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22 October, 2023

Digitisation – a tale of a film scanning options rabbit hole

By MichaelWPlant

This is my first article for 35mmc, so hi to everyone in this community. Recently I got myself a shiny new Leica M-A film camera (more on this in another article). And then I fo...

8 October, 2023

My First Major Development Fail

By Ted Ayre

I was really excited to go for a studio day! I’d never used anything other than natural light for photos so far, and I was going to get to learn the effects of different ...

4 October, 2023

My First 5 Frames on Large Format – And How it Took Me 9 Months to Get Here

By Charlie Bierwirth

This post is intended to focus more on my slow journey into large format photography and hopefully give some insight to those who are “large format curious” like I...

1 October, 2023

Easing into Home Development

By Ted Ayre

Well it’s happening, I’m now fully down the rabbit hole of B&W film development. It was inevitable really, as I continued to take more photos on film and espec...

21 September, 2023

Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film

By Joel Rouse

I’m over it now, the crushing disappointment that is. And there’s a caveat – the film was expired. This was the brief: twelve shots consisting of three portr...

8 December, 2022

Starting to Learn Flash – Hurdles and Discoveries So Far – By Aivaras

By Aivaras

First, a disclaimer: This is flash novices experience. I confess, that I have just touched the tip of iceberg with flash photography and there might be a lot of aspects that I h...

15 June, 2022

My First Two Rolls of Film – HP5+ in a Trip 35 – By Stevenson Gawen

By Steven G

In many years of amateur (at best) photography, I’ve almost entirely used digital since I started with a compact in 2005 or 2006. But recently I've been increasingly keen to try...

10 June, 2022

Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers

By Josh Vickers

Fixer is both cheap and abundant, which is great for those of us that enjoy developing our own negatives. However, in the search for local alternatives for film development, it ...

Manoel Almeida @metsalmeida on Cannabis, pig’s blood, pee, and EpiPen: can these things develop film?
there is a photographer in Brazil, Bel, that uses cannabis as developer.. she calls it MACONHOL, made from tea from…
Gary Smith on 5 Frames with an Intrepid 4×5 – Famous For Quality.
Great article Christof! My one small problem is that I don't (yet?) own a 4 x 5 field camera and…
Gary Smith on 5 frames with a Minolta 700si
My Canon FTb was marked "QL" for quick load but it didn't use motors. Did the fact that it had…

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