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FilmNeverDieAustraliaChocar: Darien Gomes's debut solo exhibition in Naarm Darien Gomes has been bringing film to FilmNeverDie for close to a decade. On 15 October, that work goes on the walls for the first time.

10.10

FilmNeverDieAustraliaFilmNeverDie Is Opening the Doors to Its Next Chapter For 15 years, FilmNeverDie has been building a home for analogue photography in Melbourne. Now, we're opening up the next chapter and giving our community the opportunity to invest in the business…

09.29

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FilmNeverDieAustraliaEnjoy the Scene, not the Screen. More than 10 years ago, I attended a startup meetup somewhere in South Yarra. I believe it was hosted by depop8 (a co-working space) founded by Erz and Jodie Imam, who was also running Occasional…

08.11

FilmNeverDieAustraliaMaki LeVine is opening her first solo exhibition Maki LeVine is a fine art photographer, registered art therapist and professional counsellor who works between Tokyo and Melbourne.

06.26

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FilmNeverDieAustraliaDo not buy another camera Thinking about buying another camera? Don't. Before you spend thousands on a Leica or Contax, ask yourself if you've truly reached the limits of the camera you already own.

06.05

FilmNeverDieAustraliaBlue Moon - 2014- 2026 More

05.22

FilmNeverDieAustraliaKodak Snapic vs Nana Camera: Real-World Wedding Shoot Results (Melbourne) A real-world wedding test in Melbourne comparing the Kodak Snapic and Nana Camera — both shot on Fujifilm 200 ISO film.

03.21

FilmNeverDieAustraliaPolicy Update For Negative Storage - Now Holding For Only 1 Week! Importart update for our customers regarding negative storage policy! Fun fact: did you know that 60% of our customers that want to keep negative don't come back to get them?

03.19

FilmNeverDieAustraliaDocumenting the Film Lab on Film: Shot with the Pentax 17 A Day at FilmNeverDie, Captured on Half-Frame Film with the Pentax 17 At FilmNeverDie, film isn’t just what we process, it’s how we see.

01.23

FilmNeverDieAustraliaIntroducing 35mm Full-Frame Border Scanning! FilmNeverDie is now offering full-frame border scanning on our Fujifilm SP-3000 scanner. This new service is available for 35mm colour, black & white, and slide (E6) film and is designed for film…

01.13

FilmNeverDieAustraliaRe-Introducing FilmNeverDie App -Late 2025 In the age of digital dominance, the charm of analog photography is experiencing a renaissance. FilmNeverDie app emerges as a revolutionary addition to this resurgence, serving as a one-stop location…

2025.11.25

FilmNeverDieAustralia📸 The New Era of Film Cameras (2024–2026) - The 7 'wonders' A New Era of Film Cameras: Honouring the Past, Celebrating What’s Coming When I first started out as a second-hand camera trader, I used to dream about the day when I could sell brand-new film…

2025.11.25

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