If you’re celebrating today, Merry Christmas to you and yours! If you’re not, welcome to the end of the year that 2020 won 😉 If it’s your first time here, this is the beginning of a week-long look back at the best of EMULSIVE’s articles and photography for the year just gone in the form of top-twelve-as-chosen-by-you-listicles.
This first listicle covers the most popular “5 Frames” articles here on EMULSIVE, one for each month.
You’re welcome to submit your own — just check out the bottom of this article, or the very first ‘5 Frames…’ article here on EMULSIVE from way back in September 2017. Oh, as this series was created in collaboration with Hamish Gill, also be sure to check out even more on 35mmc.
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Here’s this year’s top ten in the order they were published!
~ EM

5 Frames… With the half-time-half-frame Konica Auto-Reflex (Fujifilm NEOPAN 400 / 35mm Format / EI 400)
According to Cameraquest, The Konica Auto-reflex is a full- and half-frame 35mm SLR camera made in 1966. It was the world’s first focal plane shutter 35mm…
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5 Frames… At the local supermarket on my rut-busting Olympus XA2 + ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm Format / EI 400)
About a year ago I was feeling a bit in a rut creatively, and I always feel exercises help get my creative juices flowing. I…
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5 Frames… Of Icelandic industrial edge on Fuji Pro 400H and a Mamiya 645 Pro (120 Format / EI 400 / Mamiya Sekor-C 80 mm f/2.8)
In between covid lockdowns, my girlfriend and I had the chance to visit Iceland. We went lightweight and camped everywhere. Lightweight except that I had…
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5 Frames… On original Fujifilm ACROS with a century-old Kodak Hawkeye No2 Model B (120 Format / EI 100)
Last year’s lockdown left me simultaneously busy with work and also with lots of time stuck at home I would not have normally had. The…
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5 Frames… With a Nikon S2 and original Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS in Downtown Calgary
I think the main thing I need to state before anything else is I’m not a rangefinder man. I’ve shot them and had, for the…
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5 Frames… Around lakes Como and Lugano on expired ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional (120 Format / EI 1000 / Hasselblad 500 C/M + Hasselblad Distagon C T* 50mm f/4)
When you rummage inside your old camera bag and find an unexposed roll of ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional, the urge to try to expose and…
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5 Frames… Around China’s Huangshan on Kodak T-MAX 400 and a Leica R6 (35mm format / EI 400 / Leica Summicron-R 35mm f/2.0
I back got into film in 2019 after I bought an almost mint-condition Hasselblad 503CW kit with the standard Carl Zeiss Planar CF 80mm f/2.8…
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5 Frames… Of London’s Greenwich Peninsula on Fujifilm Neopan ACROS II 100 at EI 400 (120 Format / EI 400 / Fujica GL690 + Fujinon S 100mm f/3.5)
This series was shot on a walk around the new developments on the Greenwich Peninsula in late April 2021. I had been having an absolute…
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5 Frames… Of Northern Arizonan Americana on Kodak Portra 400 with a Mamiya 23 Standard + Mamiya Sekor 150mm f/5.6 – by Garry Cahal
I have passed through this area of Northern Arizona known as Grey Mountain many times for work. This trip was different. I had my new…
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5 Frames… On a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 and Fuji Pro 400H (120 Format / EI 400)
It all started a year or so ago now. I am a newcomer to the art of photography and I have now collected quite a…
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5 Frames… Of North Carolina 209’s Luck gas station on Kodak T-MAX 100 (35mm / EI 100 / Canon EOS 3 + Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM) – by Bill McMannis
The Luck gas station is a roadside landmark on North Carolina 209 is the crossroad of Luck. It is the halfway point between Hot Springs…
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5 Frames… On ILFORD FP4 PLUS (35mm / EI 125 / Nikon F100 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D)
Mid October is really the time of year that marks the end of summer in Greece, with the first rainy days starting to appear, it…
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