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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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Minolta AF-E II Review

By Tony Warren

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By Geoff Chaplin

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The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer

By David Smith

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invisible summer.” — Albert Camus Like many places in North America, Ontario is experiencing a particularly ha...

2 April, 2025

Viltrox 50mm F2 Air – A Brand New and Very Impressive ‘nifty fifty’

By Matthew Bigwood

Lens manufacturer Viltrox has added an autofocus 50mm f2 to its Air Series of optics, described by the manufacturer as ‘compact, lightweight and versatile.’ It covers full-frame...

Hasselblad 503CW and Ilford SFX

2 April, 2025

5 frames with Ilford SFX

By Michael Keppler

I first came across infrared photography as a teenager in a photography magazine. Digital cameras and Photoshop were still a long way off and anything experimental and unusual w...

1 April, 2025

5 Blue Frames on Kodak Portra

By Alexander Seidler

This little story starts with my difficult relationship with Kodak Portra, but in the end, a set of photos like a lot. I never really liked this film that folks say is warm tone...

1 April, 2025

An F-mount to LTM lens adapter on a Canon 7

By Tony Warren

Using nikon F-mount lenses on a Canon 7 LTM body

31 March, 2025

Oxford Museums with a Leica M9 and an Omnar Birthday Present

By Hamish Gill

It was my 42nd birthday back in January, and for my birthday I was given a very limited edition (1 of 2) Omnar NK25-4. Chris had two Nikon 25mm f/4 lenses in less than great con...

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