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16 November, 2018

7Artisans 28mm f/1.4 late-prototype early impressions preview

By Hamish Gill

On Monday this week I received a 7Artisans 28mm f/1.4 late-prototype lens to play with. There’s been a lot of information churning around the rumour mills about this lens lately...

12 November, 2018

Leica M6J review – The M6 meets the M3 – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

The Leica M6J is a limited edition pre-M6 TTL released in 1994 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of the Leica M3 in 1954. Leica produced 1640 of them, ...

11 November, 2018

Rollei Prego AF review – a gem, provided you don’t drop it…

By Hamish Gill

The Rollei Prego AF is a fairly uncommon 35mm f/3.5 35mm fixed lens point & shoot camera that I’ve been on the look out for a while. They’re not all that common, but in many way...

4 November, 2018

Agfa 1035 Review – a Confusion of my Preferences

By Hamish Gill

The Agfa 1035 is a wonderful piece of German Functionalist industrial design. It is a camera that consists of little more than what’s absolutely essential for its purpose. For t...

31 October, 2018

Yashica Y35 Review – Unexpected Expectations – By Alan Duncan

By Alan Duncan

Before it even shipped the Yashica Y35 has become on of the most maligned cameras in history. Its reputation hasn't improved any since shipping began in September but bar the ob...

29 October, 2018

Lensbaby Lenses: Sweet vs. Edge – a Review – By Martina Kettner

By Martina

I remember exactly when I saw a Lensbaby image for the first time – it was a street shot from Vienna. I had never seen such bokeh. The lens used for the image was the R...

28 October, 2018

Canon P (for Populaire) thread mount rangefinder mini-review

By Hamish Gill

The Canon P - or "Populaire", as the P stands for - is a Leica thread mount rangefinder camera released the late 1950’s. There were a lot of these cameras sold, something like 1...

25 October, 2018

Fuji GW690II – Urban Decay in Vicksburg, Mississippi, with the Texas Leica – By Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

35mmc started out with an emphasis on compact film cameras. Over time, it's grown, and so have the cameras featured on it. The subject of this article is a splendid bear of a ca...

Jeffery Luhn on 5 (random) frames of Bruxelles with a MIR-1B, a Pentax ME Super and a Kodak TMax400
Andrea, There's nothing like wet city streets at night. Very film noir. A crime scene waiting to happen. I like…
Jeffery Luhn on One Shot Story of Three Guys in a Field, Somewhere in Scotland
That was an interesting read. I'd like to have seen more pix from those experiences.
Jeffery Luhn on First Men on the Moon: A hand made, hand bound photobook
Nik, Thanks for a well written article about making an album. It's an interesting project of a bookmark in time…

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