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20 January, 2016

Canon AF35ML Review – A Curious incident – by Torsten Kathke

By Torsten Kathke

Pray, listen! I give unto you another review of mine. It is, as per the challenge of Hamish Gill, Esquire, Lord of Range, purveyor of most excellent essays and sundry for her Ma...

19 January, 2016

The Road to Making a Pinhole Modified 35mm Compact Canon Camera – by Duncan Waldron

By Duncan Waldron

Here's a tale of a modest little camera that eschews almost all of the technology found in modern cameras (even more basic than an LTM...), and it just about fits the ethos of t...

17 January, 2016

A 35mm compact camera lens conversion – Part 1.5 – (Still) Choosing the lens

By Hamish Gill

Just a little update to the compact camera lens conversion project. If you haven’t read the first part of the project, you can read it here. As it turns out, the Ricoh ff9...

16 January, 2016

Voigtlander 28/35 mini-finder micro-review

By Hamish Gill

I've had a couple of messages lately asking me about the Voigtlander 28/35 mini finder, specifically whether or not I think it's worth the fairly large amount of cash they go fo...

15 January, 2016

First roll with the Hasselblad Xpan II & 45mm

By Hamish Gill

First impressions of the camera are fairly positive, it's seems largely speaking fairly logical to use and is comfortable in the hand, if a little big and heavy. I'll get to all...

8 January, 2016

9 Reasons you shouldn’t own a thread mount Leica – Guest post by Dominik Mrzyk

By Dominik Mrzyk

Quite recently, Hamish published an article about Barnack Leica’s giving 7 reasons to own one. Well, he mentioned all the advantages of these cameras, but he didn’t ...

2 January, 2016

7 Reasons you should own a Thread Mount Leica

By Hamish Gill

7 reasons and a whole load of waffle about why I (and some reader of 35mmc) think all photographers should own, or at least try, a thread mount Leica

1 January, 2016

The Gear Acquisition Syndrome Horseshoe

By Hamish Gill

Just a bit of fun. I’ve been thinking about Gear Acquisition Syndrome and what it means to me. I thought about writing a post about it but decided instead it could be bett...

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