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15 December, 2025

A New Take on “Take”

By Tom Warland

15 December, 2025

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the vocabulary we use in photography—specifically the words we reach for without even realising. Words like take, capture, and shoot. They’re so ingrained in photographic culture that most of us use them dozen...

15 December, 2025

Frozen Light – My photo of the year 2025

By AndreArma

15 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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I took this picture on a bitterly cold January morning while crossing a bridge on the St. Croix River in Minnesota. The temperature was well below zero, the kind of cold that makes every breath visibile and every sound sharper. The sun had just co...

Chroma Cameras CubePan

15 December, 2025

Chroma Camera CubePan – A Review, and my Journey into Panoramic Photography

By Steve Abbott

15 December, 2025

/ Chroma Camera, Chroma Camera Cube Pan, Panoramic Camera, /

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So despite having a number of cameras (all film) – three Leica rangefinders (don’t judge!), a Leica SLR, bought for a specific purpose, which I don’t use any more and will sell, a Rolleicord 6×6 TLR, an old 6×9 folder (also t...

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2 January, 2025

A Journey Through Time – Exploring Old Slides of a Rotel Tours African Adventure

By Jens

Recently, I stumbled upon a collection of old slides from the 1980s, depicting a fascinating African journey. Although the individuals captured in these images are unknown to me...

1 January, 2025

TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge

By Paul Quellin

For months after I got a Mamiya C220, I struggled with focusing. There were all sorts of possible explanations and I even visited an optician to discuss the issue in detail. Fin...

1 January, 2025

Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?

By Jonathan Leavitt

If one accepts that no optical design can ever attain perfection, one should also consider that no lens can be so bad as to be totally useless either. When you think of lenses n...

31 December, 2024

The Most Commented upon Posts Published on 35mmc in 2024

By Hamish Gill

I normally do a post about the top ten most read and most commented upon posts of the year. This year it’s just most commented upon as I have stopped tracking the traffic ...

30 December, 2024

5 Frames TombRaiding with the Minolta 500mm F8 AF REFLEX

By Christian Hogue

I’m a frequent visitor to the Angkor Wat temples and am always looking for something different to shoot the experience on. That combined with an interest in perhaps safar...

30 December, 2024

20 Frames on the Space Coast with Lomochrome Turquoise

By Ben G

In the Spring of 2023, I traveled for work to Coco Beach, Florida, which is situated on some barrier islands. It’s not really a fun trip (though I do love my co-workers) s...

With with red hat and camera

29 December, 2024

A Complicated Relationship With Colour Film

By David Smith

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke I just ...

Portable scanner for free

28 December, 2024

A Portable Scanner for Free – Another Quick Tip

By Geoff Chaplin

This is a follow-up to my previous note “A Portable Light Box for Free”. After developing my film in a bathroom following a location shoot away from home I want to see the image...

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Chris R on A New Take on “Take”
Thank you for this article. I've been quietly avoiding the words "shoot", "shot" etc in particular for a year or…
renato ghio on The Joy of Multiplicity – Using the Nikon FM10 for The In-Between
Hello! It's an SLR. Sorry I didn't post a pic of the camera. I wanted to save room for the…
renato ghio on The Joy of Multiplicity – Using the Nikon FM10 for The In-Between
Thank you Geoff! I think that's what I like best, seeing something or imagining something in a different way.

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