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10 July, 2025

5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.

By Richard Becker

10 July, 2025

/ Fuji Velvia 50, Fujifilm film, /

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4 January, 2023

CLACK! 5 Frames with a Very Simple Agfa 120 Box Camera – By Stewart Waller

By Stewart Waller

It was love at first sight, so I bid too much and won an Agfa CLACK 120 film 6X9 format box camera. The shutter wasn’t working exactly right, but this camera is so basic that it...

3 January, 2023

5 Frames on a Morning Walk with a Nikon F2A – By Stephen Hanka

By Stephen Hanka

I have been fooling with cameras for almost 60 years, since I was in junior high school in the early 1960s in the Detroit, Michigan area. In those days the Nikon F series of fi...

2 January, 2023

Sirui B25R Bendable LED Light Review – It Bends! – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Last week I reviewed the Sirui T120 Telescopic Light. The light I’m reviewing this week – the Sirui B25R (or to give its full name, the Sirui Dragon Series B25R Bendable R...

31 December, 2022

The Most Read and Commented upon Posts Published on 35mmc in 2022

By Hamish Gill

Another year, another set of favourite articles. As always, I have split the list into two groups of top-9. Have a flick through, and let me know your thoughts about 2023's top ...

30 December, 2022

Shooting infrared with a rangefinder camera, Rollei Infrared film and a Retina IIc – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

A comment on my review of Rollei Infrared film triggered this follow up. In his comment, Neal Wellons pointed out, quite correctly, that, for infrared photography, using a range...

29 December, 2022

Sirui T120 Telescopic RGB LED Light Review – I See You Have Constructed a New Lightsaber – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Sirui is a Chinese company founded in 2001, who make a range of photography and video accessories including anamorphic and cine lenses, tripods and stabilisers. They also produc...

28 December, 2022

Nikon FM2 Camera Review – Joy in Simplicity – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

Like many millennials I grew up in the 90’s with family point-and-shoots, quickly watching them disappear for digital compacts in the 00’s, and then those being ditched for the ...

27 December, 2022

Nikon F801 (N8008) Review – A Numbers Game – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

I sold my last film SLR in the late 1990s before my flirtation with digital, which quite quickly lost its appeal and I drifted back to film, continuing with digital mainly as a ...

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