New: every film photography shop in the German-speaking countries on one map
Where can you still get a roll of film, a used camera or simply the right battery these days? Until now, the answers were scattered across forum threads, outdated city lists and the memories of people who knew the shop from way back. Our new directory brings them together in one place: 91 film photography shops and specialist mail-order retailers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland on one map, searchable, filterable and with reviews from the community.
How to find your shop
All the shops at a glance. Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Enter your postal code in the search and you’ll see every shop in the area, sorted by distance, across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. No shop near you? Filter by shipping: 34 of the 91 listings send out orders. The filters let you narrow things down by what a shop stocks: film, used cameras, accessories, instant, darkroom supplies.
Only shops that genuinely stock film gear
We were strict about who made the cut, and that was deliberate. A shop is listed if it carries a real range of film photography gear: film, used cameras, accessories. We left out drugstore and electronics chains with a single roll of film on the shelf, marketplaces, services that only buy gear from you and manufacturers’ brand stores. Labs and repair workshops that do nothing else aren’t included here either: they have their own directories.
The big chains are in there, but they’re hidden by default. If you want to see them, switch them on with the Shop type filter.
Reviews with a name behind them
Type in your postal code, pick a radius, filter by what the shops stock.
You can give any shop one to five stars and leave a short comment. Reviews are posted with an account on our shop, so nobody can push a business up or drag it down with a hundred fake votes. Signing up is free, and you don’t have to buy anything.
Bought something from one of these shops? Then leave a review. It helps everyone who comes looking after you, and the shops that do a good job.
This list runs on your help
Missing a shop? An address that’s out of date? Just post it in the comments right on the page, no sign-up needed. We check every tip and add it to the list. Shops can also confirm their own listing; verified listings are marked with a green check mark.
Our research has a systematic blind spot for small, owner-run shops without a big website. And those are often the good ones.
And that makes three
The shop directory is our third, following the repair workshops (283 in 30 countries) and the film labs (over 100 in the German-speaking countries). Together they answer the three questions our support team kept hearing: Who can still fix this for me? Where do I get my film developed? And where do I actually buy this stuff? All three are free, with no paid listings and no advertising.
Want to dig deeper? Our guide Buying a Used Film Camera walks you through the six places to buy one, shows you the ten-minute check on the camera itself and explains why the battery question belongs before the purchase, not after. Buying Film covers the other half: which film suits you, what the numbers on the box mean and who will develop it for you.
