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14 November, 2025

A Stone Igloo – My favourite photo of 2025

By Mark Ellerby

14 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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16 June, 2022

5 Macro Frames on Film with the Minolta MC Macro Rokkor 3.5/100mm – By Matthias Steck

By Matthias Steck

The idea of trying to take macro shots on film came to me, when I was watching older illustrated books with all kinds of nature photography. I'm deeply impressed by what the nat...

15 June, 2022

My First Two Rolls of Film – HP5+ in a Trip 35 – By Stevenson Gawen

By Steven G

In many years of amateur (at best) photography, I’ve almost entirely used digital since I started with a compact in 2005 or 2006. But recently I've been increasingly keen to try...

14 June, 2022

5 frames with a Minolta SRT303 and Ilford FP4 – By Allysse Riordan

By Allysse Riordan

It was a bright late spring day and I had the day off from work. The latest lockdown restrictions had eased and I was slowly getting reacquainted with my bicycle. So I decided ...

13 June, 2022

Digital Negatives – The Power of CHDK on Canon Powershots – By Sean Benham

By Sean Benham

Film has always been the standard I measure against on the quality and color of digital imagery. The texture of grain with higher ISO, the colors rendered from the film -- these...

12 June, 2022

The Life and Death of a Ricoh KR-30sp Program – By John Pemberton

By John Pemberton

That isn’t really what this article was supposed to be titled. If things had gone differently it would have been “Last of the Kodachrome”. My life with 35mm photography began ...

11 June, 2022

5 Frames with a Nikon AF600 & Fuji C200 in Venezia and Burano (Italy) – By Gregoire MBV

By Gregoire MBV

That isn’t really what this article was supposed to be titled. If things had gone differently it would have been “Last of the Kodachrome”. My life with 35mm photography began ...

10 June, 2022

Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers

By Josh Vickers

Fixer is both cheap and abundant, which is great for those of us that enjoy developing our own negatives. However, in the search for local alternatives for film development, it ...

9 June, 2022

5 Frames of Reno Fever Dream… in Blue! – By Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

In my first article for 35mmc I mentioned Jorge Otero’s fabulous little Lumenbox, which has become one of my very favorite cameras. When I ordered my Lumenbox, Jorge kindly incl...

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