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Parallax PhotographicCinemaLucky 200 120 Film Review Here is our Lucky 200 120 Film Review. We shot a roll in our Fuji GA645i. So, take a look at our film review and…

09.07

Parallax PhotographicCinemaAugust Bank Holiday Our shop will be closed for the August Bank Holiday Monday. We are closed on Monday 31 August 2026. Open as usual on Tuesday.

08.22

Parallax PhotographicCinemaThird Kodak Ultramax 400 Film Review Here is our Third Kodak Ultramax 400 Film Review. We shot a roll on our Kodak Snapic A1 along the Kent coast. So, have a…

08.08

Parallax PhotographicCinemaLucky 200 Film Review Here is our Lucky 200 Film Review. We shot a roll in our Olympus mju II. So, take a look at our film review and…

05.23

Parallax PhotographicCinemaHarman Switch Azure 125 Film Review Here is our Harman Switch Azure 125 Film Review. We shot a roll in our Contax G2. So, take a look at our film review…

04.25

Parallax PhotographicCinemaEaster Weekend We will be closed for the Easter Friday 3 April and Monday 6 April. We'll be open again on Tuesday 7 April at 10am.

03.28

Parallax PhotographicCinemaKodak T-Max 400 Film Review Here is our Kodak T-Max 400 in 510 Pyro Film Review. We shot a roll on our Kodak Snapic A1 and developed in 510 Pyro…

02.01

Parallax PhotographicCinemaHolidays Are Coming Christmas Opening Times Monday 22 December: Open 10am – 6pm Tuesday 23 December: Open 10am – 6pm Wednesday 24 December: Open 10am – 2pm Thursday 25 December to…

2025.12.12

Parallax PhotographicCinemaAnalogue Photography Gift Guide 2025 This Analogue Photography Gift Guide will give you some ideas about what to get the film photographer in your life. So, read on and get…

2025.11.28

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