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17 September, 2017

Finding my way in photography Part 2 – My first steps shooting film – Guest Post by Nick Holt

By Nick

In my first post I took a look back at a couple of years snapping away with my Ricoh GR digital camera. I submitted that post to 35mmc as it was around the time I had decided to...

23 July, 2017

Film Photography; a to road rediscovery – Guest post by Richard Williams

By Richard Williams

...I must have had a latent desire to shoot film again because a few follows later on Instagram and I was hooked! Then not long after that, my wife, ever the avid charity-shopp...

1 July, 2017

Sony A7Rii – Making it work for me – Take Perfect. Spoil it. Be happy – by Aivaras

By Aivaras

I really enjoyed Hamish's recent articles about the Sony A7RII, and the one regarding the never ending “film vs digital” debate. To me, these two articles felt as though they we...

17 June, 2017

Smena 8M Review – Sometimes you just have to play – By Carlos Argott

By C. Argott

In photography, as in life, it is easy to take ourselves too seriously. Once you go beyond being a simple snapshot photographer and move unto the realm of finer craftsmanship, t...

11 June, 2017

Finding my way in photography – part 1 – by Nick Holt

By Nick

I defected from digital three days ago with the purchase of my first film camera; a Hasselblad Xpan. My decision to move to film was arrived at slowly, although reading some of ...

29 May, 2017

Disposable cameras – Reflections on my early use – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

Taking a good or great picture with a single use is really all about composition. Other parameters, like light or contrasts, are in the hands of the lab. Motion blur is often in...

23 April, 2017

Nikonos V – Underwater Film Photography – by Aukje

By Aukje

I can't remember exactly what triggered the idea to shoot underwater with a film camera first: a mention of the Nikonos camera in my twitter feed, or the painterly effect I got ...

16 April, 2017

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #26 – Caio Proença

By Caio Proença

Hi there, my name is Caio Proença, and I`m born 1991 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where I still live. This year I finished my Master degree in History and Visual Culture, writing ab...

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