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28 October, 2025

There’s more to the garden than the BBQ – A tale of four cameras and a deadly ladder.

By Simon Bohrsmann

28 October, 2025

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19 September, 2025

Kodak 35RF coupled rangefinder from 1949.

By Tony Warren

Kodak 35RF.

18 September, 2025

Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story

By thorsten

Nadja and me we stopped in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes while travelling through France in the summer of 2022. Nicéphore Niépce experimented here with heliography. 200 years ago he us...

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...

17 September, 2025

A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power

By Andrea Monti

This panoramic photo, taken with an iPhone, shows the four corners of a square in my hometown. As such, the photo has no particular merit or quality that justifies its public re...

17 September, 2025

Battle of the Budgets Continued… Fomapan 200 & Kentmere 200 (35mm)

By Simon King

In a market where 200-speed black-and-white films are rare (SFX 200 and Rollei options aside), Fomapan 200, and now Kentmere 200 stand out as both affordable and versatile. Over...

16 September, 2025

One Shot Story – Resilience

By Tim Piscitelli

The year is 1938. It is 9 years into the Great Depression and my grandparents were a young couple with 3 children. Neither came from families that could offer anything in the ...

16 September, 2025

A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

Pentax Spotmatic F / Kentmere Pan 200 / Fomadon R09 Camera and lenses: The Spotmatic F is a true classic. When I reviewed the camera here, I didn’t fit the lovely little 2...

15 September, 2025

5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)

By Gordon Ownby

Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...

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