Kosmo Foto

10 stories

Kosmo FotoFilmHarman Technology releases collector’s edition of Delta 400 Professional Harman Technology has launched a new limited-edition of its Ilford Delta 400 Professional film – and the differences go far beyond its brooding black packaging.

September 19

Kosmo FotoFilmLomography releases new Graffiti edition Fisheye No. 2 camera Lomography has released a new edition of its Fisheye No. 2 wide-angle 35mm camera called Graffiti. The camera is finished in eye-catching red with a graffiti script across its panels.

September 9

Kosmo FotoFilmChina Lucky Film announces two new black-and-white films China Lucky film has released two new black-and-white films called Yingzhe 100 and 400. The new films are different to the existing SHD 100 and 400 films re-released in 2024.

September 7

Kosmo FotoFilmLeica releases revamped, limited-edition version of classic Cold War Elcan 66mm lens Leica is releasing a revamped version of one of its classic Cold War “spy lenses” for the first time since the original lens was originally launched 60 years ago.

September 3

Kosmo FotoFilmEastman Kodak’s new range of films see UK price drop Eastman Kodak’s new range of self-distributed films – which were announced late last year and earlier this year – appear to be dramatically cheaper in the UK than previous versions of the film.

September 1

Kosmo FotoFilmJapan’s film shooters seem to be shooting less, but film sales are holding steady A new survey of Japanese film photographers has found film usage in Japan is holding steady despite recent price increases – and Fujifilm is losing ground to its famed American rival.

August 23

Kosmo FotoFilmPolaroid releases new cameras and film to mark 30 years of Pokémon Polaroid has announced its biggest special edition yet to mark the 30th anniversary of the Japanese video game and trading card franchise Pokémon.

August 20

Kosmo FotoFilmKosmo Foto’s Direktor walk with the Photographer’s Gallery Bookshop In May, Kosmo Foto originally planned with the help of the Photographer’s Gallery Bookshop to unveil our latest film.

August 17

Kosmo FotoFilmHarman Phoenix has a new look – and a new ISO Harman Technology is reducing the price of its Harman Photo-branded colour negative films and re-releasing the original Phoenix film with an important update.

August 12

Kosmo FotoFilmLomography releases 1980s-styled Discomatic version of Lomomatic 110 camera Lomography has launched a spectacularly colourful new version of its Lomomatic 110 compact camera for summer.

August 4

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