My forays into various types of film cameras usually go something like this: 1) Go to the internet and read/watch something that leads to a link to another link to yet another l...
As someone who grew up in the era of the digital camera, I never thought of film photography as anything other than old and inferior. At twenty one years old, the only experienc...
29 March, 2020
The Tsukiji Outer Market at Dawn with a Leica M3 and Roll of Kodak Tri-X – By Steven Bleistein
The Outer Market of Tsukiji in Tokyo is a favorite morning photography spot of mine. You might have once heard of Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji Fish Market, where frenetic tuna auction...
What makes a good portrait? Can we really expect a single image to reveal a person’s character? Or even a side of their character? And does the quality of the image matter - do ...
I live in the great white north (aka Michigan) so the arrival of Spring means two things
1. We go to Florida, because Spring really arrives around the middle of May, no...
I recently had a “Don’t be such a wanker” moment when re-reading something I wrote here on 35mmc about the Fuji X-Pro3.
“I don’t know if I’ll be able to use the X-Pro3 to make e...
22 March, 2020
5 Frames With Eastman 5222 at EI1600 – By Hern Tan
You already know the drill: Bulk loaded film in canisters of wildly varying DX codes, lack of markings anywhere on the back plate indicating the film stock born out of pure hubr...
And the story goes like this …A foggy Saturday morning of November we arrived by car. Not too late, not too early. As soon as arrived we were to be separated into groups and put...
