Scott Ferguson, Author at 35mmc

3 December, 2025

Night Shooting on Halloween with a Leica M3 and a Contax T2

By Scott Ferguson

Halloween, 2025 has been on my calendar as a shooting opportunity for a couple of months. In NYC the scale of the revelry is epic, including a giant parade in the West Village ...

27 November, 2025

5 Frames, No Kings

By Scott Ferguson

I was excited to bring my M3 to the recent No Kings protest in Manhattan in October. I don’t have a huge amount of experience shooting ‘documentary’ style to ...

5 November, 2025

Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan

By Scott Ferguson

Part 1 — Pushing One Stop in Santa Monica I took a quick trip to Los Angeles in late September and it was the first time I’ve visited the West Coast since taking up ...

27 October, 2025

Leica vs Leica – M vs R cameras & lenses and thoughts on Rangefinders & SLRs

By Scott Ferguson

If someone handed you two high end cameras — a rangefinder and an SLR — which would you pick up first? Which would you end up sticking with as your ‘when in...

10 October, 2025

One By Four – A One Shot Story told by four photographers – Part 1

By Scott Ferguson

First, I’d like to thank my fellow 35mmc contributors David Pauley, David Hume and Dean Lawrence for having the temerity to quadruple down on the idea of a dialogue-driven post ...

28 September, 2025

Hitting the “Zone” – Shot-by-Shot street shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM

By Scott Ferguson

Going out to shoot still photos can be a bit of a ‘hit or miss’ experience for me. While always starting with high hopes to shoot beautiful and/or memorable photos,...

18 September, 2025

Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops

By Scott Ferguson

This post came as something of an outgrowth of my big spring/summer 2025 Black & White Survey which featured in five installments here on 35mmc. As I was moving through the...

26 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light: Black & White Film Stocks, Part 5 – The Conclusion

By Scott Ferguson

This all started as a friendly conversation about looking for a ‘go to’ black & white film choice, partly because I wanted to stock up before the US tariffs kick...

David Dutchison on Nikon 200mm Medical-Nikkor – A Vintage Macro Lens with Built-in Ring Flash
Richard Avedon loved to use the 120/f4 Medical Nikkor for some of his portraits when a flattering rendition wasn't the…
Scott Ferguson on A Summer of Street Portraits on Film
Yes, I don't think I figured out a correct position for carrying around a Rolleiflex by itself, let alone in…
Bradley Newman on Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar
Geoff, this just further whetted my appetite to go to Japan. Maybe in '27! I'll be sure to add Osaka…

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