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5 January, 2025
Orwell’s Greenwich – A Photo Essay
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The opening sentence of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is, like...
The first snow came in early this year in late November, and everybody was excited. It’s an event, when grown-up adults feel as excited as they were back in the days of childhoo...
3 January, 2025
One Shot Story: Behind the Fence
There is nothing special about this photo in itself, but when placed in context, it changes the way we may look at it. The photo was taken in the fishing neighbourhood of my hom...
3 January, 2025
Orwo Wolfen NC500 – Pushed a stop (or 2)
I waited a long time to shoot Orwo Wolfen NC500. When I got my hands on a few rolls, I was determined to do something different. I’d already seen plenty of box speed results, wi...
Recently, I stumbled upon a collection of old slides from the 1980s, depicting a fascinating African journey. Although the individuals captured in these images are unknown to me...
1 January, 2025
TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge
For months after I got a Mamiya C220, I struggled with focusing. There were all sorts of possible explanations and I even visited an optician to discuss the issue in detail. Fin...
1 January, 2025
Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?
If one accepts that no optical design can ever attain perfection, one should also consider that no lens can be so bad as to be totally useless either. When you think of lenses n...
31 December, 2024
The Most Commented upon Posts Published on 35mmc in 2024
I normally do a post about the top ten most read and most commented upon posts of the year. This year it’s just most commented upon as I have stopped tracking the traffic ...
