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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

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 .

Analogue WonderlandFilmBig Film PhotoWalk 2026 - Competition Winners 🏆 The winners are announced from this year's Big Film PhotoWalk competition! More

Analogue WonderlandFilmFirst Look at the Kodak EC35 Film Camera - Review and Sample Shots Our initial review and first sample shots with the Kodak EC35 compact film camera. Paul took the yellow model on a day out in Oxford More

Analogue WonderlandFilmLomo 400 And A Village In The Hills Masha set out with a roll of Lomography film, her Olympus Trip 35 camera, and the specific goal of capturing gorgeous photos of an English seaside village.…

Analogue WonderlandFilmKodak Ultramax vs Kodak Gold: Which Film is Better? Are you stuck between choosing Kodak Ultramax or Kodak Gold film for your next project? In this post, we dive into analyzing their differences and discovering which film is better suited for you.…

Analogue WonderlandFilmA Massive Camera In The Middle of Stirling: What Could Go Wrong? Al Dawes set up a Camera Obscura in the middle of Stirling to promote the photography festival - and celebrate the Big Film PhotoWalk, and captured stunning images!…

Analogue WonderlandFilmBristol Half Marathon: Through an Analogue Lens Masha the Analogue Adventurer takes to the Bristol streets with her cameras to capture the Great Run on 35mm film More

Analogue WonderlandFilmAnalogue Adventures: Bethany On Her Travels Learn more about Bethany's trip around SE Asia, and the photos she took on the way! More

Analogue WonderlandFilmCapturing Tiny Worlds with the Pentax 17 - Macro Film Photography Welcome back to Masha - a regular in our Analogue Adventures series. This week she has been using her Pentax 17 film camera to experiment with analogue macro photography.

Analogue WonderlandFilmPURE35 Film Camera - New and Exclusive to the UK! Introducing the PURE35 camera - a simple point-and-shoot 35mm film camera designed to make analogue photography accessible and fun!

Analogue WonderlandFilmAnalogue Wonderland Turns 8 🥳 Thank you for another year of love, support, and film photography! Mary and I always like to celebrate this date with some kind of fun activity and this year we've decided to repeat the Party Bags...

Analogue WonderlandFilmAnalogue Adventures: The Vintage Camera Dress Luke Woodford constructed an entire garment from vintage cameras and turned it into a living sculpture.

Analogue WonderlandFilmKodak Ektacolor PRO Film Range is now available A fresh expansion to the brand new Eastman Kodak output has landed in our store: their Ektacolor PRO range is designed for the most discerning photographers 🧐…

Analogue WonderlandFilmPreserve Your Family Memories: New Photo Digitisation Partnership Announcing our new partnership with reLOVE - bring your old family photos and negatives back to life by digitising your film More

Analogue WonderlandFilmAnalogue Adventures: A Black and White Beginner in the Lakes Masha is back! Our first returning adventurer, and this time she's taking some bold steps. Her first EVER roll of black and white film ( Ilford HP5 obv 😅) and her first EVER half-frame camera (the…

Analogue WonderlandFilmAnalogue Adventures: Disney World and Half Frame 🌈🏰 Alex Vye thought that Disney World would be an amazing opportunity to double up on photos with a half-frame film camera...and he was RIGHT! More

Analogue WonderlandFilmAnalogue Adventures: Pinhole Selfies with Jed Pearson Jed Pearson takes (at least) one selfie on every roll of film he puts through his pinhole camera and has ended up with a mini-project.

Analogue WonderlandFilmReal Living Wage and Lab Pricing Update We are proud to be a committed affiliate of the Real Living Wage program. Learn what this means, and how lab pricing is changing in April. More

Analogue WonderlandFilmKodak Films vs Kodak Eastman Films - What's Going On? Those of you who spend lots of time online might have noticed a recent uptick in rumours about Kodak.

Analogue WonderlandFilmExposure Calculations On Your Wrist ⏱️ Introducing A Light Meter Watch At the recent Photography Show I bumped into an engaging chap called Richard, who showed me an intriguing prototype: a device that both told the time AND the exposure settings for my film camera!

Analogue WonderlandFilmStudio Photography on Film: My Top Five Tips for Beginners Over the past few months I've been deliberately trying to improve my studio skills: learning more about lighting, working with professional models, using different props, and setting up backgrounds.

Analogue WonderlandFilmBig Film PhotoWalk 2026 - Save The Date! We are excited to confirm that the Big Film PhotoWalk is going ahead this year on Saturday 27th June!

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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