Film Photography in 2022 - How to Choose a Camera for Your Artistic Film Journey
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2022
- This is the fourth video in our series on cameras for beginner photographers! Links to everything I mentioned below, including KEH!
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I have shot film since i was 8 and now 65. I like film i find it just as good as digital.. in some cases its better depending what you are doing.
You are the first video maker who does not state film is rubbish. So withoutfilm there would not be digital. Well done for doing this.
Film giveyou time to shoot with the camera, whereas digital is like a machinegun camera plus you need loads of computor gear to go with it.
My first real 35mm was OM10. Stillhave her today. My mum bought me that camera in 1987. I now bave a collection of abour 300 35Mm analog cameras
What an incredible number of 35 mm cameras!! RS. Canada
Hi Leigh & Raymond
I can't begin to emphasize how much I love you both participating in the videos!! With this video on film photography. One disadvantage in living in a small town (population 10,500) my only place I can purchase film is at the local Walmart store and they offer one brand of film and ISO - Fuji 800. Developing the film takes 2 weeks as Walmart has to send them out for developing. I agree in regards to film photography as far as film making you mindful of having only 36 photos. One thing I do with my digital camera is to take only 36 pictures, not to preview photos taken, and not to use the delete button to give me the feel of shooting a film camera.
Best wishes
Duane
I'm a professional photographer with a Nikon D850 and all the great lenses to go with it. But on occasion, typically a weekend, when I want to "slow it down", I grab either my old school Minolta XD-11 or X-700 and throw a couple different lenses in the bag and head out to see what I can see. The manual "everything" that goes along with it reminds me to stay in touch with the technical aspects of photography - the exposure triangle, the metering. And to look for the absolute best composition...like you said, when you have 36 exposures you need to get it right! And using b&w film challenges you to "see" in b&w before the shot. Great video.
I have an F5. I think you might like that one even better than the F6. The F6 is awesome, but if you’re going to put a grip on it, I bet you’d like the F5 better. Back in the day, I tried several manual cameras. The FM3a blew them all away. You should mention the auto DX feature, which has saved me a lot of ruined rolls! Also the fact that it can be used without batteries at all, if you can meter manually.
These days, for me, I don’t shoot the F5 it chews through film way to fast in my hands. The FM3a is a slower, more deliberate process, and it’s the one I take on trips.
Great video! A fair assessment of the positives and negatives of using film. And I loved the outtakes! 😄
I love my vintage cameras. SLRs are okay, but I am a devoted Rangefinderist. Shooting film, as I have since 1988, is a great joy.
I love the way this channel changed to include you both, very interesting and its nice to have the different points of view. Great video
Nice well done helpful presentation. Thank you. RS. Canada
Thank you for putting together this episode specifically on film camera photography. There has been few CZcamsrs talks on film camera photography in the the past. A few of them talked about the Leica brand, but they are price prohibitive and becoming impractical for ordinary people. I started my film photography in late 60s with the Minolta SR-1S, then the Nikkormat FTn. Today I have a fairly good collection of Nikon gears. I finally purchased my 1st DSLR Nikon D40 in 2006 which I am still using today. The funny thing is that I used to consider myself as a serious armature film photographer in the past, but I am a really slow learner in the digital photography world? This is properly due to old age! Thanks for reading and look forward to see more of your presentations on the subject of film photography.
Really enjoyed that, I always feel more connected and part of the process shooting film. I have an om10 (with manual adaptor) and I love taking it out with a nifty fifty. The om10 was a great aperture priority beginners camera and still is a great introduction to photography.
I also love my FM3A with the MD-12 motor drive. Since I have huge hands, the combination is quite comfortable. I also have several other Nikon cameras, each with a different film stock loaded, always at the ready. I bought almost all of them from KEH.
I bought a Nikon FM3A recently. Mainly because it has aperture priority. Love it. For context I have 2 digital cameras… the Nikon Z7ii and the classic D850. Could recommend each and every depending on your needs. 😊
I am teaching b&w to campers at comp o-at-ka maine this summer
The D2X is back home, and currently being used in the studio with it's 4 twins. :) But as always, you guys got me thinking about doing something new, so I grabbed a F5 (no F6's available :( ) off KEH. As you both know, I love the D2X with a passion, so grabbing a F5 makes a lot of sense. Now to stock up on some film.
Great video as always! Loved the out takes at the end... :D :D :D
If you want a more electronic Nikon film camera, but don't want to dump a rent check on the awesome F6. KEH has the N80 for ~$130, ($50 if you're willing to clean off the sticky surface).
I've bought the EOS1V about a month ago because I have many EF mount lenses. My Godox flashes and moonlights are compatible too!
When I get really, really old school... my 70s Yashica FX-2 with my vintage Yashica and Zeiss lenses are my choice. Most of the time, I take my Nikon N65 with a 50mm 1.8G lens... with my old D3300 with a 35mm 1.8G lens to take "practice shots" (pretty close to the same composition). Once I feel I have something I want using the D3300, I'll grab the N65 and put it on film. BTW... if you live in DFW, Garland Camera will turn the film development in about 2 or 3 hours. They will give you your negatives and, if you provide them with a flash drive, will upload digital images for you too. Props to Garland Camera Repair and Photographic Imaging for still being there for those of us that need them.
I love film. Still shoot it for underwater photography with a f100
Excellent video, thanks for it. Another disadvantage of film photography is the huge quantity of water you need to reveal the negatives...
True. Photography in general, be it digital or film, is not environmentally-friendly. Raymond and I are trying to purchase less gear in general, but less new gear in particular. And, of course, using film selectively. :)
Love this, would love to see where and how you get your film processing.
We typically take our film to a local shop - Tempe Camera - and then scan the negatives ourselves. They don’t do E-6 though. We send those to thedarkroom.com. :)
I pick Nikon as my 35mm kit because Nikon SLRs always use the same lens mount, which means you can even use old lenses from the 70s or 60s without modification (in some cases, a little is needed) with modern cameras from 2010s. And some slighty modern Nikon SLRs (from the 90s) are compatible with AFS lenses. Awesome.
Of course, if your concern is only film, any 35mm system (Olympus, Minolta, Pentax etc) is good option. Buy whatever fully functional and if possible... cheap :)
I started in film on Minolta, and recently returned to that, but if you really want to go bare bones, Leica’s early Barnack rangefinders and their many many clones are also possible on a budget. Canon, Nikon, and others made very competent (and often better) clones and lenses. Manual metering really forces you to slow down and be in the moment while you shoot.
Does the F6 have a true color meter like the F5 did?
For about $200 I bought an old Minolta XD7, a 50 mm 1.7 and a 135 mm 3.5. And these lenses ar pretty sharp. I also still have my old Nikon F801s and an Espio mini, both bought from new in 1992. And both cameras work well. Buy a tin of Ilford film and you can decide how many frames you want to load. Saves a lot of money.
What type of film does Raymond use? It looks like something for me. I love grain and contrast in black and white photography
All of our photography in this video was captured with Kodak Tri-X 400. :)
I’ve thrown some film the AE-1 I just got and just need to get it developed. Even though I had formal film training a long time ago it’s very strange to go out shooting and not instantly see what I got. Got it off eBay for just $60, and a donor body for parts for only $25. Also threw some 620 film in a couple vintage Kodak cameras, not expecting much from those.
I agree - it’s quite an adjustment to go back to having to wait to see the images!
I like Leigh's Dungarees 😊 To me, to be a film photographer, you print the negatives with an enlarger, the traditional way 👌
SLR film cameras are the future and have a beautiful rich past. Use the Nikon F5 since 1996 and love it still more than my two Nikon D4. Nikon SLR film cameras are great to use with AF-D lenses such as the Cream Machine and Bokeh prime lenses.
As older film cameras pass into an age where their electronics might give out, I think the most important thing is to choose a camera that has complete manual reversion if required - and that includes shooting at all apertures and shutter speeds with no batteries at all, either as a backup position or as a design function (predating inbuilt meters, e.g. pre-Spotmatic Pentax cameras).
Eventually we're going to reach a point where nobody's capable of servicing these things any more, and the ability to service or replace the electronics is going to go first. This is why, for example, many Pentax fans are leery of buying themselves an LX. Theoretically it's the apex predator of the pre-autofocus era for Pentax, but the exposure control modules aren't being made any more... and when they die, you either have to find an otherwise wrecked body with the control module intact or lose the majority of your camera's functionality.
(I'm not NECESSARILY saying buy Pentax, although the legacy support for older lenses on current Pentax DSLRs was an important consideration for me, but the ability to shoot when it's all gone to hell should be a strong consideration and I gave examples of what I know by experience.)
Any suggestions on where to get film now a days? Thank you in advance.
We generally purchase it on Amazon when we see decent prices but some camera shops carry it too!
My first Nikon was an EM in 1979, followed by an FE. I sold the FE for a pair of FM2 and FE2 which are still with me. They are elegant and timeless cameras. Along with Nikon AIS lenses they represent the best that Nikon could offer, of course I also have an F3-P and a couple of F4s plus the digital D800 and D7200. The F line of cameras were from an era where Nikon quality was supreme. All metal and superb manual focus lenses. May I just ask a favour? Please use these cameras as they should be used, for making timeless photographs and not as an speculation. Leica is a prime example of people buying these marvels of optomechanical engineering and keeping them in a glass cabinet hoping to double in price. Thank you.
I still have my black Nikon FM
Learn the Sunny 16 rule ...also try bull rolling or buying a brick of film...same batch either way for consistint results
Digital your still buying a computer photo shop editing etc
I shot film cameras for years and also medium format film cameras for weddings. Even though I own a D850 Nikon, I love shooting with my D700 and D3S Nikon DSLRS. I know these aren't film cameras but don't overlook vintage DSLRS with a unique sensor. Sadly, I sold my old film cameras but I do own a Fuji x100v and do use film simulations.
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I do enjoy most of your videos but this one, well, I started out using film. I am just a guy that likes to take pictures and save them on an external hard drive to look up in the albums. I do little processing other than crop, which I can do in the photo programs. The digital camera photos are just too easy to do what ever one might want to to and even print photos without chemicals and trays. Sorry but you lost me on this one but I will still be looking and making the occarional comments. Oh. I still have my Contax and Nikon film cameras and several heavy lens but I love my 8 Olympus mf3rds and those lite, sharp, plastic lens.
Film is definitely not for everyone. I have two more videos for you this month where I’m back to digital!
As a film shooter, those pictures from the app look NOTHING like properly exposed film photos with fresh film.
The cheapest way to try out film photography is to get a disposable and always use the flash and see if you like the results, though plastic lenses and 0 control.
There are various other off brand cameras with common lens mounts like M42 or Pentax K with lots of cheap lenses and you could pick one of those for pretty cheap on ebay and use those to try out film. Dont like it? you can almost sell it for the same price.
I think I found Garand Thumbs's sister
Had to look him up but omg yes
Film+ Film processing is so expensive now!!!
You will get exactly the same images out of a Nikon FG-20 for $90 in MINT condition. That's the screaming deal nobody talks about. Still a true sleeper. Problem with FM3A is Nikon no longer make parts for it... so if it breaks... you will need to source your own/parts to repair it... or buy another $1000+ FM3A. I've seen FM3As for "repairs/parts only" sell on eBay for $400-$600 so buyer beware...! If you buy one used make sure you check it out thoroughly and it comes with free return for refund.
That’s one of the reasons I like purchasing from KEH rather than an individual seller - you know what you’re getting and that it works as advertised.
Finally, hubby getting some recognition with the channel name change. The facade has gone on too long.
The facade?
Film? Are you kidding? I don't ever want to deal with mixing chemicals anymore. I even have rolls of exposed film that I never developed and will never develop.
We have T been doing the developing either! Luckily, we have a local shop that we use. :)