B&W 35mm Street Photography in Europe with the Voigtländer 15mm Heliar

by Johnny Martyr I've used a Voigtländer 15mm 4.5 Heliar Version II on my Leica M mount cameras for about eight years. In fact, I blogged about the basics of rectilinear wide angle lenses and the particulars of the Voigt 15 in 2019. But after some failed creative shoots, I relegated the 15mm to a...

Paris, France on Kodak Tri-X at EI 1600

I visited Paris, France in 2022 and recently again in 2023. For night time and indoor photography I shot Kodak Tri-X at 1600. To continue my theme of "don't just shoot film the way influencers tell you to," I figured I'd go over the different ways I used Tri-X on my trips and some other...

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...

Photographers Photographing Photographers

My wife and I operate a small local photography business and we often joke about the sad fact that we are out taking other families' portraits so often that we never take any of our own. The walls of our house are filled with memorable candids that Stephanie and I have taken of our kids...