r/analog vs r/photography

Side-by-side using public descriptions, members, growth and rule titles from SubMouse. Missing fields show as n/a. Adult communities are excluded.

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Analog film photography vs general photography discussion

r/analog’s public description is a film photography room for asking about analog work and sharing photos. r/photography describes polite discussion of tools, technique, art and culture of photography.

In our directory, photography is larger (about 5.7M, rank #150) than analog (about 2.7M, rank #407). Activity samples show analog posting more often (~76 posts/day vs ~23). analog’s sample is overwhelmingly galleries and images with critique-wanted and help-wanted flairs; photography’s sample is mostly text with gear, art, business, technique and post-processing flairs. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities. SubMouse already compares photography with itookapicture; this pair is specifically film analog versus general photography discussion.

Rule titles: analog requires film/lens/body in titles, bans digital/AI photos and gear-cache flex posts; photography steers photo sharing into community threads and bans standalone common gear questions without context.

Choose r/analog to share film work with required camera/film metadata under its no-digital rules.
Choose r/photography for technique, gear and culture discussion under its community-thread photo rules.
Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; photography-vs-itookapicture is a separate curated page.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/analog

Analog Photography

Film photography subreddit. Ask anything about analog photography in our weekly "ask anything" thread, or share photos. For discussion of how to shoot film, buying advice, or what went wrong on your first roll head on o…

Members: 2.7M
7-day growth: +1K
Posts/day: 76
Directory rank: #407
Created: Jul 24, 2009
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: galleries 60%, images 37%, text posts 2%

Topics: Photography

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Photo posts must include Film, Lens, and Camera Body Used in Post Title
Daily Quota on Image Posts
No Gear/Film Cache Posts
No Selling/Trading/Advertising
Criticism, Civility and Good Faith
No Digital Photos and AI Generated Photos
Ownership & Attribution
No Self-Promotion in Topic Titles or Comments
Post & Personal Flairs
Anti-Bullying

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r/photography

Photography

/r/photography is a place to politely discuss the tools, technique, art and culture of photography and to post topics that would be of interest to other photographers.

Members: 5.7M
7-day growth: +2K
Posts/day: 22.6
Directory rank: #150
Created: Jan 25, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 92%, links 6%, videos 1%

Topics: Photography

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Photo Sharing in Community Threads
Post is a gear-related, troubleshooting pricing or post-processing/style/emulation question
Stand-alone questions must contain a minimum amount of context and not be common duplicate questions
No Spam or Self-Promotion
No Classified Ads or Job Offers
No Personal Attacks
No Rants
Flair is for Portfolios
Lost & Found

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/analog	r/photography
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	Film photography subreddit. Ask anything about analog photography in our weekly "ask anything" thread, or share photos. For discussion of how to shoot film, buying advice, or what went wrong on your first roll head on o…	/r/photography is a place to politely discuss the tools, technique, art and culture of photography and to post topics that would be of interest to other photographers.
Size r/photography is larger in our directory (about 2.1×).	2.7M members	5.7M members
Posting activity (our sample)	76/day	22.6/day
Common post types in our sample	galleries 60%, images 37%, text posts 2%	text posts 92%, links 6%, videos 1%
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	Photo posts must include Film, Lens, and Camera Body Used in Post Title; Daily Quota on Image Posts; No Gear/Film Cache Posts; No Selling/Trading/Advertising; Criticism, Civility and Good Faith	Photo Sharing in Community Threads; Post is a gear-related, troubleshooting pricing or post-processing/style/emulation question; Stand-alone questions must contain a minimum amount of context and not be common duplicate questions; No Spam or Self-Promotion; No Classified Ads or Job Offers

What they share

Shared SubMouse topics: Photography
Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

analog short titles include: photo posts must include film, lens and camera body used in post title; daily quota on image posts; no gear/film cache posts; no selling/trading/advertising; tag NSFW; criticism, civility and good faith; no digital photos and AI generated photos; ownership and attribution. Our sample is gallery/image-heavy with critique-wanted and help-wanted flairs.

photography: photo sharing in community threads; gear/troubleshooting/pricing/post-processing questions have limits; stand-alone questions need context and must not be common duplicates; no spam or self-promotion; no classified ads or job offers; no personal attacks. Our sample flairs include gear, art, business, technique, post processing and community.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Mutual related-list links. Short titles only. Related curated page: photography-vs-itookapicture.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.