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Analogue WonderlandCinemaWhere's My Film? 🤔 Live Film Developing Tracking! How long does film developing take at the WonderLab? Well right now, colour and black and white film is back as scans about 2 working days after it reaches us (or within one working day with Express…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaSouping Film: Meredith's Recipes, Risks and Happy Accidents Souping film means soaking a roll in a liquid (tea, lemon juice, bath bombs, even canal water) before or after you shoot it, so the soup eats into the emulsion and paints its own colours and textures…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaCineStill 800T at Night: The Bright Lights of Luxembourg's Funfair Shooting film at night can feel like a leap of faith, which is exactly what CineStill 800T was made for.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaHalloween Has Arrived at AW: Spooky Stickers, Creepy-Cool Tees & Films for Darker Days It's Spooky Season here at Analogue Wonderland and we love to sink our teeth into new products, horror designs and of course, the best films fitting for this time of year.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaKodak Summer Competition 2026 - Winners Announced! 🏆 Are you ready to find out who won the three prizes for this year's Summer Kodak Competition? You can watch the full video below (including a review of the shortlisted images) and view all the photos…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaAnalogue Wonderland is the Best Film Photography Retailer 2026! We're thrilled to say that Analogue Wonderland has been recognised as the Best Film Photography Retailer in the UK for 2026 in the SME News' Business Elite Awards!

Analogue WonderlandCinemaDouble WonderPoints Weekend! 🤑 🤑 Welcome to a wonderful Double WonderPoints weekend. This is an event where you get to earn TWICE as many WonderPoints as normal - 10 for every £1 spent on film , cameras , or developing your films 🌟…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaKodak Ektar vs Pro Image - the Battle of ISO 100 Film Many of us have shot a range of Kodak colour films, and maybe developed ( 😜 ) a preference based on the results. But how many of us have made a direct comparison by shooting films side-by-side?

Analogue WonderlandCinemaTop Tips with the Kodak EC35 Film Camera - Sample Shots on a Disney Cruise This is not our first - or even our second ! - blog post showing film photos from Disney locations. And that is probably because Disney has a special gift (a.k.a.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaFilm Photographers 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Bouldering When the idea of writing this blog waddled into my mind, I of course ran it past some friends. “Have you ever taken your film camera climbing?”, I said, to which “why on earth wouldn't you?!” came as…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaA 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 WonderlandCinemaBig Film PhotoWalk 2026 - Competition Winners 🏆 Huge congratulations to the winners of this year's BFP26 photo competition! All shot on Kodak UltraMax and developed by our lab as part of the Big Film PhotoWalk celebrations.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaFirst Look at the Kodak EC35 Film Camera - Review and Sample Shots I've spent the past few days with Kodak's EC35 film camera (yes, the yellow one to match Kodak colours!) and I've got some initial photos and thoughts to share with you.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaLomo 400 And A Village In The Hills Not every Analogue Adventure needs to be to far-flung corners of the world 😅 Beautiful settings are often a short drive from our own home, and Masha set out with the specific goal of capturing…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaKodak Ultramax vs Kodak Gold: Which Film is Better? Wondering which film is the better choice for you – Kodak Ultramax or Gold? As two of the most popular colour 35mm films in the world, and cheaper than the premium Kodak emulsions of Portra or Ektar…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaA Massive Camera In The Middle of Stirling: What Could Go Wrong? Have you ever seen a Camera Obscura in real life? This is the device that first allowed people (in ~5th Century BC China) to project a vision of real life directly onto a flat surface.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaBristol Half Marathon: Through an Analogue Lens Welcome back to our Analogue Adventurer Masha! Today she's describing her experience shooting the Bristol half marathon with film cameras.

Analogue WonderlandCinemaAnalogue Adventures: Bethany On Her Travels Welcome to another Analogue Adventure 🎉 I was captured by Bethany's stories of travelling around SE Asia - especially as she has the extra challenge of managing her Crohn's disease on top of all the…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaCapturing 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 WonderlandCinemaPURE35 Film Camera - New and Exclusive to the UK! It's a birthday treat! And a project that's we've been working on - alongside Kodak - for the past year 😅 Now available for immediate purchase HERE Introducing the PURE35 Film Camera!

Analogue WonderlandCinemaAnalogue Wonderland Turns 8 🥳 Thank you for another year of love, support, and film photography! It is now a full eight years since we shipped the first package of film to a member of the community and since then we've enjoyed…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaAnalogue Adventures: The Vintage Camera Dress Our next Analogue Adventure had a surprising parallel at the recent Met Gala when Sabrina Carpenter appeared in a dress made of film negatives!

Analogue WonderlandCinemaKodak 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 🧐 High grain, fantastic colours, and a…

Analogue WonderlandCinemaPreserve Your Family Memories: New Photo Digitisation Partnership Photo digitisation is a bit of a mouthful but it is an important one! It is the process by which old analogue negatives, prints, and movie tapes are scanned and edited for modern sharing and viewing.

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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