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30 August, 2026

A Pleasant Session of Photography at a Medieval Weekend

By Phil Harrison

30 August, 2026

/ Event Photography, Leica M3, /

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29 August, 2026

Filmomat PhotoPlug

By Roger

As someone who has more film cameras than I need, I decided it would be interesting to know how accurate their shutters are. Obviously, you can tell the difference between 1 sec...

28 August, 2026

A Behind the Scenes Look at Shooting the World Cup

By Mike Brooks

This summer the World Cup came to my hometown. This is a story about how a fantasy of shooting the tournament morphed into a dream, which turned into a goal, and then became re...

Greek square with a man seated and 2 cats

27 August, 2026

5 frames with a Minox 35 GT and Kodak Ultramax 400

By Keith A Yeo

The Minox 35 GT is a very small camera with zone focus, an impressive meter and wonderful sharp 35mm f/2.8 lens which belies its diminutive size. Its perceived virtues: – ...

27 August, 2026

Minox 35 PL – The Search for Small

By Jake

Much like many people, I love small compact cameras. Especially something that I can actually fit in my front pocket. The list of cameras that fall into that category is not sma...

26 August, 2026

Another Dunedin museum

By Tony Warren

The Early Settlers Museum, Dunedin.

25 August, 2026

The Eclipse Was Real, But Did We See it? – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

Where were you when the eclipse happened? On 12 August 2026, at 7 p.m., I was on the bridge at Finchley Central Station. The sun was low over London, and people had stopped to l...

25 August, 2026

Kodak No 2 Bulls-eye, model D – Amazing Results with an 1898 Camera

By Neal Wellons

A recent comment from a 35mmc reader about my Leica 0 included “I look forward to more postings from you with other ancient cameras!” I thought it was a fun idea and decided to...

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