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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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23 September, 2016

Nikon 310 Zoom – review by Andrew

By and

One December evening I happened to be browsing and, wandering over to 35mmc, noticed that Hamish was very generously giving away a stack of compacts. The only catch was that a r...

21 September, 2016

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #23 – Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately – some of you will have an intimate knowledge of this feeling. Every single charity shop or car boot sale I go to has been yielding vin...

17 September, 2016

Leica CL Review (The Film Camera)

By Hamish Gill

The Leica CL, along with its contemporary cousin the Leica M5, comes from a time in Leica's history that seems to have been a little rocky to say the least. Yet whilst Leica suf...

12 September, 2016

Olympus OM4Ti review – a ‘compact’ SLR Camera – by Guy

By GW

Is the Olympus OM4ti camera relevant for 35mmc? I think so. The word “compact” is relative and open to interpretation. There are compact cars and compact vans for example; a ‘co...

10 September, 2016

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #22 – Mickaël André

By Mika

With all these cameras, it’s always about comfort to use, and the simplicity I need in a lot of things in life. I have to feel that the camera isn’t something bothering to carry...

10 September, 2016

Contax TVS Review – The ‘Executive’ Compact Zoom – By Eddy

By Eddy

The Contax TVS is a fancy compact zoom camera from the mid nineties. Its body is made out of Titanium, it has a really nice Zeiss Vario-Sonar zoom lens and a good range of sensi...

8 September, 2016

How to: 28mm & finder for your Leica on a pensioner’s budget – by Geoff Radnor

By Geoff

My first Leica was an M2 in 1959 it came with a 5cm 2.8 Elmar to which were added over time a 9cm and a 13.5cm. I never did get a wide angle 3.5cm, but what a nice viewfinder th...

4 September, 2016

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #21 – Luis Diaz

By Sunkenrat

I put down my medium format cameras and large 35mm SLR's, and picked up a single lensed, single range compact point and shoot. With minimalistic in features and options, it was ...

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Alejandro on Weston Master V – a Review of the Masterful Exposure Meter
I´ve got exactly one of these by the earlies 2000. Unfortunatelly the cell on mine was dead (which frecuently is…
Ibraar Hussain on Village walks and Life in The Rural Punjab – With a Konica Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7D
Thanks Rich, I must look that book up! My favourite is 'Kashmir by Francis Younghusband' no photos, but beautiful watercolour…
Ibraar Hussain on Village walks and Life in The Rural Punjab – With a Konica Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7D
Thanks John I think they were frightened off by a few Black Kites which then claimed the Minaret! hehe!

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