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Awesome tutorial! Thanks for this! Maybe I didn’t catch it if it was said but the basic blue masks do nothing for the chemical vapor. Better have safety goggles than a thin blue mask. If you really want to be protected, use a 3M with the right rating.

im new to shooting film, when hand held do you recommend using 1.8 aperture and around 30-60 shutter speed in bright environments? the aperture and 16 rule confuses me.

Great subjects, you can get so much milage out of buildings, cars, and landscaping like that- no two photographers see them exactly the same way. The picture of the '92 Lumina was phenomenal, keep up the good work ;3

you're probably getting a wrong exposure meter because you've put lr44 or some different 1.5v battery inside, which has more voltage than it should be (1.35v). its giving more power to the needle making it swing up than the actual light value. this same thing has happend with me, and after some research i found out about this problem. Soulution is to use Power One Hearing Aid P675 battery which is close to the actual mecury cell of the OM cameras

Good video brah.

4:24 I just got my Epson scanner and the serial number is emailed to you from Silverfast when you are downloading the software off the website! :)

welcome to the yaschica Family!

Thanks for the tip on 'Negative Lab Pro'...I never heard of it. I have a mix of transparencies(35mm & 120mm) and B&W negatives...also in both formats. These are images I shot back in the 80's through 2000. Mostly commercial jobs with a mix of some personal work. I look forward to diving into my past. Since I have come from both worlds...film and digital - I appreciate the knowledge I picked up shooting film but after learning digital, don't really want to go back. I'm loving this digital world way better. Here's a tool you never heard of...look up tool made by Minolta. It's called a 'color meter'. Without this tool all my on camera color correction were in the direction of guessing. This tool took the guessing out of the equation and allowed me to dial in the color correction, with extreme accuracy - ALL THE TIME. FYI...I subscribed...you make nice videos.

The more I dig into the scanning of film I'm starting more and more wondering if film is worth investment. Can I get the same result, doing the same amount of editing with digital? What are your thoughts on film in this sense?

Thank you for the helpful video, Andy. I'm planning to use the Epson V600 to scan film negatives when the scanner arrives, but my film negatives are rolls instead of strips of film. Would I need to cut the rolls in order for them to work with the scanner?

None of these videos show how to scan single frame negatives!

Great photos

miss you Andy! love your style!

Oh, this was ALL shot on iPhone 14 Pro Max.

I think the stabilizer is not needed for certain films

2 years late to this..but so GOOD!!!

Thank you for your review. It was helpful but I do disagree with one thing. Tiff files have more information and are better to use when we leave Ivan old images simply because there is more information to work with. That also goes for photo files from cameras as well.

Hey there!! First time to see your channel - I am watching a lot of videos about this camera right now! I do have this camera, have had it for about 15 years, but have had it packed away with the Yashica 1-C and a bunch of other vintage cameras for a few years....I have pulled them all out of their bags and getting ready to photograph my collection and make a video about them. I can't wait to shoot another roll of film in this camera. I have recently ordered some different lomo films! I remember being so exstatic when I got it, the lens is pretty awesome! I did enjoy your video and the photo shoot! I think my fave is the lone tree !

Personally I don't mind the darker shots. Very moody and smooth. I have 2 OM1s and and OM-G. The OM-G has an auto shutter speed with an in display read out. It's a killer camera for its price and even after using a friend's Leica I was happy to pick the Olympus back up. It's controls are superior and so is the viewfinder.

While this is a great video, it seems that film prices in the US are actually still pretty reasonable. I adjusted $34.99 from 2005 to 2020 inflation, and it came out to $46, so you could argue that it kinda costs the same.

These were pretty dope

Bro my fucking shit will not work correctly SOMEONE HELP ME 😂 nowhere can I find ANY help

5:54 not obvious! Silverfast is the better because it retains the original (higher than 8bit/channel) dynamic range. These photos shall view on a HDR display that take advantage of the real density of the film when scanned with pro software like Silverfast. 8 bit displays are simply not enough for comparison.

This was awesome Andy! thank you for the insight!

extremely helpful thank you!!

Appreciate the video. I’ve been looking into this camera and i think this definitely convinced me!

Hi! Why should glossy side be down and matte side up?

GETTING MY GSN TOMORROW AND CAN'T WAIT! IT'LL BE THE 1ST TIME USING A RANGEFINDER. DOPE SHOTS AND DIG THE VIDEO! SUBBED!!!

Crazy!! It was $240 for that scanner last year. It’s now $300 at Best Buy 🫠

Couple of points: Water. If you live in an area with hard tap water, use distilled water to mix the developer to protect its chemical balance, and in the stabilizer, to avoid hard water spots on your dried film. The blix is so strong that you could probably mix it in flat root beer. Kits. Most kits are like here, a developer and a blix, which combines the bleach and fixer in one process step. A few use separate bleach and fixer steps, which is more like the real C-41 process (which these are not). The advantage of the three step process is that the process first has to bleach, then fix. When you mix those two chemical processes together, you run the risk of getting an inadequate result, particularly as the chemicals age and are reused. Stabilizer. Strictly speaking, a chemical stabilizing step has not been required of C-41 process films made in the last 20 years, and most "stabilizers" are just a wetting agent, like Photoflo, to avoid water spots on dried film. About half the kits don't include a stabilizer. If your kit does not give you a stabilizer, wash the film as usual, and then give it a soak in a regular Photoflo solution before hanging to dry.

I think your photos looked amazing. They have a vibe like "the first color films" if you know what I mean. I guess that matches this camera perfectly. I have just bought one of these cameras, Portra looks great btw.

I have an Epson V600 and approximately 4000 slides I want to scan in - I have tried using the Epson software but saw you talked about Negative Lab Pro - what is the total cost for this and is there any other software i need?

NLP is one time payment only?

what a great video, this is so well explained and helpful! thank you :)

hey man thanks for uploading this video

Hi, What camera were you using right before the pictures were shown as it looked retro already.

Did you really use a 1/2 mist filter ?? Seems more subtle

Thank you! Been looking at getting one to scan several thousand world war 2 black and white negatives

does the sony alpha a6000 have video stabilization when you were shooting the video?

Always good to remove the dust although I believe the v600 has ICE which uses infrared light to eliminate dust. I’ve never used it but if it works well it would remove a little stress in being too precious about dust. From what I can see the scanner comes with various software that I would have imagined would have to convert the negatives rather than paying so much for an extra program… unless the lesser of the two programs is one of the 2 you compared and you just wanted to show another option - if so I’m not sure if I missed something or you forgot to mention the program came with it. Another option is that there was more software on the disc but it only gave you the basic operational program when you went to Epson.

Awesome tutorial !!

how long can you store these chemicals for reuse?

What was the buyer on ebay name

Batch scan doesn't show up for me for some reason

Thank you, very helpful. Are you happy with the Epson V600? Recently got into medium format film photography, was thinking of picking up a v600 to scan my negatives.

Thx very much bro! I was thinking in buy it, now I definitely I’ll do! Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

I’ve been using OM’s since I was eighteen. The metering is centre weighted so the camera reads predominantly towards the middle of the frame. Next time try and point the camera at an area of mid tone (semi shadow) take a note of the reading then set the f number or shutter speed for that then re-compose and take the shot. This should increase the number of correct exposures.

This is so beautifully produced, shot, performed and edited. Love this so much.

wait, is that phoenix???

Do you develop film and then scan? Am i doing wrong when i scan without developing?