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Hi Khalid, glad you found it useful. Enjoy the Chamonix!

Hi, I used a dark changing bag; put the camera inside, opened the back and wound the film back into the canister and then took it out of the dark bag.

That must’ve been frustrating for you to deal with a faulty unit to begin with. Are you liking the image quality? Haven’t had wildly wrong exposures with in built metering yet. And I don’t think it’s a tiny spot, from what I understand it’s 60% of the optical field of view by a single photocell so meters the centre part of fov and disregards everything else. Polaroid does say on their website that its centre weighted but I don’t understand how it could be if it only averages 60% of the optical fov. Maybe it is centre weighted within that 60% fov metering area. But yeah, I agree metering lets this camera down.

Cool good to know

Would love to try the Z at some point

Thank you!

I could’ve been clearer in my explanation as I thought the meter was infact pointing my video camera, in this case, as a demonstration. But yes, point the meter to your camera while measuring the light on your subject. Thanks for the comment 👊🏽

Thanks Marty!

You’re welcome Victor! And thank you for watching :) are you planning on getting this camera?

Yes! Already did, should arrive later this month. Can’t wait to try it myself!

@@vinovidiviccie ah awesome! Have fun :)

Thanks Sathya! You too!

Hi! The internal meter works well in some situations and does not work well in others. If you want to fully rely on the camera’s internal meter, I would not recommend it. But if you are happy to use an external meter then I recommend it for the image quality. Thanks for watching 🙂👊🏽

@@SathyaPeacock Great! Thanks for your advice 👍

Thanks for watching, I think it was an overlay from somewhere, sorry can’t remember exactly where from. probably googled ‘super 8 overlay effect’ :)

Hi Andrew! Yeah I wouldn’t have done it either and iPhone cameras are super powerful anyway

@@SathyaPeacock I have been considering getting a used Sigma DP1 Quattro as that has a built in xpan like aspect ratio (intended for use as a directors viewfinder for framing / scouting I think). Sure it is digital and isn’t using the whole sensor but being able to compose at the right ratio is the key for me. Otherwise I’d write some notes and crop afterwards. In the meantime I’ve been using a Lomo Belair with a 35mm back - but the lenses are plastic fantastic so the results have that lomo vibe.

@@AndrewJacksonSE I didn’t know that! That’s cool. And never heard of the Belair before; just googled, looks sick 👌🏽

And Lomography has gotta be my fav company for how accessible & fun they make photography.

Hi! Thank you :) it was the Blazar Nero 1.5X adapter

@@SathyaPeacock thanks!

Ah thank you! That means a lot 👊🏽

Hi, I assume you’re referring to the ‘Photographs’ section; all shot with the sigma 16mm f1.4 contemporary series.

Thank you Nuno! hope you’re well :)

Thankyou Teja! Glad you liked it 👊🏽

Thank you!

Glad you think so man 👊🏽

Thank you sir 👊🏽

Thank you dude! Glad you enjoyed it

Hi Clarhett, Great to hear from you again! How are you and how is your large format journey been with the Horseman? Glad you found this one interesting :)

'I think that's enough' lol

Ah you gotta try it! It’s great fun :) thanks for watching

Thank you so much for watching! Glad it was useful :)

Thank you!

Thankyou! Glad it was useful :)

Hi Matt, I don’t remember vignetting being a problem (nothing that can’t be fixed in post anyway). I loved that lens for its image quality and close focussing distance, but had to sell it as I wasn’t shooting enough with the F4 to justify keeping it. This is a regret of mine. I am coming around to shooting more 35mm so I might pick it up again. I definitely recommend if it’s in your budget. Thanks for watching!

I’m glad it was useful! Thank you for watching :)

Hi, I have not shot with the SLR 680 personally so unfortunately I can’t give you advice. I just quickly searched for prices on eBay for the 680 and it’s as expensive as or more so than the I2. For that reason alone I’d choose I2 as it’s a newer camera with warranty and fully manual features. Metering is not excellent if the lighting is uneven so prepare to manually meter for those instances with the I2. All the best :)

@@SathyaPeacock thank you so much! love your videos btw

@@thelasttime7522 thank you!

Hey! Thank you for watching. Evenly lit situations produce good results for me whether indoors or outdoors (for instance the candy cart shot was outside and was metered in camera). But high contrast / backlit / off centred subject scenes are problematic. So I know to manually meter for those. If you are interested in manually metering for complex scenes then I2 is good. Having that control is sweet.

Thank you for watching! Glad it was useful :)

I’m glad to hear that :) Thank you so much for letting me know it was useful! Enjoy shooting with it :)

You’re welcome, glad it was useful 🙂

Oh wow that’s awesome! Slides certainly are special :) Thanks for watching.

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it :) Let me know if you end up buying one!

Thanks dude :) glad you like the colours!

Thank man! Hope you’re well 👊🏽

Thank you Petros!

Thank you sir 👊🏽

Thanks for watching and leaving these comments Erhan! That’s a nice collection of cameras. I have been intrigued by the press cameras for a while now, hope you enjoy using the kit :)

Nikon F4 is a special camera yes :) even when I went through an overhaul of selling a bunch of cameras I couldn’t bring myself to sell the F4. I took it out recently and sure enough I was glad to have kept it, it’s a joy to use! Thank you again for watching :)

Hi Joseph, thank you for watching!

Hi Morgan, thank you for watching :) glad you found it useful.

Hi, that’s great to hear! I have come to appreciate it even more now too after 3 years of use. It’s a well rounded tool 👌🏽

I’m 73 and have been seriously shooting since 1973. My first SLR camera was a Petri FT-II, purchased from a relative’s military catalogue, for a little over $100.00. My favorite subject matter, in fact the reason why I got what I considered to be a “serious” camera, was to take pictures at rock concerts. I purchased a Petri 135mm tele lens from one of the then 3 camera stores in lmy town. But it was a slow lens, f5.6 or something like that. I traded it for faster Vivitar lens, an f2.8, at one of the other camera stores. As my interest photography gree

Certainly an exciting development!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

thank you for watching! Great little camera, I might wait until Fujifilm's X summit later this month before buying it though as they might release X pro4 - but this is a very capable camera nonetheless :)

oh wow that is a steal, Good luck! let me know how it turns out :)

@@SathyaPeacock Gladly! It arrived and I put batteries in it and.. dead as a dodo. Brick. Damn.. ... ... ... But wait, there's more! The batteries I'd put in were rechargables, they'd *been* charged when I unplugged the charger (because they were full) but that was months ago.. cue me searching through our battery recycling bin - Aha, A Duracell.. and an Energizer! Well, they don't sell those individually, so there's at least 3 more of each in there.. more digging.. 8 batteries! Rushing back to the camera, I was filled with 'hail mary' hope. Put them in and.. LIFE! It worked! I took a deep breath, took the old batteries out, calmed my nerves, grabbed my car keys and headed to the store. Fast forward an hour and I'm back with an 8 pack of Duracell AA's. Attacked the packaging and ripped the batteries out like an hungry bear with a happy meal - Put them in and holy <insert deity of choice> - it works....! It all works! Metering, Motor drive, the LCD's have NO bleed.. it works!! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... With one small caveat - The Autofocus is semi-broken. Basically, sometimes it will 'see' or recognise that there's a CPU lens (an AF lens) attached, a lot of the time it won't. Most of the time it won't. I've tried scrubbing the bejesus out of the contacts, with contact cleaner, isopropyl, using an eraser, all the common tricks. They *look* sparkly clean but I did notice a couple of times that it wouldn't work, then I'd clean the contacts, then it'd work for a couple of hours, until I put the camera down for a bit and coming back to it.. same thing, it can't see the CPU lens. It hasn't worked reliably enough for me to be certain that's causation and not just correlation though, it has started working on its own once or twice as well. Maybe it's not the contacts, maybe there's oxidisation on a switch somewhere inside the body. I tried spraying contact cleaner into the AF select switch and wiggling it a lot, didn't seem to help, but maybe I'll give that another go. I know it's an issue with it 'seeing' the CPU lens because when I put it in S mode, (or P or Ph) it defaults to "A" mode, the expected behaviour if one of those modes is selected but with an AI or AI-S lens attached (instead of an AF-D). Have tried a bunch of "known-good" AF-D lenses, they don't work on the F4, they do work on other bodies, so it's defo not the lens. I am overall super freakin' happy though, if someone had said to me "hey bud, do you wanna buy a Nikon F4 for £45? It works great, apart from there is no AF, it's busted, so Manual focus only" I'd have said Hell yeah! At that price. I guess I could always *try* to find someone who will CLA an F4s in the UK for less than the price of a working kidney, although I fear the outlook is grim on that front. But yeah, overall i'm absolutely loving it ... ... ... Butttt there's this little nagging part of me that really *wants* it to be 'fully working' even if it's a feature I won't use much. (My other nikon film bodies are all manual focus). I've run a few rolls of film through it so far and apart from the AF, everything is lovely. The metering seems great! It weighs a ton! I love it! And that's the full story, up until now, where we're at, and where we might be going!

Thank you brother!