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26 November, 2025

One By Four – A One Shot Story Told by Four Photographers – Part 3

By Dean Lawrence

26 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, /

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After Scott Ferguson and David Hume’s posts a short while back and the comments within them, I was surprised to be asked to contribute. Surprised and terrified to be honest, but it has been a wonderful experience. I don’t have the expe...

26 November, 2025

No Kings – My photo of the year (so far) 2025

By Art Meripol

26 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Portrait Photography, /

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This photo was also part of a recent post I shared here on 35mmc. Apologies for sharing it twice in quick succession, but this image also fits the idea of my favorite photo of the year. I’ve shot almost 50 commercial jobs this year but this ...

26 November, 2025

One By Four: a One Shot Story told by Four Photographers – Part 4

By David Pauley

26 November, 2025

/ Street & Urban Photography, /

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Winter Sunlight, NYC, 2025. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Zeiss Planar f2.8, light yellow filter. Tri-X 400. This post is the final installment of a four-way conversation between Scott Ferguson, David Hume, Dean Lawrence, and myself on four photographs from ou...

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24 June, 2025

Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

By Andrea Monti

The 2025 IVVA European Veteran Volleyball Championship took place in my hometown of Pescara last May, so I took the opportunity to get the students on the sports photography cou...

24 June, 2025

Village walks and Life in The Rural Punjab – With a Konica Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7D

By Ibraar Hussain

“..I dream my limbs and head are the five rivers that make fertile the land of my ancestors. I dream about wild music, about longing, about an end to thirst…” ...

23 June, 2025

Thypoch Simera 21mm f/1.4 ASPH review

By vincentbihler

Since my initial reviews of the 35mm and 28mm f/1.4 Simera lenses, Thypoch has emerged as one of the most intriguing lens makers of the past few years. Their growing Simera line...

23 June, 2025

Olympus OM707 – The Autofocus Underdog

By Stuart Jenkins

The Olympus OM707 (OM77 in North America) is one of a slew of new futuristic autofocus SLRs that burst onto the market in the mid-1980s. It’s a great-looking camera with a...

22 June, 2025

Fuji X Half – A Few thoughts about a camera I’ve not even touched

By Hamish Gill

I must be honest, and say I had talked myself out of publishing this post – I just didn’t know how much value it had alongside all of the other noise that was out th...

22 June, 2025

Fujifilm X half – A few frames taken with a Camera From a World I Don’t Understand

By David Hume

This little thing is fun. That’s the main takeaway — the key word that came up over and over again on a recent photo walk in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia. The event ...

21 June, 2025

Stereoscopic Photography with a Rolleiflex

By Stereoscopy Blog

I thought I would wish everyone a very happy International Stereoscopic Day by introducing how to use a Rolleiflex camera to take stereoscopic (3-D) photographs. If you would li...

20 June, 2025

Weston Master V – a Review of the Masterful Exposure Meter

By Bob Janes

I confess the company history around the Weston meter leaves me a bit confused. There were lots of mergers and buy-outs over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Sangamo and West...

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