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11 March, 2020

Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 LTM Lens – A Mini-Review of 1960s Optical Excellence – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Long-term 35MMC readers recall that I have used my dad’s Leica IIIC rangefinder camera for decades. He bought it at the Post Exchange in Guam in 1949 and used it for famil...

9 March, 2020

Analog Memo – Creating a Digital Notebook App for Android – By Barry Carr

By bscarr

Sometime in 2018, my friend, Rob Kent, downloaded an Android app that would help him record analogue exposure information. The app would let you enter the aperture, shutter spee...

9 March, 2020

Leica IIIa Review – My Final Roll with an Underused but Long-Prized Camera

By Hamish Gill

I’ve had my Leica iiia for a long time now, and though I didn’t use it for about 4 1/2 years, I hadn’t been able to rationalise selling it. At least, that was the case until a c...

4 March, 2020

Fomapan 400 & Kentmere 400 Review – Battle of the Budgets – by Simon King

By Simon King

This article started as a write up about my time shooting these two emulsions over a long bank holiday weekend, where I had similar lighting conditions and was able to shoot sim...

3 March, 2020

Fujifilm X-Pro3 Round Two: The X Files and a Meditation on Film and Digital – By David Hume

By David Hume

The X-Pro3 came at a good time for me. I’d returned from a six-week trip to Italy where the last two weeks were spent in Venice trying to make work for exhibitions. So I’d been ...

29 February, 2020

Praktica L Rievew – A Yearning for this old Line of SLRS – By Rock

By Rock

As a 15 year old I got my first ever SLR for a Christmas present. It was a Soviet made Zenit and served me well for a while. When I opted for 'A' Level Photography at school, I ...

28 February, 2020

Pentax KX review: My first. My favorite? – by Aaron Gold

By Aaron Gold

It’s been nearly three decades since I signed up for my first college photography class, and I am only now beginning to realize how lucky I was to start out with a Pentax KX. Mo...

26 February, 2020

Rollei 135 Film – Experiments with Three Stocks – by Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Rolleiflex is a brand that is associated with photography cameras, in particular medium frame film cameras. Rolleiflex has a fairly complicated corporate history (see wikipedia)...

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