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The Socol 2 Automat camera on the table of a street cafe

22 May, 2025

5 Frames with the Sokol-2 Automat – Closing the Soviet Gestalt

By Alex Gridenko

22 May, 2025

/ Sokol-2 Automat, /

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27 August, 2021

Panasonic GF1 & 7Artisans 18mm – My Analog Point & Shoot Experience Digital Camera – By Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

I love the simplest point & shoot film cameras. Take a Holga or some cheap disposable/reusable model and just go enjoy shooting. They are so easy to use, so hard to master, so m...

26 August, 2021

5 frames with a Sigma DP1 – Classic Cars and Overcast Skies – By Wes Hall

By Wes Hall

Bold and brave or exotic tech and ill timed debut on the photography stage? Enter the Sigma DP1, the original Foveon X3 sensor compact camera. Promoted for having an APS-C sized...

25 August, 2021

5 frames with a Canon Sure Shot Supreme on Expired Fujichrome Sensia 100 – By Nige Fishwick

By FishyFishArcade

Over the past couple of years or so I've acquired a smallish stock of expired slide film. Some of it is slightly less expired, dating back to the early 2010s, but I also have a ...

24 August, 2021

Pergear 60mm f/2.8 Prototype (Fuji X mount) – Review by Iurii Zvonar

By yukosteel

Today I’m sharing my impressions on Pergear 60mm F2.8 lens in Fuji X mount. The sample was provided by Pergear in April, and it is an early prototype. I also had time to shoot w...

23 August, 2021

Façades of Kolkata, and the Value of “Boring” Projects – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

I’ve been part of the 35mmc team for the past year or so; some of you may have come across my articles, but behind the scenes, I also try and look for contributors who can...

22 August, 2021

Montoggio – A Chronicle of an Absence – By Salvatore Da Cha

By Salvatore Da Cha’

This analogue photographic project was born from my desire to give new life and greater visibility to a small town in the Genoa hinterland, Montoggio. The shadow of the big city...

21 August, 2021

Shooting Film on the Trip for My Mother’s Funeral – By Jim McConnell

By Jim McConnell

I lost my mother to Covid-19 on January 29th, 2021, just two days after her seventy-third birthday. Apart from the obvious complications of holding a funeral in the middle of a ...

20 August, 2021

Zeiss Distagon 50mm CF f/4 FLE – The Most “Manual” Lens I Know – By Marco Fantin

By Marco Fantin

The Hasselblad Zeiss Distagon 50mm CF f/4 FLE is a wide-angle lens for the Hasselblad V system (Hasselblad 500 C/M, SWC, etc.). In my opinion, this lens embraces the essence of ...

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