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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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11 June, 2022

5 Frames with a Nikon AF600 & Fuji C200 in Venezia and Burano (Italy) – By Gregoire MBV

By Gregoire MBV

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 ...

10 June, 2022

Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers

By Josh Vickers

Fixer is both cheap and abundant, which is great for those of us that enjoy developing our own negatives. However, in the search for local alternatives for film development, it ...

9 June, 2022

5 Frames of Reno Fever Dream… in Blue! – By Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

In my first article for 35mmc I mentioned Jorge Otero’s fabulous little Lumenbox, which has become one of my very favorite cameras. When I ordered my Lumenbox, Jorge kindly incl...

8 June, 2022

NEWS: SantaColor 100 – New 100 ISO “Professional Grade” Colour Film Available to the Masses

By Hamish Gill

Santa Film, the Finnish film brand that has previously brought out the black and white films Santa Rae 1000 and Santa Raw 125, is back with a colour film. After selling out of a...

8 June, 2022

Sony ZV-1 Review – A High Quality Digital Point & Shoot?

By Hamish Gill

Me and my family recently spent a week driving around North Wales in my wife’s van. Me being me, I wanted to take a lot of photos. I also took a lot of cameras. 3 more than I ac...

7 June, 2022

5 Frames with a Chinon 35EEii and Kodak Tri-X – By Richard de Bulat

By Richard de Bulat

I got back into film photography at the start of the first Lockdown, buying a £15.00 folding camera and a roll of HP5 and fell in love with a process I hadn’t used for more than...

6 June, 2022

Hiking the Uncanny Valley – By Don Goodman-Wilson

By Don Goodman-Wilson

When creating the above image, I sought a very specific aesthetic, one informed by years of enjoying video games. Indeed, friends have told me they thought this image was a high...

5 June, 2022

5 Frames with the New 7artisans 28mm f/5.6 Lens – By Clive Shepherd

By Clive Shepherd

My new lens arrived today! I was looking forward to trying this new lens from 7artisans – the 28mm f5.6 – that I was the first to order from their online store. The ...

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