Analogue camera shops 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 choice (black-and-white, slide, cine film, roll film, sheet film), buy from a specialist retailer: either at a local shop or from a specialist mail-order retailer. Both are included in this list; use the “Range: Film” filter to see only the addresses that carry film.

A practical tip: Film is a refrigerated product. Shops with high turnover have fresher stock, and when ordering from a mail-order retailer, it’s worth placing a combined order because shipping per roll then hardly adds up.

Privately (classified ads, flea market, auction) is cheaper, but you buy as is: no right of return, no warranty, and you often won’t find out whether the shutter works at all speeds until after you develop your first roll of film.

At a dealer, you pay a markup and get inspected equipment, a warranty, and usually a right of return. Many of the shops here service their cameras before selling them and provide a guarantee. If you can’t assess the equipment yourself, the extra cost is almost always worth it.

Our guide Buying an analogue 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 expose correctly again despite the mercury batteries that have long been banned, or replacement parts such as battery compartment covers and light seal kits.

This is not a rating or a paid placement: shops without the badge are not worse; they simply do not (yet) stock our products. It is still practical: if you are going there anyway, you can take the adapter with you directly, without shipping or waiting.

Do you run a shop and want to stock our parts? Get in touch with us at info@ausgeknipst.de.

You can give each listing 1–5 stars. The average and number of votes are displayed; you can sort the list by them using “Highest rated”. Each shop counts 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 shop up or down with hundreds of fake votes. That is why every rating is linked to a real customer account in our shop: log in or register for free, leave a rating, and you're done. We only see your account ID; nothing personal appears on the map.

The green checkmark means that the shop has reviewed and confirmed its listing itself. The address and product range have been approved by the shop. It is not a quality seal and says nothing about how good the shop is. That is what the star ratings are for.

We researched shops without a checkmark ourselves; as far as we know, their details are accurate, but they have not yet been independently verified. Do you run a shop and want the checkmark? Send a short email to info@ausgeknipst.de.

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

Independent specialist retailers usually have the more unusual films, tested used equipment, and staff who shoot film themselves. Since that is what most people are looking for, “No chains” is the default view. You can bring them all back via the store type filter.

Simply enter your postcode in the search bar. The list will then show shops within the selected radius, sorted by distance, and the map will zoom in on your area. The distance is measured as the crow flies; the position is the address or the centre of the town/postcode area. On the map, green dots are verified listings.

Austria and Switzerland: Postcodes 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 will ask you to specify: enter A-1010 for Austria or CH-1010 for Switzerland.

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

Pure mail-order retailers do not have a shop you can visit. Instead, they deliver everywhere. If there is nothing nearby, set the radius to “all” and filter by “Shipping only”.

Probably because we did not find it. The list was researched independently and is certainly not complete. Write the shop in the comments below, then we will check it and add it.

Deliberately not included in the list: drugstores and electronics retailers with a leftover film shelf, pure marketplaces and sellers without their own shop, photo labs that only offer processing and no sales (they are listed on our film lab page), and repair businesses that only provide repairs (they are listed in the workshop overview).