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15 September, 2025

5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)

By Gordon Ownby

Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...

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 ...

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...

9 September, 2025

My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By Curtis Heikkinen

Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...

6 September, 2025

Photographing a Mexican Cartel with a Fuji Instax Mini 12

By Henry Craver

Some background: I’m a photojournalist and a YouTuber. I covered migration and conflict for nearly six years across the Americas and Europe before starting the channel ‘Through ...

4 September, 2025

Capturing Nova Scotia on Film

By David Smith

When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...

3 September, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta 9000 and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

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Walter Reumkens on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
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