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14 September, 2025

My DIY Analog Journey

By Adrien Grelet

14 September, 2025

/ DIY Darkroom Equipment, Finding Film Photography, Pentax P30, Rolleicord II, /

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13 September, 2025

5 Frames at a Farmers’ Market and a Nikkor 105mm f1.8

By Dave Lynagh

Farmers’ markets can be an important tool to help evaluate the usability of a lens. There are textures, colors, light, and shadows in abundance. The farmers’ market I visited th...

13 September, 2025

Master of Splatter

By Andrea Monti

One midsummer’s night in San Benedetto del Tronto, a small town on the Adriatic coast, I attended a live concert by Claudio Simonetti, a living legend among Italian horror...

12 September, 2025

Lines in the Sky

By RichardH

For most of the past winter we lived under heavy cloud cover. At our northern latitude, clouds and winter make for dimly lit days. As a practitioner of the “sunny 16” system of ...

Mamiya Six IV, roll of exposed Tri-X film, and a cup of coffee

12 September, 2025

Mamiya Six IV – Exploring Square Format with a Vintage Camera from 1947

By Danai

I’ve always been fascinated by the square format. As a longtime 35mm SLR shooter, I never really experienced different aspect ratios—except through cropping in post. My journey ...

11 September, 2025

5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C

By Matthew Bigwood

Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...

11 September, 2025

The Influence of Film on Film part 2 – Bellows to the Wind

By Lucinda Lewis

Back in 2020 I wrote about my first venture into DIY film making with my short film Preserve. I was asked to contribute to 35mmc and felt it right to talk about the film, and ho...

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