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MacfilosReviewsThe M Files (32): Thypoch Simera 28/1.4 review — the universal rangefinder wide-angle? Episode 32 of the M Files puts the Thypoch Simera 28/1.4 from a young Chinese manufacturer to the test: a fast, compact and affordable M-Mount wide-angle with impressive optics and a few handling…

LomographyCinemaAle and His Lomo MC-A Journey A few heartbeats ago, we received Ale's email about his story with a Lomo MC-A. He chronicled his journey from receiving the camera, to travelling with it, and eventually losing it.

Camera JabberReviewsWhy Ilford Ortho Plus is the film every darkroom student should watch develop Ilford Ortho Plus is a slow, fine-grain black-and-white film that ignores red light, which means you can develop it by eye under a deep red safelight.

FstoppersReviewsWhy Kodak Film Sensitivity Depended on Cows and Mustard The working dose Samuel Sheppard wrote into his patent was 2 to 3 grains of thiosinamine per 100 pounds of dry gelatin, which works out to roughly three or four parts per million.

Kosmo FotoCinemaLomography marks LOMO MC-A’s first birthday with two new versions, accessories – and improvements Lomography has marked the first anniversary of the release of the LOMO MC-A premium compact camera by releasing two new versions – as well as updating the camera with improved features.

LomographyCinemaA Sonic Snapshot by Euan Fryer from Athens of the North with the Lomo MC-A Edinburgh-based record label Athens of The North is run by Euan Fryer (a.k.a. DJ Fryer), who documented a typical week using the Lomo MC-A.

LomographyCinemaFirst Roll Favorites with the Lomo MC-A by @chrismetz, @badmotion, and @jsphaz The series moves forward with Community members’ @chrismetz, @badmotion, and @jsphaz sharing their first roll stories with the Lomo MC-A, and some insights on their winning entries during the…

PhotoscalaGermanyFujifilm instax SQUARE 2: Sofortbildkamera im Quadratformat mit Mood-Filtern Fujifilm instax SQUARE 2: Sofortbildkamera mit drei Fokusmodi und Mood-Filtern Cool und Warm, ab 9. November für 109,99 Euro.

The Verge CamerasTechRian Johnson explains why he had to build his own iPhone camera app Rian Johnson. Rian Johnson is an analog photography devotee. The director of Knives Out and The Last Jedi can often be spotted on set with a Leica M6 at his side, documenting production on film.

DigimanieCzechiaFujifilm instax Pal 2 s 10 MPx za 4000 Kč Instantní fotografie je hodně populární a na českém trhu už jde sehnat další novinku společnosti Fujifilm, fotoaparát instax Pal 2. Jde o 10MPx digitální kompakt.

Tokyo Camera Style

Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo Leica M7 with 35mm f1.2 Noctilux lens

Alex LuyckxReviewsExtreme Film Test No. 12 – Ilford Delta 400 What surprised me the most about this one is that there is no listed time for Delta 400 and Diafine. But not every film can respond to Diafine, which is okay.

Tokyo Camera Style

Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo Leica M3J + Leica Summilux 35mm F1.4 AA (Double Aspherical) with another Leica M3J + Leica Summilux 50mm F1.4 Pre-ASPH —Millennium Edition The camera and lens models listed above won’t mean…

Broken Camera ClubReviewsKodak Retina IIIc The Retina IIIc (Type 021) was in production from 1954 to 1957. It was the sixth Retina model produced by Kodak in Stuttgart, Germany.

Analog.cafeCinemaThis lab keeps Kodak in business. A roll of film today can be $20, but that’s nothing compared to the expenses a large movie production incurs.

Colossal PhotographyCultureA Rare Disease and Analog Photography Merge in a Portrait of Self-Discovery “ Everything Twice ” is a quiet meditation on disability and the ways we orient ourselves in the world.

Shoot It With FilmCinemaA Closer Look at 400 Speed Film: Fujifilm 400, Kodak UltraMax, & Lomography 400 by Katya Rowny I have a bit of a thing for 400 speed film. Initially, I thought it was just for UltraMax 400, but reviewing my film scans from years past, I’ve shot numerous rolls...

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsMy Leica M3 Returns My Leica M3 went off for a much needed service, nothing was broken, it was last touched by a repair tech 15 years ago.

Lens And ShutterReviewsKodak Charmera review: a fun toy at the right price The Kodak Charmera makes sense as a tiny photo toy. Here are its real limits, card and charging needs, blind-box pitfalls, and our buying verdict.

Analog.cafeCinemaFilm Photography News — October 2026 Recap: A Double-Podcast Feature, New Harman Film?, $19M in Fujifilm Money, Apps, Meters, and Tri-Colour Scanning TL;DR: A Double-Podcast Feature with Mia Glanz and Yvonne Hanson; rumours of new Harman colour-negative film; Fujifilm invests $19,000,000 in Instax production; new apps for film photographers…

Digital Trends PhotographyTechFujifilm’s Instax Mini Evo 2 makes instant photography more digital with touchscreen and video capture The new Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo 2 brings touchscreen controls, 100 creative effect combinations, and a clever way to capture moments before the shutter clicks.

Fujifilm Japan news

Fujifilm Japan newsJapanハイブリッドインスタントカメラ「instax mini Evo 2（インスタックスミニエヴォツー）™」新発売富士フイルム株式会社（本社：東京都港区、代表取締役社長・CEO：後藤禎一）は、instax ™ “チェキ”のハイブリッドインスタントカメラ「instax™ Evo（インスタックスエヴォ）」シリーズの最新モデル「instax mini Evo 2（インスタックスミニエヴォツー） ™ 」（以下、「mini Evo 2」）を2026年11月27日に発売します。

Fujifilm Japan news

Fujifilm Japan newsJapanアナログインスタントカメラ「instax SQUARE 2（インスタックススクエアツー）™」新発売富士フイルム株式会社（本社：東京都港区、代表取締役社長・CEO：後藤禎一）は、撮ったその場ですぐにプリントが楽しめるinstax ™ “チェキ”シリーズのスクエアフォーマットに対応したアナログインスタントカメラ「instax SQUARE 2（インスタックススクエアツー） ™ 」(以下、「SQUARE 2」）を2026年11月13日に発売します。

CamerAgXReviewsThe Pentax 17 – a Holga without the light leaks? The Pentax 17 is an interesting camera – developed by a team of enthusiasts who did not want to make an “autofocus compact of the nineties” reedition, but were trying to bring a new generation of…

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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