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25 November, 2024

Join me and the photography community on Bluesky

By Hamish Gill

25 November, 2024

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Just a note to say that I, like many people, have finally completely ditched Twitter in favour of Bluesky. I joined Bluesky sometime ago now, but whilst it was in its testing phase it was a little quiet. Now it’s open for anyone to join any ...

25 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5

By Sebastian Shields

25 November, 2024

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Cheap zoom lenses have never had a great reputation. Especially in the Digital age, some budget zooms are considered a bit of a plague. Cheap, plasticky, and very poor optically. To many, a budget zoom is a small step above the kit lens and is for...

Color photo of a Konica Pearl III medium format folding camera.

25 November, 2024

Konica Pearl III Medium Format Folder – Review and Street Shots from NYC

By Chad Gayle

25 November, 2024

/ Konica Medium Format Camera, Konica Pearl III, Medium Format Camera, Medium Format Folder, /

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As much as I love film, I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with medium format. Spoiled by the speed of 35mm’s fast lenses and the liberal largesse of 4×5 and 5×7 large format negatives, medium format has always seemed to me to be...

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26 November, 2023

Some Cool Books for 35mmc Readers (Part 1)

By Dave Powell

Over the decades, my “photography-book GAS” filled a floor-to-ceiling bookcase. But I’ve gradually weeded it back to just one 35-inch shelf of my favorite v...

25 November, 2023

Development Tests: Rodinal 200:1 and re-used 400:1

By Geoff Chaplin

How cheaply can you develop a film? Ten cents a roll? One cent??? I usually develop film in Adox Rodinal (now five years old) diluted 100:1 in water at 15-24 degrees and stand d...

24 November, 2023

NEWS: Supersense Launches Cheaper ONE INSTANT DIY Peel-Apart Instant Packfilm Kit

By Molly Kate

In their mission to save peel-apart instant packfilm, the team at Austrian-based company Supersense has released a new ONE INSTANT peel-apart instant packfilm product. It’...

24 November, 2023

Huaxia 822 – Jumping into the Analog Deep End – My First Foray into Film

By Darren Fielding

To kind of half-quote my favourite TV show: You best put seatbelts on your eyes Roy, because I’m about to write a long article. ( If you know which show I’m quoting,...

23 November, 2023

NEWS: December 1st Open Lab Event to Celebrate Merger Between Barcelona Film Labs – Dubblelab and Amigou

By Molly Kate

Dubblefilm’s Dubblelab is merging with another film lab based in Barcelona, Amigou. An exciting move for both labs, the combined expertise will offer film shooters in Bar...

23 November, 2023

Pentax SF1n, Pentax-A 35-135mm and Kodak Vision 3 250D – My Personal Recipe for Photographic Nirvana

By Alex Gridenko

Whether you suffer from GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) or enjoy it, be aware that reading 35mmc.com will most certainly fuel it! So far, I have bought two cameras based on revi...

22 November, 2023

5 Frames with RETO Amber 800T, Contax G1 and 28mm f/2.8

By Eric

I was looking for color film stocks I had not tried before at my local camera shop and purchased a couple of rolls of RETO film. I had never heard of the company. I usually look...

21 November, 2023

Saving my vacation photos from a faulty development

By Flashknappen

For a decade I have been itching to again visit Paris. Francophone popular culture has been a part of my life since childhood originating in the French and Belgian comics I rapt...

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