You're the first one I'm seeing positively reviewing a folder. Most people you hear aren't confident in the reliability of the bellows, but I've always found them really neat because of their portability. Love seeing you make more videos, keep it up!
I had a similar experience with an old 1949 "Made In Occupied Japan" Konica I rangefinder I bought on a whim off Facebook marketplace. Everything worked on it and I thought "hey that's a really fun camera, I'll buy the top of the range 1959 Konica IIIA to complement it!" Haven't touched the IIIA since I got it. I keep coming back to this weird, primitive, boxy thing with a collapsible lens that just feels incredibly "zen" to use.
Please keep making videos! I love your vibe and that you're already off doing interesting different topics. Plus I think your example photos are better than you're chalking them up to be.
i have a lot cameras from the 1920th and 1930th. Voigtländer, Agfa, Zeiss Ikon Box and folding cameras and other for plate fotography. It is a lot of fun to take pictures with them and develop the film or plate at home. i use mostly Fomapan 100. it´s a cheap film with a light touch of yesterday
That pile of out-of-focus burning trash pics you showed at around 3 mins demonstrated that it takes really nice out-of-focus pics. Hence the 'dream-like' quality of some images. Maybe you should focus on deliberately taking out-of-focus pics. Maybe you already have; the algorithm has sent this to me a year after you posted this vid.
My oldest camera is a Voigtlander Avus plate camera with a roll film back. According to the receipt that was with it, it was purchased in Norwich in 1935. I also have a later Voigtlander Bessa, with which I use a handy rangefinder that also works as a viewfinder.
i love 80+ year old cameras, there's just something about battling them that feels so satisfying, like after you've delicately cleaned a century of gunk off the lens, taken apart and put back together the shutter, filled in all the pinhole light leaks and cleaned off all the corrosion it feels like a child you've raised, and like a child of your own, any shithouse art it makes in the form of film is instantly fridge worthy no-matter if you can't tell what the fuck you're looking at.
Folding cameras are brilliant. I've a handful of 1930s Zeiss Ikons. Look for the ones with TESSAR lenses. Be careful, you'll see some for sale with chipped black enamel and dried out skins that people want the earth for. Alternatively there are as new gems out there. I bought a 1931 520/15 in as new condition for just £10. It even has the original cable release. The snag? It takes 116 film . . . not made since the 1980s but . . . . snipped the ends off of some plastic Rawlplugs to pad out the 120 spool size, made a cardboard mask to produce smaller negs and it produced amazing shots. My favourite is the 1937 Super Ikonta 531/2 - these were requisitioned by the War Department in WW2 and issued to British Army combat photographers and they come with a built in rangefinder. I got mine in a charity shop for £20. They were asking £10 for it but, well it was a charity shop so . . . .
Your Voightlander is positively sophisticated compared to my Kodak Model 2 Folding Cartridge Hawk Eye Model C. Tested at a blistering 1/60th of a second, you have a choice of that or leave the shutter open until you feel like closing it again. Range plate has a choice of 25 feet or 100 feet. How does it shoot? About like you'd expect. Challenging and fun!
If you think the brilliant viewfinder up front of the camera is too small, there exist finders of the camera period that clip on it to enlarge the image. When using your phone to measure the light, hold it horizontal and the front somewhat down, to avoid overexposure by the sky. The old lenses have no coating, these are not made for color pictures, even so the result was quite nice with a golden warmth to the images. Well done!
I have the Voigtländer Brillant and the Soviet copy Lubitel 2 (a model from 1977) and I like the Lubitel more because of the brighter lens and the 'better' features which including the almost useless focus coupling to the upper lens. Give it a try.
Wow! I found something that looks like that camera in my old man’s shed once when I was a kid, pity I did to it what a kid does anyway fortunately still have one left with bellows somewhere that I did not bust up but not so old looking and still with leather case and strap, maybe it hasn’t gone mouldy, have to find and whip out at a tourist spot right next to an iPhone user.
My dad has a Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic from 1916 that he inherited from his dad. It's working fine mechanically but the bellows are full of leaks. Been considering making my own for years
I love this video. I did a video of my experience with the Voigtlander Bessa 1 from1929, with film that expired in 1994... but with nowhere near the wittiness of your video. I recently did another spectacularly mediocre shoot with the camera and proper film recently and might post another video... again... not with nearly the amount of wit found here. Love your dreamy shot!!
The two wire squares viewfinder was meant for "sport" or quick photography, hence the not so accurate composition. The viewfinder at the front was for actually composing.
Oh hey. Its that guy, ans that guy. Voigtlander are wonderful cameras. Folding 120 cameras are great IMO. People are obsessed with pixel peeping these days; just take pictures. Thag said, if you get a folder from the 50s the lenses are really quite sharp
Thank you to the yt algorithm for bringing me here. Now to wait for your next uoload as ive watched all your videos 😂 Great work. Love shooting old film cameras from 35 to 4x5.
I love that i am here pre-1k subs. Really nice production level and interesting video ideas for now. Only problem is that there is not enough content but time will change that 😜
I enjoyed this, first one of your video's I've seen. I shoot with a half-plate camera from c1900 though I do shoot film in it currently. I also have a lovely condition Kodak 1A Autographic from around 1917 but need to pick up 116 to 120 film holder converters to use it. Martin Henson gets great images form his old cameras.
Jack! Mate! Please make some more camera content. Your sense of humor is just priceless. Car Throttle is funny I know (huge fan speaking). But this is gold!
I have 0 interest in Cameras but ive just watched every video on this channel back to back because I could listen to Jack or Ethan (or Alex) talk about anything and be entertained.
Can you link to the app you guys were using as a light meter. Looks like it uses the camera, all the ones I have seen use the front facing light sensor that sets screen brightness. Which means you have to flip the phone around, super inconvenient
I couldn’t agree more with others who’ve commented about your fresh take and humerous delivery on this photography stuff. Keep it up! (which is also something I’m guessing you’ve heard from your girlfriend more than once).
Holy mother of God. I remember you shooting photos of the castle while on the NC500 special, didn't know Ethan also caught the bug! I then thought damn, that's so nice to see. So - great to see. Would love to see your shooting preferences, gear talk and stuff. Sincere follower for years, could you provide your Instagram? WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY. cheers mate, hugs from the country of Poles ❤
Like English grainydays ❤
Facts.
Just less annoying.
You can’t imagine how happy I am to see you making more videos!!!
Edit: great to see Ethan as well!
Now I don't regret subscribing.
I just realized from this point on that you're from carthrottle and you tagged Ethan along in your film misadventures. What a small world we live in!
I looked at Ethan and thought "hmm he loos familiar" and couldn't really remember from where, luckily youtube has comments! Thank you
You're the first one I'm seeing positively reviewing a folder. Most people you hear aren't confident in the reliability of the bellows, but I've always found them really neat because of their portability.
Love seeing you make more videos, keep it up!
hang on... aren't you cars... can you even be cars and film? like the videos. make more. want a really fun film camera? try an ONDU 135.
I was gonna say, you look familiar. And then I saw Ethan and I was like oh, of course, CarThrottle!
I had a similar experience with an old 1949 "Made In Occupied Japan" Konica I rangefinder I bought on a whim off Facebook marketplace. Everything worked on it and I thought "hey that's a really fun camera, I'll buy the top of the range 1959 Konica IIIA to complement it!"
Haven't touched the IIIA since I got it. I keep coming back to this weird, primitive, boxy thing with a collapsible lens that just feels incredibly "zen" to use.
Super cool camera review. Before checking the subscriber count I thought it would be in the hundred thousands lol
i just realized this is the guy from car throttle, i knew that saw this guys before
Please keep making videos! I love your vibe and that you're already off doing interesting different topics. Plus I think your example photos are better than you're chalking them up to be.
Saved to watch later for when I'm rich enough to afford the camera and especially the film 😆
i have a lot cameras from the 1920th and 1930th. Voigtländer, Agfa, Zeiss Ikon Box and folding cameras and other for plate fotography. It is a lot of fun to take pictures with them and develop the film or plate at home. i use mostly Fomapan 100. it´s a cheap film with a light touch of yesterday
That pile of out-of-focus burning trash pics you showed at around 3 mins demonstrated that it takes really nice out-of-focus pics. Hence the 'dream-like' quality of some images. Maybe you should focus on deliberately taking out-of-focus pics. Maybe you already have; the algorithm has sent this to me a year after you posted this vid.
Guess I’m coming back in four years
see you in 4 years bro
My oldest camera is a Voigtlander Avus plate camera with a roll film back. According to the receipt that was with it, it was purchased in Norwich in 1935.
I also have a later Voigtlander Bessa, with which I use a handy rangefinder that also works as a viewfinder.
i love 80+ year old cameras, there's just something about battling them that feels so satisfying, like after you've delicately cleaned a century of gunk off the lens, taken apart and put back together the shutter, filled in all the pinhole light leaks and cleaned off all the corrosion it feels like a child you've raised, and like a child of your own, any shithouse art it makes in the form of film is instantly fridge worthy no-matter if you can't tell what the fuck you're looking at.
These videos are amazing!! We need more analogue photography channels like yours.
Folding cameras are brilliant. I've a handful of 1930s Zeiss Ikons. Look for the ones with TESSAR lenses.
Be careful, you'll see some for sale with chipped black enamel and dried out skins that people want the earth for.
Alternatively there are as new gems out there.
I bought a 1931 520/15 in as new condition for just £10. It even has the original cable release. The snag? It takes 116 film . . . not made since the 1980s but . . . . snipped the ends off of some plastic Rawlplugs to pad out the 120 spool size, made a cardboard mask to produce smaller negs and it produced amazing shots.
My favourite is the 1937 Super Ikonta 531/2 - these were requisitioned by the War Department in WW2 and issued to British Army combat photographers and they come with a built in rangefinder. I got mine in a charity shop for £20. They were asking £10 for it but, well it was a charity shop so . . . .
Your Voightlander is positively sophisticated compared to my Kodak Model 2 Folding Cartridge Hawk Eye Model C. Tested at a blistering 1/60th of a second, you have a choice of that or leave the shutter open until you feel like closing it again. Range plate has a choice of 25 feet or 100 feet.
How does it shoot? About like you'd expect. Challenging and fun!
If you think the brilliant viewfinder up front of the camera is too small, there exist finders of the camera period that clip on it to enlarge the image. When using your phone to measure the light, hold it horizontal and the front somewhat down, to avoid overexposure by the sky. The old lenses have no coating, these are not made for color pictures, even so the result was quite nice with a golden warmth to the images. Well done!
I have a large film camera hoard in my bed room and I found this video very useful📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸
Is that the THE Ethan?? Great video!
I have the Voigtländer Brillant and the Soviet copy Lubitel 2 (a model from 1977) and I like the Lubitel more because of the brighter lens and the 'better' features which including the almost useless focus coupling to the upper lens. Give it a try.
Weren't you guys into cars? Also film is such an awesome medium
Did you clean the lens? Often the lenses on these old cameras are covered with a contrast-spoiling layer of what-you-call-it... Just this milky look.
Wow! I found something that looks like that camera in my old man’s shed once when I was a kid, pity I did to it what a kid does anyway fortunately still have one left with bellows somewhere that I did not bust up but not so old looking and still with leather case and strap, maybe it hasn’t gone mouldy, have to find and whip out at a tourist spot right next to an iPhone user.
What's the small little rangefinder shown at 2:30? Would love to get one!
I have a similar voigtlander but the Focus was always off, maybe my fault maybe not, so i stoped using it
what camera are you using for recording youtube videos?
absolutely love the story telling and editing in this video
I love your content. How ist the camera meter app called?
Yes. Simple answer to a simple question.
Finding an intersection in 2 of my hobbies is awesome.
Beautiful, love the brain video representation
You have some real potential my man! Really enjoy watching your content :)
My dad has a Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic from 1916 that he inherited from his dad. It's working fine mechanically but the bellows are full of leaks. Been considering making my own for years
Do it
no way i just stumbled on this channel through a totally new hobby when i’ve been subbed to car throttle for years
CarThrotle brought me here lol
What app are you using as a light meter
Just found your channel mate, golden content and very entertaining! Subscribed.
97 years
in swear this is my new fav analog channel! 😂 keep it up mate!
Nice to see you making more videos! Both entertaining and interesting, like the last one😊
Random question but what is the app called?
It's just called Light Metre. Think it was one of the free ones.
@@graindead thank you
I love this video. I did a video of my experience with the Voigtlander Bessa 1 from1929, with film that expired in 1994... but with nowhere near the wittiness of your video. I recently did another spectacularly mediocre shoot with the camera and proper film recently and might post another video... again... not with nearly the amount of wit found here. Love your dreamy shot!!
The two wire squares viewfinder was meant for "sport" or quick photography, hence the not so accurate composition. The viewfinder at the front was for actually composing.
Oh hey. Its that guy, ans that guy.
Voigtlander are wonderful cameras. Folding 120 cameras are great IMO.
People are obsessed with pixel peeping these days; just take pictures.
Thag said, if you get a folder from the 50s the lenses are really quite sharp
Thank you to the yt algorithm for bringing me here. Now to wait for your next uoload as ive watched all your videos 😂
Great work. Love shooting old film cameras from 35 to 4x5.
I love that i am here pre-1k subs. Really nice production level and interesting video ideas for now. Only problem is that there is not enough content but time will change that 😜
I enjoyed this, first one of your video's I've seen.
I shoot with a half-plate camera from c1900 though I do shoot film in it currently. I also have a lovely condition Kodak 1A Autographic from around 1917 but need to pick up 116 to 120 film holder converters to use it. Martin Henson gets great images form his old cameras.
Jack! Mate! Please make some more camera content. Your sense of humor is just priceless. Car Throttle is funny I know (huge fan speaking). But this is gold!
I have 0 interest in Cameras but ive just watched every video on this channel back to back because I could listen to Jack or Ethan (or Alex) talk about anything and be entertained.
lo fi motorway? artistic nihlism? pro mist pier photos? you really are a bri'ish grainydays. good stuff
You have such a sick unique style. Leaving this comment here to say I was here before this channel giga popped off.
I was glad you 'fessed up about the camera being 95 years old; I stopped the video to read the serial number on the lens.
Always watched Car Throttle and was like: ey I know that guy, awesome you are doing this!
Can you link to the app you guys were using as a light meter. Looks like it uses the camera, all the ones I have seen use the front facing light sensor that sets screen brightness. Which means you have to flip the phone around, super inconvenient
I couldn’t agree more with others who’ve commented about your fresh take and humerous delivery on this photography stuff. Keep it up! (which is also something I’m guessing you’ve heard from your girlfriend more than once).
I want to say thank you, I’m literally holding that same exact camera in my lap right now. I’ve looked for a video on it for ever!
Really amazing video! And the old lenses love Ektar!
Well im using my granma's camera Moscow-5 sometimes and its amazing
Just realized these are the guys from car throttle. Instant sub
6:31 got an audible “Damnnn!” out of me. Sick shot
I’ve got a 1932 Bessa. Take’s amazing images.
You made me laugh so definitely earned a sub. Images are shite but hey it's better than i could have done.
Epic review 🎉 Happy to subscribe after this generous test.
Think I’ve seen these guys on a car related channel before…
i love how hazy that lens is. maybe i will get a folding camera.
Sure, just test it first to know if it works right -
please do more videos
nice accordion
Holy mother of God. I remember you shooting photos of the castle while on the NC500 special, didn't know Ethan also caught the bug! I then thought damn, that's so nice to see.
So - great to see. Would love to see your shooting preferences, gear talk and stuff.
Sincere follower for years, could you provide your Instagram? WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY.
cheers mate, hugs from the country of Poles ❤