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1 January, 2025
TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge
For months after I got a Mamiya C220, I struggled with focusing. There were all sorts of possible explanations and I even visited an optician to discuss the issue in detail. Fin...
1 January, 2025
Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?
If one accepts that no optical design can ever attain perfection, one should also consider that no lens can be so bad as to be totally useless either. When you think of lenses n...
31 December, 2024
The Most Commented upon Posts Published on 35mmc in 2024
I normally do a post about the top ten most read and most commented upon posts of the year. This year it’s just most commented upon as I have stopped tracking the traffic ...
30 December, 2024
5 Frames TombRaiding with the Minolta 500mm F8 AF REFLEX
I’m a frequent visitor to the Angkor Wat temples and am always looking for something different to shoot the experience on. That combined with an interest in perhaps safar...
30 December, 2024
20 Frames on the Space Coast with Lomochrome Turquoise
In the Spring of 2023, I traveled for work to Coco Beach, Florida, which is situated on some barrier islands. It’s not really a fun trip (though I do love my co-workers) s...
29 December, 2024
A Complicated Relationship With Colour Film
“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke I just ...
28 December, 2024
A Portable Scanner for Free – Another Quick Tip
This is a follow-up to my previous note “A Portable Light Box for Free”. After developing my film in a bathroom following a location shoot away from home I want to see the image...
28 December, 2024
The Little Dino that could – a thermal print camera
Many of us have spoken about the cost of film photography. The development costs, the film costs, the time investment, and the occasional blank roll hiding around the corner, ar...
