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Camera Go CameraReviewsContax AX I think this might be the last Contax I will add to the list of cameras I have used. This…

11.01

Camera Go CameraReviewsThrowback Anyday: June 2017 and Updates I haven’t done one of these for a while, so I decided to spend some of Storm Austen time on…

10.25

Camera Go CameraReviewsStereo Realist and a Return to the Reto 3D At the beginning of the year, I posted a review of the Wray Stereo Graphic. I mentioned that I was…

10.13

Camera Go CameraReviewsPhoto Post: Konica Auto S1.6 This is the final photo post for today, but I have loads more things to catch up on. I haven’t…

09.27

Camera Go CameraReviewsPhoto Post: Contax 139 and HP5 I have been using a lot of Ilford HP5 lately. I bought a bulk roll which expired in 2007 from…

09.27

Camera Go CameraReviewsPhoto Post: Return to the Olympus OM4 I have written before that this was my first dream camera. It was the one I wanted when I bought…

09.27

Camera Go CameraReviewsGoko Macromax FR-350 I have just started a short teaching assignment, meaning I have a little more cash. So, I decided to go…

09.19

Camera Go CameraReviewsPhoto Post: Eastman 5360 Film Swap A like-minded friend sent me some film. This is one of the nice things about having internet friends who are…

09.13

Camera Go CameraReviewsPhoto Post: Camping with Tiny Film Cameras I have gone on a few camping trips this year, with various cameras…and in various weather conditions. One thing I…

08.31

Camera Go CameraReviewsEight Innovation Classic Camera Kit (Hayes) I had seen this kit in a few shops, and on one rare affluent day, I bought it. Then I…

08.31

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