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22 May, 2026

Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)

By Niall Keohane

22 May, 2026

/ Nikon FE, Nikon SLR, SLR Camera, /

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11 May, 2026

Mandler 35mm F2 7 Element review

By vincentbihler

Mandler is one of the most recent brands to enter the M-mount lens market. The Mandler name and branding clearly echo Leica DNA – and their first released lens – Man...

10 May, 2026

Lubitel 166 (vs. Bronica ETRSi) – Testing an impulse purchase

By Roger

Having succumbed to the temptation to impulse buy a camera that I knew only by its reputation for having long been the inexpensive way into medium format, a Lubitel 166, I decid...

9 May, 2026

Ulanzi WLF – A Waist‑Level Experiment With a Broken Nikon D80

By Max Tiraquon

I should start of by saying I ran my first draft through some AI to make it a little more readable, I just scrapped through my English exams in school. Anyway originally it was ...

8 May, 2026

ΔStop – The Darkroom Timer I Had to Build Because the Right One Didn’t Exist

By John Jones

You’ve been here before: it’s late, you’ve got a negative with a gorgeous composition loaded up in your enlarger, the grain is hitting just right, but you cann...

digital camera scanning a 110 film negative

8 May, 2026

Valoi easy35 – How this film negative scanning system improves your workflow, and in anticipation of the v.2 …

By Andrew Long

I’m a big fan of the easy35 system from Finnish company Valoi which has really improved my film negative scanning workflow. It is a very simple but capable system which fits ont...

7 May, 2026

Skyview Aerial Camera – 35mmc started the quest

By Neal Wellons

I’m a long term reader of 35mmc and recently read an interesting article, The Miniature Camera Monthly by Art Meripol, 27 February 2026. Art gave readers a look at the August, 1...

7 May, 2026

Shooting Pano on a Hasselblad

By Scott Ferguson

There have been more than a few interesting posts over the last couple of months exploring various approaches to shooting in a panoramic format, including Simon Foale’s pi...

Pellica film roll tracker app for analog photographers

6 May, 2026

Pellica – Why I Built an App to Track My Film Rolls

By Imad Djebarni

Last November I sent three rolls to my lab and more or less forgot about them. When the envelope came back three weeks later I spread the negatives on my desk and tried to work ...

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Jeffery Luhn on Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll
Hey Gary, Nice shots! I'd like to see more. I'm a big fan of Nikon and Oregon beaches! Good combo.…
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Hi Andrew! I must be lucky because I’ve never had to fiddle with light seals. I did have some issues…
Miguel Mendez on Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)
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