5 January, 2026
Artizlab Classic 35mm f/1.4 (v2-ish) Review
I found myself at an odd place without a 35mm lens for my digital rangefinder. Very odd for me, since that is by far my most used focal length, and I had volunteered to do news ...
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21 December, 2025
A Warm Summer Night – My photo of the year 2025
When I read about sharing my photo of the year on 35mmc I immediately thought of this image from a community event on a warm August night in Iowa. Early this year I decided to t...
Super-wide lens’s promotional materials, reviews and forum posts seem to lean heavily to architectural and landscape images. That generally is not how I have used this cla...
Oh 28mm how you have vexed me over the years. While using Sony mirrorless bodies back in 2014 I ventured into trying rangefinder lenses to make a smaller, lighter kit – on...
7 November, 2024
Approaching Reportage Photography
I’ll soon be self-publishing these images in my first photobook and with the closing of this project I was thinking back on what I have learned over the years on approaching rep...
11 October, 2018
Sony 135/2.8 [T4.5] STF Mini-Review – By Rollin Banderob
As a photojournalist - in the vein of William Albert Allard, Eugene Richards and Alex Web - I strove to layer content in many parts of my images, and as such find obsession with...
For over a year I had been contemplating plunking down money for a digital body one last time and committing to shooting that camera for 5-10 years. In the film days I had the s...
30 November, 2017
5 Frames with a Minolta M-Rokkor 90mm 1:4 – By Rollin Banderob
I don’t remember what brought the Minolta M-Rokkor 90mm f/4 lens to my attention, however I do know according to a Sept., 2014 email I paid $219 to an ebay seller in Japan for i...