23 December, 2025
5 Frames With a Mamiya C220
This past year I decided to focus on black and white film photography and to tackle landscape photography. For me, that has been a hard challenge. My occasional attempts at land...
19 December, 2025
5 Frames with an APS film camera – the Fujifilm 1000ix Tiara
On 23 November 2025, our friend John Andrews showed us some of his fantastic photos taken with an APS film camera. Wonderful shots. We exchanged ideas, because, as befits a GAS ...
18 December, 2025
5 First Frames and Developing of Fuji Velvia 100
Two thoughts come to my mind as I try to start to write these words. The first is that when ever I share something here on 35mmc (4 times so far) it was kind of a closure of tha...
18 December, 2025
Mama Mamiya – 5 Frames with a Mamiya 135AF
The year is 1980. A time of New Romantic synth-pop music, shoulder pads and neon colours. Big hair, make up on both sexes, and a time of big statement looks. Duran Duran, U2, ...
17 December, 2025
5 Frames of Croome Panorama Tower
Fairly near where I live there is an observation tower that is under the care of the National Trust, part of the Croome estate, but because it is in the middle of a field a coup...
3 December, 2025
5 Frames with the Pentax K SMC 85mm f/2.2 Soft Focus Lens
What started as an experiment out of curiosity has apparently become serious, or at least a lot more expensive: I’ve bought a “proper” Soft Focus lens, and I h...
2 December, 2025
5 Frames with a FED-3 Rangefinder with Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm
In mid-2025, I added a Soviet 35mm rangefinder camera, an FED-3 with an Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm lens, to my collection. The camera and lens had been freshly CLA’d and wer...
30 November, 2025
5 Frames with a Leica iiig, Summitar and FP4+ at 400asa
I have written about the Leica iiig in the context of other Leicas here. Briefly summarising these are the key differences compared to the M3 for me: Advantages Smaller and ligh...
