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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo Olympus OZ 120 Zoom This is one of those countless, forgotten zoom-equipped plastic 35mm automatic cameras from the mid-to-late 1990s.

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo Leica M7 with 35mm f1.2 Noctilux lens

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo Leica M3J + Leica Summilux 35mm F1.4 AA (Double Aspherical) with another Leica M3J + Leica Summilux 50mm F1.4 Pre-ASPH —Millennium Edition The camera and lens models listed above won’t mean…

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo Olympus Pen F Photographer: Kentaro Kumon / website

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Tokyo らいか (leica) ? ? ?

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanDaienji, Sendagi, Tokyo Daienji, Sendagi, Tokyo Leica M-A with 35mm f1.4 Summilux-M steel rim lens Leica MP with 35mm f2 Summiceon lens

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanUeno Park, Tokyo Ueno Park, Tokyo Random, simultaneous film Leica M encounter

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanRyogoku Ryogoku Ricohflex with custom goniro covering

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanShinjuku, Tokyo Shinjuku, Tokyo Pentax 17 A group shot from a recent workshop I led with Pentax & Photo & Culture Tokyo

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanUeno Park, Tokyo Ueno Park, Tokyo Leica M6 with Voigtlander Nokton Classic S.C. 35mm f1.4 lens

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanUeno Park, Tokyo Ueno Park, Tokyo Leica M4 with 35mm f2.8 Summaron lens and L.D. Meter

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTotem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku Polaroid I2

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanShibuya Shibuya Ricoh FF9 Limited

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanShinjuku, Tokyo Shinjuku, Tokyo Leica M6 with 50mm f2 Summicron lens

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Ebisu, Tokyo Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Ebisu, Tokyo Konica Big Mini F

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Ebisu, Tokyo Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Ebisu, Tokyo Ricoh Auto-Half SE2 with Sunpak auto 25SR flash

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanTokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Ebisu, Tokyo Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art, Ebisu, Tokyo Canon EF

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanGinza, Tokyo Ginza, Tokyo Canon F-1 with FD 50mm f1.4 lens

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanShinjuku, Tokyo Shinjuku, Tokyo Leica M7 with Voigtlander 35mm f1.5 Nokton lens

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Tokyo Camera StyleJapanMarunouchi Line, Tokyo Marunouchi Line, Tokyo Leica MP with Carl Zeiss C Biogon 35mm F2.8 ZM T* lens

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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