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4 March, 2026

Harps – Many Stories in One Shot

By Omar Tibi

4 March, 2026

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26 May, 2025

Olympus Trip 35 and 35ED – Budget Compacts – a Review & Comparison

By Bob Janes

In the mid 1970s Olympus had a nice range of compact cameras, going from the 1/2 frame Pen to the Sophisticated 35RD. Two of these cameras are the subject of this comparison rev...

25 May, 2025

Photographing the Acropolis with an Antique Roll of Film

By David Pauley

While as a rule I am open to experimentation in photography, I have not dealt much with expired films, despite my admiration for the results many photographers are able to coax ...

24 May, 2025

The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera

By Marco Dughera

Digital has set new standards of technical image quality difficult or impossible to achieve in the film era. But technical quality and aesthetic quality do not necessarily go ha...

23 May, 2025

Zeh Zeca-Flex Camera Review

By Dan Cuny

This camera combines the compactness of a folding camera with the quality and handling of a twin-lens reflex camera. The Zeh Zeca-Flex is just the camera mentioned above, and I&...

The Socol 2 Automat camera on the table of a street cafe

22 May, 2025

5 Frames with the Sokol-2 Automat – Closing the Soviet Gestalt

By Alex Gridenko

My interest in photography began over 20 years ago with the purchase of my first camera, a digital point-and-shoot Canon G5. However, to be precise, there was another camera I g...

22 May, 2025

Panasonic Lumix GX7 – Travelling in The Rural Punjab

By Ibraar Hussain

The Year is 2015 and I find myself back in The Punjab region of Pakistan. A place which I’ve visited again and again and which I always look forward to, one of the many re...

21 May, 2025

A Heads-Up for Ghost Hunters – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

I’ve lived an extraordinarily paranormal life without ever trying. I never know when the next “experience” will come. Some Reading for a Dark Night Here are a few 35mmc articles...

21 May, 2025

A Round-up of Analogue (and analogue inspired) News from around the World – May 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Yashica FX-D Kickstarter Project What? I hear you say, a new Yashica FX-D? Wow! Well, not quite. The company known as Yashica (no relation to the Yashica, Kycocera, Contax and Z...

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Richard Becker on Lab-Box – A Developing Story in Which a Photographer Tries to Avoid Loading a Paterson Reel But Ends Up Doing it Anyway
Hi Gary I probably should have phrased it "I couldn't feel anything through the pain from sore and split fingers".…
Richard Becker on Lab-Box – A Developing Story in Which a Photographer Tries to Avoid Loading a Paterson Reel But Ends Up Doing it Anyway
Hi Art Thank you. I'm sure loading a Paterson reel will come with practice! But full disclosure here, I actually…
Richard Becker on Lab-Box – A Developing Story in Which a Photographer Tries to Avoid Loading a Paterson Reel But Ends Up Doing it Anyway
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