What Film Should You Buy??
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Spurred on by a recent discussion with a good pal, here’s a short list of some film I would recommend buying in 2024. A lot of this is opinion based so feel free to share your own in the comments below! Thank you for watching!
hi, lady here, the demographics might be accurate but that doesn't mean we aren't here!
The small joy of going to a random camera shop in a new town and picking out a random roll off their shelf
The best argument to edit your film photos is that even if you're doing darkroom color printing, you're inverting the negative with some assumptions and interpretation baked in that might differ from your artistic vision. Using a Frontier or Noritsu scanner will yield different results, as will home scanning. Which of these options is more correct? It's all an interpretation of a negative. The absolutists should call viewing negatives directly the only 'real photography'.
People who say you shouldn't 'edit' your film photos have clearly never worked in a darkroom. With an enlarger. With different contrast papers. Or color filtration. What nonsense.
Where do they think the term Photoshop comes from?
And I used to do quite a bit of dodging and burning of my B&W prints on the enlarger
Crazy on You is by Heart from 1975, about the time the 35mm camera world was changing from heavy anodised brass bodies to "engineering plastics", from fully manual mechanical engineering to electronics and a reliance on more battery power, a backwards step in my view!
Love the video. Great info.
It would be cool if you added the film stock photo onto the video, a lot of us are visual. Maybe even some examples of the photos you've took with the film.
Another tip would be to add all the film list you mentioned on a comment or a description of the video. I know it's annoying, but viewers like me appreciate it.
Anyway, I just found your channel and I insta subscribed. You got a good rythm about how you talk and lay the info. Not boring, I didn't skip the video once! Hope I wasn't rude on the feedback.
Peace!
This was actually great feedback! I’ll include a list and I think I’m going to try and write up a little article on my website so I’ll include images there as well and link it in the description but thank you a bunch for the advice and for subscribing!
Ilford FP4 Plus is my daily film. Same quality as HP5 but more contrast (and finer grain).
Thanks for the video! Even though I disagree with a lot of things you said. To be a professional photographer you don't have to buy a $20 roll of film. There are thousands of photographers that are making a living shooting Kentmere, Fomapan , Kodak Gold and more. All of these films have different characteristics and what's to say that the $20 roll of film is better than the eight dollar roll of film. It's all subjective.
Ektar is amazing.
Shot my first roll of pro image this spring and I was super happy with the results! Can’t wait to see your roll review.
We have good News. Glazers camera in Seattle is opening up a new film lab. I will be there opening day to check it out.
I still think gold 200 is one of my favorite films but it definitely is driven by nostalgia from when I was a kid as that's what I remember my grandfather using.
True, Kodak Gold is probably „the style of the late 90s“. Granted, a lot of the look also came from the printing on specific papers which gets a bit lost nowadays.
Ektar is the most slide film-esque negative film IMO. I got much more out of it than I did than Ektachrome, but that could be a skill issue on my end.
My go-to bw film stock is Fomapan 100. Cheap and a beautiful allrounder.
For special occasions (and with enough light) Ilford PanF50 gives me the lowest amount of grain along with perfect contrast.
I also like to promote Kentmere 400 pushed 3 stops to 3200 and developed in Xtol or XT3 (1:1). An amazing low light black and white option.
For colour I think Kodak Gold is my jam. It covers almost everything and doesn't break the bank.
future customer as well
All i shot was Velvia and Provia from the early-mid 90s right through the next decade as iwas backpacking around the world documenting my travels. Gorgeous lanscape films. Before that I'd been a Kodachrome 64 man and it was reliable but Velvia and Provia have punch. Ektachrome i never liked.
Are you gonna to straighten those screws in the front? Haha!
It was literally the first thing I did 😂
stop! it'll cause proimage price to go up!😂
Oops 😅