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23 July, 2026

The Impromptu Professional Shoot

By Omar Tibi

23 July, 2026

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21 September, 2025

Personal Musing On Monochrome Digital Cameras

By Andrea Monti

I was thinking of exploring the world of black-and-white digital photography so I started looking into the available options. Currently, only the Leica Monochrom and the Pentax ...

Black and white image of a couple walking down a sidewalk in Belfast. The right hand side of the frame is dominated by a sign saying "In You I Am Lost" with arrows pointing outward.

20 September, 2025

5 Frames of Ilford HP5 on the Streets of Belfast with a Minolta Maxxum 5

By Don Beaudette

Belfast has been like a second home to me now for the better part of 20 years. I fell in love with the city and its people the first time I visited Belfast as an undergraduate i...

20 September, 2025

Underground 3: retakes on HP5+

By Geoff Chaplin

The aim was noble I think. To retake underground 1 and 2 shots on film. I would necessarily need to expose either slow film using a tripod (anathema to me, and permission would ...

19 September, 2025

Gravity on Pause – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

This a casual shot taken while I was wandering around without actually thinking about taking photographs. Setting aside the photographic quality of the image for a moment, I was...

19 September, 2025

Viltrox AF 14mm f/4.0 Air – Drama on a budget with the new full frame, autofocus lens

By Mike Brooks

I got pretty excited when Viltrox agreed to send me a copy of their new, full frame 14mm auto focus lens, the Viltrox AF 14mm f/4.0 Air. As you might be able to tell from the na...

19 September, 2025

Kodak 35RF coupled rangefinder from 1949.

By Tony Warren

Kodak 35RF.

18 September, 2025

Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story

By thorsten

Nadja and me we stopped in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes while travelling through France in the summer of 2022. Nicéphore Niépce experimented here with heliography. 200 years ago he us...

18 September, 2025

Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops

By Scott Ferguson

This post came as something of an outgrowth of my big spring/summer 2025 Black & White Survey which featured in five installments here on 35mmc. As I was moving through the...

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