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16 August, 2022

5 Frames in a Reclamation Yard with a Leica M3 and Summitar 50/2 – By Nik Stanbridge

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

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...

7 August, 2022

5 Digital Frames with the debated Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 – by Roland Casselbrant

By Roland Casselbrant

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...

6 August, 2022

5 Frames of Lomochrome Purple With My Chroma Six:9 – By Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

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...

2 August, 2022

5 frames with a Yashica AW-Mini and some Fomapan – BY Grégoire MBV

By Gregoire MBV

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

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...

24 July, 2022

5 frames with the Polaroid Sun 660 in the East Side Gallery – by George Pavlopoulos

By George Pavlopoulos

I'm still not used to riding my bicycle on freezing winter days. After living for more than a decade in Berlin, the idea of one more long winter gives me shivers. On the other h...

23 July, 2022

5 Frames with Ricoh XF30 Super Date – by Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

Compact camera, the integral piece of kit for any analog beginner, travel photographer or internet celebrity. I consider myself to be a part of the middle group, so I was on loo...

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