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3 December, 2025

Night Shooting on Halloween with a Leica M3 and a Contax T2

By Scott Ferguson

3 December, 2025

/ Contax T2, Leica M3, Street & Urban Photography, /

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Halloween, 2025 has been on my calendar as a shooting opportunity for a couple of months. In NYC the scale of the revelry is epic, including a giant parade in the West Village and all day fun for all ages. My favorite subject for 2025 has been p...

A square image of A Covered shopping arcade in the evening

3 December, 2025

A Covered shopping arcade in the evening – My Favorite Photo of 2025

By Keith A Yeo

3 December, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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2025 involved me traveling a bit for work and pleasure. On one particular trip, my partner accompanied me to Prague and Vienna for a few days before she flew back and I remained in Prague for a conference. Having left my partner, I found myself un...

3 December, 2025

5 Frames with the Pentax K SMC 85mm f/2.2 Soft Focus Lens

By mark stein

3 December, 2025

/ Pentax K SMC 85mm f/2.2 Soft Focus, Soft focus, /

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What started as an experiment out of curiosity has apparently become serious, or at least a lot more expensive: I’ve bought a “proper” Soft Focus lens, and I have a slight unease about the prospect that it might not be my last. I...

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21 May, 2025

A Heads-Up for Ghost Hunters – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

I’ve lived an extraordinarily paranormal life without ever trying. I never know when the next “experience” will come. Some Reading for a Dark Night Here are a few 35mmc articles...

21 May, 2025

A Round-up of Analogue (and analogue inspired) News from around the World – May 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

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21 May, 2025

Paterson, old and new – A Tale of Two Tanks

By Bob Janes

Having recently completed a review of the LOMO daylight developing tank, I was drawn to think more about what for me has simply become part of the furniture for my processing re...

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20 May, 2025

Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata

By Vincent

Three years ago, I introduced Datafilm to the 35mmc community—a minimalist iOS app aimed at helping film photographers log exposure settings and shooting notes. The response was...

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20 May, 2025

Type 517 developed in R09 – Life and Death in London

By Geoff Chaplin

Graffiti; Art or vandalism? A large area – many streets, bridges, car parks, stations – around Brick Lane in London are covered by ever changing Street Art: seen by some as the ...

19 May, 2025

Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush

By Ibraar Hussain

Once upon a time, Olympus Corporation followed Panasonic in releasing a compact Digital Camera with a fast lens, they out did Panasonic by adding a faster Zuiko lens with a 1.8 ...

18 May, 2025

Shooting Italian 5 birilli

By Andrea Monti

Thanks to the support of the Italian Federation of Sport Billiards, I had the opportunity to access the playing area of a billiards national competition with the students of the...

17 May, 2025

Lego Ideas Polaroid Onestep SX-70 camera – A non-camera camera review

By Bob Janes

This is an odd review because rather than being a review of a camera, it is a review of a Lego model of a camera. For my {hurumphty}3 rd birthday, one of my sons and his wife bo...

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