Photography Archives

16 September, 2025

A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

Pentax Spotmatic F / Kentmere Pan 200 / Fomadon R09 Camera and lenses: The Spotmatic F is a true classic. When I reviewed the camera here, I didn’t fit the lovely little 2...

15 September, 2025

5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)

By Gordon Ownby

Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...

13 September, 2025

5 Frames at a Farmers’ Market and a Nikkor 105mm f1.8

By Dave Lynagh

Farmers’ markets can be an important tool to help evaluate the usability of a lens. There are textures, colors, light, and shadows in abundance. The farmers’ market I visited th...

13 September, 2025

Master of Splatter

By Andrea Monti

One midsummer’s night in San Benedetto del Tronto, a small town on the Adriatic coast, I attended a live concert by Claudio Simonetti, a living legend among Italian horror...

12 September, 2025

Lines in the Sky

By RichardH

For most of the past winter we lived under heavy cloud cover. At our northern latitude, clouds and winter make for dimly lit days. As a practitioner of the “sunny 16” system of ...

11 September, 2025

5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C

By Matthew Bigwood

Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...

11 September, 2025

The Influence of Film on Film part 2 – Bellows to the Wind

By Lucinda Lewis

Back in 2020 I wrote about my first venture into DIY film making with my short film Preserve. I was asked to contribute to 35mmc and felt it right to talk about the film, and ho...

10 September, 2025

An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One (plus one) Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Ofena is a small town located within the Abruzzo National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, in Italy, Hit by the 2009 earthquake, Ofena is still struggling to recover. L...

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Tony: Thanks for the good report on the Asahi Pentax. I bought my first one in 1967 and my second…
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Tony Warren on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
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