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26 January, 2026
In Search of Black & White, Appendix 1 – Svema Foto and Derev Pan films from Ukraine
When I learned about Svema Film on a recent post here on 35mmc, I was intrigued enough to try some out. Svema is a Ukrainian film stock that comes in two lines: Svema Foto and ...
25 January, 2026
A Kettle of Red
Perhaps not the typical way a project is started! Going through my reel of photos from 2025, for Hamish’s Photo of the Year competition, made me realize that many of my photos h...
24 January, 2026
Minolta MC W Rokkor-HG 35/2.8 and Nikon Z5 – An Empirical Field-Test
This is another episode featuring a Nikon Z camera and a vintage lens. This time, I’m using the Minolta MC Rokkor-HG 35mm 2.8, which I recently took out of the cupboard wh...
We all have a little digital camera in a drawer somewhere. We occasionally take it out for family gatherings to take simple, well-lit photos indoors. Set the flash to automatic ...
23 January, 2026
Feel Nothing, Hear Nothing, See Nothing
I don’t know where this story should begin. Perhaps that uncertainty is the only honest place to start. For years, I have lived with anxiety. At its worst, it escalated into pan...
23 January, 2026
My 2025 on Colour Film – 9 rolls, 8 emulsions, 6 cameras
I predominantly shoot black-and-white film, preferring digital if I want to take colour photos. But in 2025, besides my usual quota of B&W, I also shot nine rolls of 35mm co...
22 January, 2026
5 Frames from Florence, on DragonFilm CI
For those who aren’t already familiar with them, DragonFilm is a small UK based company who re-spool various interesting films under their own branding. Up until recently ...
22 January, 2026
5 (ish) Frames with a Pentax 17 – The Much-Maligned Camera that might just be my Favorite
In the year-and-a-half since Ricoh released their Pentax half-frame camera, much has been written about its design, about the company hitting the pause button on their film came...
