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25 June, 2025

Shooting Sanda (Chinese Kickboxing) Bouts

By Andrea Monti

25 June, 2025

/ Pentax K1 II, Pentax-FA 80-200mm F2.8 ED, Sports Photography, /

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28 June, 2020

A Few Words In Praise of Humble 50mm Lens – By Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

It’s the one that comes with the camera, it’s the 'nifty fifty' and the bog standard prime lense everyone has included in the pack that’s so quickly forgotten and replaced by fa...

27 June, 2020

The Stay Home Project – By John Scott

By John_S

Covid-19 has changed the world. We have people battling for their livelihoods everyday. I am incredibly thankful that I have a job and I am able to continue to be creative. Liv...

26 June, 2020

24 Frames / The Whole Roll of Ilford HP5+ in an Olympus Trip 35 – #FullRollFriday – By Hilary Clarke

By Hilary Clarke

When Hamish suggested a feature where people would post a full film, I thought I would take a photo a day on my daily walk through Healey Dell Nature Reserve. These shots were t...

26 June, 2020

Leica M8 – (Finally) Falling in love with this aging digital – By Taffy Ledesma

By Taffy Ledesma

I bought my Leica M8 used in 2012. After dabbling in all sorts of digital cameras - Nikon, Fuji, and Olympus — I was looking to replicate the joy of my old Leica M4-2 so I final...

25 June, 2020

Reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic, through a single roll of film – by Pierre-Alix Favillier

By pierrealx

As we finally emerge from one of the most difficult period of our recent lives, I finally got the single roll of film that I managed to shoot in those 3 months processed and wha...

25 June, 2020

Holga (and Umbrellas) – a 5 Frames mini-review – By Zac Lukins

By Zac Lukins

People on film photography forums and around the internet go on and on about the virtue of medium format, they will say “the larger negatives take my photography to another leve...

24 June, 2020

5 Frames with Yashica Electro 35 GS & Kodak Gold 200 – By Salman Rameli

By salmanrameli

I have finished this roll of Kodak Gold 200 in January this year, although I hadn’t sent it to my local development lab as I was too lazy to drive there. Besides, I also had a r...

24 June, 2020

5 Frames at 5 in the Morning With Even More Ludicrously Pushed APX 100 – By Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

I’m down to my last nine rolls of Ilford HP5+ at the time of writing, and postal services seem to be rather iffy about their availability amid this global pandemic. With avoidin...

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Ibraar Hussain on The 21mm Focal Length (or Thereabouts) for Documentary Photography
Yes quite a few were shot with the 21 in this recent post https://www.35mmc.com/19/06/2025/byzantium-ancient-constantinople-modern-istanbul-on-film-and-through-the-eye-of-my-contax-g2/
Ibraar Hussain on Village walks and Life in The Rural Punjab – With a Konica Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7D
Thanks again! I've seen The far Pavillions film a few times over the years! It's beautifully shot and so evocative…
Simon King on The 21mm Focal Length (or Thereabouts) for Documentary Photography
Thank you very much David!

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