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One virtue of half frame cameras is at times seen as a defect: grain and other film artifacts are amplified. While these may seem only incidental effects, they give an authenticity to film images, especially where they are prominent. They tend to indicate the image hasn't been tampered with and it represents a fair depiction of a reality, at least to the casual viewer. Curiously, they can also indicate the passage of time because the older technology shows in the image. We know this but discussions about half-frame cameras seem to center around their limitations, although the cameras are capable of producing virtually unique images.
I was recently commenting to a friend, it's not half the quality, its double the film look
Try as I might to resist reverting back to film, the richness and beauty of your images is undeniable, they have soul.
Wow mark! Thank you this is such a lovely comment. I appreciate it thank you. 🙌🏻
I have both the F and FT. They are my favorite cameras and take great photos. The light meter in the FT works amazingly well. Keep shooting!
Lovely video and camera. One secret trick that the Pen F series can do is adapting a LOT of lenses from various systems (even some digital systems like EOS) due to its small flange focal distance, especially for an SLR.
Olympus even made official adapters for various systems like OM, Nikon F, Exakta, etc, sadly they're super expensive nowadays. Some 3rd party manufacturer made a Canon EOS adapter, that you can use as is with an EOS lens (note that it doesn't have electronic contacts) or stack with other adapters, essentially making it super versatile. I want to try adapting my OM Zuiko 50mm one day, see if it brings a whole another level of half frame rendering.
I have been looking for an affordable adapter for Nikon lenses to my Pen F but haven't found one. I have found a decently affordable EF adapter and I have an adapter from that to Nikon so might grab that eventually.
@@benbunch4159 what was the EF Adapter and where can I find one? Very interested in trying this.
@@zonoscopePictures Believe you can get an EOS to Olympus F adapter and then stack a Nikon F to EOS adapter on top of that.
Love my pen ft chrome which I got for my double your anniversary last year. 25-150mm lenses, X3 and set of close up adaptor rings, it is a complete system in a shoulder bag. For film I used the Adox HR-50 which is extremely fine grain and allows me to print in th darkroom up to 12x16" without a problem. All of the Olympus zuiko glass is extremely high quality and more than makes up for the 18x24 negative. This is my carry around camera and is great for scouting new locations.
Great review, many thanks. P.
Amazing video!!! As a Olympus Pen F user myself, it's so good to see a video like this from a different country!!! Arigato from JAPAN!!!
I've been shooting on a Pen FT for 10+ years. Love the thing and recently got the light meter working (corroded wire.) I recently picked up a Fuji X-E4 and it combos really well with my Pen F lenses and really feels like the digital version of this camera.
That's awesome, the metre works in mine but to be honest I don't trust it and tend to just use Sunny 16 rule.
@@LucyLumen yeah I have shot many rolls on it sunny 16 and will probably continue to do so.
I also have the Bellows for it which are pretty compact for bellows and fun to shoot macro with.
Honestly the biggest downside of the Pen F for me is the 1/500th fastest shutter speed makes it hard to get shallow focus during the day. I've tried ND filters but it tends to make exposure more difficult and its easy to lose sharpness with filters and half frame film.
Great vid! I have a (now broken) Pen F as well, and it was lovely. I even managed to shoot some slide film and the detail was insane, it really looked like a high res scan of a pro C41 film. Plus, half frame slides are so cute :)
Great tips on the scanning!
Great, informative video! I shoot half frame on Ektachrome 100 with an old PEN-D. Another big advantage of half frame is that the lenses are fast for their size so they work well with the slower, higher resolution films.
Never knew half frame existed. Great vid. Love the art deco era looking cameras too.
Great video Lucy!!!
Thank you molly! Half frame is so much fun!
I borrowed a Konica Autorex P from friend a few months ago and it was amaizing. It can switch between full frame and half frame mid roll. It was so fun
Thanks! Would love to see a video where you dig into the shooting experience with the Pen FT. Particularly with metering!
I’ve had this camera for over 5 years I love it and I use it all the time especially now lol I’m a lil jealous cuz I wanted the black one I jus couldn’t afford It at the time lol I love your videos I’m a new subscriber and I’m so glad I found yur Chanel ❤❤😊
combing through your channel for the 1st time. great content. Also just so happen to be purchasing an Olympus Trip 35 in the next week or so. Thanks for this!
Trip is a great little camera! Hope you are enjoying the videos and thank you for taking the time to comment. Happy shooting 📸🙋🏻♀️
I still have my Pen FT. It’s such a beautiful camera
Have a Pen FT and Pen EES!
Love my Pen F also and now my 11 year old wants to start shooting film too so I got her an Ektar half frame which we will try this weekend.
Great overview. I have about 12 half frame cameras and love them all. From the tiny Olympus Pen D3, to the motorized Ansco/Ricoh Memo, to the Konica Eye 2, to the Konica Auto-Reflex and even the Mercury II rotary shutter camera. The most interesting is the Konica Auto-Reflex, since it will shoot both half frame and full frame on the same roll, with the flip of a switch (but a nightmare for the lab when scanning). I also have a Konica IIIM with the incredibly rare half frame mask. Also 2 Pen F's, and a Pen FV (which is my favorite of all). I sold my black FT, because I didn't need the primitive meter, and the meter made the viewfinder too dim. Enjoy yours!
Awesome as usual Lucy! Really learned a lot! Will inspire me to dust off my Olympus Original Pen! 😊 📸
WOW the wavy building diptych at 10:42 is awesome! and I would love to see it as a print hint hint! cool video Lucy, I have a Pent F and love it
Thanks Brian! That building is so cool and I love to photograph it. I have just added that diptych and one other to the print shop - lucylumen.darkroom.com/products/bangers/853221 great suggestion thank you!
Great video! I have a Pen F with the kit lens but also a couple adapters for Canon and Nikon lenses. While they are nice, the larger glass does look ungainly but the results are very good. I found that film selection is more critical with half frame. The smaller camera is harder to hold still and in the case of the Pen F, the shutter/mirror does contribute to some shake. I also found it hard to have the same shooting experience as full frame because of the larger number of images per roll. As a result, I started to think of the camera as a companion every time I go out whether I am shooting film or not. Eventually, I get them all shot. Strangely, even though I have many other film cameras, far more of these half frame images end up as prints on my wall than the full frame ones.
If anyone else ends up with an Olympus Pen F that needs some TLC, I recently spent several hours calling every camera repair shop I could find in the US. Its rare that anyone still in business offers service on the Pen F. :(
But I did find four solid leads:
Forster's Camera Service, Salt Lake City Utah
Eurotech Camera, Austin Texas
Northwest Camera, Lindstrom Minnesota
Excellent Photo Repair, Lincolnwood Illinois
I think if I include URLs here then RUclips will assume I'm spamming. But dropping any of those lines into your favorite search engine should get you there.
Interesting video, fully agree half frame is the way to go, if you want to get the max value out of your film and processing costs.
I was lucky enough to pick up a mint 1960s Olympus Pen EE half frame camera for £15.
I'm always looking out for more half frame models, there were some really quirky Japanese market models.
Thankfully there are some modern alternatives such as the Kodak Ektar H35 to keep the genre alive.👍
Lower ISO is going to be my go-to half-frame move - I mostly shoot outdoors in daylight so this is doable. My PEN FT will be my default colour shooter for a while (until the film savings pay off the cost of the camera). I'm by default a landscape orientation shooter but even before shooting with it I started looking at the main street in town and seeing compositions in portrait orientation so I'm really looking forward to it as an opportunity to see the same places and subjects a little differently.
Diptychs really open up a lot of creative possibilities
Absolutely they do!
Great vid Lucy! Been waiting for this one. Currently have a roll of Superia 800 in my Pen F. It's 24 exposures and I'm not even halfway done. Can't imagine using a 36 roll 😭
This video totally reminded me that I have a Samurai. Gonna dig that out. :)
I prefer using a digital camera but with adapted vintage glass
Gives the most „classic“ look with modern features, mainly a good focus peaking with fast manual focus lenses is a gamechanger
I’ve just finished shooting my first roll on my Yashica Samurai, (a roll of Vision3 500T) trying to get my Konica Eye 2 up and running so I can get some more manual control over my exposures. Down the line considering a Pen F too.
The Samurai is a lot of fun though, always gets lots of questions.
Also on the topic of half-frame not costing extra, the film labs that are my regular go-tos in Melbourne (Ikigai is too far out of the way for me, otherwise I’d just be going there) both seem to charge at least slightly extra for film scanning in half-frame, and one charges QUITE a significant amount extra for half-frame prints. Getting my single roll of Vision3 developed at my usual lab would end up costing me upwards of $50 with prints + scans, and would still be upwards of $40 without the cost of the RemJet removal.
I lucked out and found a Konica Auto-Reflex for about 120€ last December and it's a brilliant half-frame SLR.
The reality is that with 1/2 frame negatives, the resolution is just about good enough for online purposes but for anything else the negative is just too small to retain detail at high scans
I love my Pen FT!!! It is definitely an amazing camera!!! I would love to get some other lenses, but can never find them in my budget!!!
It's crazy how small it is AND it's an SLR...quite a feat
If you have any OM Zuiko lenses consider getting an adapter, you may have to get an original Olympus one they are a lot more expensive than most adapters but no one else seems to make one, being relatively small the lenses don't look out of place
I kind of still believe the perfect compact format for the digital age was the Pentax Q, beautiful child of the Pentax Auto 110 film camera from 1968 to 1975. Compacter than half frame, beautiful results in both cases with incredible lenses.
This camera has been on my wishlist forever. Half frame is so affordable but it's sometimes hard to get through 72 frames!
that's one of my bigger gripes about shooting half frame, getting through 72 frames unless you're doing it for a job and burning film in a studio, or whatever, is grueling. I slapped a roll of 50D in my half frame camera and I'm not gonna lie, it's a chug.... chuggity chug.... I would recommend in future maybe getting a roll of something like Kodak Gold in 100 speed in a 24roll can. It's hard to come by but with film, 48 seems to be a far more reasonable amount of shots than 72.
@@roumelio if you're using it for traveling etc you'll get through 72 pretty quick. I think I shot three rolls on my last two week trip.
Love my Pen FV
The kit 38mm f1.8 Oly Pen lens is something absolutely magical for me, I can't really say why. The focus throw is so small, and the close focus makes it soo versatile. I picked up a Pen FV recently, as a light weight holiday option, and have just fallen in love with it. I'm shooting FP4+ and recently tried HP5 (dev'd in 510 Pyro for finer grain), and the quality is pretty great.
All the vintage lenses made for it are awesome. Not as good wide open but stopped down a bit they all are sharp
As you know, I have a Canon Demi EE17 half frame and I love it. Had it for a few years, now. Even back then, it cost nearly $500 to purchase, so if you want one, I'd suggest you get in quick whilst the prices may still be reasonable. I haven't checked the prices for awhile, but I would imagine they've gone up somewhat. The Pens and Demis will be in demand right now, with half frame photography becoming more popular, so it's best to get them while you can.
Especially if you own the OM-adapter and mount an OM-Zuiko on the Pen F. So I did with the 1.4/50mm and got a 70mm lens (crop 1.4x) - nice for portraits.
If you want a full- and halfframe SLR all in one then take a look at the original Konica Auto-Reflex / Autorex. These are the only cameras I know, that can change between the formats during one roll (even if this will drive the labs crazy) and the additional benefit is that beautiful Konica Hexanon glass as you have the whole range of AR mount lenses available.
I've never really shot much in the way of 1/2 frame, but my Diana Mini has that feature if I ever decide to go that route
That’s interesting about Olympus/Zuiko aligning to this format and the penny drops as to why they went for MFT when digital came along.
My personal favourite half frameis the original all mechanical Pen S with the 30mm zuiko f2.8 - it halps to own a light-meter but you can get by with the sunny sixteen rule
I can also recommend a Chaika/Chajka (Chaika II l39 mount in my case), and a relatively cheap Agat 18k. Both cameras sport 28mm f2.8 lenses.
I would also recommend taking a look at some soviet half frames
This (pen ft) was my photography teachers favorite camera
Definitely need a half frame camera
Yes definitely if you can you should! Thanks for watching Alex! X
@@LucyLumen might get the Pen F it looks so attractive
I dig your Pen F. Give your partner an extra hug ❤️📷❤️
Half-frame is essentially the same size and aspect-ratio as APS-C, so is absolutely fine, exactly as shown by Lucy Lumen in this video. For a perfect lens, the optical resolution using visible light where the wavelength λ = 0.55 µm, at the sensor or film focal plane, expressed in µm, is, very approximately 4f/3, where f is the focal ratio or f-stop used for the exposure.
My first SLR was a Canon FTB
Canon demi is my favourite looking camera, but it's also worth keeping in that it doesn't have a rangefinder (at least my model). You have to just guess the distance and set your focus.
and Lucy, one other reason for asking the lab, is that some fujifilm, or other makes of machine can only process certain size film, or only C41 process (slide{transperancy}film is E6 chemistry, as different layers are present in the emulsion mix, so have to be sequentially processed, fixed, to completion, and some film, like LF sheet stock has an anti-halation layer, to stop light re-strike inside the holders, this also has to be removed (affects the PH of the rest of the processing chemistry)), and even B&W has to be 'hand' processed in tanks, as the machine can't take it; so is best to ask, before you load the stock, as some labs in local areas can't process slides, or 120, depending on demand, cost of machine and chemistry/ consumables, so be wary.
This is my favorite camera to walk around with. It’s also cheap.
Not for long
Don't forget the Soviet company Belomo, which produced an excellent camera
Chaika (1965-1967)
Chaika-2 (1967-1972)
Chaika-2M (1972-1974)
Chaika-3 (1971-1973) with selenium lightmeter and without "B" speed
I love the idea of the Pen F but I’ve not used one. Mine are all the smaller earlier models, the Pen and Pen S - I have several of them :-)
Great video! Half frame = APS-C?
I believe the lenses for the Pen F were specially designed for half-frame, which participates to the quality of the final image. In particular, I was really surprised by the sharpness of the pictures the first time I scanned negatives taken with my Pen F. Besides, the camera is a lot of fun to shoot :-)
Unfortunately there's no Ichigai in Germany, or did I miss something?
Allow me to recommend to your attention the Fujica Drive Half-Frame Camera. Wind it up and Go!
No half frame cameras in my collection - I have in fact managed to stop adding film cameras to my collection completely (he said with a glance at his growing digicam collection) - it has been almost 4 months since I added a Nikon F2. I get the appeal of the half frame economy, but around here, I only see half frame cameras, I don't want - no Olympus Pen FT cameras or anything like that. Maybe some day, but I doubt it. 🤞😉
After this video prices for this camera skyrocketed on eBay!
I wonder does it means there is crop factor, I mean should I use some multiplier on pen f lens focal length number to get FF equivalence?
Yeah I think it’s more or less the same as digital cameras aps vs full frame
@@LucyLumen there is a crop factor for half frame which is about 1.4, or roughly the same crop as a digital APS sensor such as your Fuji. The more analogous crop factor is it being about the same size as motion picture 35mm stock, so 35mm stock with the magnetic/optical sound strip printed on the film. If you think about it like that you start to realise half frame isn't very small at all.
Now 8mm, I'll tell you about that once I get my results back from Richard at Nanolab. That's a different story and is a good way to eat $200 for all of about 5minutes worth of video... Oh the adventures I get myself into....
Not me adding another camera to my list of cameras I need before I die...
Lol 😂 I know the feeling!
This video is dangerous combined with the pen-fts on my eBay watchlist 🤩🤤🤑
Shoot with what makes you happy. I'm having fun putting cult lenses on cosina bodies. The next one i'm playing with is called a silver rocketship.
Owned and sold two of these, Absolutely loved the hardware but it takes me like half a year to finish a half frame roll 😂😂
I have DSLR scanned half frame frames and find it a challenge with the workflow, getting less resolution per half frame and on occasions the the half frames are exposed so differently that one frame suffers a bit in the final edit.
Other than that I can see half frame as a fun experience!
What type of macro lens you have? I don’t have issues with it so far.
@@zoneVgroup it's not a true macro lens, it's a 50mm with extension rings.
@@SinaFarhat gotcha
U didn’t mention how dim the ft viewfinder is. Does it bother you?
Tbh it bothers me 🫠
at 5:58, what is "spill the tea", I only know of the expression, "to spill the beans", aka to let out the secret of things. (PS, I have Autism, so I am just asking, not trying to be offensive).
one tip, also if you are after a 1/2 frame camera why not try a rollei 2000f/3000 I think they have a 1/2 frame capacity?, but am not sure, one thing I am sure, there was an 8-on option for the Hasselblad H system (HM 16-32) a film back which took 120, but I think there was a 1/2 frame stock it could take.
I would be a little concerned that when asking for diptych scans the lab would not know for sure which exposures to pair up (i.e.: 1A + 1B, or 1B + 2A) -- I guess if you always shoot diptychs starting with the first shot, and tell the lab to start with the first two exposures. I prefer to get each image scanned separately and assemble them myself -- as you said, you have more control over post processing *per* image that way. But I don't have an amazing half-frame camera like you!!!! 😢😢😢😢😢 I have the Kodak H35 and the One Shot half-frame (same as the AgfaPhoto half-frame). OK for plastic-lensed point & shoots -- but nothing like the quality that you get! Darn!!! 🙂
Most labs should scan the first two and go from there unless it's super obvious the first is a burn-in and not related to the rest! Would suck to get a whole roll out of whack though!
Aww no! ONCE I'm away for two weeks and of course I miss your exhibition just 10 mins from my door? Big sigh. :(
I think I have that same Yamaha keyboard your camera is on. 🙂
No way!? That’s cool! It’s the same one beach house used too!
@@LucyLumen Yeah it's got great sounds.
6:52 double the amount of exposures on the roll didn't give it away?
It's such an unbelievable story 😂 "Excuse me this is mr. photolab. There's a problem with your negatives: they are too good, we need to know more about your awesome camera"
Literally not credible
Half-frame is Micro 4/3 (M43). Imagine combining M43 lenses and mount with half-frame film! You get 72 captures per roll and a world of lens options, autofocus or manual focus, prime or zoom, you have options.
No, half-frame is the same size (23.7 x 15.6 mm) and aspect-ratio (3:2) as APS-C which is larger than Micro 4/3 (17.3 x 13 mm).
@@cdl0 half frame is 24 x 18 ;-)
@@Blackmind0 Yes, this is true. APS-C digital camera sensors are slightly smaller, and vary slightly depending on the model. Half-frame is also the same size as the frames on 35 mm movie cameras; the film is transported vertically instead of horizontally. Thus, as Lucy Lumen correctly observes, half-frame fim is actually quite good, especially for slower, fine-grained stock. I also posted a top-level comment about how to calculate the optical resolution, in case you are interested in this.
I have the Digital Pen F does that count :)
Definitely counts Terry!
25 years ago you could buy some of the best half frame cameras for five bucks a pound. Today, most of the ones from the mid-60s on now are selling used for far more than they cost new (not adjusted for inflation). Olympus really started it in the early 1960s, because it was not making it in competition with the big producers, and it needed a new gig to stay in the game, Thus, the Olympus Pen series of half frame cameras -decent to good lenses, crudely designed under the skin. Today, most of them are broken, but they sold huge numbers, so still not hard to find. Canon made a couple of over engineered models - solid, durable, fantastic lenses. MInolta made a few, better quality than Oly, good (not great) lenses. Konica made a couple of clever models (her Reporter is just cool and a terrific design, but very not durable); Konica also adapted one or two of its full sized 35mm SLRs to be full/half frame convertible. Pentax and Nikon chose not to play. Biggest problem generically: The powered meters in all are from the era of mercury batteries, and some of the best cameras are auto exposure only - a problem. Most of the Oly models use selenium cells - a different problem. Half frame was a lot more interesting when you could buy them for $25 each instead of $150 - $400. Her Pen FT half frame SLR looks great at first glance, but my experience was that as a camera system with interchangeable lenses, it is a continuing disappointment, which caused me to resell my body, four lenses and some accessories in less than a year. "Why" is the worth another video.
I mean firstly, it's not much of a con, half frame is the same size as 35mm motion picture film without the magnetic/optical sound strip.... You're still going to get a good sized image. Even if, whatever, secondly lets say you get a 4000dpi scan, you'd be getting the equivalent of an 8x10 (rather than a 16x10) in a scan. The resolution is enough, the image quality is enough. There will just be a bit more grain.
Now, if you sent it off to a lab that could scan a bit higher resolution, and cover the dots, there are a few labs that have a Haselblad/Imacon scanner available that will develop a bit more resolution. Your problem is that the resolution may not be available always as it's limited by whatever the film stock is available. Don't expect miracles if you shove a roll of 800T in your camera. If you do shoot half frames, then it's worth considering cutting your ISO in half, so instead of using 100 ISO use 50 ISO film instead, or on the other end try using a 400 stock such as Portra 400 instead of Portra 800, or Vision 3 250D instead of 500T (AKA Cinestill 400, vs 800).
There are even some 25 speed black and white films out there.
The point is if you double the amount of available light, and factor in for the smaller frame size then you're still going to get some good results. It's just a matter of making the factors that would otherwise lead to worse image quality for you rather than against you.
As to Hexanon glass, its some of the best in the world, that's why I use it regularly in a lot of my shots over on my Instagram channel. Not only is Konica glass, on the average, cheaper, their later lenses from 1979 onwards were actually assembled by Tokina using glass from Leica, on the AR mount, which is why it's worth getting a Konica AR mount camera and checking out some of their glass.
But then the Sony/Zeiss A mount lenses are on another level.
We can go up to 16736x11168 🤐, sharper than any Imacon. Would be interesting to see if Hasselblad put out an Imacon with modern tech
@@peterdavison934 that would be very interesting indeed.
Your lab seems to be fantastic. Unfortunately not an option for people, not living in Australia. 🤷🏼♂️ But … I also noticed ( talking about half frame ), that it’s not so much the scan quality that sucks, but the grain. I recently used an Adox Color Mission 200 and the results were quite grainy and terrible. 🥴 So, yeah, it might work with pretty expensive low ISO pro films but that raises the question, if it’s really cost saving then. 🤔
Another aspect of half frame is … it takes forever to finish one roll. 36 frames are about the best compromise for me there.
Try using Vision 3 50D (AKA Cinestill 100D). I worked with Micro Four Thirds in digital for a long time, it taught me a lot as Micro Four Thirds is give or take the same frame size as APS film. When you use a lower ISO film, and faster lenses, aka F/1.8 and faster if you can get away with it, you give yourself more opportunities to let more light in on the film frame. Higher ISO films are going to be challenge.
But also living in Australia, what the hell is 200 speed film? We don't really need it as there is always so much available light. I can understand if you're basically living underneath the shadow of a rock, in the UK you might want to use 200 speed film more often as 50 speed film is more limiting (aka middle of the day only) but I digress at that point. You would also have to understand that most of these half frame cameras came out originally in the 1960s, and were made when Kodachrome 25 and Kodachrome 64 were still available.
God how I wish we still had a colour 25speed film available.... Praise the Kodak lords that they didn't delete Vision 3 50D at least.
@@roumelio I agree with you and I am actually a huge fan of low speed films myself. Still … if I look at the prices of those half frame cameras if wanting a still working model with a fast lens … I still doubt the immense cost savings of using half frame … and that’s really the only argument for using that format for me. Otherwise Full Format simply brings the double quality and I also prefer 36 shots per roll … but that is a matter of the personal shooting style. I take the most photos with my cellphone, just using film for shots, which I consider „worthy“ for using film. And then, I want some quality. I even see 35 mm just as a compromise. Medium format looks so much better to be honest … if film wouldn’t be that expensive.
@@BerndtOtto I ended up buying a Konica Autoreflex (the original one) with a 52mm F/1.8 lens. So far it’s cost me about $500 for this little experiment.
There are a lot of cheap options, even the Kodak Ektar half frame camera as Lucy mentioned can take good shots in its limitations…
But my Konica Autoreflex is an example of a professional level 1/1000 shutter speed camera anyone can still afford at around $300-$500. It’s more the whether you want to kind of argument.
It seems like a lot of effort, but if we talked about everything being an effort nobody would do anything.
I hear exactly what you’re saying I’m just presenting an alternate argument.
@@roumelio The Kodak Ektar H35 plastic camera was the one, I used. Most shots surprisingly ( or actually not surprisingly ) overexposed, even at ISO 200. I am sure, it will work even better with ISO 100. At a shutter speed of 1/100sec, the sunny 16 rule even recommends F16@ISO100 and the camera only does F9.5, I believe. I mostly use film on sunny days, simply because I think, the colors turn out best then. ☀️
About your budget … $500 is already something, but here, the personal limits might differ from person to person. I own more than 100 film cameras ( not half frame though ) and none of them is in that price range. Just recently bought a wonderful original Canonet from 1961 and a few 90s SLRs for about $20-$30 each. That is more MY world … hahaha …
@@BerndtOtto don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a person who enjoys using old Canonets. I like looking at them and enjoy the historical side of things. I just don’t use them much as the limitations hurt my head especially the slow/no shutter speed and also the lack of aperture control.
Although, like you said the Ektar is a good camera, I thought it was F/8 but it may be F/9.5 and he’s the Sunny 16 rule comes into effect which would be indicative that an ISO100 film would give you a better chance at good results.
Maybe in North America or Europe that might be more of a summer type of option. I’m in Australia like Lucy so we have the luxury of using 100 or even 50 speed films.
I can’t imagine being in the middle of Europe and shooting Ektar 100 would always be the best option.
If you want some options for cheap 90s SLRs I highly recommend Minolta especially something like the Maxxum/Dynax/Alpha 5 (all the same camera) Minolta A mount glass is ridiculously cheap especially their mid range lenses (not so much their pro lenses).
A half frame of 100asa film has the same amount of 'grain' as a full-frame of 200asa film.
good point
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half frame for client work????? wtf
Not love the half frane even in digital era, sacrifying too much inage
You should one roll and then reload the roll and shoot again. That’s a whole lotta frames.
No way you're 30?! You don't look a day over 20
Recently purchased one pen ft from ebay and one month after supposedly going thru the roll i found out the camera was defective and the film does not engange with the system and it doesnt move at all. Biggest disappointment in photography
Ah I’m sorry to hear that. A way to help prevent this is to keep a dud roll of film that you use to test cameras. You can load it and then open the back and check everything is working then don’t rewind it all the way back in so you can test other cameras. You can also see if the film is advancing because the winder will turn the same time you use the advance lever. If you’re advancing the lever and the rewind lever isn’t turning the film isn’t advancing.