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Kamerastore blogReviewsPuoli vuosisataa fotoalan ja Tapiolan ytimessä – Ovet sulkeutuvat eläköitymisen myötä Kun kotimaisen, ja etenkin espoolaisen, fotoalan historiaa miettii, yksi suku nousee väistämättä ylitse muiden: Teräväisen perhe. Nyt edessä on historiallisen aikakauden päätös.

Kamerastore blogReviewsOld Doesn't Mean Bad: The Real Value of a Used Camera It's easy to get caught up in the modern camera release cycle. Every year brings promises of better photos through artificial intelligence, faster autofocus, and eye-watering megapixel counts.

Kamerastore blogReviewsThe Ultimate Guide to 35mm Film Photography There is nothing quite like the mechanical click of a shutter, the anticipation of waiting for your scans (or going into the darkroom), and the beautiful, imperfect charm of analog photography.

Kamerastore blogReviewsPhotographer of the Month: Ari Jaaksi Photographer of the Month – Ari Jaaksi Tell our audience briefly who you are and what inspired you to take on photography? I'm Ari Jaaksi, a photographer from Tampere, Finland.

Kamerastore blogReviewsThe Ultimate Pentax 67 Guide: History, Iconic Lenses, and Real-World Review The Pentax 67 is widely considered the king of medium format SLR cameras. Resembling a 35mm film camera on steroids, this iconic 120 film system offers a massive 6x7 negative size (specifically…

Kamerastore blogReviewsKamerastore goes Salon de la Photo - France 2026 During the last 10 years France has always been very important to Kamerastore, forming to be our main base outside the Nordics.

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Kamerastore blogReviewsTop 10 Leica Film Cameras of 2026 Introduction Leica is a name that needs no introduction. The German manufacturer has been creating iconic, long-lasting products for generations.

Kamerastore blogReviewsTop 10 Olympus Film Cameras of 2026 Introduction Olympus 35mm cameras have been some of the most popular in recent memory. They've been jumping up in price and notoriety and leading the general upward trend in film camera prices.

Kamerastore blogReviewsCompact Cameras: A Brief Overview Introduction The hype train is here. Next stop? Compact cameras. All aboard! Be sure not to bring ANY liquids on board or the entire train may stop working. Also, don't hit the train too hard.

Kamerastore blogReviewsHow to meter your film photographs Film photography has been on the rise and with it a lot of questions have sparked about how to handle this exciting new (old) medium.

Kamerastore blogReviewsMamiya 6 & 7 Rangefinders: A Brief Overview Introduction The Mamiya 6 and 7 rangefinders are two of the most popular cameras of the past few years, and their popularity will only increase in the years to come.

Kamerastore blogReviewsSLR Cameras: A Brief Overview SLRs have been the dominant style of camera for almost 70 years. Over that time, SLRs have taken many forms and gone through many changes. What unites them all?

Kamerastore blogReviewsTop 10 Nikon Film Cameras of 2026 Top 10 Best Nikon Cameras A Nikon film camera comes with a badge of quality and utilitarian charm that no other brands can replicate.

Kamerastore blogReviewsPhotographer of the Month: Karin Majoka Tell our audience briefly who you are and what inspired you to take on photography? I am Karin Majoka, a film photographer, YouTuber, and in my other life a psychological psychotherapist, based in…

Kamerastore blogReviewsContax T2 Review Introduction The Contax T2 is a 35mm, automatic & electronically controlled manual focus compact camera with fixed 38mm f2.8 retractable Carl Zeiss T* lens.

Kamerastore blogReviewsHow to Sell Used Camera Gear Online: Turn Old Cameras into Cash Got an old camera collecting dust in a closet? Don't let it sit there! It might be worth a small fortune.

Kamerastore blogReviewsPhotographer of the Month: Tan Vuong Cover photo by: Mete Tikka ( https://www.instagram.com/meterminated/ ) 1. Tell our audience briefly who you are and what inspired you to take on photography?

Kamerastore blogReviewsThe Pentax K System: A Brief Overview Additionally, check out our video on the Top 10 Pentax cameras of 2020! We gathered search result data and let the internet pick the most popular Pentax cameras!

Kamerastore blogReviewsPhotographer of the Month: Mete Tikka 1. Tell our audience briefly who you are and what inspired you to take on photography? My name is Mete, I’m a film photography enthusiast based in Helsinki, Finland.

Kamerastore blogReviewsTop 10 Pentax Film Cameras of 2026 Introduction The Asahi Optical Company was around for awhile before the production of the first Pentax cameras.

Kamerastore blogReviewsPhotographer of the Month: Sanni Hirvonen 1. Tell our audience briefly who you are and what inspired you to take on photography? My name Sanni and I’m from Helsinki. What inspires me most are people, light and colours.

Kamerastore blogReviewsTo the Moon and Back: Why NASA Still Trusts the Nikon D5 DSLR (And Why You Should Too) In the camera world, the year 2026 is all about global shutters and eye-tracking AI that can find a bird’s pupil from a kilometer away.

Kamerastore blogReviewsMamiya RZ67 Guide Introduction This Mamiya RZ67 guide is slightly different from our “Brief Overview” series. Here, we’ll be focusing more on the actual use of the camera and provide some tips and hints about buying…

Kamerastore blogReviewsIs Your eBay Camera Actually "Mint"? A Kamerastore Condition Report Hi there! My name is Jahan (@doyoudevelop on Instagram), and I’m writing this to share my personal experience as a photographer navigating the often-unpredictable world of second-hand gear.

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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