"The reds makes it look as if everything that colour in town has been given a new lick of paint" love that description. Really enjoyed the nostalgia in this video and seeing your childhood photos juxtaposed with the ones you took recently. Very timeless.
"using Velvia 50 more spontaneously" I basically did that for a pack of rolls during two separate trips in Japan, the first time in the Nikon F3, the other with 120 film in the Mamiya 645. It was like this : in normal conditions : underexpose slightly, shoot, and pray. Not all were keepers of course, but I got absolute bangers in there, in settings that are on paper, not at all suited for Velvia 50.
I don't know much about film, what I do know is that I appreciate your photos, they all look beautiful to me. Those throwback photos are precious. Beautiful home town 😍 I'll catch up with your other videos next time. Good night Chris ⭐
Thanks for watching Peter. Absolutely, there's something distinctive about the look and it's amazing how hard it is to spot any grain. I can see why it's perfect for projecting.
These were great Chris..a real throwback for me. In the 70’s as a high schooler, I was the only one in my photo class that preferred Fuji film and Agfa film to Kodachrome..although I did like Kodachrome 25..I recently located hundreds of my old slides from that era that I’m looking to digitize soon during this “special time” we are experiencing.
Hey Lou, thanks a lot. I mostly missed that time of using those classic slide films. It's easy to forget how common it was. It's definitely a good idea to digitise the slides. It's a way of backing up precious memories. I have a scanner, but am thinking of getting a macro lens and a lightbox. We'll see :-)
Hi Chris, we stumbled across the channel researching buying a X-T30 and it’s really made our day. We love your commentary and your photos are absolutely beautiful. Really cheered us up. Keep up the incredible work. Props from Nottingham 👋
Your photographs got soul, man.. I shot a roll 15 years ago at the Seattle Japanese garden. The blues and greens were so deep and the grain was so tight.
The colours are so strong. I'm really loving the greens in particular. I like your approach of taking a point and shoot too. It's a nice reminder that slide film is just another type of film. It might be less forgiving than negatives but it will still deliver results even if the exposure isn't nailed on perfect. I have often felt (still do really) not good enough a photographer to make the most of slides. But then, I have to remind myself it used to be what everyday people shot once upon a time, and they didn't get horrendous photos out of it. So maybe, I too can shoot slide successfully enough. I'll find out when that roll of Velvia 100 currently in my camera gets developed.
That's right - it seems to be the most common way of taking pictures a while ago. It was interesting looking back through the old slides and seeing reverred names like 'Kodachrome' on them. It's true, it was just an everyday film back then. I read somewhere that Velvia 100 is supposed to be better for skin tones. 50 is accentuates reds or warm colours I think, but can look weird with portraits. I definitely need to play more with them all. I hope you post your slide shots on IG.
@@ChrisBoland Velvia 50 is super saturated, its a landscape film. Everyone who is anyone with landscape photography shoots almost exclusively velvia. Ektachrome is also good
@@ChrisBoland as long as you nail your exposure its some really magical stuff especially on a light table. A polarizer can help a lot with increasing the saturated look.
You said you set exposure compensation to plus half a stop. Do you mean to say you were overexposing this film? I had heard that underexposing slightly would be a wiser move... or have I misunderstood what you were saying? Love colours in these shots btw.👍
Hi. If I'm honest I was being quite unscientific and imprecise about the exposure for these and maybe I got lucky. I do think I was generally aiming to over-exposure by half, but I don't even know how the camera weights the exposure, so I really was guessing a bit. Also, I have only shot slide film two or three times, so haven't experimented with other ways - perhaps under exposing would be better. Overall I was trying to be a little bit carefree and show that you don't have to overthink things - but like I said - I might have got lucky this time! Thanks for watching Miles.
The Klasse is a high end point-n-shoot camera. There is no reason to assume that its meter cannot hit exposure spot on. In fact, it probably meters more accurately than the average 24-year old YT guy hauling around his RB67 and using a $500 Sekonic meter to take incident light readings. Nearly every shot here is about a half stop underexposed. Since slide film in general, and Velvia 50 in particular, washes out highlights with overexposure, that is probably the better result. The more interesting question IMO is why someone shooting a P-n-S camera would be using slide film. It's not like he is breaking out the old slide projector on Sunday night. Direct printing of positives to prints died with Cibachrome about 30 years ago, Digitally scanning Velvia is a pain in the ass compared to the lower contrast color negative materials.
Velvia was the best . Could be developed in an hour in an agfa daylight developer , no horrible kodak colour shifts (sure kodak users were colour blind) now i know they were ,They use sony's ! And cant use flash . Dont believe its hard to use . Its just film
"The reds makes it look as if everything that colour in town has been given a new lick of paint" love that description. Really enjoyed the nostalgia in this video and seeing your childhood photos juxtaposed with the ones you took recently. Very timeless.
🙂 Thank you. It's funny having so many old slides of my hometown. I guess you're more used to positives with 8mm?
Just beautiful.
Thank you! 🙂
"using Velvia 50 more spontaneously" I basically did that for a pack of rolls during two separate trips in Japan, the first time in the Nikon F3, the other with 120 film in the Mamiya 645. It was like this : in normal conditions : underexpose slightly, shoot, and pray. Not all were keepers of course, but I got absolute bangers in there, in settings that are on paper, not at all suited for Velvia 50.
Thanks for the tips! You're right - there's always. bit of uncertainty, but you are bound to get some great images.
such a beautiful experience
Thank you very much!
I don't know much about film, what I do know is that I appreciate your photos, they all look beautiful to me. Those throwback photos are precious. Beautiful home town 😍
I'll catch up with your other videos next time. Good night Chris ⭐
Thanks again Toni. I do appreciate my little town, even when it's cold and rainy :-)
Love the pictures and the video !!
Thank you very much Badr!
Loved it👌🏻🙏🙏
Thank you very much Salim 🙏🤘😊
A surprisingly excellent little video. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you very much Jacob. 👍
Beautiful thoughts, lovely video!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful video! Thank you for making this!
Thanks so much Clara!
Great images at 3.56 and 4.20.....the images certainly “have a look “ about them - Thanks Chris :- )
Thanks for watching Peter. Absolutely, there's something distinctive about the look and it's amazing how hard it is to spot any grain. I can see why it's perfect for projecting.
Thank you Chris! Beautiful tones and moments. Slide film is a brilliant we must keep alive
Thank you Leo!
Great images and camera
Thanks Marcel. It's quite a bit different to the Fuji Natura Classica, but different enough to justify having both - I think :-)
i always love your photography and your calming narrations :) thanks for your great work!
Thank you Fujifoo 🙂
These were great Chris..a real throwback for me. In the 70’s as a high schooler, I was the only one in my photo class that preferred Fuji film and Agfa film to Kodachrome..although I did like Kodachrome 25..I recently located hundreds of my old slides from that era that I’m looking to digitize soon during this “special time” we are experiencing.
Hey Lou, thanks a lot. I mostly missed that time of using those classic slide films. It's easy to forget how common it was. It's definitely a good idea to digitise the slides. It's a way of backing up precious memories. I have a scanner, but am thinking of getting a macro lens and a lightbox. We'll see :-)
Hi Chris, we stumbled across the channel researching buying a X-T30 and it’s really made our day. We love your commentary and your photos are absolutely beautiful. Really cheered us up. Keep up the incredible work. Props from Nottingham 👋
Thanks so much Jono! I've not tried the T30, but I love the T3 and is similar to that. I'm really glad you like the films, thank you. 👍
This video cure my anxiety 🤣. I'm about to get a roll of velvia 50, but i only have a point and shoot. And those shots are lovely imo! ❤️
Thank you 🙂 Have fun!
Your photographs got soul, man.. I shot a roll 15 years ago at the Seattle Japanese garden. The blues and greens were so deep and the grain was so tight.
Thanks so much John. It's a great film for nature, kind of feels unreal but in a good way.
The colours are so strong. I'm really loving the greens in particular.
I like your approach of taking a point and shoot too. It's a nice reminder that slide film is just another type of film. It might be less forgiving than negatives but it will still deliver results even if the exposure isn't nailed on perfect.
I have often felt (still do really) not good enough a photographer to make the most of slides. But then, I have to remind myself it used to be what everyday people shot once upon a time, and they didn't get horrendous photos out of it. So maybe, I too can shoot slide successfully enough. I'll find out when that roll of Velvia 100 currently in my camera gets developed.
That's right - it seems to be the most common way of taking pictures a while ago. It was interesting looking back through the old slides and seeing reverred names like 'Kodachrome' on them. It's true, it was just an everyday film back then. I read somewhere that Velvia 100 is supposed to be better for skin tones. 50 is accentuates reds or warm colours I think, but can look weird with portraits. I definitely need to play more with them all. I hope you post your slide shots on IG.
@@ChrisBoland Velvia 50 is super saturated, its a landscape film. Everyone who is anyone with landscape photography shoots almost exclusively velvia. Ektachrome is also good
Thanks, I must try using it for proper landscape sometime. I loved how it looked.
@@ChrisBoland as long as you nail your exposure its some really magical stuff especially on a light table. A polarizer can help a lot with increasing the saturated look.
Thank you, Chris. Going back to transparency film. Did the digital, It's just not for me. Old film shooter.
Thanks for watching Anthony. I understand completely :-)
You said you set exposure compensation to plus half a stop. Do you mean to say you were overexposing this film? I had heard that underexposing slightly would be a wiser move... or have I misunderstood what you were saying? Love colours in these shots btw.👍
Hi. If I'm honest I was being quite unscientific and imprecise about the exposure for these and maybe I got lucky. I do think I was generally aiming to over-exposure by half, but I don't even know how the camera weights the exposure, so I really was guessing a bit. Also, I have only shot slide film two or three times, so haven't experimented with other ways - perhaps under exposing would be better. Overall I was trying to be a little bit carefree and show that you don't have to overthink things - but like I said - I might have got lucky this time! Thanks for watching Miles.
Nice video, thank you for the experiment :)
You're welcome
Great work! What camera and lens did you used?
Thank you. It was the Fujifilm Klasse W - there's a picture of it at 1:08.
@@ChrisBoland Thanks.
The Klasse is a high end point-n-shoot camera. There is no reason to assume that its meter cannot hit exposure spot on. In fact, it probably meters more accurately than the average 24-year old YT guy hauling around his RB67 and using a $500 Sekonic meter to take incident light readings. Nearly every shot here is about a half stop underexposed. Since slide film in general, and Velvia 50 in particular, washes out highlights with overexposure, that is probably the better result. The more interesting question IMO is why someone shooting a P-n-S camera would be using slide film. It's not like he is breaking out the old slide projector on Sunday night. Direct printing of positives to prints died with Cibachrome about 30 years ago, Digitally scanning Velvia is a pain in the ass compared to the lower contrast color negative materials.
Lovely questions - thanks for your perspective Randall.
Velvia was the best . Could be developed in an hour in an agfa daylight developer , no horrible kodak colour shifts (sure kodak users were colour blind) now i know they were ,They use sony's ! And cant use flash . Dont believe its hard to use . Its just film