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14 November, 2025

The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

14 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 160, pentax z-20, /

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For decades, it was established in 1963, not only the students of the Liceo Classico on the other side of Via Venezia, but almost all the inhabitants of my hometown, paid a visit to Pizzeria Liceo (aptly named after the aforementioned school). Tru...

Stone igloo

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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This photo was taken whilst on a hike with my local walking group, the Sheffield 40s/50s ramblers group, with my Rollei 35T that often comes with me on daywalks, because of its compact size and quality Tessar lens, and which I wrote about on this ...

14 November, 2025

Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera

By Ibraar Hussain

14 November, 2025

/ Half Frame Camera, Olympus Pen F, Olympus SLR, SLR Camera, /

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This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing published. I have to thank Hamish for allowing me to express myself here. I...

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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...

23 October, 2018

How to Calibrate a Canon P Rangefinder (in my case, for use with Soviet lenses) – by Cameradactyl (Ethan)

By cameradactyl

I am a fan of quirky old soviet cameras. I have had, loved, and broken a few Zorki 4 cameras over the years, and I love their lenses. I own Jupiter 8, 9 and 12 lenses (50mm f2...

22 October, 2018

5 Frames With A Leica Tele-Elmarit 90mm f/2.8 – by Aukje

By Aukje

Although I mostly shoot a 50mm Summilux on my Leica M2, I do enjoy a different focal length every now and then. What I don't like is adding lots of weight to my bag. The one len...

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