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Going LomoCinemaHoods Up Here are some more cars from the European Classic Car Meet.

Going LomoCinemaAround Town on Harman Red 125 I shot these photos around Calgary using Harman Red 125, which is just redscaled Harman Phoenix 200. I’ve tried a variety of different redscale films and this one has to be one of my favourites.

Going LomoCinemaHarvie Passage #3 Here are a few more photos from Harvie Passage shot with my Balda Baldix. There were no kayakers this day on the rapids.

Going LomoCinemaFalse Creek We visited family in Vancouver a few weeks ago. These photos of False Creek were taken from the seawall at Science World.

Going LomoCinemaFirst Impressions of the Minolta P’s I’ve been eyeing the Minolta P’s for quite some time, indecisive about whether or not I really needed another camera.

Going LomoCinemaFilm on Film #16: Kodak Aerocolor IV All three film rolls pictured here (Film Washi X 100, Flic Film Elektra 100, and SFL Aerocolor 125), as well as last week’s photos of Pōrangahau Beach (shot on Silberra Color 160), are rebrands of…

Going LomoCinemaPōrangahau Beach This is Pōrangahau Beach in Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of New Zealand. While I thought it was cool to see a horse on the beach, I wasn’t expecting people to drive their cars and trucks onto the…

Going LomoCinemaLuchadores #3 Here are the remaining photos of Luchadores shot on Harman Phoenix 200. You can see some of that red splotchy grain I spoke about last time in the shadows of skin tones.

Going LomoCinemaLuchadores #2 I shot these Luchadores at Mexifest on the original Harman Phoenix 200. Apart from the punchy contrast and saturated colors, this film struggles with skin tones.

Going LomoCinemaCalgary Farmyard #2 These photos from Calgary Farmyard were shot on a roll of Agfa HDC 400 that somehow managed to get twisted inside the cassette when I tried retrieving the film for developing.

Going LomoCinemaCalgary Photo Walk These are from a long photo walk I took one day from Eau Claire, through Prince’s Island Park, across the Bow River, to the top of McHugh Bluff… and back again.

Going LomoCinemaAround Town on 110 I shot these photos around Calgary over the course of many photo walks using Lomography LomoChrome Color ’92 Sun-Kissed 400 film. I have to say, I don’t know what to make of this film.

Going LomoCinemaFirst Photos on Kodak Kodacolor 100 Here are a few photos I shot on Kodak Kodacolor 100. I bought a couple rolls of this film on the day it was released and shot a roll soon after, but it’s taken me this long to develop and scan the…

Going LomoCinemaCalgary Fire Rescue The weather on July 1st last year (Canada Day) was sunny and hot — a perfect day for rafting on the Bow River.

Going LomoCinemaDowntown Photo Walk #4 I came across this apartment building on one of my photo walks downtown. I shot these photos on an old, long-expired roll of 220 film, Fuji Super G Ace 400.

Going LomoCinemaAbandoned Construction I’ve driven past this construction site a number of times over the last few years and have always found it odd that no progress has been made.

Going LomoCinemaLion Dance These photos are from Canada Day 2023. I was walking by City Hall when I spotted this Lion Dance about to take place, so I joined the crowd.

Going LomoCinemaChinese Scholars’ Garden Part 2 Here are more photos from the Chinese Scholars’ Garden in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Going LomoCinemaChinese Scholars’ Garden Part 1 This is the Chinese Scholars’ Garden, one of many themed gardens found at Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand.

Going LomoCinemaArt of High Park I shot these at High Park, a rooftop park atop a parkade in downtown Calgary.

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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