Richard Becker, Author at 35mmc

27 December, 2024

Zorki 5 & 6 – A Brace of Otherwise Unwanted Cameras

By Richard Becker

You know how it is, you see something on a certain auction site very near the auction end with a sensible start price and no bids so you put just the minimum on with no expectat...

28 September, 2024

A Full Roll of Flowing Water with a Moscow 4

By Richard Becker

My success rate with the Moskva (Moscow) 4 camera I bought a year or so ago has not been good. Until recently only a few times have I managed to get even half a roll of useable ...

22 September, 2024

A Glossary of Photographic Terms

By Richard Becker

Photography is associated with a seemingly endless and ever-changing list of jargon and technical terms. A glossary is an essential reference for someone new to photography, and...

Photograph of a Kodak Autographic camera

17 July, 2024

5 Frames with ‘a’ Kodak Autographic № 3.

By Richard Becker

To be accurate this is bending the rules somewhat for ‘5 Frames With’ as although there are only 5 frames also involved are: 2 Kodak Autographic № 3 cameras 3 photographers 2 di...

Black and white photograph of a Certo Dollina camera.

6 July, 2024

Certo Dollina 2 – Otherwise Unwanted Cameras № 5

By Richard Becker

I bought this on Ebay having never heard of a Certo Dollina before, but a 1930’s 35mm camera with a Zeiss Tessar lens seemed interesting. As it turned out nobody else could mana...

Page from a journal showing a diagram of a Newcomen engine.

24 March, 2024

Historical Records in Family Photographs

By Richard Becker

I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy Lund, m...

30 November, 2023

A Roll of My Grandfather’s Film – Agfa Isopan on his Leica I

By Richard Becker

Some years ago my late father handed me a cardboard box containing 100’s of his father’s negatives dating from the 1920’s onwards. The vast majority in bulk and number are 4¼” X...

Curtis Heikkinen on A Warm Summer Night – My photo of the year 2025
Fantastic image! Beautifully captured!
Scott Gitlin on Made in Hong Kong
Great set . . . especially like the train depot. I wouldn't want to see that in sharp detail.
Rollin Banderob on A Warm Summer Night – My photo of the year 2025
You're welcome, and thank you for the comment.

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