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13 January, 2026

5 Frames with a classic SLR – Why I Chose the Nikon FE

By Ronald Lips

I recently purchased a Nikon FE analog camera with a 50mm lens. Here’s the story behind it. So I decided to buy a new camera. You’d wonder why. Do I not own enough cameras as it...

8 January, 2026

5 Frames with the CONTAX Tix APS-Film Camera with Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/28mm T*

By Walter Reumkens

A rather unknown camera legend, not a T1, not a T2 or Tv/s. Not TRI-X but CONTAX Tix from Kyocera! With a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/28mm T* lens, autofocus from 1997 for Advanced Ph...

26 December, 2025

5 Frames from Naxos Island

By Andrea Darra

I haven’t been back to Greece for a long time. I don’t know why I love the islands of the Cyclades archipelago so much, but every time I visit, my days are certainly...

26 December, 2025

5 Frames featuring L.A.’s Skateboard Culture

By Gordon Ownby

In more than 20 years photographing on the streets of Los Angeles, I’ve never once set out to take photos of skateboarders. And yet, I have more photographs of skateboarders in ...

24 December, 2025

5 Frames From The “Uncanny Valley” Training Town in Gravesend – by Simon King

By Simon King

The Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC) in Gravesend is a surreal space. It’s a ghost town built as a backdrop for organised chaos, a stage set for practicing...

pic of Mamiya C220, plus a Mamiya C33 and spare lens

23 December, 2025

5 Frames With a Mamiya C220

By Victor Dively

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

By Walter Reumkens

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

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...

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