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21 November, 2025

8×10 camera for $10 in ten minutes

By Jeffery Luhn

21 November, 2025

/ Alternative Process, DIY Camera, /

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I signed up to teach a photography event to 8-year-olds at a summer activity event. It was scheduled to take place on my college campus in late June, 2025. The ‘class’ was comprised of two 1-hour sessions. My first thought – we could get she...

Life and Death in London

21 November, 2025

Life and Death in London – My photo of the year 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

21 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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This hasn’t been easy and I thank David, Scott and Hamish for setting me the (actually enjoyable) task. It turned out my favourite fell just outside the last 12 months (I’m taking ‘2025’ to mean the previous 12 months up to the date of writing) – ...

21 November, 2025

5 Frames with Svema Foto 100 with an Argus C3

By Brashtown Czar

21 November, 2025

/ Argus C3, Svema Film, svema foto 100, /

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I recently learned about Svema films, and was instantly intrigued by Svema Foto 100. Film from the most important Soviet film factory, still made in Ukraine, with punchy contrast, fine grain, and near-infrared sensitivity up to 750nm? I’m in...

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Parakeets Playing it Cool in the Cold

By Danilo Leonardi

This post is a short, personal record of London’s wild parakeets, seen from a fourth-floor window in West London, from winter into spring. It can be easy to miss what is just ou...

26 May, 2025

Olympus Trip 35 and 35ED – Budget Compacts – a Review & Comparison

By Bob Janes

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25 May, 2025

Photographing the Acropolis with an Antique Roll of Film

By David Pauley

While as a rule I am open to experimentation in photography, I have not dealt much with expired films, despite my admiration for the results many photographers are able to coax ...

24 May, 2025

The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera

By Marco Dughera

Digital has set new standards of technical image quality difficult or impossible to achieve in the film era. But technical quality and aesthetic quality do not necessarily go ha...

23 May, 2025

Zeh Zeca-Flex Camera Review

By Dan Cuny

This camera combines the compactness of a folding camera with the quality and handling of a twin-lens reflex camera. The Zeh Zeca-Flex is just the camera mentioned above, and I&...

The Socol 2 Automat camera on the table of a street cafe

22 May, 2025

5 Frames with the Sokol-2 Automat – Closing the Soviet Gestalt

By Alex Gridenko

My interest in photography began over 20 years ago with the purchase of my first camera, a digital point-and-shoot Canon G5. However, to be precise, there was another camera I g...

22 May, 2025

Panasonic Lumix GX7 – Travelling in The Rural Punjab

By Ibraar Hussain

The Year is 2015 and I find myself back in The Punjab region of Pakistan. A place which I’ve visited again and again and which I always look forward to, one of the many re...

Infrared Non-ghost "orbs"

21 May, 2025

A Heads-Up for Ghost Hunters – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

I’ve lived an extraordinarily paranormal life without ever trying. I never know when the next “experience” will come. Some Reading for a Dark Night Here are a few 35mmc articles...

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