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23 February, 2023

5 frames with the Voigtlander 15mm Super-Wide Heliar V1 on a Leica M10 – By Luke Kenny

By Luke Kenny

The 15mm focal length is a strange one. Too wide to neatly frame most scenes, too distorted to get close to people and remain flattering and quite easy to ruin your composition ...

23 February, 2023

The Pitfalls of Buying 2nd Hand… When 2nd Hand is all there is – By Chris Hooke

By Chris Hooke

Well, this is quite embarrassing. This, my first post for 35mmc, would tell the glorious tale of a Rolleicord Va, newly acquired from a well know auction site. It would include...

22 February, 2023

Kodak Technical Pan – Discovering the Joys of Expired Film – By Theo Swinscow

By Theo Swinscow

This isn’t a film review. These aren’t carefully selected photos. Last week, I went outside near my home with a roll of Kodak Technical Pan to make the most of some fog. The res...

21 February, 2023

NEWS: Atlanta Film Co. Releases Limited Edition Koji 125T Colour Cine Film

By Molly Kate

Once again, Atlanta Film Co. delights the film community with the limited edition release of KOJI 125T, a tungsten-based colour-negative film intended for ECN-2 processing. KOJI...

21 February, 2023

5 Frames on the Kodak 66 Model iii and Portra 400 – By Stevie Keen

By Stevie Keen

As an early foray into film photography, the Kodak 66 Model iii was a steep learning curve. No light meter, no way of measuring distance and a sequence of buttons and levers tha...

21 February, 2023

That Time I “Half-Framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 2 of 3)

By Dave Powell

Part 1 of this three-part mini-series detailed how I converted a lovely little Kodak Flash Bantam camera to shoot half-frame images. It was fun and (more-or-less) easier than ex...

20 February, 2023

Meyer Optik Görlitz 58mm f/1.5 Biotar II (The New Version) Review

By Hamish Gill

This review of the Meyer Optik Görlitz 58mm f/1.5 Biotar II will be the 5th I have written about these new lenses from OPC Optics, the German company that own the Meyer Optik Gö...

18 February, 2023

5 Frames in Jelgava with Neopan 100 Acros II and Nikon FM – by Felix I Flores Rodriguez

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

The images in this article come from a town forty-one kilometer southwest of Riga, the capital of the Republic of Latvia, with a population of 55,972 inhabitants. The word Jelga...

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