On 23 November 2025, our friend John Andrews showed us some of his fantastic photos taken with an APS film camera. Wonderful shots. We exchanged ideas, because, as befits a GAS ...
Two thoughts come to my mind as I try to start to write these words. The first is that when ever I share something here on 35mmc (4 times so far) it was kind of a closure of tha...
In mid-2025, I added a Soviet 35mm rangefinder camera, an FED-3 with an Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm lens, to my collection. The camera and lens had been freshly CLA’d and wer...
I never shot Fujichrome Velvia for portraits, except, apparently, when I did. I have absolutely no recollection of making some frames I found in a box labelled “1998. Blue Banan...
I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of year...
Something very specific happens to my brain whenever I load up a medium format camera with expired film. It’s probably 90% fear. You never quite know what you’re going to end up...
I’ve recently been digging through folders and shoeboxes, looking for photos I shot in Venice in January 1995. That was a painting trip, but of course I took some cameras with m...
The ruins of Raglan Castle dominate the landscape mid-way between Abergavenny and Monmouth in South Wales and will be familiar to anyone travelling the A40 between the towns. Th...