Roger Ebert, the late great film critic, liked to review movies based on how well they accomplished what they set out to do. As he put it, “If a director is clearly trying...
Sroyon's Posts
5 October, 2026
How I Organize My Film Negatives, Scans and Darkroom Prints
“It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe,” wrote science-historian James Gleick. When it comes to organizing film photos, en...
7 August, 2026
Godox V100 Flash – Long-Term Review
I don’t know if you are keeping up with the world of flash photography – 35mmc is after all a largely analogue-focused website, and many film photographers prefer availabl...
10 June, 2026
Fotopro Origin Travel Tripod – Long-term Review
Tripods, I feel, are among the less glamorous photography accessories. They don’t have the technical wizardry of gimbals and drones, nor the whizbang street-cred of flashe...
23 January, 2026
My 2025 on Colour Film – 9 rolls, 8 emulsions, 6 cameras
I predominantly shoot black-and-white film, preferring digital if I want to take colour photos. But in 2025, besides my usual quota of B&W, I also shot nine rolls of 35mm co...
18 December, 2025
Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025
Nature is awesome – not just in the Lego-movie Everything is Awesome sense, but in the original, older sense of inspiring awe and reverence. This is more obvious when we go out ...
29 November, 2025
Zhiyun Molus X100 RGB LED Review – Dancing with Light
If you use both film and digital cameras, as I and many other 35mmc readers do, you probably have a sense of just how much, and how rapidly, camera tech has advanced in the last...
When Zhiyun asked me if I would like to test and write about one of their gimbals, I wasn’t sure if this was the right website for it. It’s true that 35mmc has stead...