Swedish birdwatcher built the ultimate photographic workhorse that got taken on a one-way trip to the Moon The iconic range of medium cameras that were so rugged they were taken on chronicle first lunar space missions

Digital Camera WorldReviewsPhilippe Halsman fled Paris in 1940 with nothing but his camera and 12 prints. After his death, his grandson found the glass plates he left behind – and they offer a fascinating glimpse into the genesis of a photography legend Thames & Hudson's new book reveals how Philippe Halsman developed his eye as a working photographer.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsHow an app based on NASA color science is helping photographers reveal the secrets of ancient civilizations Dstretch can be used to extract detail from pictures that previously seemed impossible to recover

Digital Camera WorldReviewsHigh capacity and high speed: Angelbird's new CFexpress Type A cards have it all Recording uncompressed 8K video should be no problem

Digital Camera WorldReviewsIt's been over a year, but my Lumix S9 still hasn't got the feature I actually want 😢 Good news: Panasonic just firmwared its S1 and S9 camera lines. Bad news: the Lumix S9 is still missing something I really need

Digital Camera WorldReviewsPeople were arguing about what "real photography" was more than a century before anyone had heard of an Instagram filter, as highlighted by this exhibition on the Pictorialism movement Light and Magic at London's Tate Modern traces Pictorialism's rise across multiple continents, from the 1880s to the 1960s

Digital Camera WorldReviewsSamsung’s mirrorless camera lineup started with the NX10 and showed potential with the NX Mini – I believe it was abandoned too soon Samsung incorporated some great ideas into its discontinued camera series that wouldn't just find favor today, but would have given smartphone adopters less reason to ditch digicams in the first…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsI’m a pro photographer, but I took a 20-year-old 6MP compact camera on vacation. I have no regrets I grabbed a compact camera that's two decades old when packing for a camping trip, complete with a 6MP CCD sensor, a soft 4x zoom lens – and an emotional punch

Digital Camera WorldReviewsChatGPT plans to replace your phone's camera app with AI-simulated DSLR-quality following this US$300 million acquisition – will it make a camera, too? OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging for $300 million, a tool designed to turn a phone into a professional camera

Digital Camera WorldReviews"This image was a happy accident," says honored landscape photographer. "I saw the Neotropic Cormorant perched on the rock. It all clicked," and he captured the shot with a retro-style full-frame DSLR camera Exploring the coast around the fishing community of Talcaruca in Chile, this photographer captured an atmospheric image of a Neotropic Cormorant standing on a rock – now the shot received an…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsAn English photographer bought a ravaged, wind-lashed Falklands island in 1972 to give it a second chance. Now, as Argentina and Britain argue over the archipelago once again, millions of seabirds continue to benefit from his remarkable vision New Island's remarkable recovery offers a counterpoint to the saber-rattling around it

Digital Camera WorldReviewsIf you’re buying a wildlife camera, don’t ignore the ergonomics A camera isn’t suitable for wildlife photography if it’s uncomfortable when using long lenses

Digital Camera WorldReviewsI feel like I’ve been gut-punched. These emotional news photos prove the power of lines in storytelling These dramatic news photographs illustrate the impact of lines in a photograph

Digital Camera WorldReviewsYashica is building a new compact camera – and it looks like a collision between the viral keychain camera trend and a classic 1959 mini film camera Yashica is teasing a new retro compact camera inspired by a subminature film camera from 1959

Digital Camera WorldReviewsHas GoPro been saved? After news of merger, GoPro is no longer at risk of being delisted from the stock market GoPro has reversed its stock market warnings, trading above $1 for more than ten consecutive days after announcing plans for a merger

Digital Camera WorldReviewsiPhone 18 Pro takes over Friday Night Baseball for Apple TV and goes to the places that traditional broadcast cameras cannot. Will it change the game? iPhone 18 is going to be at the center of MLB by the end of day one – but in its first moments it's the subject of a fight!

Digital Camera WorldReviewsThese popular full-frame cameras are now available for less – here's my pick Three full-frame mirrorless cameras that make upgrading easy – save up to $350 on Canon, Nikon & Sony powerhouses

Digital Camera WorldReviewsBokeh Face: Nikon drops out of 'Big Three' in Japan! Who joins Canon and Sony? Data from Japan puts Nikon out of the ‘Big Three’. Plus, two new Sigma lenses, and buying a camera from overseas: Is it ever really worth it?

Digital Camera WorldReviewsI think the US$100,000-winning Grok Imagine Odyssey footage is proof that Hollywood shouldn’t feel threatened by genAI just yet A three-eyed cyclops illustrates how even simple details can still trip up genAI

Digital Camera WorldReviewsThe No.1 top-traded zoom lens in Japan is "probably the best 70-200mm zoom in the world. Ever." Recently discontinued, it accounts for the most purchases among zooms reaching up to 200mm in 2026 so far Praised for its extraordinary sharpness, this 70-200mm f/2.8 is topping Minna Camera's trade zoom lens charts in the first half of 2026, with 200mm at the long…

Digital Camera WorldReviewsI hiked through a wildlife refuge with Sony’s two new compact telephoto primes. When I blew up the photos, I couldn’t believe what I had caught The Sony 400mm f/4.5 and 600mm f/5.6 GM OSS are a just-right blend between portability, price, and image quality

Digital Camera WorldReviewsPhotoshop’s AI Assistant feels made for beginners – so now the tool is coming to the newbie-friendly Photoshop Elements image editor too The latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements brings new AI-powered features to the basic editing software

Digital Camera WorldReviewsForget variable aperture and folding phones – as a photographer, the reason I want an iPhone 18 Pro is this hidden anti-AI camera tool The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max don't just get more camera controls; there's a built-in tool for authenticating an image in an era of AI slop

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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