I'm fascinated by the idea of using unusual film stock to achieve a specific look. While shopping around online for Kodak Ektar 100, I stumbled upon a small, funky camera store ...
17 August, 2022
5 Frames of Rollei RPX 25 with a 1924 Kodak Folding Hawkeye No.2 – By Sonny Rosenberg
I can't believe it, but I think I have a new favorite film, at least in 120 format, sorry Film Washi S. I tend to gravitate towards high and higher contrast films, but until rec...
16 August, 2022
5 Frames in a Reclamation Yard with a Leica M3 and Summitar 50/2 – By Nik Stanbridge
I can't really remember the exact sequence of events and thoughts that led to my decision to buy a Leica. However, I think it was around the time that I posted more articles her...
9 August, 2022
5 Frames with the Exakta Varex IIa – By Glenn Bech
My analog photography obsession snowballed quickly from a Pentax K1000 flea market impulse buy. Before I knew it, I had a budding camera collection and was part of a darkroom co...
The lens I will talk about here has been talked about at 35mmc.com before. At least here by Hamish Gill and here by Ed Lara, but we're in it for the plenty, aren't we?
When I st...
Until very recently I've been only dimly aware of Lomography's Lomochrome Purple. I think that in my mind, I must have filed it away as one of those gimicky films, like those wi...
A few weeks ago, I was in Paris enjoying a long week end under a very sunny sky. So I decided to load a roll of Fomapan 200 in this new camera that I just got: a near mint Yashi...
29 July, 2022
5 Frames of Close-up and Macro with an Olympus OM20, a Tokina 80-200 zoom and a Raynox DCR150 – By Richard Patterson
The background to this story is that I bought an Olympus OM20 when they came out back in 1983, together with the 50mm kit lens. Over the next few years I added a Tokina 28mm and...
