22 January, 2017
Day 1 in the Darkroom…
On Friday I did something I've been promising myself for a long time, and something I specifically wanted to do in 2017. I went on a darkroom beginners workshop. I've built a da...
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16 January, 2017
Sony A7Rii review – A superb farce of a camera
Let me just start by saying, it doesn't matter which way you look at the Sony A7Rii, it is a ridiculous thing. Ridiculous in every sense. If you view it as bad, it's ridiculousl...
10 January, 2017
The lure of the uncomplicated camera
Readers of this blog and those who interact with me on social media often comment about what they see as a varied choice of cameras in my collection. The most common comments I ...
28 December, 2016
My Instagram account(s), and who should I follow?
You might already be aware of my main Instagram account? I post pictures of cameras and use it as a mean to post micro-blogs between posts here on 35mmc. This account used to be...
26 December, 2016
MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar Review- a tiny, and very eccentric lens
The MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar is, without a doubt the smallest lens I've ever shot with on a Leica rangefinder. In fact, it's probably one of the smallest full frame lenses eve...
22 December, 2016
County Enterprises at Work
I was recently asked to take some photos for CE, a local small manufacturing and packing company. I shot the whole job on the Leica M9 and Zeiss 50mm ZM Sonnar, so thought I'd s...
One subject I didn't touch on in my recent Lomo LC-Wide review was shooting it in low light. I had in mind that I would take it around the local Christmas Fayre, and having a go...
I've just loaded my Lubitel 166b 120 6x6 format film camera with a roll of 35mm film... so thought I'd write a quick post to demonstrate how.