11 June, 2026
5 Frames with the Fujifilm Klasse S (and Natura 1600)
I’ve had the good fortune to visit Japan 5 times in the last 3 years. Each time I go, I get a kick out of choosing which film cameras to take with me – all of them J...
5 June, 2026
Fujichrome Provia 100 (Expired) – Contax RTS II, Yashica ML 50mm f2 and Pentacon 135mm Monster
I bought a roll of Expired Fujichrome Provia 100 just to give it a go a while back. I didn’t expect much – grain, colour shifts etc, but I’m a Slide Film lover...
9 February, 2026
The Times Square New Years Eve Queue – My Final Rolls of 2025
My phone notes from this day begin “cold, minus 5, strong light” which more or less sums it up. I usually try and give myself a little more detail when possible, but...
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...