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35mmcFilmORWO TF-12D – Controlling Contrast I love technical films. Films that aren’t meant for cameras, or if they were, weren’t meant for normal photography.

September 20

35mmcFilmPhotographing the Hiroshima Ceremony and Lantern Floating at Milton Keynes Each year, on 6th August, people gather at the Peace Pagoda beside Willen Lake in Milton Keynes to remember the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and to reflect on the continuing importance…

September 19

35mmcFilmZeiss 342 Bébé – Resurrecting a 1930 Ikon I don’t ‘collect’ old cameras, it is the process of using an old machine for the purpose it was made that I enjoy. My family may disagree with the first part of this statement.

September 18

35mmcFilm5 frames from a sunny summer’s day without lens hood Frankly, I’m not very impressed by the urban planning in my home town, Ystad, southern Sweden. The town’s proximity to the sea and the Danish island Bornholm attracts many tourists.

September 17

35mmcFilmPracticing the Forgotten Art of Patience Through Film Photography “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas I carry a camera with me everywhere I go. What I lack in talent, I tell myself, I make up for in perseverance.

September 17

35mmcFilmGiving Away the Eclipse – The human power of instant photography beneath a black-eyed sun Above: A portrait beneath the black-eyed sun of the 2026 eclipse, made on Instax Wide film with a modified Polaroid 180 Land Camera. The original was given to the sitter; this is a smartphone record.

September 16

35mmcFilmA Couple of New Features for 35mmc Just a couple of little features, mostly for contributors really. First, if you are a contributor, you can now add various contact details to your profile.

September 15

35mmcFilm5 frames of the Jazz Street Band of my Father with Pentax P30 That was quite a long time I didn’t have the occasion to post a second article on 35mmc. 2 weeks ago, I’ve visited my father in the city he now lives in Montrichard.

September 15

35mmcFilmPeace… But a Storm is Coming Living in a city for most of my adult life I only had the opportunity to appreciate the joys of watching a sunset in familiar surroundings when I moved to farmland in Hokkaido.

September 15

35mmcFilmBraun Paxette IIM and Super Paxette I review The Paxette range of viewfinder cameras were produced in Germany after the Second World War by Braun in Nuremberg.

September 14

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo