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RedShark NewsCinemaInsta360 X6 Spatial Capture: US rollout confirmed Insta360's Spatial Capture technology rolls out in the US on September 28 for X6, X5 and X4 Air models, turning 360 video into explorable 3D scenes.

September 19

RedShark NewsCinemaNikon Z5IIC: leaked specs, price and release date A brief and quickly pulled Z5IIC listing on Nikon's German site, points to a compact, viewfinder-light rival to Sony's a7C II launching as soon as next week.

September 19

RedShark NewsCinemaAdobe Premiere: IBC2026 video Adobe's Jason Druss demos Premiere Beta's IBC 2026 update: three new Color Mode modules, one-click Auto Color, HSL masks and a Tangent Wave 2 partnership.

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaAfter Effects AI Assistant enters public beta Adobe's AI Assistant for After Effects has reached public beta, reading entire projects to reorganize files, write expressions, and fix broken rigs. The live demo on the IBC show floor was impressive.

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaOWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI: IBC2026 OWC's newest Thunderbolt 5 dock adds dual HDMI outputs, a vertical or horizontal stand, and passive cooling built to handle a fully loaded port array without overheating or tipping.

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaQScan IBC2026: Frame.io integration, comparisons QScan has added direct Frame.io integration and three new file-comparison modes to QScan AQC and QScan Verify, all unveiled at IBC2026 in Amsterdam.

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaStrada IBC2026: RAW file comments, transcoding Strada 2.0 now lets editors comment directly on RAW camera files, one-click transcode large codecs, and edit remotely from a feature-complete iOS app.

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaEIZO on the IBC2026 show floor: CG3200X OLED and more At IBC 2026, EIZO's Dan Emmett gave us tour of the ColorEdge range on the company's stand, focused on how the line handles HDR grading and, in particular, the challenges of bringing OLED technology…

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaFrame.io Drive and 3D asset support at IBC2026 Frame.io's JJ Powell demonstrates Drive's mounted cloud storage, automatic version history, and a new 3D asset viewer live from the IBC2026 show floor.

September 18

RedShark NewsCinemaSony FX5 delay: late October or later release window Sony Japan has revised its FX5 delay notice, setting a target of late October or later, but still won't confirm why the camera is late.

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