Instagram Scam – Fake Your Way To Fame

This morning, while enjoying a coffee and doing my social media routine, a message popped up in my Instagram inbox. All that the message said was "Hey!" If only more people were so succinct! Intrigued, I responded "Hey to you too!" Now, I have been using Instagram for a few years and have made 577...

Exploring Used Camera Shops in Paris

by Johnny Martyr My wife and kids were kind enough to indulge my photographic interests obsessions by exploring some cool camera shops during our recent stay in Paris, France. Here in Maryland, United States, camera shops are an endangered species. And the few that remain are very different than what we discovered in Paris. In...

A Collection of My Petapixel Articles

by Johnny Martyr I take some shit from other film photography bloggers for writing for Petapixel. The consensus is that we want to keep film photography blogs within our community. And I can respect that but I also like the idea of letting the rest of the photographic world know that film is still alive...

Dan Tamarkin Stands on a Leica M6

by Johnny Martyr In a feat of classic salesmanship, Dan Tamarkin, owner of Tamarkin Camera in Chicago, posted a video of himself standing on top of a Leica M6 on the business's Instagram feed last week. The Leica M6 35mm rangefinder camera was built between 1984 and 2002. It has been in headlines recently because...

Talking about the New Leica Film Camera – With Dan Tamarkin & Jason Nicholson

Regardless of if you own a Leica, own 50 Leica's, wish you owned a Leica or don't give a shit about Leica cameras, the prolific camera maker's recent announcement of a new film camera is important news for the film, and maybe even the photography community as a whole. Last year, I published an article...

Little Camera, Big Money

Leica Camera Number 105 - Leitz Photographica Auction, LEICA CAMERA CLASSICS Everyone else is making money from Leica Number 105 so I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring for a few bucks too. Hey! Before you read any further, like and subscribe as they say!  😉  Don't know what I'm talking about? Last...

Landmark Baltimore Camera Repair Shop Closes After 29 Years

In November of 2021, with work picking up again from the COVID lockdowns, I decided to pay a visit to my local camera repair shop and get a few things things back in order. I took my Nikon 35mm 1.4 AIS and 105mm 1.8 AIS in for service and was inspired to write an article...

Film Prices are Skyrocketing – Shoot More Film!

Turn on any news station, any time of day, probably in any part of the world, and you'll hear about it. The prices on daily consumable goods are going up, up, up! Photographic film is not immune to the global supply chain and inflation issues that are plaguing every industry. Kodak, Fuji, Lomography and others...

Happy Birthday, Kodak Tri-X

Kodak Tri-X, as a concept, has been around since the 1940's when it was a 200 ISO b&w sheet film. Because it was their first fast film, when Kodak released the 400 ISO roll film version, the Tri-X name was maintained. Just like Kodak TMAX P3200 revolutionized low light photography in 1989, Tri-X was an...

Film Photographers, UNITE!

I'm not usually one for human interaction. Part of the reason I got into photography was so that I would have something to hide behind at social gatherings. So it's not often that I meet up with other photographers. But this past Friday night, that's exactly what I found myself doing when fellow photobloggers Mark...