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8 December, 2025

Nikon 200mm Medical-Nikkor – A Vintage Macro Lens with Built-in Ring Flash

By Dan Cuny

8 December, 2025

/ Macro Lens, Nikon 200mm Medical Nikkor, Telephoto Lens, /

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7 December, 2025

They were yearning to become a photograph of the year

By Erik Brammer

Ok, drawing from corporate bullshit bingo, this was one of the few calls to action that I was keen on following: Hamish asking 35mmc contributors to submit their single photogra...

7 December, 2025

Departure – My Favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ron Duda

I shoot a lot of film. As of mid November I’ve exposed 106 rolls of 120 and 35mm film. All in glorious black and white. My approach is normally quite deliberate. I struggle ...

A Zeiss-Ikon Tenax I, a box of Kodak ColorPlus film, and a Zeiss-Ikon Taxona in its leather case.

7 December, 2025

5 frames of pulling color film two stops for no good reason

By Christopher Pye

I read plenty about pushing film when I dived into film photography a few years ago: you willingly underexpose your pictures and later compensate in development, leaving the fil...

6 December, 2025

VEIL – a campaign to publish my book

By Lubomir Drapal

When I started shooting film ten years ago, it wasn’t about returning to the past. It wasn’t nostalgia. It was more of an attempt to approach photography differently — without t...

6 December, 2025

Vintage cars, bikes and a bus ride

By John Andrews

Like a lot us from the older generation, meaning the geriatric brigade, brought up on milk, delivered to your door, red telephone boxes for phone calls and double Decker buses, ...

6 December, 2025

Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar

By Geoff Chaplin

After a three hour drive and a two hour flight I needed a drink – I say ‘a’ euphemistically: beer, nihonshu (“sake”), red wine and whisky hit the spot but set the tone for the f...

5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I f...

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