The coronavirus has caused almost unprecedented disruptions to commercial activity around the world (I wrote “almost unprecedented” because the great flu influenza o...
Kodachromeguy's Posts
11 March, 2020
Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 LTM Lens – A Mini-Review of 1960s Optical Excellence – by Andrew Morang
Long-term 35MMC readers recall that I have used my dad’s Leica IIIC rangefinder camera for decades. He bought it at the Post Exchange in Guam in 1949 and used it for famil...
At the beginning of every new year, full of ambitious resolutions, I try to do some cleaning up at home, both physical and electronic. The physical does not achieve all that muc...
The Texas Panhandle is the land of big skies, big farms, big men and women, enormous pickup trucks, and fading towns and farm houses. The Panhandle is the northern rectangle of ...
21 August, 2019
5 Frames (oops, 6) in Mississippi with 35mm Kodak Ektar 25 film in a Spotmatic by Andrew Morang
Dear 35MMC readers, I am a dreamer. I keep hoping I will be able to buy some Kodak Ektar 25 (or Royal Gold 25 - the same emulsion) which has been frozen all these years and will...
15 June, 2019
Kodak Ektar 25 – Living in the Past, a Hasselblad, and Flooding in Mississippi – by Andrew Morang
Yes, I know, I am living in the past. I remember when I could buy a Shutterbug in the supermarket, read through page after page of small-text advertisements, and call (with my l...
7 May, 2019
Dilemma Dilemma: What Shall I Use, Color or Black & White? A Short Comparison – by Andrew Morang
When the digital tsunami overwhelmed the world of picture-taking in the mid-2000s, I bought various digital camera and used them for color work. However, I continued to take bla...
Reading 35mmc can be dangerous to the pocketbook and can lead to GAS (no, not flatulence, but gear acquisition syndrome). I read several glowing articles here about Voigtländer ...