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13 March, 2018
5 Frames with a Vivitar 35ES – By Howard Dale
Internet reviews of the Vivitar 35ES seem to agree that it’s a well built camera with a great lens, but which is otherwise uninspired. So why did I get get it?
12 March, 2018
A Few Frames More, with the Hasselblad XPan – 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
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
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
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...
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
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
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...
