Having succumbed to the temptation to impulse buy a camera that I knew only by its reputation for having long been the inexpensive way into medium format, a Lubitel 166, I decid...
I should start of by saying I ran my first draft through some AI to make it a little more readable, I just scrapped through my English exams in school. Anyway originally it was ...
You’ve been here before: it’s late, you’ve got a negative with a gorgeous composition loaded up in your enlarger, the grain is hitting just right, but you cann...
I’m a big fan of the easy35 system from Finnish company Valoi which has really improved my film negative scanning workflow. It is a very simple but capable system which fits ont...
7 May, 2026
Skyview Aerial Camera – 35mmc started the quest
I’m a long term reader of 35mmc and recently read an interesting article, The Miniature Camera Monthly by Art Meripol, 27 February 2026. Art gave readers a look at the August, 1...
Last November I sent three rolls to my lab and more or less forgot about them. When the envelope came back three weeks later I spread the negatives on my desk and tried to work ...
The writer’s block is a real thing – even more so when you are not a writer. But this “not-a-writer” writer had to make a choice about the desire to share his photographic...
1 May, 2026
Kowa SW – Risk and Reward on Cát Bà Island
I thought I was about done buying cameras until I laid eyes upon the handsome Kowa SW. I’d even made a post about it in my nerdy camera group on FB: “I quit.” Sleek and minimali...
