How Many Cameras to Take on Holiday? - by Sroyon
Well, is this a first-world problem or what! Not only are we talking about going on vacation, but also about the "problem" of choosing between multiple cameras for said vacation. To be fair, I'm sure it's a decision which many 35mmc readers have faced (this is a site about cameras and photography, after all). But still, a little perspective never hurt anyone! In this post I'm not going to try and come up with any universal answer (the universal answer, as we all know, is 42). Rather, I want to talk about what I took for a recent trip to Mumbai and Goa – how I weighed my camera options in light of my own priorities, and how I feel about my choices in hindsight. I'm also curious to know how you weigh your options, and if your approach is similar or different to mine.
The Rise of the Vintage Digital Camera
Be it cost, nostalgia, quality or just a desire for photography to be a little more fun, a vintage digital camera can have a lot to offer.
My First Forays in Stereoscopic (3D) Photography - by Sroyon
Rebecca wrote a great introduction to stereoscopic (3D) photography which was published on 35mmc yesterday, and which some of you have probably read already. I only got into stereo photography last month, so I'm just a beginner, and as such, this is more of a personal account. I thought it would be fun to document my initial impressions of what I suspect will become a long-term interest. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I would like to share three important realisations – all quite recent – which really drew me into stereo photography.
An Introduction to Stereoscopic (3D) Photography, and the Stereoscopy Blog - By Rebecca (from Stereoscopy Blog)
An introduction to stereoscopy, stereoscopic (3D) photography, and The Stereoscopy Blog.
The Leica for a Year Project - By Patrick Medd
The Venn diagram describing the readership of 35mmc and of Mike Johnston’s blog ‘The Online Photographer’, may not have a huge amount of overlap—on the other hand it may, I don’t have the data. For those of you not familiar with Mike’s blog you may not know that in 2009 he set his class of eager followers an exercise. The premise is described in an article entitled ‘The Leica as Teacher’ and developed in a further article ‘Why it has to be a Leica’. Put succinctly, it challenges you (the aspiring photographer) to shoot a Leica rangefinder, with one lens and one type of black and white film exclusively for a year. You should aim to shoot two to six rolls of film per week and make one to six work prints per roll, without cropping. Every five to ten rolls make one nice print, again without cropping. The idea was that a year of doing this would radically improve your photographic ability.
28mm Point & Shoot Showdown - The plot widens... - By Daniel Rider
After shooting for a while with 50mm and 40mm fixed lens cameras, I stumbled onto a Ricoh SLR and the old guy at the shop offered me a Pentax 28mm lens for cheap to go with the 50mm f1.7 standard lens. I had shot with an ultrawide 24mm equivalent lens on a digital camera, but found it almost too wide for most shots - the subjects seemed so small unless I got very close.
Breaking Digital Habits and Relearning Film With a Leica IIIf - By Christopher DellaCorte
This story begins with an afternoon drive through the local countryside accompanied by my spouse.
Ten Years Gone: The Ricoh GXR - By Tim Bradshaw
I have always been a film photographer: I grew up when there was only film and realised, pretty early in the digital age, that the tens of thousands of hours I had already spent in front of a computer by that time was enough: I’d rather spend my free time watching the magic of silver, skin, bone and water on paper than in front of a screen.
A Tale of Two Compacts - Emotion and Camera Choice - By Octavia Vans
This article originally began its life as separate reviews of two different not-so-compact cameras. However at some point they merged into a comparison, and then evolved, like a hulking black plastic 80s and 90s point-and-shoot sort of Pokémon. Besides the two cameras having quite a lot in common, I found that I kept circling back to what I was looking for in the experience of using one of these cameras. What has emerged is a largely superficial comparison with plenty of self-indulgent musing, and reflections on how emotional response to an object can possibly impact experience. Humour me then, if you will, and read on.
'Cool Retro Cameras' - The Nikon Z Fc - Just 'Cool'? Or Something More?
I was asked the other day to share my thoughts on the ongoing retro camera design trend for an article that has since been published on Lifewire, titled ‘What’s with all these Cool Retro Cameras’. In this instance, the question was asked in response to the latest ‘cool retro camera’, the Nikon Z fc… Which even to someone as perennially uncool as me, is indeed quite obviously designed to be ‘cool’. But, for all that style is definitely a factor here, I do think there is more to this than just coolness.
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