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23 November, 2020

A Lifetime of Photography – An Interview with Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

Gerard Exupery has been writing articles for 35mmc for a little over 6 months now. They are some of the least conventional articles that I publish, but almost universally seem t...

13 November, 2020

Stand Development – My First Steps into Analogue – Part 7 – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

Recently I have been asked to develop some very old expired B&W films. After bit of research I decided to buy a bottle of HC-110 for the purpose. I was very tempted to try the s...

4 November, 2020

The Remains of the Abandoned Microscopy Lab – Shooting Expired Film – Pt 2 – by Ricardo Andrade

By Ricardo Andrade

In this chapter I am going to dig a little deeper into the results of my nonsense endeavour. I will show you some of the images I have obtained while searching for a photographi...

2 November, 2020

Katie Melua on Shooting the “Album No.8” Cover with Film – Interview by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

Katie Melua's latest album, Album No.8, came out on October 16th. It’s the Georgian-British singer-songwriter’s eighth studio album (hence the name), and also her eighth consec...

30 October, 2020

The Remains of the Abandoned Microscopy Lab – Shooting Expired Film – Pt 1 – by Ricardo Andrade

By Ricardo Andrade

I work as a microscopist in life sciences at the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Northern Spain. I started using microscopes in 1993, while doing my PhD in the fiel...

26 October, 2020

Making, Measuring and Testing the “Optimal” Pinhole: Pinhole Adventures Part 3 – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

There’s a scene in Jurassic Park where Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) gives the park’s creators a lecture on ethics. He ends with the famous line, “Your scientist...

19 October, 2020

Digitising Film – My Adventures So Far – By David Hume

By David Hume

A weird thing happened a couple of years ago; I’d been on a solo bike tour in Western Australia, along off-road tracks through very beautiful and remote country. I was alone - ...

10 October, 2020

Rediscovering 28mm – With the Aid of an External Viewfinder – By Tauseef Khan

By Tauseef Khan

I re-discovered the 28mm focal length at 28 years of age, and it all seemed to fall in place. It was a strange sensation — analogous to a child opening a lock for the first tim...

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Chris Giles on 5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
Thanks Gary I found a little more information on the Danish Photohistorical Society site https://share.google/OUqgJZ3qy9pwPkJge It looks like a box…
Geoff Chaplin on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
Ditto Gary's comment on the B17. I didn't spot what emulsion/development you used. Nice images and especially compositions all the…
Tony Warren on 5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
Nice story Chris and right up my street. I am always impressed by the performance of these very simple cameras…

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