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Hello Jeremy, I saw a used copy of this lens at a reasonable price, know the reputation of the original, and remembered you had done a video on it, so here I am. Can’t say I’m dying for another 50mm normal speed lens, but it does look interesting. I wonder how it would do on a digital Leica? Did you end up getting one? Thanks again for all the care you take in putting together all these reviews. Much appreciated!

There is a little known 35mm film P&S camera out there with infinity and snap focus, 28mm lens. Downsides? No aperture control, no exposure comp, it's bigger, lens is max 3.5 and not as sharp (not a prime either!) and the VF has no frame lines (and is in general pretty terrible). It's also not a Ricoh. But it's cheap. Like sub-$100 cheap.

Less is more!!! I think it's only a matter of routine to get great pictures with the film camera. I've made a great mistake. 2004 i bought a book ' work analog and develop then with lightroom' or something like that. But i read it just during the pandemy in 2020. I've sold all my digital cameras. Now i'm using just 2 x Leica M7 and i'm happy!

The best Rolleicord review I've seen - concentrating on the personality of the camera and its interaction with the photographer. Well done!

I just acquired a 2.8E3, and I must say that the Rolleiflex definitely feels like it has tighter tolerances than any Hasselblad I have handled. The Hassy is just too complicated, like having to mess with the darkslide and coupled aperture/shutter speed ring. In juxtaposition operation of the Rolleiflex can be picked up easily by anyone with basic knowledge of analog cameras. Not to mention the ability to handhold the Rollei at slower shutter speeds while the Hassy is handicapped by it's mirror and barn doors. If you're in SG let me know if you'd like to shoot sometime. I'd love to bring along my Rolleiflex and see how it stacks up to the 500CM!

They’ll both scratch your film!

I am curious about the watch you have showed! Would you write the model name of the right side watch (white)

The marks look identical on each image. I wonder if it's from your camera?

Coming back nearly a year later to rewatch and have say thanks again. I absolutely adore this. Each shot is superb, and the narration and story are so beautiful, sweet, and true. I hope your family is doing well, and I look forward to the next video! I hope you'll do something like this again some day.

Please let me know when you returned to M9 once more... ;-)

I own both. Minty.

How does it compare to Rollei Retro 80S? Thanks

Great video, that breakdown was very helpful. What are your thoughts on the M240 vs Q2?

Great video! i just got the titanium version of the lux and it is so beautiful. your description of it looking fragile is perfect. it feels light any stray photon can completely change your shot and i love how beautiful and random it is

what? you can set it to 2.8 and it goes to 2.8 and not in auto mode unlike some cameras that are 2/3rds more expensive than this one??? no way! lol

where will you be listing the m9 👀

Well done you. Letting go of fear and getting closer to your intuition - these sound like worthy reasons to focus on film.

Not the purest comparison im going to make, but my alternative is a few decent l39 lenses on my canon p for film and a7s (mark i). Less than 1000 aud for a film camera and digital full frame and some money for lenses. Best of both worlds for value. My shooting style on digital has become film like but misses the tactiility that a film camera has

Leica eventually will have to keep up with AI technology in digital photography.

MP all the Way... I've had it for about a year now.. i love it. $5700 currently at B/H

This camera with the Konica 21-35mm alongside a Leica with a 50mm would be a dream.

What a cool video. Since I don't do photography as my main professional activity, my interest in digital was very fleeting. My passion for it only became really strong when started shooting film. It felt so much more deliberate, dedicated that from that point it was inevitable that my skills would improve. I don't see myself photographing in any other way :)

Thanks for your video, Jeremy. Interesting point. I agree that scarcity forces you to take pictures with more intent, but digital makes me confront impulses in another way. Too much click-clicking devalues each moment in a way. Ultimately, developing your artistic vision is an iterative process; it's just that with film, it's easier to feel the weight of each moment before taking a picture, but with digital, it's at the moment of culling... Best, @ astraeus

Can't stop using digital. Rolleicord Model I Art Deco, Leica M4, M8 and M9-P plus a hand full of Leica lenses (21, 35, 50, 75 and 135mm) is my current travel setup. Sometimes I shoot just the M4 with the 35mm for refreshing, sometimes the M8 with the 75mm for focusing on subjects or the M9-P with the 50mm for more general scenecapturing. The Rolleicord always drives me for exact framing because of the square format. The 21mm works great for total inclusion on the M4 and as a 28mm general wide angle lens on the M8.

Please tell your wife to make more pictures. Her perspective/ style looks beautiful in prints.

Great video! I was in the same situation a few years ago and when I let go of my M9 and fully committed to film (MP) it felt scary in the beginning but now i feel a certain comfort and wouldonly switch back to digital it it is a total different medium to 35mm like a digital Medium Format camera.

Good 3rd party batteries are tough to find for the M9. I think going for the 750 rolls of film is a good choice. But at the same time, I still use my phone camera because I still believe @bexfinch 's words: digital is practice for film. Liked & subbed.

You traitor! I bought Leica M9 because of you.

Hasselblad lenses are too sharp, too perfect! Great for landscapes. Rollei is for shooting people!

Great video! I can definitely agree with trying to shoot digital and film at the same time being difficult. The choice makes it hard.

I don't use autofocus.. I feel like that's the path to buying many new cameras. The fun of mirrorless is using adapted lenses from through history. For what its worth I use a Sony A7 II(yes really)..and have been happy using native Voigtlander lenses, Canon FD, and Nikon G lenses. Pretty sure CZcams brought me here because I have a film Leica in my eBay cart. But that's more because prices of certain models are down. Digital is far better for my work, which explores the lie of color photography as a focus, and is heavily added by flipping color channels in RAW files. Black and white and infrared film also interest me though, for the lower cost vs Pentax or Leica Monochrom digital.

wait how can you get rolls at $4 a pop 😭

Totally agree. My M11s are collecting dust! Additionally - when walking with friends/family on the streets you're annoying with digital because you're hitting all those "impulses" with film I enjoy my walks with others more.

You speak the truth. You have courage. You will succeed. I admire your wisdom and honesty. I am a commercial photographer and I divide my professional and personal work as digital and film respectively. I love the notion of shooting exclusively in film, but cost, deadlines, and client expectations make it an impossible option.

❤you have a good point

Yuppp 💯

What camera are you selling to pay to develop all those rolls? Haha

I found this rather interesting.. I have a Leica M-E (M9) and a Leica M2 and I've been thinking so I need a digital Leica. So far that answer is still a yes, but for color, and the Leica M2 purely for black and white film. But I can imagine soon that I will also be going back to film full time

What is your favorite 35mm lens for B/W daily people reportage? I shoot M10Mono and mainly look for a timeless, classic look in rendering. Would love to hear your thoughts. Best, Mads

Amen! Happy to see you putting this out there, wonderful mindset to be in and such a healthy choice for one’s photographic mind. Enjoy life, shoot film 👍

Have you tried the Rodinal + HC-110 semi stand combination with Fomapan ?

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Hi Jeremy, I struggle with this dilemma as you so succinctly describe. Although I feel FOMO is a significant factor, my biggest issue is the backlog, especially of scanning film.

I really appreciate your videos and putting into words what I've been experiencing. I mostly shoot color on digital; black and white on film. I always get way more keepers on digital even though my keeper percentage is much lower. That said I value my film b&w photos the most. They are cherished relics that I hope to be able to darkroom print later in life.

ive found a way to get a roll of gold 200 new 36exp for $1.52 free shipping, so if you use that method, it would make you 1973 rolls of gold 200

Very cool, really enjoyed that!!

Thanks a lot for this video, very eye opener for me. I love the "film aesthetics" and "film experience", yet my Olympus OM-1 was collecting dust on my storage box. Film is more pricey than before, but this video makes me realize that I'm not shooting film not only because it's expensive, but it's more of my anxiety and FOMO. I'm not a pro photographer that really need quality, speed, and convenience of digital anyway. I will shoot more film, I promise myself!

Excellent argument, Jeremy. While I started shooting film 40 years ago and switched to digital in 2001, I went with an M6 and Tri-X to Normandy five years ago to shoot D-Day +75 analog. While that went well my main problem became making good prints out of five rolls I shot that day on Omaha beach. But I missed no image. That happened later, with an FE in Florence. While I was in the right spot at the right time, my first shot was too early, then I saw the perfect picture in the viewfinder. It passed, but I took one more image anyway. That was a weird mixture of the freedom of digitally shooting away, and the analog fear of just 36 images, and the time spent in the darkroom afterwords, fiddling around with test strips, multigrade filters and imperfectly temperated developer. Shooting film hones the ability to get the image you really want, for sure. While I use my digital images sparingly, just a couple of days ago I was at an event where agency photographers shot away on cameras sound like sewing machines with me going for two clicks a minute, I love to have the freedom to snap three times in a row, if I need to. On the other hand (and I shoot large format analog too) there is this image of Cartier-Bresson I recreated in France. A bike zooming by in the original spot, me taking one picture with my F3, a fracture of a second too early for perfection, but icredibly dear to me anyway. Digital would have been click click click click, and a perfect copy, but I actually prefer my image for all the effort it went into it. Thank you for your thoughts and inspiration!

The picture on the trampoline with the hose is insanely cool :D