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5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

5 December, 2025

/ Learning Journeys, /

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I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I find marvellous. It is, for me, the way to grow, to learn, and try new ...

5 December, 2025

The long way back home – my photo of the year 2025

By Julian Tanase

5 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September 2025 I was traveling for business in the SE of Romania. Given the good weather, I decided to travel by car, although distances are not a joke in these parts. As a secondary goal, I wanted to check out the famous landscape of Dobrudja,...

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5 December, 2025

A Summer of Street Portraits on Film

By David Smith

5 December, 2025

/ Portrait Photography, /

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O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife, son, and friends. As beautiful as they are, I needed a change of subj...

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11 March, 2020

Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 LTM Lens – A Mini-Review of 1960s Optical Excellence – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Long-term 35MMC readers recall that I have used my dad’s Leica IIIC rangefinder camera for decades. He bought it at the Post Exchange in Guam in 1949 and used it for famil...

10 March, 2020

Shooting Textured Double-Exposures with the Hasselblad XPAN – By Benoît Felten

By Ben Felten

Ever since I got into photography a little over 10 years ago, I've been fascinated with textures and patterns. While they don't represent anything per se (at least most of the t...

9 March, 2020

[CANCELLED] Analogue Spotlight Plan B – Meet-ups this Weekend [CANCELLED]

By Hamish Gill

You may have heard the news, The Photography Show has been postponed until September. Very disappointing, but we have a bit of a 'plan B' - two plan Bs in fact. This evening, a...

9 March, 2020

Analog Memo – Creating a Digital Notebook App for Android – By Barry Carr

By bscarr

Sometime in 2018, my friend, Rob Kent, downloaded an Android app that would help him record analogue exposure information. The app would let you enter the aperture, shutter spee...

9 March, 2020

Leica IIIa Review – My Final Roll with an Underused but Long-Prized Camera

By Hamish Gill

I’ve had my Leica iiia for a long time now, and though I didn’t use it for about 4 1/2 years, I hadn’t been able to rationalise selling it. At least, that was the case until a c...

8 March, 2020

5 Frames with Ferrania P30 – By Peter Schafer

By Peter Schafer

A while ago I got an email from the Film Photography Project store alerting me to the fact that they had Ferrania P30 back in stock. I jumped on that, just two rolls, because I ...

7 March, 2020

PhotoKlassik International is now SilvergrainClassics (and pixl-latr is reviewed in the latest edition)

By Hamish Gill

Sometime around the new year, not long after I interviewed Charys about the state of analogue photography at the turn of the decade, the team there got in touch to ask me if the...

7 March, 2020

5 Land of the Dead frames with Portra 400 at EI1600 with a Maxxum 7 and a 85mm f/1.4 lens – By Victor Lopez

By vicvl

Hi all! I am a Software Engineer from Mexico, I like to capture things that catch my eye, especially if the capturing part is made with a device that will force me to focus on i...

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