Adventures in 35mm Film Photography in 2024!
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- Join Joey as he embarks on a journey exploring film photography in the modern day, starting with the revered Nikon F2 SLR camera. Joey shares his experience shooting with this camera, digitizing its negatives, and processing the resulting photos in Adobe Lightroom. The goal of this project: to eventually shoot an entire One Day Build using Adam's vintage Arriflex 35mm film camera!
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Another amazing video ❤🔥
I find it's kind of rare to get film photography content from channels that aren't dedicated to it that is this detailed relevant. You and technology connections deserve high praise for this!
Not to mention Smarter Every Day’s deep dive into making film at Kodak
@@tylerhuttosmith so true!! I waited so patiently for part three which took forever 😂 Destin gets a gold medal for film photography advocacy
So cute to see young people experimenting with film. I shot film for 30 years.
Love it! Happy to see you guys jump into film photography :). I love my Nikon F2
Never did I think I'd get a NLP tutorial from this channel
2 points to add in the film scanning rig that might help some users.
1. If you have a stabilized lens with a switch to turn it off, do that when you mount it to the rig.
2. If you have an older dslr with a mirror and the ability to lock the mirror up, do that as well. At long exposures the mirror movement can introduce a little shake.
Link the camera rig to align with the film holder. Moving it back and forth every shot is not a good solution.
I went back to film in 2016. It’s not super difficult to process and develop at home. Plus it’s heaps fun ☺️
I still have my Nikon F Phototomic T (built-in light meter) from 1966. Back in the day I would go through 100' a week in college for the school paper. I still use some of my original lenses on my digital Nikon.
I got into film photography a few months ago. It is an awesome hobby and really makes me feel like I'm being more thoughtful with my Photography.
Film photography is in a weird place where it almost feels like producers are getting ready to step back up production, hopefully bringing prices back down in the process
I switched back to 35mm film cameras a year ago. There are camera shops here who sell refurbished cameras, film snd develop film. I actually look at pictures I take again. With digital cameras I would take 100s of pictures and not print them out or even look at them again. Film pictures also look better to me. More real, like movies shot on film vs digital.
Slide photographs are even better. AKA Kodachrome.
I don’t even get what the whole “looks more real” argument even means. Both are equally real?
@@tylerfukuda Digital looks artificial to me- probably due to over processing. Film looks more like how I see things.
@@tylerfukuda there’s a difference really, I never noticed it until I started using Film as well.
Since last summer, I’ve been grabbing late 1950’s/early 1960’s Voigtlanders for about 20-30GBP, most just need a clean, some need a proper stripping down to get working. It’s been an education but getting results in grainy B&W from these old things is very satisfying.
I shoot virtually all my photos on 35mm or 120 film - There's something different and fun to it and being able to keep all my physical negatives filed, means I never have to worry about my digital files and backups. Try developing your own black and white film - it's not hard, but it opens up a world of possibilities using different developers or techniques which result in sometimes big differences to the negatives in areas such as dynamic range, grain structures, tonality etc. It's great being able to control the entire process from shooting, developing and scanning. If you want to take it a step further, wet printing yields, in my opinion, better prints than any digital prints.
Always fun to see someone experimenting with their medium. 😃
Still have my grandpas Canon AE-1 that I learned with! Shooting film always required more thought, like shots per roll not gigabytes or terabytes 😜
That's a lovely camera!
I picked up photography after inheriting my grandfather's Canon FTb, about the same thing. Once I could touch all the mechanical gubbins - the shutter going FLIP, the aperture zipping open and closed as I fiddled with the lever on the lens, and seeing the little exposure needle move around - those concepts finally made sense.
There is a certain joy in using these mechanical cameras that were really designed for our hands. And as you say, that extra thought into taking each photo is a really different experience to digital photos where...eh, who cares just press the button.
Grandpa's AE-1? That was the first camera I bought when I was in Navy boot camp. Get off my lawn you whippersnapper!
If you load the film right you can get extra shots. I regularly got 25 to 27 images on a 24 roll.
This is not a secret for anyone over 50 :)
I’m a commercial / advertising photographer. I struggled hard with doing photography as a hobby, and film has allowed to do that. Absolutely love it!
Back in the 80s for me it was the Cannon A1... Processed B&W... Heavy, lot of lenses to carry but I think it still beats digital
My mom has an old AE1. She bought one originally when she was younger and lost it somehow so I bought her another one about 12 or 14 years ago. Back before they cost $2-300. I got her another one for like $40 lol.
I used an AE-1P semi-professionally (until it was stolen). For years I carried two lenses; 35-80, and 75-205. That covered all of the work I needed to do, but I found myself using the 50mm lens that came with the camera more than anything else.
Yay film content. I, like many, have taken the dive starting a couple years ago. I recently picked up an Arriflex 16mm used by the navy and was so excited to see Tested had a couple videos on the old Arri cinema cameras. Excited to see more film content here and for the segment you all film on 35mm!
My last film camera was a Olympus OM10, still have it and the lenses. Previous to the OM10 I had the venerable Zenit E and the UPA-5 enlarger in a case. They taught me to develop and print my own black and white photos. I even developed colour slide film as well. Those were the days.
OM-10 was my 1st SLR and learned photography with it. Love it !! Even hooked it up to my 8 inch SCT and got shots of the moon. I also still have the Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 prime lens and also have a 135 mm. The camera includes a shutter control accessory which was required for astrophotography. It was a great teaching tool. Could not afford Canon back then mid 80's. Now using Canon DSLR's for all photography including astrophotography. That learning experience was fantastic !
I have a bunch of film cameras from 35mm to 4x5, but I'm not into color film and scanning . I love spending hours working on my B&W prints . After all this years, watching the picture reaveling itself on the paper in the bath always has something magical .
SO excited for the One Day Build shot on film. That'll be glorious. I hope we get see every step of loading, shooting, and especially the editing
Love that you got into film photography Jamie! And looking forward to more film photography videos.
Quick recommendation for NLP. I suggest using the white/black clipping settings in NLP more often. Especially black can sometimes be too clean because sometimes NLP decides to set the black level in a way that leaves you with lots of clean but clipped black areas... same can happen to whites but less common. I often use a value of -4 or even -8 for the black clip. This will recover some of the grain in very dark areas... you can then still use the blacks slider to make it darker but at least now you have more information to work with. Also you used white clip as positive value while it should be negative to retrieve some of the blow out information.
That is actually amazing scanning kit! It has everything you would need for scanning you negatives. The quality and resolution of the scans depends of the camera -of course.. The Canon R5 and the 100mm macro is definitely enough. Interestingly factors that affect the quality the most are stable scanning surface, the quality of light, flaring caused by ambient light, negative and the camera sensor not being in parallel/levelled properly and the negative not being flat.
Let us know if there is anything we could help you guys with. :)
Ps. Scanning Phoenix film your self is the way to go for the best results with that film stock.
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This was absolutely fascinating! Great stuff Joey. =D
I have always shot analog parallell to digital, ever since I started to shoot digital back in 2005. Love both!
My absolute favourite to shoot is definitely my Leica M6 with a 35 Summilux, but both my Nikon F4 and FM1 are great too.
Joey check out the Valoi Easy 35 scanner if you’re only going to shoot 35mm. It attaches a light box directly to your macro lens via extension tubes. That way you don’t have to constantly fuss with alignment every time you slight the negative. Recently got one and it’s made a big difference I can scan a roll in less than 5min now.
Also the whole scanning setup takes as much as a 300mm lens
Im super excited for the Arri followup! Been waiting for that one for a while.
Quick tip that'll save you someday if you're shooting film. If you set the shutter to the closest setting to your ISO you can use a trick called "Sunny 16", that is an object in the sun on a sunny day will be properly exposed at f16, if there are clouds in the sky set to F11, if they're in shade f8. Film is forgiving enough that you'll get a properly exposed shot with no light metering.
Nikon F with eye level finder , Great camera .
Kodak Retina IIA , Great camera ..........
Very interesting. Also, I would love to see a ODB video shot on film! I'm looking forward to that.
Thrilled that you are making this series!
Love all things film! If you really want to push your knowledge of film view cameras (typically 4x5 and 8x10) have a lot of crazy variables to play with. Also Ansel Adams 3 part books are a solid read and explain quite a bit more than I expected. On the motion picture end, double 8 is interesting because it isn’t in a cartridge like super 8, has been made available again by foma and Film Photography Project, and is one of the cheapest options for motion picture film.
One quick, pedantic note: b&w and color negative films have decent latitude for overexposure(some stocks vary) but don’t have a ton in the way of underexposure. It’s almost like the opposite of a digital camera. Positive or slide film on the other hand, is a bit trickier and can take a little bit of underexposure, but really only around a stop or so. All that is also assuming it isn’t expired and/or high heat.
I just got into film this last year and it just boosted my love for photography
Similarly, I have a trio of Pentax MX cameras. During Covid, I developed my own B&W negatives for the first time. It wasn't very difficult, truly - mainly had to know temperature to calculate time. I digitized them using a Nikon DSLR & macro lens with very pleasing results.
I have a Nikkormat Ft2 that is amazing. It is such a good camera and I adore the whole process so much.
Cool, always enjoy Joeys work
Joey is such a nice guy, great video.
Fantastic idea for a series, looking forward to all the videos
The Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 prime lens is one of the best pieces of glass I’ve ever owned.
Thanks to adaptors It followed me from my OM 35mm cameras to an Olympus E system 4/3 DSLR and now still in regular use on micro 4/3.
I regularly still used my 35mm cameras until recently but have noticed the fabric light seals degrading on many of them 😔
That Kodak Gold is nice.
Some tips... Place a small flat mirror on top of your negative holder and focus until you can see the aperture blades on your lens. Align your camera and or negative holder until the center focus point is in the center of the aperture (you may need to stop down to f8 with depth of field preview if not using a manual focus lens). This will let you know you are perfectly parallel to the film plane. Also you should really scan in a dark room to prevent any light from impacting your film scan. Lastly look up vlads test targets. You can order calibration negatives to test what Aperture on your lens gives the best negative scan. You may also want to manually focus on the film grain instead of using autofocus. Nice intro video.
Great video Joey! There seems like so much to photography that I'm not aware of having entered in the digital age. I did use film as a kid but all point and shoot so no background in all that analog equivalence to the digital stuff I use now on my R5 mirrorless camera.
I shoot 110, 35mm, 120 (medium format) and large format (4x5) as well as instant (MiNT TLR70 & Lomography back for my 4x5.) I also develop, scan/convert, and print/matte/frame at home. Been doing it for quite some time. I love being responsible for the whole process. While Digital is better from a technical, reliability, and accessibility stand point - the level of "hands on" and responsibility over the outcome is why I keep shooting film. One of those journey over the destination kind of things. Film photography is the manual transmission of the photography world at this point.
Great video actually. Seen a lot of videos about using filma cameras and about to digitalize analog film so I am down in the rabbit hole already. What I really appreciate with your video is that you give an intuitive knowledge or background about film photography.
Besides, for me shooting film is about putting on my sunday suit and act properly and where every photo counts and has to be very well planned, When shooting digital I dress up i Bermudas and an ugly tee and set the camera to machine gun mode ... (well, not really).
Hell yeah! I too live in financial instability for some half assed photos (some good). I’m excited to follow the series
I’ve got a Nikon F3 and FE2. I really enjoy both, but the internal light meter on the FE2 is much nicer and easier to read. The F3s ability to change out the optics and view finder is pretty awesome for using larger optics for things like sports photography where clarity at speed is a must. I’ve gotten great results with both. I’m excited to see where this series goes
I have never stopped using film, and have recently bought a number of vintage box brownies and a couple of tohers from this era. I plan on taking one with me when i travel to Europe later in the year.
I've been shooting digital for a few years and now looking at film as a diversion now that there's actually a little more support. I love some of the sample photos I've seen on Film Photography Project's Wolfman 100, especially when it was pushed two stops and shot at 400 iso.
A few years ago I got a cannon ae-1 off Amazon and have loved taking pictures since, I’ve taken my favourite photos on it and also ruined important photos like whales breaching the ocean. But it’s all been an experience rather than just auto clicking and I have fun with it. I also develop most of my photos unless they are important and learning that is really fun
My dad put a Minolta Maxxim 7000i in my hand at 8yo. A couple years later, we found a Pentax K1000 at a photography trade show that came to town. It was "just like my [dad's] first camera". I've now got both of those and an inoperable Canon AE-1 on the bookshelf. I loved shooting film as a kid, even if my dad didn't like the bill from the developers. 😂 Great episode, and I'm eager to watch the future episodes.
I have seen a share of peoples' 16mm footage here on CZcams which itself loos great... but planning to top this off by using the Arriflex to shoot some 35mm for a one day build??? That'd honestly be TOO awesome!!!
You went over so much great info in this video! Camera scanning is honestly a gamechanger over the past few years. Scanners have slowed to a crawl in production and technology improvement. Drum scanners are expensive and hard to use. A camera scanning setup can achieve results as good as, or better than the best film scanners! Meanwhile being faster, far more finely tuned, and having the possibility to be improved by merely following the trend of camera technology improving! You can bracket to improve sensitivity in the far extremes of density, you can use macro lenses at very high magnifications to get far higher optical resolutions than any scanner can achieve. It's so versatile!!
I own a Nikon FE2 and a Nikon F100. I love shooting with older lenses as well. None are perfect but neither are the images. It’s the imperfections in the moment that make the photo feel less fabricated. For a hobby film is just much more enjoyable. The limitations inspire creativity. I also find myself asking if the photo is worth the film.
I prefer film photography and developing it myself because it makes it much much more personal.
I started my professional photography career in high school with film cameras doing weddings. I went to Brooks Institute of Photography when film transitioned to digital. I have noticed the differences between the professionals that started with film or digital.
The light meter is a reflective meter. The hand held you talked about meters differently, incandescent.
Incident light meters can also be a reflective light meter. All camera meters are reflective light meters.
@@bngr_bngr Right, my Sekonic has both.
Nice primer with some classics.
The retina is perhaps the best example of the folding genre, watch out though, people often get in the habit of "snapping" these open like a tricorder, damages the mechanism.
I've left film behind some time ago, however I miss my M3 dearly.
I'm in for this series.
You can technically change the iso by pushing the film , you said your stuck at 200-400 but you can always shoot it at 800 or 1600 etc and develop it for longer and it still looks great , definitely try it out
Went back to film 6 years ago. Canon AE-1 and recently added an AV-1. Next will be a TX-1
Brilliant intro. CanonR5 and the 100mm L macro are perfect for this indeed. I use Filmlab to avoid Adobe monthly tax.
I have my grandfathers mimiya 1000 DTL. I love the camera.
Looking forward to seeing your results with the Retina. I've got a couple and have a lot of fun with them.
I would love to see Adam work on something camera related, like making a new housing for an old camera, or something very difficult: adapting a lens from another camera to a range finder camera. Like adapting a Carl Zeiss Sonnar with the zeiss contax RF mount to a L39 Leica thread mount together with rangefinder coupling.
Or maybe converting a camera to take different lenses. Concerting a camera with L39 mount to take Leica M-Mount lenses is a very interesting one. I have seen reports of it being done, but never seen the actual process.
Great images. Really impressive compositions.
i love the analog photo comeback, but whats the point of digitalize the negative? the magic happens with the developing process in your own photo-lab, various grade of photo-paper and timings, different paper sizes (every shot has its optimal paper-format). i feel you destroy a lot of the original by digitize the film. after digitizing, the image will appear differently on every screen you show it on (unless you and your customer / clients have the same screen-calibration). wouldn't it be easier shooting digital and then add a 35mm-film filter?
I really loved the videos that digital made back in the day about analog cameras
I'm a motorsports shooter primarily, and in a single race weekend I might shoot 30,000 photos. It's kinda taken the joy out of hunting for shots, so I did exactly this-I bought a mint-condition F2 and a 55mm f/1.2 from a tiny camera shop in Tokyo and I've been shooting a lot of film to relearn it, since I haven't shot analog since I was in high school. Do all the processing and scanning myself, even. I've written a few articles about it for PetaPixel and I'm surprised at how polarizing it seems to be. Lots of people really enjoy it, but there are a lot of people who absolutely want nothing to do with it because they have their R6 or X-T4 and see no value whatsoever in shooting film. Sure, it's not really a commercially-viable option anymore barring very niche uses, but it's fun and challenging.
In the early 80's and up to the mid-90's, I think I had every one of those 35mm cameras.
Started off with a cheapo Pentax and moved up. Never bought a new camera though.
I miss film but it's not something I'd want to get back into.
1:57 Accordian lens style system? Thats called a Bellows. As far as your adventure in cinematography, see if you can find a Sekonic Studio Deluxe L-398 Incident Light Meter. I think that would be period correct for the Arri you've got.
I loved film photography up to around 2012, and shot film exclusively. I have a Leica M3, a Nikon F2, F4, Hasselblad, Rolleiflex, a Kodak Retina, Rollei 35, Canon AE1. They're all phenomenal machines, but I haven't shot any of them in years. Film just stopped being worth it to me. All of the local processing places closed down, and the mail-in processing places were much more expensive and less convenient. Film itself got more and more expensive. Scanning and editing (dust removal) takes forever if you do it yourself, and is unreasonably expensive if you have the processing place do it. Processing film yourself is pretty easy, but still involves messy chemicals and water waste. Digital is just SO much more convenient, and the results are just as good if not better. I've been shooting a Ricoh GR2 for years as my primary camera, and I absolutely love it. I have a Sony A7ii as well which is is fun to use with old lenses and if I need more resolution.
also love my Ricoh, people don't bat an eye when you are using it. medium format film and rangefinders are still fun once in a while. Haven't needed to chase a Leica yet but have a large collection of film cameras. ha.
@@pinball16 I was lucky, my grandpa was big into photography and some of his cameras were passed down to me, including the M3 :). It's really nice, but honestly not as much as people would have you think. It's a lot more delicate than my Nikons. I've had some issues with the slow shutter speeds, and even had the whole camera seize up. I was able to fix them both, but I still don't trust it like I trust my F2. That camera is bulletproof.
I’ve been scanning all my dad’s slides and negatives, they haven’t been stored in the best possible way so there are issues there anyway.
The way I’ve been doing it is using a 5DII on a genuine Canon FD Auto Bellows and film scanning stage with an uncorrected (no plastic lens element) EF to FD adapter with the recommended FD 50 f/1.8 lens using a flash through the included diffuser on the film holder.
The FD Bellows is incredibly well built, has incredibly fine adjustment of the focus via the rails, best of all they can be had on eBay really cheap if you are lucky, I bought one for just over £30 but they are often listed for over £100.
All in with the film stage, lens, adapter and bellows I’m under £100 (not including the camera as I already had that) for the setup to scan film or slides.
That's funny. After maybe 20 years since I did one spool of film I just got back to it myself. I am at frame 14 of my first spool.
Love Joey!
Excellent video!
The F2 is just flat out the best. Like it better than my F3 and FM. Though the FM is great in a different way.
I regularly shoot on a Canon AE-1 program and a Zorki 4 rangefinder. Film is getting popular again in seems 🙂
nice video. What did you do to grade the video? it also has a vintage feeling, I really like it.
I have an FG that I purchased back in the 80s, although I have not used it in years as I have a digital SLR these days.
Hell yeah, Joey video.
Having started photography in the film days, I have no desire to go back any time soon😅. But film cameras are beautiful machines.
I just visited Japan and I had to bring at least one camera back home. So I picked F4 which I think is the first one which had AF. I just finished one roll of film on it so I'm curious how the photos will came out. I havent touched film camera for at least 30 years until now.
Shooting with film is a lot of fun and will really make you appreciate the process. Kodak gold films are a consumer grade film .If memory servers back in the day kodak figured out how long it took them to buy the film and get it processed . It was like 3 to 6 months the film hung around in the camera before they took it to the lab. So the introduced a color shift to compensate for this. By the time the film made it to the lab it theoretically should be neutral when it hit the lab. I felt that film as high in saturation in colors. I did shoot some 10 year old film stock and it was still pretty good. The pro grade films from Kodak didn't have this built in . The pros bought shot and processed quickly but in needs to go in the fridge to keep it neutral.
I store all my film in the fridge before and after shooting that was how I was taught. negative film also can be pushed or pulled to compensate for exposure in the development process so you have some latitude. Positive or Slide film does not. If you want to find out how good you are at exposure slide film will test your metal. ISO film speed ratings 100 200 400 etc. are twice as sensitive to light as the next gaining you about 1 stop per ISO increase .You will get more grain the higher you go . I think a lot of different film brands handle color very differently Fuji was a very vid film compared to some Kodak films It was up to you and what you were going for.
Filters on the lens will help for color correction also can enhance Black and White films red, yellow green and blue filters can enhance the sky or clouds and contrast depending on the day and film. Film is almost a mindset you have to get into when shooting . You wont have the latitude of digital or the complete corrective capability the new cameras and software give you. It makes me slow down and really think about what I'm doing double checking everything. Just like when I started shooting 4x5 film a long time ago. A 4x5 camera is a real chore to set up no spray and pray. Have fun :)
You could indeed push and pull positive film. 20 years ago before digital I regularly used Fuji Provia at ISO 200 (+ 1 stop) and occasionally at ISO 400 (+2 stops) where it had more saturation than the native Provia 400. -1 was also possible and from memory +2.5 was about the highest a lab would go. You could also ask for a clip test from either the start or the end of a roll where a short piece was processed for you to assess the final timing from. I see your general point that positive film required much more care with exposure than neg. I think the main point beginners should grasp is you don't change the ISO dial mid roll, you set it once and stick to it for the duration of that roll of film.
More please! My first impression when I saw those Nikon chassis I was "they still make these?" (then the manufacturing dates showed up)... it was an intriguing video to see modern techniques meet the good old days of film - with everything digital today, people forget that we used to do everything on film and that it wasn't exclusively used in movies or professional photography. For example, it was just one of the things to do to after getting home from holidays to go to the nearest photo shop to develop you photos. Curious as to how hard is it shoot photos on film today? I'd assume it's perpetually stuck at "it's as good as it gets" - as in, you won't be seeing Kodak or Nikon releasing any new cameras or new lines of film manufacturing being spooled up (pun intended). But is it a detriment or a strongpoint to have the technology essentially be at it's peak, the widespread use limited to niche use oppose to "it's around/on every corner" or the overall availability of film rather on the decline?
The Nikon F2 and it's variants (based on the light meter head, and other 'add-ons') is still one of the best fully mechanical camera bodies. Practically bulletproof and solid construction. I still have, as use, one. I actually have two bodies, in my dry cabinet. I dropped it on my foot, once. Thank goodness I was wearing good shoes, or I would have broken a toe! I will probably take them to my grave!
I grew up shooting film and I'm interested to see Joey's thoughts on the film experience in this series.
9:15 Scanning rig information
16:33 Adobe Lightroom Classic processing with the Negative Lab Pro plugin
Still using my Hasselblad 503 CW to this day. Film is real!
Nice video Joey, not what I expected from you at all (the subject matter I mean). I started down the film photography rabbit hole a few years ago when I started acquiring 16mm Minolta cameras before realising that although they are very cool, I'd really be better off with 35mm so have acquired a few of those too. Have myself a couple of old 127 film Kodaks also but again not so common and pricey for film. Want to try 120 medium format at some stage, the idea of such large negatives (without having to go sheet film) is enticing.
I stumbled across and bought a 35mm photo camera and a 10mm film camera only yesterday. And now you post this video. How did you know
Can we expect some 35mm photos of your home-made pizzas? I'd watch these vids just for that alone!
I use to process my own film and print my photos. I just don't see taking analog pictures only to digitize them to print or view.
Great video.
Film is a great way to reinforce your fundamentals. I’ve got a Nikon DSLR I use a lot, but thinking about how to handle composition, exposure, depth of field etc when you won’t get the result back immediately helps push that stuff into your subconscious so you can nail your digital shots without as much iteration.
I’m biased though. My first camera that wasn’t a little 35mm point and shoot was an old Zenit E from 1971 that had an off-lens meter. After that, the Canon AE-1P TTL meter still feels like cheating.
Neat.
A digital back for the camera would let you use all your lens and light instincts but get a higher quality.
Thanks.
I’m a photographer here in north calif. I’m way into film and I switched to 120 a number of years ago
I regret ditching my dad's 1978 Cannon. I had valid reasons, but I always wished to learn my way around actual film photography. Alas, I suppose it's not off the table since I'm not dead yet.
For what you spent on your scanning rig, you could have bought a dedicated negative scanner.
You should talk to my brother. He collects the antique 1920's type cameras and uses them too. Some of them are extremely sharp and can get extreme detail.
That's the lenses,
not the camera itself.
I have a working
1938 Contax II,
with a Zeiss Sonnar 5cm f:1.5.
If only I were a rich man,
with a darkroom,
I'd be shooting several rolls of B/W film with it daily.
Instead, I use my old Nikon D200 and 2 "vintage" Olympus M43 cameras.
(Pen EP-1 and OM-D E-M5)
I have the original OM-M43 adaptor, and MAN, some of those old manual focus Zuiko-lenses are fantastic!
Yes, I miss messing about in the darkroom, but financially?
Digital, with vintage MF-lenses, is the way to go..
Great video sir
Nikkormat was the consumer (affordable) version, where the Nikon was professional (expensive). If you watch the movie, Civil War, the younger girl used an analog camera.
Not sure if those are your kids at the end but, the shot of the kid on the fence and the one on the wall came out really good... and I usually hate peoples photos...