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15 September, 2025

Ansco Titan – A Stylish 6×6 120 Folder

By Dave Powell

15 September, 2025

/ Ansco Medium Format Camera, Ansco Titan, Medium Format Folder, /

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6 August, 2025

One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

By Andrea Monti

Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal C...

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...

5 August, 2025

Bentley JPG 378 – a One Shot Story.

By Richard Becker

Of what follows almost nothing could be true, or it all could be. The problem is that it comes mainly from my childhood memories and there is no-one left to corroborate or not. ...

5 August, 2025

Voigtlander Bessamatic – A retrospective look at a marketplace find.

By Steve Kotajarvi

One of my daily routines includes a search in the local classifieds for cameras. Initially fueled by my obsession with finding “that perfect camera” and later to fin...

4 August, 2025

Crazy email nonsense – A quick note to contributors

By Hamish Gill

Apologies for the onslaught of email notifications today. We lost them all over the weekend, but when the dev guys attempted to fix this, they swung the needle too far the other...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By David Pauley

I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation wher...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...

3 August, 2025

Dreaming of the pool (One for Dave Powell)

By Geoff Chaplin

Reader discretion advised: references to extreme violence and an image of blood and gore – The featured image and the one below taken by my daughter on a smartphone. It wa...

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