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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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14 March, 2018

Forward Motion – On the Road with Saint Etienne – By Mike Monaghan

By Mike Monaghan

My career behind the drums first took me on the road some 7 or so years back and since then I’ve had the good fortune to tour as far and wide as America, Europe, China and Russi...

14 March, 2018

5 (6) frames with a Hasselblad in Mississippi – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Dear Readers, I still have a few rolls of Ektar 25 in 120 size in my freezer. My rolls expired in 1995, but fortunately they seem to be responding correctly without obvious colo...

13 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Vivitar 35ES – By Howard Dale

By Howard Dale

Internet reviews of the Vivitar 35ES seem to agree that it’s a well built camera with a great lens, but which is otherwise uninspired. So why did I get get it?

12 March, 2018

A Few Frames More, with the Hasselblad XPan – by Simon King

By Simon King

The XPan is everything I have ever needed from a film camera. It serves the purpose to me of being fundamentally different from the regular frame shape which most film, digital ...

11 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon F80

By Hamish Gill

My Nikon F75 project came to an end when I recently “upgraded” to the F80. The Nikon F80 felt almost instantaneously like it was a better choice for me. As I talk about in the l...

11 March, 2018

The Leica Rangefinder and the importance of a well calibrated system – By Alan Starkie

By Alan Starkie

The idea of the rangefinder is simple, it’s an optical triangulation device coupled to a cam on a lens. Align the two images in the viewfinder and the camera is in focus. ...

10 March, 2018

Nikon FM3a Review – My desert Island camera – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

Last year I wrote a short piece for 35mmc as part of the “5 frames with” series. The camera I used was my Nikon Fm3a with the Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS lens- a combination that I jus...

9 March, 2018

Why I Enjoy Film Photography More Than Digital Photography – by Frank Wu

By frankhwu

I thought it would be worthwhile to express, as explicitly as possible, what it is that causes me to enjoy film photography more than I enjoy its digital imitation. Although I k...

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