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29 June, 2026

Zeiss Ikon Icarex – Roll over Nikon

By Ibraar Hussain

29 June, 2026

/ SLR Camera, Zeiss Ikon Icarex, Zeiss SLR, /

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A stone house that looks vaguely like a castle

28 June, 2026

My Adventure in Spirit Photography

By Tom Halfhill

Landscape photography, portrait photography, street photography, macro photography, spirit photography… Spirit photography?! Yes, some folks claim their cameras can take p...

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 ...

© Phil Maxwell, The Kiss, Brick Lane Laundrette, early 1980s. Shot on an Olympus XA2.

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...

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...

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&#...

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...

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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Ibraar Hussain on If You Walk, the Photo Will Come – One Shot Story
Very good article, and such a detailed and interesting photo. " Interesting pictures don’t always come from interesting places" very…
Ibraar Hussain on Phil Maxwell, the Olympus XA2, and the Street as Theatre
Excellent article and photographs. Admittedly I'd never heard of Maxwell, but now I have! Thank you!
Ibraar Hussain on My Adventure in Spirit Photography
hehe!! Geoff, wondering if you have a cat? Would be interesting to see the cats reaction to your house!

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