35mmc - Photography Blog - Reviews, Theory, Reflections, Tutorials, Knowhow and Photography Experiences.

Today's Posts

9 November, 2025

What, IMO, Street-Photography Is All About – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

9 November, 2025

/ Street & Urban Photography, /

Latest Posts

6 September, 2024

Beyond the Frame – One Shot, Six Stories

By Dave Powell

At photo exhibits, I look for images that especially grab me. If I find one and the photographer is around, I’ll ask if the photo holds stories that aren’t immediately obvious. ...

6 September, 2024

Harman Phoenix 120 – My First Few Rolls

By Hamish Gill

Yesterday we posted an article by Alex sharing the news and his first experiences shooting Harman Phoenix in 120 format. As mentioned in that post, having released this film in ...

5 September, 2024

Harman Phoenix – Now Available in 120 – My First few Rolls

By Alexander Doran

Harman Photo have today announced the release of their Phoenix colour film in 120 format. Previously only available in 35mm, this released has been teased and leaked over the in...

5 September, 2024

Early Auto Exposure – Three Different Approaches

By Tony Warren

When my original plans for the Agfa Selecta M I bought a little impulsively recently were clearly not going to happen, the camera type in general began to interest me. I already...

4 September, 2024

When Kitsch Becomes Collectible

By Dave Powell

I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like Minicom...

4 September, 2024

Returning to home developing – an expired roll of FP4 and perhaps a Pen EE

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

Ibraar Hussain recently posted a review of a Chinon CE-4 and his experiences with it which I found very interesting. So interesting that a few days later a house-clearance, unte...

Mystery painting and its novel signature

3 September, 2024

That Time I Played Art Detective — One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Sometimes, the world is indeed small. In 2015, Kate and I moved from a 1,700-square-foot Cape-style house to a 2,700 square-foot retirement condo with exceedingly high cathedral...

3 September, 2024

My Asylum Years

By John Greene

Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...

Support 35mmc

There are two ways to contribute to 35mmc and experience it without the adverts:

Paid Subscription – £2.99 per month and you’ll never see an advert again! (Free 3-day trial).
If you think £2.99 a month is too little, then please subscribe and I can manually edit the subscription value for you – thank you very much in advance if this is what you would like to do!

Subscribe here.

Content contributor – become a part of the world’s biggest film and alternative photography community blog. All our Contributors have an ad-free experience for life.

Make a donation – If you would simply like to support Hamish Gill and 35mmc financially, you can also do so via ko-fi

Donate to 35mmc here.

Gary H. on Leica MP review & some wider thoughts on “the ultimate tool”
Leica is a niche business. I haven't seen their accounting reports with costs of infrastructure (factory buildings, utility costs etc)…
Ibraar Hussain on Autumn Stroll with a Rolleiflex 6008i – The whole Roll of Agfa Ultra 50
Thank you Leon! I’m surprised this post was liked so much by so many people.
Leon Winnert on Autumn Stroll with a Rolleiflex 6008i – The whole Roll of Agfa Ultra 50
Really lovely images Ibraar. At first the luminous leaves in featured image reminded me of the pointalist school of painting.

Photography & Projects

Looking for some inspiration, or just want to flick through the project work and photos?

Reviews & Experiences

If you're looking for photography equipment and peripheral reviews, this is the place to start!

Theory & Reflections

If you're looking for photography equipment and peripheral reviews, this is the place to start!

Tutorials & Knowhow

If you want to learn or discover a new technique, build on your skills, or be inspired to have a go at a bit of DIY or camera modification, then you’re in the right place.

Contribute to 35mmc