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27 October, 2025

My Favorite Photo of 2025?

By David Pauley

27 October, 2025

/ Street & Urban Photography, /

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As I write these words it is mid-September, with almost a third of 2025 yet to go, yet I’m nonetheless fairly certain that the image above will turn out to be my favorite of the year. I wasn’t expecting this when I took the photo or wh...

27 October, 2025

Leica vs Leica – M vs R cameras & lenses and thoughts on Rangefinders & SLRs

By Scott Ferguson

27 October, 2025

/ Camera Theory, Lens Theory, /

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If someone handed you two high end cameras — a rangefinder and an SLR — which would you pick up first? Which would you end up sticking with as your ‘when in doubt’/desert island camera? What factors would influence thos...

27 October, 2025

Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review

By Hamish Gill

27 October, 2025

/ 85mm Lens, Mirrorless Lens, Telephoto Lens, Viltrox 85mm 1.8, Viltrox Lens, /

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I don’t review modern autofocus lenses all that often, but recently – for reasons I will come to in a moment – I have begun to find them increasingly interesting. Actually more specifically, it’s the more budget end of the marketplace ...

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31 October, 2018

Yashica Y35 Review – Unexpected Expectations – By Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

Before it even shipped the Yashica Y35 has become on of the most maligned cameras in history. Its reputation hasn't improved any since shipping began in September but bar the ob...

30 October, 2018

5 Frames with the Minolta 24mm f/2.8 MD W.Rokkor – By Steven Starr

By Steven Starr

This lens is an SR mount lens designed for the Minolta manual focus SLR’s. The MD version was first introduced in 1977 and was preceded by an MC version in 1973. They all take 5...

29 October, 2018

Lensbaby Lenses: Sweet vs. Edge – a Review – By Martina Kettner

By Martina

I remember exactly when I saw a Lensbaby image for the first time – it was a street shot from Vienna. I had never seen such bokeh. The lens used for the image was the R...

28 October, 2018

Canon P (for Populaire) thread mount rangefinder mini-review

By Hamish Gill

The Canon P - or "Populaire", as the P stands for - is a Leica thread mount rangefinder camera released the late 1950’s. There were a lot of these cameras sold, something like 1...

27 October, 2018

5 Frames with a Fed 50mm f/3.5 LTM lens (Industar-10) – By Christian Irving Cayetano

By xtian.irving

In 2015, I bought a Leica M6 after months of saving thinking that it would be the last film camera I would buy. It was an excellent and enjoyable camera to shoot with, but being...

26 October, 2018

NEWS: Ondu Pinhole III and Lenscapt on Kickstarter, Negative Lab Pro and Lumu Power 2 Announced

By Hamish Gill

Lots of exciting things happening this week. Ondu have surpassed their Kickstarter goal for a their mark III cameras, Negative Lab Pro is launched, promising negative conversion...

25 October, 2018

Fuji GW690II – Urban Decay in Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the Texas Leica – By Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

35mmc started out with an emphasis on compact film cameras. Over time, it's grown, and so have the cameras featured on it. The subject of this article is a splendid bear of a ca...

24 October, 2018

5 Frames with a Takumar 50mm f/1.8 on a Spotmatic (with 11 year old film) – By Nigel Cliff

By Nigel Cliff

On holiday in Northumberland, and needing to kill till time whilst wife and daughter were shopping, I wandered into an Antiques shop and was confronted by a Pentax Spotmatic wit...

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Charles Young on My Favorite Photo of 2025?
Interesting photo ... shows the multicultural mix of the crowd! I suggest lightening up (holding back) the faces of the…
Craig Wantuch on 7Artisans 60mm 2.8 Macro Lenses – A Comparison of Two Lenses for Film Scanning
Thank you for this test. I recently updated my film scanning to use micro 4/3 with an OM-1 Mk II…
Hamish Gill on Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review
I'm after an D810 myself at the minute too. I was going to get an adapter for the Z to…

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