Shoot It With Film

10 stories

Shoot It With FilmFilmThe Forgotten Canon: Why the EOS 650 Film Camera Deserves Another Look by Brendan Kragel There are easier ways to photograph fast-moving subjects on film than using Canon’s first EOS camera. That’s probably part of why I wanted to do it...

September 25

Shoot It With FilmFilmIndonesia Travel Story by Magda Skocz At the turn of the year, I spent six weeks traveling through Indonesia, moving between five islands: Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Karimunjawa, and Bali...

September 23

Shoot It With FilmFilmKodak Charmera Millennium Review: A Keychain Camera with Retro Charm Sometimes you need a little reminder that photography is supposed to be fun. The Kodak Charmera is 100% that reminder...

September 18

Shoot It With FilmFilmDouble Exposures on the Oregon Coast by Autumn Kovach As I planned my trip for June 2026 for the Oregon Coast, I knew I wanted to try something different in my photography process this time...

September 16

Shoot It With FilmFilm3 More Point-and-Shoot Film Cameras to Add to Your Collection by Katya Rowny When I started shooting film years ago, using different cameras became a slippery slope for me. From using manual focus lenses, to understanding...

September 11

Shoot It With FilmFilmNYC Photo Series by bedfordtowers Our latest feature is a New York City photo series from film photographer bedfordtowers. Scroll below to view the images...

September 9

Shoot It With FilmFilmMr. Negative Film Review: Same Same But Different 400 by Raufan Yusup Film prices keep climbing these days, so I feel like even a little support for the community matters. It’s been exciting to see more makers, both cameras...

September 4

Shoot It With FilmFilmAfter The Cigar Photo Series by Derrick Buckner Ybor City's cigar industry commenced in 1885, after Vicente Martinez-Ybor moved his business to Tampa from Key West. Additional cigar factories...

September 2

Shoot It With FilmFilmEvery Film Ever: An Interview with Lenny Alvarez How many different film stocks have existed throughout the years? The answer is probably far more than you’d expect...

August 28

Shoot It With FilmFilmA Friendship Beyond Generations by Pál Balázs About five years ago, I saw a YouTube video about a 97-year-old doctor, a Holocaust survivor who was still actively practicing even during the...

August 26

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