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7 January, 2025

5 Frames with a camera from Before He Was Famous – The Triumph of Dr. Nagel.

By Richard Becker

7 January, 2025

/ Ilford Film, Ilford Pan F, Nagel Triumph, /

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14 January, 2017

Reflecta RPS 10M Review – Reflections on Homes Scanning – by Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

...I heard bad things about the Reflecta RPS 10M - banding, incorrect frame recognition, many returns. But my short experience up to now has just shown me great qualities of a r...

10 January, 2017

The lure of the uncomplicated camera

By Hamish Gill

Readers of this blog and those who interact with me on social media often comment about what they see as a varied choice of cameras in my collection. The most common comments I ...

7 January, 2017

Polaroid 690 Review – by Adam Laws

By Adam Laws

I know what you’re thinking. A Polaroid article on 35mmc, whatever next. I did have to twist Hamish’s arm to get this included. However before you reach for the flaming torch an...

1 January, 2017

Orwo film – The Magic of a forgotten giant – by Eric “kAAs” Sluis

By Eric 'Kaas' Sluis

Today I would like to take you on a voyage into the post-war film industry of Germany and specifically the DDR, East-Germany with a look back at the history and films or Orwo. M...

29 December, 2016

Voigtlander f/1.5 50mm Nokton LTM – Review by Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

The Voigtlander Nokton f/1.5 50mm is a lens that has long been compared to, unfairly, as the lesser of the two 50mm f/1.5 lenses offered in M mount (or in this case LTM), being ...

28 December, 2016

My Instagram account(s), and who should I follow?

By Hamish Gill

You might already be aware of my main Instagram account? I post pictures of cameras and use it as a mean to post micro-blogs between posts here on 35mmc. This account used to be...

26 December, 2016

MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar Review- a tiny, and very eccentric lens

By Hamish Gill

The MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar is, without a doubt the smallest lens I've ever shot with on a Leica rangefinder. In fact, it's probably one of the smallest full frame lenses eve...

22 December, 2016

County Enterprises at Work

By Hamish Gill

I was recently asked to take some photos for CE, a local small manufacturing and packing company. I shot the whole job on the Leica M9 and Zeiss 50mm ZM Sonnar, so thought I'd s...

Jeffery Luhn on 5 Frames with a camera from Before He Was Famous – The Triumph of Dr. Nagel.
Richard, Snow is difficult to capture!!! It can look blank white with no texture or muddy gray, but rarely as…
Matthew Bigwood on An Exhibition With A Film Photography Collective
Many fabulous images amongst that collection.
Steve Kotajarvi on 5 Frames with a camera from Before He Was Famous – The Triumph of Dr. Nagel.
Lovely photos and I'm glad you mentioned the shutter setup you used. I have a Bessa 6x9 I've been meaning…

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