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thegashausReviewsVoigtländer Vitessa – A Beautifully Ridiculous Camera A users review of a quirky German 35mm folding rangefinder camera

09.01

thegashausReviewsAn Affordable & Stylish Square Lens Hood For Voigtländer 35mm & 40mm Nokton Lenses Photographers are increasingly interested in aesthetically pleasing yet functional lens hoods, especially square designs.

08.25

thegashausReviewsHas Anyone Ever Used Your Photo Without Permission Then Replaced It After You Ask For Credit? by Johnny Martyr, not AI Why is it that when you kindly ask people who have used your photography without permission to give you credit, they respond by replacing your photograph entirely?

08.13

thegashausReviewsEverything You Should Know About Leica Thread Mount to M Mount Adapters Choosing the right LTM to M adapter is crucial for optimal photography performance and compatibility.

07.21

thegashausReviewsJohnny’s Developing Times & Temps Johnny Martyr shares his film developing techniques, emphasizing simplicity and reliable temperature guidelines for consistency.

07.14

thegashausReviewsWhen There’s No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Walk The Mall Will Living Dead Weekend 2026 be the last big, on-location gathering of the cast and crew from George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead? And is rampant consumerism REALLY a problem?

07.07

thegashausReviewsPhotographing Jennifer Stella at Steinhardt Brewing Co. Johnny discusses his gear choices, exposure and composition techniques for small concerts with Jennifer Stella at Steinhardt Brewing.

06.23

thegashausReviewsImpressions of China on B&W Film Photographer Walter Levy shares experiences and insights from his trip to China, emphasizing film photography.

06.16

thegashausReviewsConfessional Johnny reflects on challenges in his photography business but he remains committed to sharing his passion.

06.09

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thegashausReviewsCurse Of The Last Minute Bookers Booking last-minute photography gigs often revealing clients' disorganization and is a no-win situation.

06.02

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