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18 December, 2025

Vernality Redux – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Peter Roberts

18 December, 2025

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As I write this the first cold snap is heralding the start of winter making me realise that as I grow older I am becoming more and more a fair weather photographer. Having spent a lot of my life working, often outside, all hours of the day and nig...

18 December, 2025

Your photo of the year 2025 Submision Deadline – 21st December

By Hamish Gill

18 December, 2025

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I need to put a cap on this now – I think we have had ~50 submissions, which has been great, but I am in the danger of running out of space in the schedule to share them without totally flooding the site (and people’s email inboxes for...

18 December, 2025

Mama Mamiya – 5 Frames with a Mamiya 135AF

By John Andrews

18 December, 2025

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The year is 1980. A time of New Romantic synth-pop music, shoulder pads and neon colours. Big hair, make up on both sexes, and a time of big statement looks. Duran Duran, U2, Depeche Mode and the Eurythmics were some of the music sounds filling ...

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25 April, 2022

Zeiss Ikon Ikonta – Lost and Found, a 70 Year History – By Conor O’Brien

By Conor O'Brien

My Dad was always a keen photographer. When he bought his Zeiss Ikon Ikonta in the early 1950s, it would have been a substantial outlay for him as a civil servant. While he didn...

23 April, 2022

5 Frames with the Sigma DP2 Quattro in North Merchiston Cemetery

By Anonymised

For more than twenty years from 1989 I lived in Edinburgh, and I still have friends there. Like many cities there are a significant number of Victorian cemeteries, gradually fa...

22 April, 2022

Kodak Retina 118 – More Than a Camera – By Lisa Murphy

By Lisa Murphy

As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar cri...

21 April, 2022

5 Frames of Adox Color Mission with a Zeiss 85 1.4 on a Nikon F2 – By Flo

By Flo

There are plenty of reasons to shoot film. If you are one who swears by the choice of film stocks, there is now one more reason for film. Adox Color Mission probably does not ne...

20 April, 2022

The Case for Patience – Film Photography and Camera Repair – By Ryan Jones

By Ryan Jones

The moment digital photography became accessible to the greater population without significant barriers to entry, film became a luxury good. I do not mean that film photography...

19 April, 2022

5 Frames with a “Dreamy” Agfa Click II – By Gabriele Bozzi

By Gabriele Bozzi

My first contribution to 35mmc is more a consequence of shoddiness than anything else. On a lazy Saturday, I picked a shiny Agfa Click II in the local thrift store, for the sens...

18 April, 2022

TTArtisan Light Meter Review – The Cheapest of Its Kind – By Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

Shoe mounted light meters are slowly evolving, with different brands bringing new smaller and progressively more digital meters to the market. But the “analog” kind, with the sa...

17 April, 2022

The Travelling Canonet – Canonet 28 Roll #1

By Bob Janes

You can read about the Travelling Canonet project here. We have over 50 photographers on 4 continents waiting to take part. Two Canonets are involved, each travelling in a diffe...

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