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Myles KatherineReviewsReview of the Complete Douro Valley Wine Tour with Lunch, Wine Tastings and River Cruise with Viator | Porto, Portugal Travel Tips When I was planning our trip to Portugal, I knew I’d want to spend a day at the vineyards in the Douro Valley drinking port wine.

Myles KatherineReviewsMy 5 Favorite Features of the Leica D-Lux 8 | Is it worth the price and hype? Full Review with Sample Photos I’ve been dying to try out a Leica camera my entire life. They’ve always felt slightly out of reach and out of budget, especially if you’re considering the specs and…

Myles KatherineReviewsRicoh 500GX 35 mm Camera and Kodak Gold 200 | The Best 35mm Film and Camera Combo for Travel Kodak Gold 200 is my go-to film when I’m traveling because it’s one of the most affordable films out there, but also because of it’s gorgeous color tones and overall warm hue.

Myles KatherineReviewsTop 10 Best Digital Cameras of 2026 Under $2500 | The Most Desired Mirrorless Cameras on the Market You guys know I’m a Canon girlie through and through, but that doesn’t mean I don’t spend my days pining over other brands and wondering what it would be like.

Myles KatherineReviewsDacora Digna Review and How-To with Sample Photos | The Perfect Vintage Medium Format Camera for Beginners I have so many cameras laying around my house that I have to set aside days to go through them and see which ones are working, which ones need to be repaired and which ones I’ve never used before.

Myles KatherineReviewsFujifilm X-T50 Mirrorless Digital Camera Review with Example Photos | The Perfect Camera for Creatives and Beginners I’ve been wanting to try out a Fujifilm mirrorless digital camera for a lonnnggg time and I’m so excited that I finally got to experiment with one!

Myles KatherineReviewsPentax 17 35 mm Half-Frame Camera Review with Sample Photos | The Perfect 35 mm Camera for Beginners The first time I saw the Pentax 17 was at the B&H Bild Expo in New York City. I was immediately interested because it’s not very often that you see a new film camera being manufactured by such a…

Myles KatherineReviewsTop 10 Best 35mm Film Cameras for Beginner Photographers | From the Nikon FE2 to the Pentax K1000 to the Holga 135bc to the Canon AE-1 Program I still remember the very first roll of film I developed in the dark room in college and how exciting it was to see my photographs come to life.

Myles KatherineReviewsLomography Redscale XR 50-200 Color Negative Film Review with Sample Photos! I lovvvve trying out Lomography’s fun film stocks. I easily get bored with standard color film so it’s always an exciting day when I load my camera with something that is more unique and…

Myles KatherineReviewsCanon EF 50 mm f/1.4 USM Lens Review and Sample Photos with Model, Annie Montgomery (By using the affiliate links and/or codes in this blog post, you help support Myles Katherine Photography.

Myles KatherineReviews13 Affordable Film Cameras Under $150 for Beginners of Any Age - Starting Your Film Photography Journey One of the things I get asked the most about is which cameras would I recommend for beginner photographers.

Myles KatherineReviewsReview of the Old Louisville Ghost Tour as Recommended by The New York Times with Viator | Top Things to Do in Louisville, Kentucky (By using the affiliate links and/or codes in this blog post, you help support Myles Katherine Photography.

Myles KatherineReviewsLomography Berlin Kino 400 35 mm B&W Film Review with Sample Photos! (By using the affiliate links and/or codes in this blog post, you help support Myles Katherine Photography.

Myles KatherineReviewsGenaray GXS-200BI 230W Bi-Color Monolight and Angler Beauty Dish Review | The Perfect Continuous Lighting for In-Studio Photography & Videography (By using the affiliate links and/or codes in this blog post it supports Myles Katherine Photography.

Myles KatherineReviewsDubblefilm Jelly 400 35 mm Color Film Review | The Most Colorful and Funky Retro Film for Unique Photos I’m probably a little bit too excited to review the Jelly 35 mm film roll by dubblefilm , but I can’t help it!

Myles KatherineReviewsCamp Snap Camera CS- V105 Review with Sample Photos - Is it Worth all of the Hype? I’m sure you’ve seen ads for the Camp Snap camera all over your social media feeds. Or maybe that’s just me?

Myles KatherineReviewsSony RX100 VII Full Review with Sample Photos | How Does it Compare to the Ricoh GR IIIx and Canon G7X Mark II? A few weeks ago I reviewed the Ricoh GR IIIx and shared my thoughts on why it’s a perfect point and shoot camera for fine art photographers and those who want to create gorgeous, high quality photos…

Myles KatherineReviewsKodak Pro Image 100 35 mm Review with Sample Photos | The Best Affordable 35 mm Film Roll for Beginners & Professionals I’m always on the hunt for an affordable film that still delivers the quality and sharpness I need when shooting film for clients or trying out new cameras to see what they’re capable of.

Myles KatherineReviewsRicoh GR IIIx Review and Comparison with the Sony RX 100 VII | Sample Photos in Miami, Florida! Point and shoot cameras are all the rage these days and the popular ones like the Canon G7X Mark II and Fujifilm X100VI are constantly sold out everywhere.

Myles KatherineReviewsPolaroid Now Generation 2 Review & How-To with Sample Photos! The Best Polaroid Camera for Beginners (By using the affiliate links and/or codes in this blog post, you help support Myles Katherine Photography.

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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