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20 March, 2020

Olympus 35RC – A Travelling Review – By Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

The invite dropped into my whatsapp in early February last year. Stag-do in Budapest! Long weekend! Now, I’m a habitual traveler, I love traveling and the majority of my photogr...

16 March, 2020

Kolari Pocket & IRChrome Filter Review – Digital Aerochrome in a Tiny Package!

By Hamish Gill

I suspect a large percentage of us film photographers will have heard of Kodak Aerochrome. It’s that film that renders foliage red/purple, costs an absolute fortune and is rare ...

13 March, 2020

Nikomat FT2 review: Because photography isn’t complicated enough – by Aaron Gold

By Aaron Gold

If you’re a die-hard Nikon fan—not someone who merely enjoys Nikons, but one of those folks who absolutely refuses to even look at any other type of camera—then do me a favor an...

11 March, 2020

Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 LTM Lens – A Mini-Review of 1960s Optical Excellence – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Long-term 35MMC readers recall that I have used my dad’s Leica IIIC rangefinder camera for decades. He bought it at the Post Exchange in Guam in 1949 and used it for famil...

9 March, 2020

Analog Memo – Creating a Digital Notebook App for Android – By Barry Carr

By bscarr

Sometime in 2018, my friend, Rob Kent, downloaded an Android app that would help him record analogue exposure information. The app would let you enter the aperture, shutter spee...

9 March, 2020

Leica IIIa Review – My Final Roll with an Underused but Long-Prized Camera

By Hamish Gill

I’ve had my Leica iiia for a long time now, and though I didn’t use it for about 4 1/2 years, I hadn’t been able to rationalise selling it. At least, that was the case until a c...

4 March, 2020

Fomapan 400 & Kentmere 400 Review – Battle of the Budgets – by Simon King

By Simon King

This article started as a write up about my time shooting these two emulsions over a long bank holiday weekend, where I had similar lighting conditions and was able to shoot sim...

3 March, 2020

Fujifilm X-Pro3 Round Two: The X Files and a Meditation on Film and Digital – By David Hume

By David Hume

The X-Pro3 came at a good time for me. I’d returned from a six-week trip to Italy where the last two weeks were spent in Venice trying to make work for exhibitions. So I’d been ...

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