27 June, 2026

Flags in Two Places

By Danilo Leonardi

You keep seeing the flags, and hearing people talk. Someone remarks that there are “so many flags everywhere these days”, with a faintly conspiratorial smile. Then on my social ...

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26 June, 2026

Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre

By Shafiur Rahman

I have known Phil Maxwell for about sixteen years. For a period, we both had studios in Spitalfields, in that strange zone where the East End was still recognisably itself but w...

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25 June, 2026

If You Walk, the Photo Will Come – One Shot Story

By Scott Peterson

I recently picked up an SMC Asahi-Pentax 100mm f/4 Macro lens to use on my Nikon Zf and headed downtown to try it out. The walk wasn’t especially inspiring. Much of downto...

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25 June, 2026

5 frames with a Leica M4-P

By Simon Platt

My first Leica was an M4-2, I used it extensively but sold it to help pay for my first digital Leica, an M9 in black. After a while, I missed the relatively quiet “Click&#...

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24 June, 2026

In the nature reserve in the Netherlands / Germany – A One Shot Story

By Walter Reumkens

A discussion with a community member here on 35mmc led us to cameras “Made in Germany”, and we soon found ourselves talking about Carl Zeiss Jena and the “Contax D” with the Bio...

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24 June, 2026

Exploring horizontal camera scanning solutions

By verybigobo

I admit I am lazy, and that is precisely why I have been looking for a simple horizontal camera scanning setup. For vertical scanning I would need to assemble a copy stand, conn...

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23 June, 2026

Boat trip – A One Shot Story

By Walter Reumkens

I took this photo around Easter 1999 during a 12-day boat trip from Narbonne to Beaucaire via the Canal de la Robine, the Canal de Jonction (Aude), the Canal du Midi and the Can...

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