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35mmcCinemaISO100 — Why Another Photography Portfolio Service? I wanted a website for my photography, but I did not particularly want a website project. Social media gave me somewhere to post individual photographs, though not the way I wanted to present a…

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35mmcCinemaThe Famous Five – One Shot Story Things are a bit hectic in my life at the moment. Hot days – when, at 78, I don’t necessarily need to go out into the sun – alternate with rainy days, when I no longer want to come home completely…

11.05

35mmcCinemaA Question of Scale – My Favourite Photo of 2026 This is my favourite photograph of the year. It’s not my best photo – it’s my favourite. The reason this is my favourite is because it shows what I’m playing with at the moment and It’s making me…

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35mmcCinemaOnce upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s. I haven’t enjoyed any photography lately, and haven’t picked up a camera since early Summer when I last posted an article here, that was with my Voigtlander Ultramatic.

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35mmcCinemaArchitecture of Compliance – Abbotsford Convent, Australia From 1863 until its deactivation in 1975, the Abbotsford Convent was one of the largest welfare institutions in Australia, receiving thousands of girls and women who were abandoned by their families.

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35mmcCinemaOcean Baptism in the Thames Estuary at Southend-on-Sea – My Photograph of the year 2026 Last year, I reflected that I didn’t seem to have a clear stand out “best” photograph to share for this series, but this year I feel a little different.

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35mmcCinemaThe Strange Landscape of Parys Mountain Parys Mountain is an old copper mine on the island of Anglesey in North Wales, established in the Bronze Age but heavily exploited in the 18th Century.

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35mmcCinemaThe Final 5 Frames with My Leica Digilux 2 After several years of faithful service, my beautiful Leica Digilux 2 finally succumbed to the inevitable death of its sensor.

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35mmcCinemaA Peak in a Colorless Sky – My photo of the year 2026 In August I set out on a drive around Oregon with the Contax G1 loaded with color film. I decided that this shot worked best for me in black and white due to the way the clouds were blowing over the…

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35mmcCinemaCanon EOS 650 – the cheap the good and the Phoenix The title is probably confusing enough to prompt an explanation here in the first few lines. I bought a Canon EOS 650. Why?

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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