19 February, 2024
Thypoch Simera 35mm ASPH review
People who know me well, as a photographer, know that I love fast 35mm lenses, especially when they remain relatively compact. My two grails have remained unchanged for some tim...
12 February, 2024
Astrhori AH-M1 Shoe Mount Light Meter Review
Another light meter. This time the Astrhori AH-M1. At first glance, I thought this meter was just going to be a copy of the Doomo Meter S which I reviewed with the title “just a...
12 February, 2024
Leica M4-P vs. Leica CL – and a Tale of Loss and New Experiences
My first encounter with 35mmc during the search for my first rangefinder camera in 2020. As a student back then, with a limited budget, the choices were rather narrow being spli...
10 February, 2024
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The 35mmc site mostly concerns gear and experiences, and I admit to having collected way too many lenses myself. It would take a heart of stone to spend as much time with camera...
In retrospect perhaps I tempted fate. This Jankuary road trip retraced the steps of a trip I made in the late 1980s to retrieve our Combi van that had broken down when my wife a...
7 February, 2024
Ilford PanF 50 Plus in the Photography Studio
In this article, I briefly discuss use of Ilford PanF 50 Plus in the studio for portraiture – specifically, mother and baby styled shoots I’ve been a photographer for a lo...
6 February, 2024
Self-Publishing Books of Your Photography for the Skint Neophyte
Many of us in this film-photography hobby want to print books of our work. We share our photographs online, which is great, but there’s just something about people holding...
5 February, 2024
Fuji MX-500 – 5 Frames for Jankuary with my first digital camera
Given that others are digging out newer cameras for Jankuary, I decided to take another look at my first digital camera – a Fujifilm MX-500. This had a 1.5 megapixel camer...
