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Kosmo FotoFilmHarman Technology releases collector’s edition of Delta 400 Professional Harman Technology has launched a new limited-edition of its Ilford Delta 400 Professional film – and the differences go far beyond its brooding black packaging.

35mmcFilmPhotographing the Hiroshima Ceremony and Lantern Floating at Milton Keynes Each year, on 6th August, people gather at the Peace Pagoda beside Willen Lake in Milton Keynes to remember the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and to reflect on the continuing importance…

Fuji RumorsRumoursRangefinder Lovers Are Hungry for Fujifilm 6th Gen: X-Pro Shooters Lead the Pack Who Will Upgrade? Over the last few weeks we have launched several surveys, trying to investigate who is potentially more inclined to upgrade to Fujifilm’s 6th generation platform.

fotoMAGAZINGermanyinstax Pal 2: Fujifilm bringt Digitalkamera ins Sofortbild-System Die instax Pal 2 kommt am 29. September 2026 in Deutschland in Schwarz und Weiß für 169,99 Euro in den Handel. Fujifilm führt mit der nur 87 Gramm leichten…

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.

Analogue WonderlandFilmTop Tips with the Kodak EC35 Film Camera - Sample Shots on a Disney Cruise Paul takes a Kodak EC35 film camera on board a Disney cruise ship to test its suitability on a fast-paced family holiday More

Kosmo FotoFilmLomography releases new Graffiti edition Fisheye No. 2 camera Lomography has released a new edition of its Fisheye No. 2 wide-angle 35mm camera called Graffiti. The camera is finished in eye-catching red with a graffiti script across its panels.

Analogue WonderlandFilmFilm Photographers 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Bouldering Our Analogue Adventurer headed into a dark and chalk-filled climbing gym to try and learn how to take fantastic bouldering photos on film More

Analogue WonderlandFilmA New Chapter for Kodak Film For a company whose name is practically synonymous with photography, Eastman Kodak making a bigger move back into still film recently feels like rather a big deal .

Japan Camera HunterFilmFrames, One Year Later Frames, One Year Later: A Film Photography Logbook App for iPhone and Mac, Shaped by Its Users A year ago Bellamy ran a piece on Frames here, and a lot has happened since.

ePHOTOzineReviewsFujifilm Unveils instax Link WIDE 2 Smartphone Printer with Photo Mixer Fujifilm launches the instax Link WIDE 2 smartphone printer, adding the Photo Mixer app feature alongside expanded customisation options for instant photo printing.

ePHOTOzineReviewsFujifilm Launched instax Pal 2 Ultra-Portable Digital Camera Fujifilm has announced the instax Pal 2, a portable digital camera with optical viewfinder, animation capture and wireless instax printer compatibility.

Amateur PhotographerReviewsThese intriguing film photographs offer a fresh edgy take on fashion imagery. You should definitely check them out today Evan dos Santos shares more about his fashion photography taken on film and his approach, inspirations and gear

PetaPixelReviewsKodak Ektar 100 Brings Fine Grain and Vivid Color Saturation Welcome back to Film Friday. We’re featuring one of our heavy hitters this week with Kodak’s Ektar 100.

DPReviewReviewsThis 2.5-hour Leica restoration video is basically camera ASMR for film photographers The footage follows every disassembly step, cleaning pass and reassembly sequence of a classic Leica body, in real time, with no flashy cuts, no commentary and no music.

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Accidentally Double-Exposes Wedding Photos With Pictures of Her Dog and Cat Anyone who's ever tried out film photography knows that it can be a minefield -- easy to get wrong or receive unexpected results. [

FstoppersReviewsFive Experimental Film Tricks Tested on a Zero-Dollar Budget Experimental film photography rarely gets a fair shake because most of the ideas floating around live in old technical manuals or die in a single frustrated attempt.

LomographyFilmBetween Light, Shadow, and Emotion: Carl Cengiz Rakip Tests Lomography Films Fueled by curiosity, Carl Cengiz Rakip recently set out to try all of Lomography's film stocks. In this interview, he shares his insights and explains how analogue photography expands perspective on…

Photografix (DE)GermanyFujifilm erfindet seine seltsamste Kamera komplett neu Fujifilm hat die Instax Pal 2 vorgestellt. Die winzige Digitalkamera sieht aus wie eine geschrumpfte analoge Kamera und bringt jetzt einen Sucher mit.

35mmcFilmPracticing the Forgotten Art of Patience Through Film Photography “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas I carry a camera with me everywhere I go. What I lack in talent, I tell myself, I make up for in perseverance.

Photo Trend (FR)FranceInstax Link Wide 2 : l’imprimante grand format instantanée passe à l’USB-C et aux collages automatiques Fujifilm renouvelle son imprimante pour smartphone au format WIDE : l'instax Link WIDE 2 gagne l'USB-C, le Bluetooth 5.1, un design bicolore et la fonction de collage automatique Photo Mixer.

LomographyFilmCoffee in Kent and a Photowalk in London with Elliot Masters and the Lomo MC-A Teacher and freelance photographer Elliot Masters created a photo diary of this latest travels using the Lomo MC-A.

LomographyFilmAn Analogue Adventure in Egypt: Adrian Norbert Cuper Packs the Fisheye No. 2 & Sprocket Rocket The pyramids basked in sunlight, camels resting against the warm sand...Adrian Norbert Cuper knows how to capture these memorable sights with the Sprocket Rocket and Fisheye No. 2 cameras!

35mmcFilmGiving Away the Eclipse – The human power of instant photography beneath a black-eyed sun Above: A portrait beneath the black-eyed sun of the 2026 eclipse, made on Instax Wide film with a modified Polaroid 180 Land Camera. The original was given to the sitter; this is a smartphone record.

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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