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1 January, 2026

Help Support 35mmc in 2026

By Hamish Gill

1 January, 2026

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First things first, I just want to thank everyone for another year of being part of the 35mmc community – to everyone that subscribes, contributes, those of you who just comment from time to time, and even those of you who just dip in and ou...

1 January, 2026

The Most Commented upon Posts Published on 35mmc in 2025

By Hamish Gill

1 January, 2026

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I feel like 35mmc has really flourished this year. I have no measure of that really, just a feeling that the community of writers and people who comment has grown closer. I think I have published more content this year than any previous, which is ...

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1 January, 2026

The Balm in Ordering a Photo Print and Planning a Photo Walk

By Kary Schumpert

1 January, 2026

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I was having a listless morning at home, halfheartedly folding laundry and cleaning out my email box, plopped on my bed and feeling stuck and sad in my small world. I looked over at the shelf with cameras beckoning and realized I hadn’t used a cam...

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9 August, 2023

NEWS: Pergear Releases Second Generation 60mm F2.8 Ultra-Macro Lens

By Molly Kate

New lens releases are flying out this way and that, so today we have Pergear with an upgraded 60mm F2.8 II Ultra-Macro Lens which allows you to get within 19.1cm of subjects. Th...

9 August, 2023

Ilford Ortho 80 Plus for Documentary Photography: A Review

By Simon King

Any film still in production today must have something going for it – almost a survivorship bias in effect. I don’t think there are any “bad” films, only...

8 August, 2023

NEWS: TTArtisan Releases Bubble Bokeh 100mm F2.8 M42 Mount Lens

By Molly Kate

M42 mount shooters who love a bit of bubbly bokeh will be delighted to hear that TTartisan has released a new lens featuring what they call “soap bubble bokeh”. The manual focus...

8 August, 2023

Dad’s Voigtlander Vitomatic II

By Graham Spinks

It is the mid-1960s. Dad is coming through the door – home from work at last. Hanging from his neck he has two cameras – a Rolleiflex for people pictures and his trusty Voigtl...

8 August, 2023

Running With Cameras

By Kary Schumpert

I love photography and I love running. I am just now getting back into shape after a longer-than-I-thought break from running. Most of the time, because I am covering very short...

7 August, 2023

Louise Post, a Shutterbug & the Importance of Tangible Things

By Johnny Martyr

For most of the 1990’s, I knew nothing about photography. My teenage passion was for the rambunctious grunge guitar rock that, for a seemingly forgotten time, succeeded i...

6 August, 2023

Never Say Never – My Approach to Spiral Modification for 110 Film

By Tony Warren

After my first, recent experience of the 110 format I concluded that I wasn’t won over to the it despite the camera being so good to use. In fact, it made me more interested tha...

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...

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