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26 June, 2026
Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
I have known Phil Maxwell for about sixteen years. For a period, we both had studios in Spitalfields, in that strange zone where the East End was still recognisably itself but w...
25 June, 2026
If You Walk, the Photo Will Come – One Shot Story
I recently picked up an SMC Asahi-Pentax 100mm f/4 Macro lens to use on my Nikon Zf and headed downtown to try it out. The walk wasn’t especially inspiring. Much of downto...
25 June, 2026
5 frames with a Leica M4-P
My first Leica was an M4-2, I used it extensively but sold it to help pay for my first digital Leica, an M9 in black. After a while, I missed the relatively quiet “Click&#...
A discussion with a community member here on 35mmc led us to cameras “Made in Germany”, and we soon found ourselves talking about Carl Zeiss Jena and the “Contax D” with the Bio...
24 June, 2026
Exploring horizontal camera scanning solutions
I admit I am lazy, and that is precisely why I have been looking for a simple horizontal camera scanning setup. For vertical scanning I would need to assemble a copy stand, conn...
23 June, 2026
Boat trip – A One Shot Story
I took this photo around Easter 1999 during a 12-day boat trip from Narbonne to Beaucaire via the Canal de la Robine, the Canal de Jonction (Aude), the Canal du Midi and the Can...
23 June, 2026
5 Frames With a 1935 Leica II and Candido 400 in Mykonos
I live in northern Italy. Only recently, after many years away, have I gone back to shooting film – mostly black and white – and developing and printing at home when...
Hi all, Following on from the post the other day about some sort of chat platform (whatsapp etc), I found that the system I use for memberships actually has a built-in feature t...
