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22 May, 2026

Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)

By Niall Keohane

This article doesn’t quite fit my ‘Out of the Drawer’ series, but then again it sort of does. Perhaps it should be called, ‘Reverse lens macro photography with a Nikkor 50...

22 May, 2026

Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll

By Gary Smith

I recently added a Nikon F2 to the stable and loaded it up with Kodak Portra 400. The following shots were taken over several days in several locations with two lenses: the pre-...

30 March, 2026

Minolta Dynax 9 and 7 – A Comparison

By Bob Janes

Although these cameras were known in eastern markets as Alpha and in American markets as Maxxum, the copies I’m dealing with are the European Dynax versions – so I w...

17 March, 2026

Yashica FR-1 – The Contax RTS for the budget-conscious

By Walter Reumkens

Hello again, dear 35mmc friends! If my research is correct, this is the first article about the Yashica SLR FR-1 in 35mmc. This shows that once again I have something more obscu...

9 March, 2026

Minolta Panoramic A-303si SLR – Why you don’t need to spend 4 Grand on an XPan – Seeing Panoramic Part II

By Ibraar Hussain

I wrote a post sometime back about my experience with the Fuji TX-2 aka Hasselblad XPan II. A lovely camera which I sold for peanuts, it’s now risen in price so much that ...

16 February, 2026

Minolta Dynax 9 (Maxxum 9/Alpha 9) – Three Steps to Heaven

By Bob Janes

This is a review of the Minolta Dynax 9. It was Minolta’s third (and last) ‘professional’ Autofocus system SLR. At the time, Minolta used different brandings in Asia (Alpha), Eu...

14 November, 2025

Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera

By Ibraar Hussain

This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing publi...

22 October, 2025

Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s

By Ibraar Hussain

It was a lovely day in early September, a month where I’m often filled with anxiety; dreading the coming Winter and the end of the brief days of fine weather of Spring and...

Jeffery Luhn on Real Adventures are Still Out There! (Part 1)
Dave, A very good read!! Thanx!
Ibraar Hussain on Rollei Blackbird Creative Film
Another excellent review Tony, you've managed to get almost everything out of this film with your careful knowledge of zones…
Ibraar Hussain on Real Adventures are Still Out There! (Part 1)
Another really bloody interesting read man! That Plantimal looks like something out of Lovecraftian lore, or even one of Wyndham's…

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