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18 December, 2025

5 First Frames and Developing of Fuji Velvia 100

By Alexander Seidler

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

By John Andrews

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

By Roger

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

By mark stein

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

By Walter Reumkens

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

By Geoff Chaplin

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...

25 November, 2025

5 Frames of Queen Califa with a Holga

By Fred Nelson

About 4 years ago I was looking for a medium format film camera. I went through all the choices and could not decide. Then I came across Anna Starr (anna.s.snapshots on Instag...

22 November, 2025

5 frames from an obsolete camera, the Olympus i-10

By John Andrews

A log time ago in a far off century, 1996 to be precise, a collective consortium got together led by Kodak, Canon, Minolta, and Nikon to launch a new film format, this format be...

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