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3 December, 2017

The Perfect 35mm Compact Camera – by Roger Hicks

By Roger Hicks

The perfect 35mm compact camera does not exist. There are two reasons for this. One is that there are limits to how far you can miniaturize a reliable, durable, easy-to-use came...

11 November, 2017

Experiments in Developing Colour Film At Home: The Chemicals Dilemma – by Aukje

By Aukje

My second year of shooting film – Part 16 (Read Part 15 here) For about nine months now I have been developing colour film at home, so I thought it was time to share some ...

8 November, 2017

Stop bloody moaning and support the Film Photography industry!

By Hamish Gill

The last few weeks I’ve seen a great deal of moaning about two new film photography products that have been launched on the crowdfunding platforms. Those product being Si...

21 October, 2017

Second City – Making My First Zine – by Richard PJ Lambert

By Richard PJ Lambert

I’m a very unprofessional, self-taught film photographer from Birmingham. There is always a camera in my pocket and I like to experiment with different techniques to capture the...

17 September, 2017

Finding my way in photography Part 2 – My first steps shooting film – Guest Post by Nick Holt

By Nick

In my first post I took a look back at a couple of years snapping away with my Ricoh GR digital camera. I submitted that post to 35mmc as it was around the time I had decided to...

23 July, 2017

Film Photography; a to road rediscovery – Guest post by Richard Williams

By Richard Williams

...I must have had a latent desire to shoot film again because a few follows later on Instagram and I was hooked! Then not long after that, my wife, ever the avid charity-shopp...

1 July, 2017

Sony A7Rii – Making it work for me – Take Perfect. Spoil it. Be happy – by Aivaras

By Aivaras

I really enjoyed Hamish's recent articles about the Sony A7RII, and the one regarding the never ending “film vs digital” debate. To me, these two articles felt as though they we...

17 June, 2017

Smena 8M Review – Sometimes you just have to play – By Carlos Argott

By C. Argott

In photography, as in life, it is easy to take ourselves too seriously. Once you go beyond being a simple snapshot photographer and move unto the realm of finer craftsmanship, t...

David Pauley on 5 frames with a Yashica T5 and a roll of Fuji Neopan 400
I'm not familiar with this particular Yashica, but my first "real" camera was an Electro 35, one of Yashica's biggest…
Gary Smith on Fujifilm S5 Pro and What does “Film-Like” Even Mean?
Like you David, I just keep getting grumpier and grumpier... I suppose given that I have 8 film cameras now,…
Dave on Fujifilm S5 Pro and What does “Film-Like” Even Mean?
I've done this, too.... fallen down the rabbit hole of CCD sensors and which one was the most filmic.... I…

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