The Most Expensive Film?? (but it's totally worth it)
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Fuji Velvia is a great film, expensive but you definitely get what you pay for. Quality in both color rendition and detail is unmatched and even expired it still delivers some pretty phenomenal results.
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0:00 Intro
1:30 Canon EOS 850
3:30 Velvia at Night
5:13 Velvia Photo Review
11:52 Jeep Fire Photos
14:00 Final Thoughts
16:12 End
There’s a quote I can’t recall from the movie Everything Is Illuminated where the character explains that he takes photographs of everything because he is afraid he will otherwise one day forget them.
As I get older I love the random spur of the moment hip shots I’d fired so many years ago. A scent can bring back a powerful memory, but a photograph can put you back inside that memory.
I also love fuji slide film! When I bought a mamiya 7 from someone, he gave me an expired (2009) roll of provia to test if the camera functions properly. I shot the 2 shots in the cafe where we met, and the rest outsides in the streets. I was so hyped when I got the positives back! The colors where amazing, no sign of expiration. And just to look at the positive on a lightsource is so cool imo. After that moment i stocked up on some new but mostly expired velvia/provia, waiting for a nice project in the future. Btw i always like to shoot bright colors with slidefilm (like the yellow parasol), because they popppp
Velvia 50 is still my most favorite film to this day but the last time I shoot with it is last year, after all slide film is more than $30 a roll and I can't find any reliable lab anymore I can't bring myself to shoot them. Just 3 years ago this is my reference film for almost everything.
I use quite a lot of slide film. I use a canon Eos 1 and a Pentax MX. And they both produce results better than any digital image I have ever taken. The expense is worth it
Film is the ultimate archival medium. No issues with bad pixels or hard drives. Advantage with delayed gratification that rivals digital images.
I kind of stocked up on Velvia and Provia in 120 & 35mm, at about $4 or $5 per roll, right before prices started climbing crazy high. A bunch of it is “expired”, but I like it. I do love me some slide film. The first shot of that Jeep is bangin’ man. Love it.
I have a consumer level Canon Rebel camera that also pulls the film out when loading it. I have always assumed and pretty sure I've read before the reason for it is to protect the film in case you open the back
Creating a problem by trying to solve one; ironic isn’t it…
@danielsandoval8345 i mean, i think its better to flash an entire new roll of film then flash an entire roll of shot film...
@@zzzZniitemareZzzz exactly, you save your exposed photos and only ruin the unexposed. I see it as good accident protection
Velvia was my go to travel film as soon as it was released. Next was Provia. I backpacked for a year through Europe and Africa and that’s all I used.
Auto rewind of film became a thing in the 90s as well. Shoot the 24th or 36th shot and based on DX coding camera would know to immediately roll the film back into the canister. My Pentax MZ-5n would do that.
Easy solution to the problem:
1) put the lens cap on
2) if possible, go into a dark room or wrap the lens with dark cloth as a precaution (a changing bag is ideal)
3) fire the shutter until the film is done
4) the camera rewinds the film
5) you can now safely remove the still unexposed film from the camera.
hopefully fuji sticks around with provia and velvia in to the future. slide film is critically endangered
I have a canon rebel ti and it does the same thing. My understanding as to why it unloads the whole film canister first is for the scenario where the camera back is opened inadvertently. All the photos you took already will be safe, since they're already back inside the canister.
Yes, that's the intention for the prewind. My EOS 300 does that, too. I wish more cameras had that feature, just feels like added safety. Not only for opening the back accidentally but even if the camera failed mid roll you could open it and just lose the last one or two shots and the rest will safely be in the canister already.
4:28 No, it's not unique! My Nikon F55 does the same, probably to protect exposed film from light damage due to accidental opening of the back door!
XPan/TX-1 did this, too.
I know that disposable cameras come with the film back-loaded where when you advance it the shot taken goes into the canister.
The only reason I can think why a normal camera would do it is that incase of the camera back being opened or some other catastrophic event the photos you've already taken are safe...
X-pan does it. I've got a Fujifilm point and shoot, zoomdate 120v pulls out the entire roll as well
Ricoh GR1 has the same rewind system. It's nice since all exposed film is safe in the canister.
Ektachrome: Are you sure about that?
im fairly certain the canon eos rebel G also does the loading the same as this camera
Doesn’t seem that odd a camera to shoot Velvia with. Those consumer autofocus SLRs are sneaky good. Put a quality lens on there and you’re doing even better. (Although, this was when zooms started to get good enough to not-suck). Maybe some scenes will be challenging for the light meter, something in frame which can trick it, but otherwise you’ve got a very high likelihood of a reasonably well exposed, in-focus picture, in a way that’s hard to mess up. I’ve got a Pentax PZ-20, and equipped with an FA 50, it’s kind of a powerhouse of a camera. I can go beyond program mode if I need to, but even if not, the thing just does its job. It’s not going to be an heirloom of my house, but I don’t need an heirloom, I need a good picture.
So one thing I wonder if younger people are aware of... do you folks know that the two species of 100ISO Velvia were quite heavily criticised by Velvia fans when they came out for not matching up to the massive saturation of Velvia50? They did have the advantage that you can shoot pale skinned people without their skin turning into ground beef. But they aren't the Velvias that the photography world fell in love with.
Don't get me wrong, your pics look really great (although I'm surprised at the green cast which may be a feature of them being expired?) and you're not wrong to praise this film. But if you can get your hands on some, folks, shoot a roll of Velvia50 and see what the fuss was about. Just probably don't use it for portraits of people with really fair skin.
I am impressed by your run and gun with an auto camera full of Velvia. I'm planning on shooting out the few rolls of Velvia I have left and I'm definitely thinking that chess board stuff. I'm testing my Nikon F100 to see if it's still leaving tramlines on film because I really want to use my most versatile camera with Nikon lenses rather than my Pentax MX which I'm happier to use for less critical stuff - with Velvia I really want to emphasise that sharpness.
But yeah. Fuji Velvia and Provia were definitely the tastier choices back in the day. And they still are. When you learn their strengths and how to shoot to preserve highlights blowing out and all that stuff they are so great. And Provia is even a damn good film for people and portraits. Just look at some National Geographics from the '90s.
I don't cheap out on film or lenses. I buy the best I can afford at the time. Limits the disappointments over the years.
I don't like that film, I think theres a green hue to everything thats not green, except in the back yard portraits with the fence behind and being an earthy color then the persons face is more earthy color and that green hue was gone. There is that shot after that on a diagonal and the fence looks green and the persons face has a green hue. I don't know if its me or not but I'm mostly seeing a green hue in a lot of those images especially the brint out Jeep too, why I do not know. Frankly this film is not blowing up my skirt.
Honestly you may be right, it is a little expired so that may have some effect but also it is a daylight balanced film so that may skew the tinting. It's not for everyone for sure but I appreciate you checking out the video regardless!