Japan Camera Hunter

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Japan Camera HunterCinemaJCH Youtube Camera Geekery: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – RIP my inbox JCH Youtube Camera Geekery: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – RIP my inbox It has been a while, but I have been very busy working on the store and my health.

10.19

Japan Camera HunterCinemaIn your bag 1788 – Tokyo Forgeries – Jeff Austin In your bag 1788 – Tokyo Forgeries – Jeff Austin Tokyo Forgeries , AKA, Jeff Austin is a fellow Tokyo-ite and shares with us his bag from when he first started shooting in Japan.

10.19

Japan Camera HunterCinemaIn your bag 1787 – Patric Alfred Haroldo Buehler In your bag 1787 – Patric Alfred Haroldo Buehler Patrick joins us with a sweet looking bag, with a solid mix of film and digital cameras. Including one of my favourite M mount rangefinders.

09.08

Japan Camera HunterCinemaIn your bag 1786 – Steve Hodgson In your bag 1786 – Steve Hodgson Steve is a repeat offender, they’ve shared their bag with us twice over the years. The first one all the way back in 2012!

08.01

Japan Camera HunterCinemaFrames, One Year Later Frames, One Year Later: A Film Photography Logbook App for iPhone and Mac, Shaped by Its Users A year ago Bellamy ran a piece on Frames here, and a lot has happened since.

06.10

Japan Camera HunterCinemaIn your bag 1785 – John Gleason, Jr In your bag 1785 – John Gleason, Jr In they trickle, from time to time. It is still great to see peoples bags and what they shoot.

05.26

Japan Camera HunterCinemaFilm News: WideluxX™ Presale orders open! WideluxX™ Presale orders open! Cast your mind back to July 2024 (seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it?), and you might recall we got some wonderful film news.

04.28

Japan Camera HunterCinemaCamera Geekery: Kodak Aerochrome cameras Kodak Aerochrome cameras: Building My Own Medium-Format Cameras By David Last year I met David when he joined one of my tours here in Japan.

03.16

Japan Camera HunterCinemaIn your bag 1784 – ~Enrique In your bag 1784 – ~Enrique A new ‘in your bag’, Enrique shares some really cool cameras, including the infamous Ricoh Gr21, and some Japanese inspiration. Check it out.

03.13

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