21 November, 2025
5 Frames with Svema Foto 100 with an Argus C3
I recently learned about Svema films, and was instantly intrigued by Svema Foto 100. Film from the most important Soviet film factory, still made in Ukraine, with punchy contras...
20 November, 2025
5 Frames with a Braun Super Paxette using Dragon No.1 film
I love old film cameras. It’s led me to build a small collection including a Kodak Retina IIIc (which I’m not a massive fan of), Voigtlander Vitomatic IIa (which I l...
17 November, 2025
5 Frames with my Nikon F2 Eye
The great comments on my first article in 35mmc have encouraged me to follow up with another one. Anyone who has read my first article knows that I’m an old white man from...
15 November, 2025
5 Frames with Canon AE1 in California Wine Country
In 1993, I was working for Dan Gurney’s All American Racers racing team. The team was in the midst of an historic run of successes in the IMSA GTP series, dominating by winning ...
6 November, 2025
5 Frames at Penmon Point
A trip to north Wales provided a long overdue opportunity for some ‘proper’ photography. To me that means picking up my camera and going out with the sole purpose of creating p...
4 November, 2025
5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival
I took a German/Italian Countess to a food festival the other week thinking it was the sort of outing she might enjoy, local artisan food producers along with some art and craft...
3 November, 2025
5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
A while back I picked up a job lot of three cameras for not much money. The one I was after was a Konica C35 EF – which did prove to be exactly what I wanted, but that is ...
2 November, 2025
Planar. Ektar. Fotograflar. Istanbul… In 5 Frames
Cue the Sertab Erener song. How do you tell a story about a city bigger than many countries, in just 5 images? This was the question I was grappling with when trying to write th...
