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4 March, 2026

Harps – Many Stories in One Shot

By Omar Tibi

4 March, 2026

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3 March, 2026

5 Frames with the Mamiya 43mm f/4.5

By Adrian Riu

A lot has been written about this wide-angle lens for the Mamiya 7 and 7II medium format (6 x 7) rangefinder cameras, including here at 35mmc. It’s a non-retrofocal (10 el...

3 March, 2026

Out of the Drawer and Into the Light: A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation

By Niall Keohane

For one reason or another (and one reason more than any other), I’ve neglected photography for some time, only bothering to grab a camera whilst on holidays or weekends away, an...

2 March, 2026

Fortuitous Fog – Earl Crag

By John Fontana

Earl Crag is a gritstone rock outcrop above the village of Cowling in North Yorkshire bordering West Yorkshire in the UK. It is about 1 km long and 365 metres above sea level an...

2 March, 2026

Pakistan With the Olympus E1 and E3 – Part 2 Overlanding the Karakoram and Hindu Kush by 4×4

By Ibraar Hussain

This is the follow up to Part 1 – 33 Years Exploring Pakistan. There aren’t many flights around the world where the Pilot decides to bank the aircraft around to turn...

Final poster; a before-and-after of the original Cirkut print with the 2025 version

1 March, 2026

Revolution on the Green – Recreating a Kodak Cirkut Photograph from 1910

By Christian Fiedler

Like many great tales from New Jersey, our story begins at a bagel shop. On a fall morning in Morristown, while standing in line for a breakfast sandwich, I noticed a beautiful ...

28 February, 2026

Hokkaido, a historical perspective

By Geoff Chaplin

This article brings together the history and development of Hokkaido together with some of the images I have taken over the last 20 years or so. Early Days Hokkaido is the secon...

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