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... Continue Reading →
Over the years, many different manufacturers have offered many different types of accessory viewfinders that have taken on numerous forms. I have tried only a handful but am pretty committed to what are known as as "bright-line" accessory viewfinders. Unlike early viewfinders that consist only of wire frames of appropriate sizes or even simple optical... Continue Reading →
Leica is a funny camera brand. For many reasons. But one of the reasons is the company's vehement refusal to make significant changes to their products in any conventional amount of time. Often, no matter how much people complain or demand change, Leica model after Leica model remain nearly identical to the previous, sporting only... Continue Reading →
If you’re okay with giving inconceivable amounts and forms of personal information to Big Data, you may as well use your smart voice assistant to help you process your film too! And while there are no consumer AI's that have hands yet, they are still willing to help film photographers the best that they can.... Continue Reading →
It's what we call a photograph that appears to be made with little consideration for the tenants of imaging and principles of design. Voigtländer has a lens named after it. It's usually proceeded by the word "quick." What is really meant when we call something a "snapshot?" I started thinking about this because, when I... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, I picked up a Yashica A TLR and was eager to test it. I bought a fresh 5- roll-box of Kodak Tri-X 120. When I opened the film, I was surprised to see that the backing paper design was different and had a waxy sheen to it. I found that, in... Continue Reading →
From film... to digital... and back again! Throughout the 20th century, b&w silver gelatin prints were THE standard in b&w photography. Unlike modern inkjet prints which consist of ink sprayed onto the surface of paper, silver gelatin paper, like photographic film itself, consists of layers of organic and chemical material. So the resulting images have... Continue Reading →
Looking to get into 35mm film photography and wondering what camera to choose, from the dizzying array of possibilities? You've come to the right place! The following four first film camera suggestions are guaranteed to get you addicted to film and help you become a solid, knowledgeable shooter (with lots of practice and reading of... Continue Reading →
Suspect someone may have stolen your photo? Or are you trying to track down the photographer who authored a photo? The quickest, easiest way to do this is with a Google Reverse Image Search. Fire up your Google Chrome web browser and navigate to the image in question. Ah, here's one, that narcissist Johnny Martyr... Continue Reading →
Out of focus people in the the foregrounds of my candid portraiture provide balance, context, depth and interest to the photo.
The Thoughts & Photography of Johnny Martyr 