Analogue camera stores in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland: buy film and used cameras

Drugstores usually carry just one color film at a steep price. If you want a selection—black-and-white, slide, motion-picture, roll film, sheet film—buy from a specialist retailer: either at a local shop or from a specialist mail-order supplier. Both are listed here; use the “Range: Films” filter to see only the addresses that carry film.

A tip from practical experience: Film is a refrigerator product. Shops with high turnover have fresher stock—and when ordering from a mail-order supplier, it’s worth placing a combined order because shipping per roll then barely adds to the cost.

Private sales (classified ads, flea markets, auctions) are cheaper, but you buy as seen: no right to return, no warranty, and you often won’t find out whether the shutter works at all speeds until after you develop your first film.

From a dealer, you pay a premium and get tested equipment, a warranty, and usually the right to return it. Many of the stores listed here service their cameras before selling them and provide a warranty. If you can’t assess the equipment yourself, the premium is almost always worth it.

Our guide Buying an analog camera on eBay explains in detail how to avoid getting burned when buying from a private seller.

Retail partners stock our products — typically our battery adapters, which allow old cameras to meter correctly again despite the mercury batteries having long since been banned, or replacement parts such as battery compartment covers and light-seal kits.

This is not a rating or a paid placement: Stores without the badge are not worse; they simply don’t (yet) carry our products. It’s still practical — if you’re going there anyway, you can pick up the adapter directly, without shipping or waiting.

Do you run a store and want to stock our parts? Contact us at info@ausgeknipst.de.

You can give each listing 1–5 stars. The average rating and number of votes are displayed; you can sort the list by rating using “Best rating”. Each store gets one rating per person — you can change it at any time (click a new star) or remove it (click the same star again).

Why do I need to log in for this? Ratings are only honest if nobody can manipulate them. Without registration, bots or individuals could push a store up or down with hundreds of fake votes. That’s why every rating is linked to a real customer account in our shop — log in or register for free, leave your rating, and you’re done. We only see your account ID; nothing personal appears on the map.

The green checkmark means: The store has reviewed and confirmed its listing itself — it has approved the address and product range. It is not a seal of quality and says nothing about how good the store is — that’s what the star ratings are for.

We researched stores without a checkmark ourselves; to the best of our knowledge, their details are accurate, but they have not yet been cross-checked. Do you run a store and want the checkmark? Send us a short email at info@ausgeknipst.de.

A chain with many locations (such as Foto Erhardt or Hartlauer). They reliably stock analog materials and often have the shortest journey—but the range is standardized, and the depth of advice varies greatly from one branch to another.

Owner-operated specialist retailers usually have the more unusual films, tested used equipment, and staff who shoot analog themselves. Since that’s what most people are looking for, “No chains” is the default view—use the store-type selector to show them all again.

Simply enter your postal code in the search bar—the list will then show stores within the selected radius, sorted by distance, and the map will zoom in on your area. The distance is as the crow flies; the location is the address or the center of the town/postal code. Green dots on the map mark confirmed listings.

Austria and Switzerland: Postal codes there have four digits—simply enter the four digits. However, around a thousand of these numbers exist in both countries (for example, 1010 is in Vienna and Lausanne). In that case, we’ll ask you to specify: enter A-1010 for Austria or CH-1010 for Switzerland.

Privacy: Your postal code is matched locally in your browser against a postal-code table and is not sent anywhere.

Pure mail-order retailers don’t have a shop you can visit—they deliver everywhere instead. If there’s nothing near you, set the radius to “all” and filter by “Shipping only”.

Probably because we didn’t find it. The list was researched independently and is certainly not complete—post the store below in the comments, and we’ll check it and add it.

Deliberately not included in the list: drugstores and electronics retailers with a token film shelf, pure marketplaces and sellers without their own shop, photo labs that only develop film and do not sell products (they’re listed on our film lab page), and repair businesses that only provide repairs (they’re listed in the workshop overview).