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18 September, 2025

Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops

By Scott Ferguson

This post came as something of an outgrowth of my big spring/summer 2025 Black & White Survey which featured in five installments here on 35mmc. As I was moving through the...

14 September, 2025

My DIY Analog Journey

By Adrien Grelet

I’m Adrien, a french DIY and technical stuff enthusiast. For many years (since I’m 3, I guess), I have really liked to experiment with new things, undertaking a lot ...

14 September, 2025

Human Photography – My Definition and my Work

By Alexandre Kreisman

You might ask is what Human Photography or even what does it mean! It’s both simple and a bit complicated, as things always are with me… Let me take you back a coupl...

10 September, 2025

Wider Than Wide-Angle – 15mm for Documentary Photography

By Simon King

I recently wrote about my use of 21mm, a lens I had used some years ago and returned to out of necessity when, while working a specific situation, my standard wide angle was not...

8 September, 2025

From Analog Photography to Digital and Back – A Journey to Find Meaning in Non-Professional Photography

By Giacomo Cecot

In 2005, I picked up my first real camera: a Ricoh 500G. It had been lying around the house for years—it was the same camera my mother had used to take all the photos we have, o...

7 September, 2025

A Question of a Question of Colour

By Derek Hope

While soaking up the streets of Montreal, I had been very excited to visit the Leica Boutique. I was eager to browse their collection and chew the fat about cameras with exotic ...

7 September, 2025

Camera scanning color negatives – some nerding and search for beauty

By Alexander Seidler

There is something fascinating and also strangely intangible to color negatives. I have been home developing C41 for 10 years and I tried lots of scanners, software and workflow...

5 September, 2025

Slowly stumbling into large format

By Gary Smith

I’m beginning this article in early August 2025. I first started thinking about large format somewhere in 2024 and began watching various YouTube videos that covered the c...

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Thomas Wolstenholme on Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
I took a different view of your experiment: something I've done for years is to try to match the film…
David Hume on Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
Ha - it looks like Reiner asked the same question that I did and pressed send while I was still…
David Hume on Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
Hey Scott, thanks for this, and very interesting to read. Can I ask for some clarification that perhaps I’ve missed…

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