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18 July, 2025

Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

18 July, 2025

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15 May, 2014

Pentax PC35AF Review – A camera with a certain charm

By Hamish Gill

The Pentax PC35AF is a camera I have been meaning to review for quite some time now, I’ve just not had the motivation to do so. I’ve had quite a few of its variant m...

23 April, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Bryan Tyler, Kentucky

By Brian Tyler

Hello, I’m Brian Tyler from Louisville, Kentucky. Also known as the guy that lost the Yashica for almost a whole month. First of all, I would like to send my utmost apolog...

23 April, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Alex Redman, England

By Alex Redman

My time with The Traveling Yashica was brief but one of the best film photography moments I’ve had. I had managed to get myself into The Traveling Yashica project just as ...

22 April, 2014

Modification of Pentax PC35AF to kill the beeping

By Hamish Gill

I’m on the look out for another Pentax PC35af at the moment, as the one featured in this article, along with two others I have has a dicky AF. It seems failing AF is a fai...

19 April, 2014

Minolta Hi-Matic E Review – A point & poke Rangefinder

By Hamish Gill

I picked up this Minolta Hi-Matic E from a charity shop in town, it had black sticky stuff all over it and thanks to not having any batteries in it was obviously not showing muc...

19 April, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Julián Péter, Slovakia

By Julián Péter

“Your package has been withheld by the Customs Office of Slovakia.” It is late January and I journey across the city to retrieve the camera. After much waiting and shoutin...

13 April, 2014

Leica M7 review – a near perfect camera (at least for my personal requirements)

By Hamish Gill

It’s been playing on my mind that I so frequently talk about my Leica M7 on here without it really fitting the 35mm compact camera niche subject I originally intended to a...

4 April, 2014

Leatherman Squirt S4 review (for Photographers)

By Hamish Gill

When I first bought the leatherman Squirt S4 a mate of mine (an action film watching, swears at football on the TV and drinks a lot of lager type mate) told me I had bought a “g...

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David Hume on 10 Frames – A Whole Pack of Polaroid SX70 – Venice 1995 #FullRollFriday by David Hume
Thanks Bill! I've always been pretty good at making sure I document things, and Im certainly glad I have these...…
Gary Smith on Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
Martin, I suspect the entire readership of 35mmc is familiar with your blog. It's pretty informative as well as being…
Martin H on Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
Thanks, Garry. Nice to bump into acquaintances here. It's kind of cheating, though, since you're ahead of the others by…

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