15 January, 2026
Europe’s second city, with a Yashica Mat 124G
We took the train for the 36 minute journey – a day trip would have been easy but we wanted to spend a few days away enjoying the food and local attractions. It was a pleasant 1...
15 January, 2026
Relearning Film – Notes from a Returning Shooter
I’m relearning 35mm film. I grew up shooting on film. I’m 55 now, so my first camera was around 1984, when I was sixteen: a Minolta X-700, which I still have. Getting back into ...
13 January, 2026
Bringing an Helios 40-2 at the opera
At the end of the post about the test of a Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 I concluded: “I didn’t miss more modern gear, and I didn’t lose a single shot because of the oddnes...
13 January, 2026
5 Frames with a classic SLR – Why I Chose the Nikon FE
I recently purchased a Nikon FE analog camera with a 50mm lens. Here’s the story behind it. So I decided to buy a new camera. You’d wonder why. Do I not own enough cameras as it...
12 January, 2026
I don’t shoot portraits – A one shot story
For most of my life as a photographer, I avoided portraits—especially of people I didn’t know. The idea of intruding, of asking permission to study someone closely, always felt ...
10 January, 2026
Ceci N’Est Pas Une Junior (or, Cognitive Dissonance – Part Two)
I took this photo last November while exploring a less touristy area of Tokyo: Ikebukuro. I went there hoping to see a limited edition Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, which was ...
10 January, 2026
Pussy Riot live from the Police State!
ADVISORY: This post expresses political opinions that are not necessarily shared or endorsed by 35mmc or its content moderators, or for that matter, Pussy Riot, who are more th...
A rather unknown camera legend, not a T1, not a T2 or Tv/s. Not TRI-X but CONTAX Tix from Kyocera! With a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/28mm T* lens, autofocus from 1997 for Advanced Ph...
