A rather unknown camera legend, not a T1, not a T2 or Tv/s. Not TRI-X but CONTAX Tix from Kyocera! With a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/28mm T* lens, autofocus from 1997 for Advanced Ph...
19 December, 2025
5 Frames with an APS film camera – the Fujifilm 1000ix Tiara
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 ...
18 December, 2025
5 First Frames and Developing of Fuji Velvia 100
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...
2 December, 2025
5 Frames with a FED-3 Rangefinder with Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm
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...
11 November, 2025
A Portrait on Velvia 50
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...
7 October, 2025
5 frames in France with a Contax RX
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...
26 September, 2025
5 Frames with a Mamiya 6 on expired Fujifilm Pro 400H
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...
19 August, 2025
Fujifilm Velvia 50 and an Aesthetic of Necessity
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...