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Canny CamerasReviewsHitting the bar – Rewindpix PS135 Review 2026 battle for the best screenless digital heats up with the final arrival of the Rewinpix PS135. The hype has lead to one of the most successful camera launches via Kickstarter with over 8000…

10.02

Canny CamerasReviewsThe XPan VUWS ? – Reto Pano Review Like the VUWS but want a bit more ? Well in 2025 Reto quietly released the camera that might be for you . Over shadowed by their Kodak branded cameras – this one is a sleeper Lo-Fi.

08.29

Canny CamerasReviewsThe clear return – Flashback ONE35 V2 Review Launched on Kickstarter in 2023, the original Flashback ONE35 promised disposable film camera feel in a reusable digital format.

06.01

Canny CamerasReviewsCanny or Canned ? – The Cappy camera Review Finally 18 months after it originally launched I finally have got my hands on a Cappy Camera. But was this worth £145 I paid for for it via Amazon?

04.11

Canny CamerasReviewsThe Quest for the Lo-Fi Holy Grail – Echolens Digital Camera review What is the perfect Lo-Fi camera.? Is one man’s Holy grail another’s very naughty boy ? By 2025 the market was getting pretty crowded.

04.01

Canny CamerasReviewsThe Lo-Fi that wouldn’t die – Cappy Camera is back The Lo-Fi camera no one asked for has risen from the grave. Having been effectively cancelled by legal action in 2024 the Cappy camera is weirdly back but only if you live in the US or are happy to…

03.28

Canny CamerasReviewsThe Mother of Digital Lo-Fi but Flat-packed -Meet the IKEA Knäppa When does Digital Lo-Fi start ? Is it kid- cams from the noughties or is it this offering from the Swedish Purveyors of meatballs and DIY flat packed furniture IKEA ?

03.04

Canny CamerasReviewsThe Comeback Kid – The Retro Snap V2 Review Retro Snap Lo-Fi Digital Camera won my worst camera of 2024 by some margin in a year that wasn’t short of awful new cameras.

02.22

Canny CamerasReviews2025 – The Year In Photography So another year over. I’ve hardly posted this year so the awards are going to be brief . But a lot has happened from new AF compacts, new (or is it old) film.

01.24

Canny CamerasReviewsCanny Camera’s 2025 Predictions – Clairvoyant or Needing a Chair ? In my annual run down of the world of photography for 2024, I made some predication for this year. But was I spot on or wide of the mark with my 2025 Predictions.

2025.12.30

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