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28 September, 2025

Hitting the “Zone” – Shot-by-Shot street shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM

By Scott Ferguson

Going out to shoot still photos can be a bit of a ‘hit or miss’ experience for me. While always starting with high hopes to shoot beautiful and/or memorable photos,...

24 September, 2025

Reflections on an Impromptu Photo Shoot

By David Pauley

At this stage, it happens fairly often: a conversation with a stranger that eventually leads to a photo. Sometimes I approach them, though often it’s the other way around....

20 September, 2025

Underground 3: retakes on HP5+

By Geoff Chaplin

The aim was noble I think. To retake underground 1 and 2 shots on film. I would necessarily need to expose either slow film using a tripod (anathema to me, and permission would ...

16 September, 2025

A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

Pentax Spotmatic F / Kentmere Pan 200 / Fomadon R09 Camera and lenses: The Spotmatic F is a true classic. When I reviewed the camera here, I didn’t fit the lovely little 2...

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...

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