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12 February, 2024

Leica M4-P vs. Leica CL – and a Tale of Loss and New Experiences

By Aman

My first encounter with 35mmc during the search for my first rangefinder camera in 2020. As a student back then, with a limited budget, the choices were rather narrow being spli...

11 February, 2024

5 Frames with a Yashica 35 Rangefinder

By MARTIN MISIAK

Six months ago I left Florida and moved to Vietnam as something of an economic refugee. I’m a science teacher and staying in Florida increasingly meant subsistence living...

10 February, 2024

Minox Photographs Smuggled from a Soviet Camp

By Julian Tanase

In 1999, an exhibition opened at the Culture Museum in the town of Osnabruck. Germany. The photographs attracted a lot of attention, because they were taken between the years 19...

10 February, 2024

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

By Jonathan Leavitt

The 35mmc site mostly concerns gear and experiences, and I admit to having collected way too many lenses myself. It would take a heart of stone to spend as much time with camera...

9 February, 2024

A couple of website issues fixed

By Hamish Gill

Hi all, I know this feels somewhat ongoing at this stage… if it does for you, you can be assured it does for me… but I have just fixed/had fixed a couple of issues a...

9 February, 2024

5 Colour Frames with a Yashica Mat TLR

By Timothy Hancock

My Dad got me into photography in the sixties, and I still use his Edixamat Reflex 35mm camera – it is built like a tank and after a CLA works a treat. His dream camera h...

9 February, 2024

Chinese Photo Product Silent Upgrades – A Public Service Announcement

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been reviewing and writing about Chinese-manufactured photography kit for a good few years now, and though this doesn’t apply to all brands, I have found that...

8 February, 2024

Olympus E-300 and Fuji FinePix Z10fd – Jankuary Roadtrip – Battle of the CCDs

By David Hume

In retrospect perhaps I tempted fate. This Jankuary road trip retraced the steps of a trip I made in the late 1980s to retrieve our Combi van that had broken down when my wife a...

RichardH on Liege with a Leica iiig, Elmar 50mm f3.5, FP4, Fomapan 100 in PMK Pyro and an accident
This is interesting, Geoff. Is the PMK Pyro development a factor in the low contrast? Or, was the low contrast…
Daniel Castelli on The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer
David, Thank you for taking one for the team, weatherwise. I. Hate.Snow. One of my photo heros, David Douglas Duncan,…
Wim HH van Heugten on Liege with a Leica iiig, Elmar 50mm f3.5, FP4, Fomapan 100 in PMK Pyro and an accident
Very nice photo's! One remark: DB stand for Deutsche Bahn, not Deutsche Bank.

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