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11 August, 2025

Lucky SHD400 – My Experiences

By Yuval Peleg

11 August, 2025

/ Lucky film, Lucky SHD 400, /

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15 January, 2016

First roll with the Hasselblad Xpan II & 45mm

By Hamish Gill

First impressions of the camera are fairly positive, it's seems largely speaking fairly logical to use and is comfortable in the hand, if a little big and heavy. I'll get to all...

8 January, 2016

9 Reasons you shouldn’t own a thread mount Leica – Guest post by Dominik Mrzyk

By Dominik Mrzyk

Quite recently, Hamish published an article about Barnack Leica’s giving 7 reasons to own one. Well, he mentioned all the advantages of these cameras, but he didn’t ...

2 January, 2016

7 Reasons you should own a Thread Mount Leica

By Hamish Gill

7 reasons and a whole load of waffle about why I (and some reader of 35mmc) think all photographers should own, or at least try, a thread mount Leica

1 January, 2016

The Gear Acquisition Syndrome Horseshoe

By Hamish Gill

Just a bit of fun. I’ve been thinking about Gear Acquisition Syndrome and what it means to me. I thought about writing a post about it but decided instead it could be bett...

23 December, 2015

One camera, four conversations – Pieter Geloen

By Pieter Geloen

The man with his cigarette I met when I asked him if there was some nice scenery to take a picture of (I was in a town I never was before) He told me there wasn’t really anythin...

22 December, 2015

A 35mm compact camera lens conversion – Part 1 – Choosing the lens

By Hamish Gill

I've decided to have one of my compact camera lenses converted to Leica thread mount by MS-Optical in Japan. Rather than wait until the end of the project to document the whole ...

21 December, 2015

Not shooting / won’t shoot – What to do to find and build inspiration – by Ryan Neilan

By Ryan Neilan

‘I wanna live. I wish I was dead.’ So screams Henry Rollins through my headphones, screaming at me from Black Flag’s debut album,’Damaged.’ Ever since I was about eleven or twel...

16 December, 2015

A Birthday at the Birmingham German Christmas Market

By Hamish Gill

For the second year running, a few weeks ago me and a bunch of mates visited the Birmingham German Christmas Market. I must be honest, the non-consumable things on sale don̵...

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