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21 October, 2025

My friend Volkmar – Frames of a Life

By thorsten

21 October, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, /

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Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor himself, had one of those. He got it from a photographer who died in a...

21 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Canon EOS 5000, 50mm f/1.8, and Kepler 800

By Yousuf Sarfaraz

21 October, 2025

/ Canon EOS 5000, Kodak Vision3 500T, Zhenwei Kepler 800, /

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I’ve shot a variety of films before, both color and black and white, from Portra to HP5, but I had never experimented with motion picture stock like Kodak Vision3 500T. I had seen photos online and read about it, but never tested it myself. In Jul...

21 October, 2025

A Few Frames with a Canon P and how I found myself on 35mmc

By Walter Reumkens

21 October, 2025

/ Canon P, Kodak Film, Kodak UltraMax 400, /

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I have been a member of FLICKR for many years and only show my photos there. I joined when I retired and had more time for my hobby. At that time I expected to meet many like-minded people, nice people who knew the basics of photography, wanted to...

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19 June, 2022

The Attraction of Wet Darkroom Prints – My Experience at Hidden Light LLC – By Floyd K. Takeuchi

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

For those of us of a certain age, no matter what the photo technology in our hands, we’re thinking of the output in terms of photographic prints, not pixels on a display. In my ...

18 June, 2022

5 Frames with the Zeiss (Ikon) Contina 1 (522/24) – by Simon Foale

By Simon Foale

One of the enjoyable aspects of sites like 35mmc, Emulsive, and other places where analogue photography continues to be explored and celebrated in the age of unrelenting advance...

17 June, 2022

The Game Called ISO – Taking Advantage of the EV System for Better Results – By Vlad Serebryany

By Vlad Serebryany

For as long as I was shooting film, I have had the same nagging problem: I wanted to shoot in the dark. My Dad - who gave me my first and his only camera Zorkiy with 3.5/50 mm I...

16 June, 2022

5 Macro Frames on Film with the Minolta MC Macro Rokkor 3.5/100mm – By Matthias Steck

By Matthias Steck

The idea of trying to take macro shots on film came to me, when I was watching older illustrated books with all kinds of nature photography. I'm deeply impressed by what the nat...

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...

14 June, 2022

5 frames with a Minolta SRT303 and Ilford FP4 – By Allysse Riordan

By Allysse Riordan

It was a bright late spring day and I had the day off from work. The latest lockdown restrictions had eased and I was slowly getting reacquainted with my bicycle. So I decided ...

13 June, 2022

Digital Negatives – The Power of CHDK on Canon Powershots – By Sean Benham

By Sean Benham

Film has always been the standard I measure against on the quality and color of digital imagery. The texture of grain with higher ISO, the colors rendered from the film -- these...

12 June, 2022

The Life and Death of a Ricoh KR-30sp Program – By John Pemberton

By John Pemberton

That isn’t really what this article was supposed to be titled. If things had gone differently it would have been “Last of the Kodachrome”. My life with 35mm photography began ...

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