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Black and white image of a couple walking down a sidewalk in Belfast. The right hand side of the frame is dominated by a sign saying "In You I Am Lost" with arrows pointing outward.

20 September, 2025

5 Frames of Ilford HP5 on the Streets of Belfast with a Minolta Maxxum 5

By Don Beaudette

Belfast has been like a second home to me now for the better part of 20 years. I fell in love with the city and its people the first time I visited Belfast as an undergraduate i...

20 September, 2025

Underground 3: retakes on HP5+

By Geoff Chaplin

The aim was noble I think. To retake underground 1 and 2 shots on film. I would necessarily need to expose either slow film using a tripod (anathema to me, and permission would ...

19 September, 2025

Gravity on Pause – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

This a casual shot taken while I was wandering around without actually thinking about taking photographs. Setting aside the photographic quality of the image for a moment, I was...

19 September, 2025

Viltrox AF 14mm f/4.0 Air – Drama on a budget with the new full frame, autofocus lens

By Mike Brooks

I got pretty excited when Viltrox agreed to send me a copy of their new, full frame 14mm auto focus lens, the Viltrox AF 14mm f/4.0 Air. As you might be able to tell from the na...

19 September, 2025

Kodak 35RF coupled rangefinder from 1949.

By Tony Warren

Kodak 35RF.

18 September, 2025

Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story

By thorsten

Nadja and me we stopped in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes while travelling through France in the summer of 2022. Nicéphore Niépce experimented here with heliography. 200 years ago he us...

18 September, 2025

Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops

By Scott Ferguson

This post came as something of an outgrowth of my big spring/summer 2025 Black & White Survey which featured in five installments here on 35mmc. As I was moving through the...

17 September, 2025

A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power

By Andrea Monti

This panoramic photo, taken with an iPhone, shows the four corners of a square in my hometown. As such, the photo has no particular merit or quality that justifies its public re...

Steve Williams on Mount Cook and the Glaciers, 1893
Thanks for this. It's suffering mightily from glacial melting now, but man I love getting down there. Luckily I live…
David Pauley on 5 Frames with a Leica 1c
Fantastic photos from a truly legendary camera. I have a slightly younger Leica III from 1933 and just can't get…
Geoff Chaplin on Mount Cook and the Glaciers, 1893
Unbelievable! I have an ultra-light weight 12x20, the thought of carrying that, the massive tripod, and just 4 film (i.e.…

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