My analog photography obsession snowballed quickly from a Pentax K1000 flea market impulse buy. Before I knew it, I had a budding camera collection and was part of a darkroom co...
After four years of shooting with my Hasselblad 500C/M, I wanted to try a SWC, the Super Wide Hasselblad used by photographers like Lee Friedlander.
The first difference I noti...
I've just read Sroyon's excellent post about how many cameras to take on holiday and it reminded me of a pre-pandemic trip I made to Greece when I had to make similar decisions ...
I love 35mm film photography, I really do. I love pretty much everything about it from shooting to developing, I don't even hate scanning with my quite slow Plustek 8100. The sl...
Let me start by admitting that here in California we have a slightly different view of what is "historic" than our fellow 35MMC readers in England and the rest of Europe. Where ...
It’s fast (f/1.7), it’s compact (183g, 39mm long) and, after its launch in 1985, photography would never be quite the same again. The Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7 was the lens supplied...
In many years of amateur (at best) photography, I’ve almost entirely used digital since I started with a compact in 2005 or 2006. But recently I've been increasingly keen to try...
It was a bright late spring day and I had the day off from work.
The latest lockdown restrictions had eased and I was slowly getting reacquainted with my bicycle. So I decided ...
