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18 September, 2025
Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story
Nadja and me we stopped in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes while travelling through France in the summer of 2022. Nicéphore Niépce experimented here with heliography. 200 years ago he us...
18 September, 2025
Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops
This post came as something of an outgrowth of my big spring/summer 2025 Black & White Survey which featured in five installments here on 35mmc. As I was moving through the...
17 September, 2025
A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power
This panoramic photo, taken with an iPhone, shows the four corners of a square in my hometown. As such, the photo has no particular merit or quality that justifies its public re...
17 September, 2025
Battle of the Budgets Continued… Fomapan 200 & Kentmere 200 (35mm)
In a market where 200-speed black-and-white films are rare (SFX 200 and Rollei options aside), Fomapan 200, and now Kentmere 200 stand out as both affordable and versatile. Over...
16 September, 2025
One Shot Story – Resilience
The year is 1938. It is 9 years into the Great Depression and my grandparents were a young couple with 3 children. Neither came from families that could offer anything in the ...
16 September, 2025
A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Pentax Spotmatic F / Kentmere Pan 200 / Fomadon R09 Camera and lenses: The Spotmatic F is a true classic. When I reviewed the camera here, I didn’t fit the lovely little 2...
15 September, 2025
5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)
Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...
15 September, 2025
Ansco Titan – A Stylish 6×6 120 Folder
Meet the Ansco Titan – a sleek 120 folder dressed for a formal Art-Deco ball! I don’t think it’s been reviewed on 35mmc, so here goes… Born in 1948 (abou...
