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15 February, 2023

Appreciating the Challenges of Photography in 1932 (5 Frames with a Leica II & Elmar 5cm f/3.5 Lens) – By Reed George

By Reed George

Leica rangefinder cameras have defined small format photography from its beginning and persist to the current day. Maybe you know about the digital rangefinders, including the M...

14 February, 2023

The Spoiled Negatives from a Spoiled Petri 7s – By Ana Sousa

By Ana Sousa

I started shooting exclusively in analogue approximately 5 years ago. At the beginning it was like entering a carousel full of expectations and experiences. I wanted to learn ev...

14 February, 2023

That time I “Half-Framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 1 of 3)

By Dave Powell

I’ve long wanted a half-frame 35mm camera. Doubling one’s images per roll is especially great now that film costs more. I’m an inveterate tinkerer, though, and preferred to conv...

13 February, 2023

Minolta XM Compared to the Nikon F2 – Between Myth and Market – By Alex Peter

By Alex Peter

In 1973, the year of the Minolta XM's launch, Minolta had been serving the consumer market very successfully for several years with the SR-T . There, it was a hard-to-beat queen...

12 February, 2023

The Role of Film Photography in an AI World – By Joseph

By josephtwx

The position of film photography has never been stronger. Against the intangibility of our virtual reality, the medium of photography and its process gives viewers the craved ta...

11 February, 2023

Cairo, Egypt with a Nikon FE, 20mm Lens and Cinestill 50 – By Felix I Flores Rodriguez

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

Egypt is one of the fifty-four countries on the African continent. One of the most famous cities around the world is Cairo, which has served as an inspiration to one thousand an...

10 February, 2023

Declining Reno – 13 Frames Developed in Kompostinol – by Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

I think the city council and mayor would probably want to kill me if they read the title of this article. To be clear, Reno Nevada at large is not declining. It’s a thrivi...

10 February, 2023

Chroma Double Glass Lens – My First Shots – by Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

I first heard of the Chroma Double Glass lens in a post here on 35mmc. A new 24mm extremely compact and inexpensive fixed focus, fixed aperture lens for Leica screw mount defini...

Benjamin Chan on Zip Disks – A One-Shot Public-Service Announcement
I moved all my long-term backups to cloud storage, a mix of Amazon AWS for earlier work and Microsoft Azure…
David Hume on Hitting the “Zone” – Shot-by-Shot street shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM
This is a great piece thanks Scott. There's a quote I really like of someone asking Francis Bacon, "Why do…
Gordon Ownby on Hitting the “Zone” – Shot-by-Shot street shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM
Scott - Thank you for the photos and the essay. You articulated many of the same thoughts that I typically…

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