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30 December, 2025

The Discipline of One Lens

By Ken Davis

30 December, 2025

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Life is too easy for photographers these days! We have wide-ranging, versatile zoom lenses. Those folk using phones also have a choice of focal lengths on many models. Now I usually have a 28/35/50 Tri-Elmar attached to a Leica M digital body. Fir...

30 December, 2025

Foggy train crossing – My Photo of The Year 2025

By Christopher Welch

30 December, 2025

/ automotive photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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I love this picture. I immediately thought of it when I read Hamish’s Call for Entries for photo of 2025. One Sunday morning in October, I was on my way out the door to meet my wife. It was around 8:30. I walked out to dense fog. There was this mo...

Hat Yai Lee Garden Night Market

30 December, 2025

Exploring Hat Yai’s Famous Night Market with a roll of Kodak Tri-X

By Danai

30 December, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Tri-X, travel photography, Zeiss 50mm ZM Sonnar, Zeiss Ikon ZM, /

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Hat Yai is the largest city in Southern Thailand, near the Malaysian border. It’s known for its blend of Thai, Chinese, and Muslim cultures, and for its culinary delights, including the famous Hat Yai crispy fried chicken, fresh seafood, spicy sou...

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5 August, 2023

In praise of Photowalks – three 35mmc contributors on the Thames Embankment

By Bob Janes

Following on from a recent posting by Tim Wainwright, we met up at Southwark’s Borough Market, along with another 35mmc contributor, Peter Roberts. The idea was to get to know e...

4 August, 2023

Zorki 1 Review – the Russian Leica (of sorts)

By Julian Tanase

I am always curious to try out various models of Russian cameras. I find myself interested in just how bad a camera can get, and if I can get a decent result out it. When I star...

3 August, 2023

Recomposing Street Photography with Reflections

By Tony Wu

Reflections? A cliche? Almost 4 months have passed since I got back to street photography. I found myself more and more intrigued by the fancy vision created by capturing reflec...

2 August, 2023

Minolta Pocket Autopak 460 Tx 110 – A Shooting Experience

By Tony Warren

Reading several excellent articles, here and elsewhere, introduced me to an area of photography I had only considered as snap-shooter territory, the 110 Pocket Instamatics. This...

1 August, 2023

Photographing Summer Solstice at Stonehenge on Expired Fujifilm Neopan 400 – by Simon King

By Simon King

Over the past few years I’ve been working on a couple of projects which will explore the use of Stonehenge as an active religious site. As this is a long-term effort I hav...

1 August, 2023

Progress, Progress and more Regress? Analogue Photography and the Digital World.

By Tony Warren

In the beginning were the Knoll brothers. It is a built in aspect of the human condition that we never seem to stand still. Whatever innovation man’s ingenuity devises there is ...

31 July, 2023

NEWS: SIRUI adds 150mm Focal Length To 1.6X T2.9 Venus Anamorphic Lens Series

By Molly Kate

SIRUI is adding another lens to their affordable 1.6x anamorphic lens lineup, the Venus 150mm T2.9 1.6x full frame option. This newcomer rounds out SIRUI’s Venus T2.9 1.6x lineu...

31 July, 2023

TTArtisan 35mm 0.95 for Fujifilm X Mount Review – Not Just for Bokeh!

By Molly Kate

Late last year TTArtisan released the sub £200 TTArtisan 35mm 0.95 lens for APS-C systems including E/X/EOS-M/Z/RF/L Mounts. This focal length and aperture combination has been ...

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