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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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25 August, 2019

5 Frames on the Beach with a Yashica Electro 35 GSN – by Lee Webb

By Lee Webb

I remember being in a hostel in Thailand once, just minding my own business, when another guest returned from the beach. Someone politely asked them how it was. The reply was “n...

24 August, 2019

One Rainy Night in SF – Nikon F3HP + Kodak TRI-X pushed to 3200 – By Benjamin Fargen

By benjaminfargen

May 18, 2019 - I decided to accompany my teenage son and his friend on a trip down to San Francisco. They had tickets to see Mac DeMarco perform at the Bill Graham Civic auditor...

23 August, 2019

Bremen Ports, a Playground for Photographing Industrial Architecture – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

As it turned out, the Bremen ports are a real playground for photographing industrial architecture. The place offers proud warehouses and grain silos coming from glorious past. ...

22 August, 2019

5 Frames with an Ilford Obscura and Direct Positive Paper – By Ellsworth Bell

By Ellsworth

These aren’t just five frames, these are the first five frames I shot with Ilford’s Obscura pinhole camera, on Harman Direct Positive paper. Thus, I’m more than qualified to tel...

21 August, 2019

5 Frames (oops, 6) in Mississippi with 35mm Kodak Ektar 25 film in a Spotmatic by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Dear 35MMC readers, I am a dreamer. I keep hoping I will be able to buy some Kodak Ektar 25 (or Royal Gold 25 - the same emulsion) which has been frozen all these years and will...

20 August, 2019

5 Frames from Dog Green, Omaha, and a Leica M6 – By Torsten Wulff

By thorsten

Vierville sur Mer, June 6, 6 AM. Woken by lots of boots walking close to the car I grabbed my camera and climbed over a strip of rocks down to the beach. The tide had dragged th...

19 August, 2019

Kodak P3200 – A Lackadaisical Experiment Shooting for Fowey Shellfish

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I went down to Cornwall for the day to shoot some video for Fowey Shellfish. The job for the day was to capture some content of their new boat, the Mytelus...

18 August, 2019

Leica 50mm f/0.95 ASPH Noctilux-M Review and Bokeh Worship – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

While bokeh often fascinates the photography enthusiast, it is only lesser photographers who worship bokeh, venerating it to such a degree as to displace the art of photography ...

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