Shooting with an Extraordinary 150 Year-old Camera
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I have been obsessed with the wet plate collodion process since I first heard of it.
So when my wife and I visited Vienna (Austria) we spent a day out of the city to do a collaboration with one of the best Wet plate Photographers in the world.
We had a lot of fun and I am even more passionate by this technic after that amazing day.
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Shooting with an Extraordinary 150 Year-old Wet Plate Camera 
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Back then not only where you a photographer, but also a chemist
Nate's Film Tutorials *where* you a photographer
@Phil Weatherley But, for those who develop their own film today, there still is chemistry and toxicity involved.
Agreed 😀
@@Ric9hardify nothing compared to wet plate. You risk your health more using drano than when developing film.
Now also, chemistry is used in photography but only difference is that it is already in the camera, you don't have to do all this.
150 years old but still a better Image quality then instax today.
Very different process of photography it's like comparing oranges to lemons , both are citric but different flavor , but I see your points , if you shoot instax photo shoot in a decent camera you will see the film it's very great , I myself moded one to have a better lens and imo best instant film right know that packfilm is not available still it's very dificult to compare an instant film to wet plate or even film
@@briansegarra9312 i'd love to know and see the mods youve fone to your instax :D
@@scry1888 you should look at my instagram(brianeric26) I will be posting some of my mod there soon so far an Polaroid 120 x instax wide
Becksi Please subscribe to my channel i also subscribe to your channel help me please
Better image quality than iPhone XS aswell
And here I am complaining when eye-AF doesn't work instantly.
@@DuraniDX no
@@DuraniDX walter
@@bobmiah lies of thr jedi order
“Can we go again. I think I blinked.”
most people fear that, when I do a portrait of them. But because the exposure is a bit longer, this is no problem. Beside that, the strobe is faster, then you eye ;)
@UC54g9MyqUxjeeIgAnxHtzrw wow that's really interesting, approximately what rating are the plates you use on iso?
The Mighty Chippy about iso 0.5 when chemicals are fresh. Less when they get older
@@mhaustria wow! Hence having to manually take the "shutter" off the lens and work out the timings, that's beautifully manual. Really something else
@@themightychippy3756 thank you, but exactly that is what I like on my job
back when photography was more like chemistry.
imagine you have to study chemistry to take pictures.
I have old books on wet plate photography. Anyone could follow the step-by-step directions in them without having much of an idea of what was happening chemically. That's why photography became a popular hobby.
@@scottlarson1548 Yeah, but I am talking about the early days of Photography, when there were no books written on doing it.
@@Dosteyboi Photographic chemicals always came with step-by-step instructions.
@@scottlarson1548 but not anyone can do it right, they can still mess up. Nowadays, a 5 year old kid can take a photo using their mum's phone, but not back then, that is what I wanted to say, that it was so difficult to take a picture, imagine saying, nah man, i am out of the frame, let's take the picture again.
@@Dosteyboi Anyone can mess anything up, but knowledge of chemistry didn't help you. If you had the patience to follow the instructions, you could take good photos. The chemistry was already figured out for you.
The picture from 1870 looks better.
That's what 150 years will do to your gear lol, not surprised
@@dan-tf6ie I think it has more to do with used lens type. Also aperture makes huge impact on lens resolution and contrast. Shooting at f8 will take longer but I bet picture quality will increase.
@@steposka definitely. Back then, most of the time, people had to sit very still for a significant amount of time for the picture to be taken.
And it capture lights not by pixel
steposka it also has to do with the size of the negative. The larger the negative the more detail and sharper the image. That’s what’s so cool about these collodion cameras is that they all have huge negatives.
when this 150-year-old camera style captures a way better graphic than your $250 camera
well that 150 years old camera is more expensive than camera nowadays, even for 1 shoot u need pay -+300 buck XD.
You mean only greyscale and takes hours and thousands of dollars on equipments and chemicals ?
The images are very high resolution but now we have a thing called color photos and that makes the graphics better in one sense but what the fuck are you expecting from a $250 phone? for that price you get a phone with a shitty camera but if you were to invest more you would have a phone that can shoot in hd... now don't bitch that your shitty phone takes shitty pictures bud that's on you
@Phil Weatherley not everyone has 1250$ to throw away on a camera rich asshole.
@@bonkybonk_ow2793 i couldn't agree more with you
Markus is so cool for preserving these ancient photography skills for future generations. I hope he has an apprentice, or finds one!
Thank you so much! I'm doing lots of workshops, shootings and presentations. So hopefully, there are more people working with that process.
Just imagine you have a modern camera with that big sensor
Jaydev Singh and now imagine the battery for it ;)
@@mhaustria Oops.... I forgot about that. Lol
Definitely,u can see in pitch black with iso 102000 without any noise
@@zenova9926 what!!! I didn't know that bigger sensors require more iso. If so then what will be the native iso? Any guess?
LORD ROY Collodion wet plate is not very sensitive to light - ISO is about 0.5 ;)
This is one of the coolest photography videos I've ever seen on youtube.
thanks a lot Milad, let's hope other people think like you
@@MathieuStern carrément, merci pour ce p'tit reportage fort intéressant
Phil Weatherley : You’re missing the point. It’s not just about the image, it’s about the strange and wonderful journey you take to get there. It’s photography as an art form, and as a life experience, not just a technological science.
Think about it this way - yes, you could take a helicopter ride straight to the top of Mount Everest and take spectacular pictures there before flying back again, but they’d only be worth a fraction to you emotionally as they would be if you’d climbed the whole damn mountain to get up there!
@Phil Weatherley Are you really that fucking arrogant. Have you ever heard of a hobby asshole?
@@MathieuStern it's so strange having an old camera in 2020 that's why I love it
Thanks for visiting and the great time we had! Don't be scared from some fire or a ding ;)
thanks to you for those super fun days
@@MathieuStern I have to go on a diet after the food we had ;)
Hi! How did you know the exposure time? Do you have to use maths for it, or you just feel it?:D
Dániel Monostori great question!! Because the process uses blue light, a normal light meter is only kind of guidance. You never know exactly how much UV is outside. On the other hand, the chemicals do age. The older the collodion gets, the less light sensitivity it has. So it’s mostly kind of gut feeling. In the darkroom, I can adjust the image with developing times. But I like to have a well exposed image - it looks much more contrasty. When I shoot big plates, I often shoot a small plate before the main exposure to safe material.
@@mhaustria Thanks for the answer!
Photography before the 1900s was more chemistry and science :D.
Amazing shots!
Quetzalcoalt thank you!
Mike Gee you are right, they are similar
This is art
When he said safety is number one priority -crh😂😂😂
Absolutely amazing!! I can't wait to shoot some wet plate myself :)
Thanks a lot!!! I think you are not that far away from my studio, just send me a pm on my socials ;) Edit: uups, I'm mistaken - so whenever you visit Vienna.
I got a bigger Petzval Lens for some more swirly portraits (check my latest video) and some other wet plate toys to play with for workshops.
My granddad had an antique portrait camera and he did wet plate photography in the 1920s with it. He took it out when he was in his 80s (and I a teen) and started again for several years, before he died. He sold the camera (i have no idea what is was) towards the end of his life. He taught me how to make and develop the plates and I learned to use the camera too. This summer I am a retiring and I want to do this again.
Fantastic project !
Imagine doing a Boxing Photograph for a newspaper with that old camera
RUclips Commentar Control I think it would be kind of possible with the right strobe setup - I have something with a fighter in my mind since some time....Just to busy right now with work, but I will do a video about it.
As cool as this is I am glad for having digital photography these days.
The inventor of camera was actually an author. Photography+chemistry+author, close to a polymath
To say this is extraordinary is an understatement. The process involved in getting these photos gives you a genuine appreciation of what photography actually is. It's taken for granted with all these phones, but true photography, the art and process of painting with light, is alive and well and this video demonstrates it so well.
7:01 I thought the left pic was a remake that I didn’t even know it was a legit 1870 pic
They had more experience and expertise with those cameras.
(it was probably actually from the early 20th century based on the fashion but yes still super cool)
Finally someone who is making art photography
stian w thanks a lot
Amazing. Collodion has that unique look that just can't be reproduced in any way.
Jacopo Abbruscato because it captures blue light. I did a video with Mathieu before about that. It is really not that easy to reproduce this process digitally...
... as does film, as does digital.
Because now we just capture selfies, pics to upload in social media. Back then they captured memories, the images which speak....
Sayantan Mandal I think it makes a big difference if you take time to take an image with a purpose. This is where memories come from.
@@mhaustria Memories are when ur looking back at a specific time. Not because u take some time just to take a photo with purpose.
Sayantan Mandal I do that too.
Who would've known old tech were of equal if not better quality than our photos but a little bulkier which never hurt anyone.
Older photos are high quality, clearer and beautiful than newer photos old is gold ❤️💪
No megapixel count can top this.
good point - I did a gigapixel scan on one of my plates ;)
Your portrait was wonderful! He really captured your personality. It was warm and playful!
I am so happy I found your channel. You are amazing! Well done!
Thanks for this very interesting video! It has history, chemistry, optics, environments, lovely people and great images of course!
Back then.. photos were rare .. so more precious and a precious memory❤️
Its just not only a camera also its a just historic art that put light, time, person, everything in just one plate. And to see that photo, the things have to preparing and things to do to check the results, Its just marvelous every single works. Thanks for uploading this valuable video.
thats about a few thousand megapixels too much for instagram lol. Absolutely love plate photography.
from a 21x27cm plate you can get about 1000 megapixel with a good Scanner ;)
It shoot not just point and shoot but a big responsibility because my family friend operates on the dark room died from cancer because of the the chemicals she was exposed. This type of photography shoots not just raw format or unprocessed JPEGS but REAL RAW PHOTO and I appreciate it.
This is absolutely the coolest gift you could give someone.
Amalia Komperda people often do this - that’s the reason I made vouchers with a wax seal :)
MAGNIFIQUE, Mathieu!!
What a gift it would be to be these 2 men's apprentice.
Make more long videos like this one, it's more educative
I wish they still make these kind of cameras.
Nathaniel Villapando actually they do, there are a lot of manufacturers that build large to ultra large format cameras - Chamonix for example
@@mhaustria Thanks. 💖
The quality is insane on them! Better than many cameras today.
Amazing old wet process, truly creative. Nothing like a nice large negative size. Nice prints.
photos from this camera would be more valuable than any photo taken from any modern camera. if i was lucky enough to get a photo of me from that old tech. i'd totally treasure it the rest of my life.
That is amazing. Those pictures are still better than any phone camera.
9:41 what a small world.
Big Brains
Wow, how cool was that? It's not only about taking pictures - it's a true craft. What an experience!
Rodrigo Neves da Silva thanks so much!
Thank you very much for the video. It reminded my young days of our Zeiss lens bellows camera with glass photography plate. Cant remember if the plates were 6 x 6 inches. Used a ground glass for focus and then swap with the photo plate during exposure. My father used to prepare or process the glass plates in a dark room. Regards
love that polaroid with wet plate, so cool
now that's pure aesthetic
That's awesome dude!!
This is an amazing video. Makes me really appreciate how far we have come in the world of photography. I can’t imagine the difficulty the photographer who went with Shakelton had when he went to the South Pole with all of his glass plates on their expedition. Imagine carrying all those heavy glass plates and the camera, it would have taken a small army just to support the photographer.
Whoa, the depth of field in those pictures. Absolutely mesmerizing.
This is one thing why I like to shoot ultra large format :)
my grandfather has a collection of like 20 of these, along with other strange and antique cameras. he's a proffesional when it comes to optics so i guess his interest is excpected, but that much? there's a reason, they are so cool.
Very neat. Always amazes me to watch the picture slowly materialize in the developer, makes me wish I could have learned to do dark room work back when I only shot film.....
This is what people use to record ufo & bigfoot sightings
Old is gold, these old ones are the fathers of the digital ones
I love wet plate. Oh and archeologists 500 years from now are going to be so confused seeing this.
Lol right
Tough but true effort, excellent.Thanks sir
Reminded of my childhood photo taken in one of the photo studio in Mumbai when I was 3 years of age . Similar camera was used but I never knew the process of developing the photo . Appreciate your efforts for showing your great skill . Thanks very much Mathieu.
Amazing. Love it.
Fascinating!!!
Aah that was really fun! Great pictures, so much character to them. Thanks!
Thanks a lot :) i enjoyed the Character too
This is really cool, and so light hearted. I like this.
Then you have to get a picture done on a plate ;)
@@mhaustria That would be awesome haha!
How COOL. Then WET! Chemically wet yet realistically Solid and Historically Glorifying.
so fun to watch and learn a bit
Can’t wait to watch
Awesome video and collaboration. No way a digital camera can emulate. Love the results
Raychristofer thank you so much!
Chemistry is what makes wet plate so cool outside of it being classic.
This thing is so much valuable. Only few in these world will understood.
OMG! Thank you, you have answered all my questions. 😭
So beautiful!!
dude im so bored and this filled me with so much joy idk why
The fact that these old cameras had 14 megapixel quality. Amazing!!
These old cameras had 2000 megapixel quality
Great video, Mathieu !
REAL PHOTOGRAPHY this is. ! i shot 2x5 8x10's handmade art paper coated for prints, sun exposure. Worked with Corlos Richardson. Markus is very good indeed. Great video.
It's absolutely wonderful! A modern journey into the past. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is super interesting and educational. Thanks! 💛
100 yrs and we have moved so much.. next 1000 yrs who know where it takes.. amazing to have record of hows it’s done in the past...
That so cool!
150 years… If you assume a generation to be about 25 years, this lady could be the contemporary woman's great great great great grandmother.
This is absolutely amazing!
thank you!
I love vintage things 😍
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
You just dont know how amazing it looks to me
JUST PURE AMAZING!!
Happy Hardiansyah thanks - holding a plate in person is even more cool ;)
@@mhaustria I wish I could hold it too! 😭 your work of art is amazing, YOU are wonderful, everything in this video just blow my mind of how the old technology "uniqueness" still can't be beaten by the new one, wow, just... wow 👏👏👏
@@happyhardiansyah Thank you so much! I think all the different photography processes (also digital) have their places to be present. I just like the fact, that I have to focus on this one shot and the work with my hands.
That looks like a ton of fun
Wait the depth sensor is better than nowadays camera. That's my though 🤗
I had a photo of my wife and I taken with a camera just like that in a past life.
Just started shooting on film, have my medium format and 35 mils camera collection - Rolleicords, Olympus and Zeiss Box Tengor, but this is absolutely beautiful! Love the 'shutter' :)
Thanks a lot!!!
Awesome 👏, thanks for showing the history
This is your daily dose of Recommendation
Ancestor camera
waow the old lens is still amazing until now..
Gorgeous end results!
praevius thank you - happy you like them
That was f-ing amazing bro. Thanks
I am from the South of Austria and the next time I get to Vienna I might have to check this guy out.
Man,I love this.I mean... things like this..... when people keep preserving ancient tecnologies.
Amazing 150 years old camera😊😊
Wow that is a freaking amazing camera....so huge!
That's... so cool...
Awesome!
Thanks for the video, thank you
Love them Petzval lenses.
Vocho Magnifico then you will like my next video - I show a 330mm F4 Petzval lens and the result. Should be online next week
this is soo cool