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The Douglas Pine Family

7 December, 2025

They were yearning to become a photograph of the year

By Erik Brammer

7 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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Ok, drawing from corporate bullshit bingo, this was one of the few calls to action that I was keen on following: Hamish asking 35mmc contributors to submit their single photograph of the year of 2025 – and for readers to become contributors....

7 December, 2025

Departure – My Favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ron Duda

7 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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I shoot a lot of film. As of mid November I’ve exposed 106 rolls of 120 and 35mm film. All in glorious black and white. My approach is normally quite deliberate. I struggle with composition and sometimes in difficult conditions, measuring exp...

A Zeiss-Ikon Tenax I, a box of Kodak ColorPlus film, and a Zeiss-Ikon Taxona in its leather case.

7 December, 2025

5 frames of pulling color film two stops for no good reason

By Christopher Pye

7 December, 2025

/ Film Theory, /

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I read plenty about pushing film when I dived into film photography a few years ago: you willingly underexpose your pictures and later compensate in development, leaving the film longer in the chemicals. The main outcome expected from pushing is m...

Latest Posts

12 March, 2018

A Few Frames More, with the Hasselblad XPan – by Simon King

By Simon King

The XPan is everything I have ever needed from a film camera. It serves the purpose to me of being fundamentally different from the regular frame shape which most film, digital ...

11 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon F80

By Hamish Gill

My Nikon F75 project came to an end when I recently “upgraded” to the F80. The Nikon F80 felt almost instantaneously like it was a better choice for me. As I talk about in the l...

11 March, 2018

The Leica Rangefinder and the importance of a well calibrated system – By Alan Starkie

By Alan Starkie

The idea of the rangefinder is simple, it’s an optical triangulation device coupled to a cam on a lens. Align the two images in the viewfinder and the camera is in focus. ...

10 March, 2018

Nikon FM3a Review – My desert Island camera – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

Last year I wrote a short piece for 35mmc as part of the “5 frames with” series. The camera I used was my Nikon Fm3a with the Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS lens- a combination that I jus...

9 March, 2018

Why I Enjoy Film Photography More Than Digital Photography – by Frank Wu

By frankhwu

I thought it would be worthwhile to express, as explicitly as possible, what it is that causes me to enjoy film photography more than I enjoy its digital imitation. Although I k...

8 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Fujica GS645 Pro by Son Pham

By Son Pham

I am always curious about new things to do with my film adventure. Every day, there seems to be always something new to learn about the process and the medium. On one such parti...

7 March, 2018

5 Frames with a Zenit EM – By Greg May

By Greg May

I sort of remember when my father handed me The Brass Brick as I unaffectionately called it for years. Not precisely, but at least withing the ten year bracket that was the 1990...

6 March, 2018

5 frames with a Canon AE-1 Program – By Greg May

By Greg May

Hello old friend. We have previous. But that is ok, I'm happy to take you out and walk you around. Doing what you do best. Capturing moments in time. Moments he'd nod curtly at ...

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