Kosmo Foto

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Kosmo FotoCinemaLomography marks LOMO MC-A’s first birthday with two new versions, accessories – and improvements Lomography has marked the first anniversary of the release of the LOMO MC-A premium compact camera by releasing two new versions – as well as updating the camera with improved features.

11.05

Kosmo FotoCinemaSingle Frame: Skeleton selfie It’s a long way from east London to Mexico. But not if you’re a member of the unquiet dead. It’s not Hallowe’en, but Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead), the festival where Mexicans remember their…

11.04

Kosmo FotoCinemaPPP Cameras’ Pierro Pozella ceases camera repairs Pierro Pozella, the camera repairer who became a restorer on the BBC’s TV show ‘The Repair Shop’, has announced he is stopping his repair service.

11.01

Kosmo FotoCinemaNew Harman Photo-branded accessories aimed at film photographers Harman Technology has released four new accessories for film photographers under the Harman Photo brand. The first is a 35mm film case.

10.26

Kosmo FotoCinemaOne-off Leica Box compact camera on sale next month A one-off Leica compact camera prototype built for the Agfa Karat 35mm film system in the 1950s is being sold at the Leitz Photographica Auction in Germany next month.

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Kosmo FotoCinemaTurning old concert shots into tour merch; Buffalo Tom ‘Live Frames (2007-2011)’ When you’ve been shooting a band for 20 years, what do you do with the archive you’ve created? I’ve been shooting Boston’s Buffalo Tom since the 2000s.

10.04

Kosmo FotoCinemaPPP Cameras unveils new website aiming to list every film camera ever made PPP Cameras’ Pierro Pozella has unveiled a momentous project – a free-to-access website which intends to list every film camera ever made.

09.30

Kosmo FotoCinemaLomography releases new Sprocket Rocket and Lomomatic 110 cameras Lomography has launched new editions of its Sprocket Rocket and Lomomatic 110 cameras. The two new Sprocket Rocket panoramic 35mm cameras are called Starlight and Ultra Violet.

09.27

Kosmo FotoCinemaHappy birthday H G Wells: A photowalk with a Martian flavour I’ve been helping run photowalks around London for the past seven years, many of them in partnership with Rob from London Camera Project.

09.21

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