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Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsInto Ossington Village and Dundas West. I'm loving the second roll of OptiColour 200 almost more than the first roll. Ok, I shot the film at 125 ISO, I tend to overexpose my film a bit above 100 ISO.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsA Walk Up from LIberty Village Optik OldSchool is a German photolab that a few short years ago started selling their Opti Colour 200 colour film made for them by ORWO Wolfen.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsMy Leica M3 Returns My Leica M3 went off for a much needed service, nothing was broken, it was last touched by a repair tech 15 years ago.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsAnother Walk Down to the Brickworks. One August Wednesday I decided to do another walk down to the Brickworks from home. Instead of doing the Mud Creek Ravine Belt Line Trail, I cut through Moore Park and Rosedale and took the…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsHarbourfront on Canon FDn Zoom Lenses and a New F-1 AE Part Two Continuing on my walk along Harbourfront after lunch, I was sort of wondering what I was going to get with Fomapan 200 Creative, I last shot it late June on Toronto Island through my Olympus OM-2n…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsHarbourfront on Canon FDn Zoom Lenses and a New F-1 AE Part One I went down to Harbourfont on a hot midweek August day to wander around, make some photos and get better acquainted with my Canon FDn zoom lens collection.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsAugust Long Weekend Part Two Part two is Cannington, the small village of Sunderland off Highway 12 at the south end of Brock Township and ending up in Uxbridge stopping by at Second Wedge Brewing for dinner and picked up…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsAugust Long Weekend Part One August long weekend was perfect weather wise, and being part of 100 ISO Summer, I rolled with Kodak Pro Image 100 in my Nikon F3/T.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsWandering Around the Neighbourhood with Dad's Nikon F A mid Summer walk around my neighbourhood and I brought dad's Nikon F out off the shelf for a workout.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsContinuing On with Kentmere 100 with a Nikon FM Yeah, Kentmere 100 just plain rocks. That is all in that department. I am a Nikon fan boy with scores of F, F2, three F3's a pair of F4's, pair of F90x's, a pair of F100's an F5, FM2's a…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsMirvish Village Reborn and into the Annex/Sussex Village After Koreatown, we wandered into the recently reopened Mirvish Village, a sort of transitional micro neighbourhood between Koreatown and The Annex.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsWandering Christie Pits and Koreatown Shooting Kentmere 100 I haven't shot Kentmere 100 in a minute so I grabbed a few rolls from Downtown Camera to play with. I loaded one of my Nikon FE2's for the mid week photo walk with the Wednesday Gang.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsCaledon in July It was a nice Sunday morning drive up to Belfountain northwest of Toronto. I took one of my Rolleiflexes with me this time out (the 2.8C) and shot with some OG Fujifilm Acros 100, I exposed at…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsGlen Manor Drive to the Beaches Proper. It was a great walk, so much so, I turned it into a Toronto Film Shooters photowalk in August. Camera: Minolta XD, MD Rokkor Lenses. Film: Eastman Kodak Kodacolor 100.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsA Walk Through the Upper Beaches down to Glen Stewart Ravine and Glen Manor Drive Toronto real estate agents have this habit of remaning certain neighbourhoods to make them sound more appealing, in this case East Toronto became, The Upper Beaches. Prior to being…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsScarborough Wander Part Two I put my Canon L Series FDn 20-35 F3.5 Zoon to work on this photo walk, a fun lens to work with. I did have some distortion at 20mm but that can be easily fixed in Lightroom.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsScarborough Wander Part One My friend Art Liem, known him for years, first through the Analog Photography Users Group and more recently with the Toronto Film Shooters Facebook Group, long floated an idea of a photo walk…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsThe July Toronto Film Shooters Photo Walk Part Two, From Jones Ave to The Danforth. Toronto's east end has a lot of character and in some ways is more the "real" Toronto as it hasn't been quite has gentrified compared to the west end.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsThe July Toronto Film Shooters Photo Walk, From the Rooster to Jones Ave. The July photo walk was east end focused starting at the Rooster Coffee House on Broadview. I love this location because one, great coffee and baked goods, and across the street on Broadview…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsJuly Sunday Afternoon in the Annex I stared this roll a sunny Sunday July afternoon down in the Annex, met up with Jo-Anne for dinner at the Victory Cafe.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsDowntown in July Been a minute since I last shot with one of my Nikkormats, so I pulled out an FT2, put on a Nikkor O 35 F2 lens, and went downtown.

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsA Really Hot Canada Day in Brock Township It was a stinky hot Canada Day, Jo-Anne was up in North Bay visiting family so I did a solo day trip up to Beaverton and Cannington, Saner heads would have just hung out at home and blast the…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsA Walk Down to the Don Valley Brickworks I went for a walk on a Wednesday over a month ago from my place, down Mount Pleasant Road to Moore Park, eventually winding up at the Don Valley Brickworks by way of the Beltline Trail along…

Fun With Cameras (Bill Smith)ReviewsCrawford to Ossington Village I love phtoographing around Trinity Bellwoods and Ossington Village either in black and white or colour, never get bored. One thing I haven't really done is shoot colour through Leica R…

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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