Ahahah I witnessed something similar the other day actually, someone took their roll out and it fell while they were holding the one end, exposing the whole thing! Sometimes it's worth developing though cus there might be a couple of salvageable images on it!
@@willysheepskin i turned the light on thinking my light meter fell but no it was the entire roll stretched out on the ground all bc my film back door was unlocked on the rb 🤠
@@pain6154 hey it happens to all of us at some point! I always wind the roll on like 10x more than I need to just in case that ends up happening hahaha
i just genuinely binge watched your whole channel's worth of videos...in two days... i'm new to manually taking film pictures, first had a point and shoot and wanted to learn more about photography as a whole and have more control over my photos, and stumbled upon your video on composition, i don't know how to put this into words but you're simply amazing
Ahhh that's so awesome! I hope that you enjoyed them all haha, there have been some wonderful adventures over the past year! Glad to hear that the composition video may have helped, I might put out a video on camera basics sometime in the future that might help you going forward! Honored that you find things amazing, and stoked to have you onboard the channel haha! Cheers Seko!
happy (late) birthday! I somehow wasn't notified of this video. :( I do like the look of the 43mm better than the 37mm, it renders pictures pretty pleasingly. I hope you can get the Nikonos repaired soon, I am sure you enjoyed it quite a lot. Congratulations to Maya, those were some nice graduation pictures!
Ahah thank you! Glad we have the same opinion on the rendering of the lens, I'm waiting for the Nikonos repair guy to get back to me but holding thumbs!
Ahah #sheepsquadeducated lool, also cheers Asher, had a bunch of fun putting this one together, got like 3 hours total to film things so felt like a bit of a speedrun lol!
Thanks Emmanuel! I had a ball! They are growing on me now tbh, sometimes a bit of time is all it takes to gain new perspective on the images I make in these videos haha!
Thanks Iain! I'm a big fan of the lens for landscapes too, the foreground is definitely an essential element though, wouldn't work well for a scene where the subject matter at your feet doesn't lend itself to the horizon lol!
Haha thanks Sander! I actually hadn't filmed this yet when I posted a pic on my insta story but so many people said they wanted a video that I decided to ask Ben to use it and thankfully we made it happen!
Happy Birthday man! And congrats to Maya as well! Rest in peace to the brickonos too. Very eventful sequence of events in this video, hope the good keeps coming and no more electronic cameras are burnt.
Thanks Marco! The brickonos shall be fondly remembered for many moons to come, and I’m investigating the potential of a repair since it’s demise has affected me greatly hahaha, also strongly considering not owning electronic cameras anymore if they’re going to behave like this lol!
I’m glad that 26 is still young haha! Thankfully I have a backup Nikonos so once I’ve got it tested and ready to go I’ll be back in the water making the fun stuff!
The circle of life indeed, although two people I know lost theirs in similar fashion since I put this up so maybe it's the end times for all Nikonos' ahah
Wonderful sunset and great examples with the lens. Interesting to see you create with both ends of the spectrum, super wide angle and super tele. Congratulations again and also to Maya.
Thanks Tian! I'm going to break out the super tele at some point again and see if I can get some really nice results going hopefully, feel like I haven't quite gotten the most out of it yet!
@@willysheepskin from time to time it’s good to break out our lesser used equipment and spark some creativity. On the RB I feel that anything less than 65mm or more than 180mm doesn’t see that much use.
Damn this photowalk is on an different level, two Mamiya 7 and an Hasselblad 907x ?! Happy birthday man! Came across your channel because of an reddit post and I really enjoy your videos.
Happy birthday Will! You’re not kidding-low distortion. 😯. Sorry to hear about you Nikonos. To use a thing is to use it up I suppose 🤷🏽♂️. Love the graduation photos at the end. Cheers!
Thanks Justin! I like that saying, to use a thing is to use it up indeed! Although it seems worth looking in to a repair on this fella since they aren’t making any more of em and it really is minty haha - shall have to see how my enquiries go!
Really great review William. I have the 50, 80 and 110mm. When I bought the 50 was very tempted to get the 43 instead, but not disappointed with the 50. I find myself now using it more than the 80mm. These lenses are superb. Just blew up a landscape image taken on fujifilm velvia 50 blown right up to a biggy, 1.3 meters x 1.0 meter printed on canvas, sharp as a tack corner to corner. Very spectacular and my clients loved it. I'd really like to get the 210mm but it would be a bit of an indulgence given the expense and you can't focus the thing, but it might be fun for landscapes. Keep up the good work.
Wishing you a happy birthday and a happy festive my guy! Hopefully somebody gifts you as many full boxes of Portra as there were empty boxes in that one vid😂
Beautiful video, absolutely incredible shots as per...also Happy Birthday Will!!!... bummer for the Myk... maybe the pretty olive version will be a nice replacement.
Thanks Galvatron ahaha! Im hoping the olive fella serves as a good replacement too, going to try thoroughly test it to make sure nothing that I can control goes wrong lol!
Happy Birthday and Happy Holidays too. I'm not a big fan of rangefinders. I have two but they aren't my favorites. I bought a Fujica GW690 and I have my dad's very old Argus C3. I can use them but focusing can be tricky, at least for me. I need to experiment with zone focusing I guess. Send me that Hasselblad, I need that Hasselblad. I have both a 500C and a 503Cx. I got the 503 because the 500C has lots of sentimental value for me. I have the 50, 80, 120, 150 and 180 lenses for them but lately I use the 503 more than the 500. Again Happy Birthday and send me that Hasselblad
Ahahahah I’ll send you that Hasselblad once it’s been sent to me first Bob! It really is glorious, so precisely machined, and every frame is like a max resolution scan from my Imacon but instant! Want to have a proper tinker with some of the files from it to see how close I can get the look to be to medium format film, but it’s reaaally special for sure!
Happy Birthday Will! Wish you many good photos and less camera failures! As for the lens I've never liked wide lenses because of the distortion but this one looks really good. btw the other flower is called "Nerium oleander"
Cheers Lyubomir! This one and that 16mm are like my grail lenses now cus of the low distortion haha, the joys of rangefinder optics! Also thanks for the heads up on the flower, gonna have a look into them now, love learning new things like that!
I feel like this video highlights the eternal conflict of Mamiya lovers: stick with the rugged, mechanical mass of the RB67 or risk the potential electronics issues with the sleek and lightweight Mamiya 7. I'm sticking with my RB67 for now...but the way this 43mm renders does speak to me.... Fantastic video. Thanks for it. And Merry Christmas!
It speaks to me too for sure haha! Can't say I'd pass on it if one became available locally - I guess time will tell haha. Glad you enjoyed the video Ben, my Christmas was lovely hope yours was too!
Thanks Sunny! I'm glad you like the shots, I'm feeling some of them a bit more now but would probably still rather have a good negative and then choose to make things dark rather than being forced into it by my mess up aha!
These shots are so cool. The closest I can get to super wide is a flippen 16mm on a digital camera and it doesn't even compare to how cool that is. Sorry about the nikinos and Belated Congrats MAYA!!!!
Cheers mr. gpcy! 16mm on digi is still very cool, I hope to get a fisheye like that for the video cam I'm going to pick up soon hopefully haha! I'm coming to terms with the Nikonos already, but big shoutout to Maya indeed!
Used the 43mm for a few decades for transparencies/underexposed Velvia 1 stop, got beyond perfect pics, now some of them are priceless. The 50 and 65mm are excellent too, rather the 65 as a normal lens, use the 43mm like you would a Hassy SWC.
Thanks man, was quite a cool scene with how the light was falling! I wonder if it might have been better with a closer crop like the 80mm would have given, but definitely stoked to have gotten a photo at all haha!
@@willysheepskin Nah I think it; perfect. The wideness of it adds so much depth and context, and really frames the people perfectly with their long shadows, whereas a cropped photo would have destroyed alot of these small atmospheric details that I really think add to the shot.
It's interesting to see how the imacon scanner sees underexposure of protra as magenta redish, when i get my scans back from a noritsu frontier, they are always green lol. Much prefer the underexposed look though! as is with the 7:05 image.
Ahah I've set mine up quite specifically to lean more towards the magentas than the greens, cus the Imacon can definitely end up quite green if one lets it lol! Glad you dig that one Samuel, a really cool example of how special the lens is for landscapes!
haha thank you kind fish! I reckon that's my favorite as well, the fence was very interesting looking and lent itself quite well to the wide angle I think!
I think you’re going to see a difference between this 43mm lens and the 37mm mainly because the 43 is a rectilinear (corrected) lens, whereas the 37 is a fisheye (non corrected) lens.
Thanks for pointing that out Mike! I should probably get into that at some point actually, the main goal in comparing the rb fisheye to this was just to give an example of the rendering from the widest lenses available for the mam7 and the rb, but definitely worth mentioning the idea of rectilinear things going forward! Cheers!
Hi David, thank you! There is much to the society of South Africa I have yet to present on this channel for sure - this particular video is a lens review. The main issue with heading out with the specific intent of photographing “the other 90% of SA society” as you put it is that if I’m heading out into the world to make photographs of people and then show them to folks outside of South Africa I would feel like I was presenting subjects not as people, but as a museum exhibit, and profiting off of the position other folks find themselves in in life. If some day I find myself in the position to make a photographic body of work that I feel will positively impact “the other 90% of SA society” then I shall surely go out and make that work. Heading out to make photographs purely so that I can satiate the curiosity of an international audience or appeal to the somewhat misguided idea that photographing someone in a moment of crisis will somehow help them is not something I am particularly keen on. My deliberate focus on my close circle of friends and other non controversial subject matter on this channel is not for the purpose of idealising South Africa, or brushing issues under the rug, rather I am acutely aware of the inherently exploitative nature of making photographs of “the other 90% of SA society” for no reason. There is a series of videos on my channel called “rural South Africa on medium format film” where I’m out in a town in the middle of nowhere and offer some thoughts on some of the uniquely South African interactions that come about being in that location. I shall surely return there sometime when I can afford to, and shall continue making work there where I feel comfortable photographing people that give me their informed consent. I’m not going to head out to kayletisha or Mitchell’s plain or grassy park or turn my camera on someone in a moment of crisis to appease the curiosity of someone that lives in a bubble and will never see these things for themselves - which is the express purpose of photographing people in disadvantaged positions when the only platform for the images to live is a film photography RUclips channel. Hope that makes sense
Not at UCT haha! Architecture is part of the engineering and sciences faculty there so they get green - at least I think that's the reason - but green is deffo right here!
That’s what happen when you buy non serviced nikonos , and show how to check it (which is the wrong way) and still brave enough to submerge it , open the rewind lever screw and make yourself nice tea 🍵
Hey man if you tell me the right way to check things I’ll be happy to share that, I’ve always been very clear about the fact that my knowledge is based off of things I’ve managed to learn through use and what I’ve managed to scrounge on the internet - and that things are still fallible once you’ve serviced all the user accessible o rings, please let me know where I’ve gone wrong so that I can avoid it with my next Nikonos haha!
Went out for long exposures last night came home n dropped my film back exposing the whole roll 😎
Ahahah I witnessed something similar the other day actually, someone took their roll out and it fell while they were holding the one end, exposing the whole thing! Sometimes it's worth developing though cus there might be a couple of salvageable images on it!
@@willysheepskin i turned the light on thinking my light meter fell but no it was the entire roll stretched out on the ground all bc my film back door was unlocked on the rb 🤠
@@pain6154 hey it happens to all of us at some point! I always wind the roll on like 10x more than I need to just in case that ends up happening hahaha
i just genuinely binge watched your whole channel's worth of videos...in two days...
i'm new to manually taking film pictures, first had a point and shoot and wanted to learn more about photography as a whole and have more control over my photos, and stumbled upon your video on composition, i don't know how to put this into words but you're simply amazing
Ahhh that's so awesome! I hope that you enjoyed them all haha, there have been some wonderful adventures over the past year!
Glad to hear that the composition video may have helped, I might put out a video on camera basics sometime in the future that might help you going forward!
Honored that you find things amazing, and stoked to have you onboard the channel haha! Cheers Seko!
Sorry for being late on this weeks Mamiya 7ii class. Belated Birthday wishes Willy.
No worries Sreeku! It's holiday season, time to relax and catch up with viddies when the mood strikes haha!
@@willysheepskin yeah right I was on vacation
Happy birthday. ✌ mamiyas really perfected the lenses in the mamiya 7 series. RIP Nikonos. 😕
Thanks man! They truly did, I look forward to getting my hands on some more of their lenses sometime haha! RIP Nikonos indeed :/
Nice lens, and great presentation mate 🙂👍
Thank you kindly! Stoked you enjoyed the presentation, yours are always sublime haha!
happy (late) birthday! I somehow wasn't notified of this video. :( I do like the look of the 43mm better than the 37mm, it renders pictures pretty pleasingly. I hope you can get the Nikonos repaired soon, I am sure you enjoyed it quite a lot. Congratulations to Maya, those were some nice graduation pictures!
Ahah thank you! Glad we have the same opinion on the rendering of the lens, I'm waiting for the Nikonos repair guy to get back to me but holding thumbs!
Wicked one man! Congratulation on graduating 2 years ago Maya!! #sheepsquadwide
Ahah #sheepsquadeducated lool, also cheers Asher, had a bunch of fun putting this one together, got like 3 hours total to film things so felt like a bit of a speedrun lol!
Happy birthday will !!!, hope you have a great time, honestly even tho the shots were underexposed, they looked amazing!
Thanks Emmanuel! I had a ball! They are growing on me now tbh, sometimes a bit of time is all it takes to gain new perspective on the images I make in these videos haha!
Happy birthday! I like the landscape shots with that lens, wide angles are great when you have an foreground to go with a landscape
Thanks Iain! I'm a big fan of the lens for landscapes too, the foreground is definitely an essential element though, wouldn't work well for a scene where the subject matter at your feet doesn't lend itself to the horizon lol!
Happy Birthday William - Congratulations Maya ... And the silhouette photos are A-MA-ZING ♥ ♥ ♥
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the silhouttes, they're growing on me haha!
I knew the second I saw it in instagram, been waiting for the video since! Good stuff as per usual.
Haha thanks Sander! I actually hadn't filmed this yet when I posted a pic on my insta story but so many people said they wanted a video that I decided to ask Ben to use it and thankfully we made it happen!
Happy Birthday man! And congrats to Maya as well! Rest in peace to the brickonos too. Very eventful sequence of events in this video, hope the good keeps coming and no more electronic cameras are burnt.
Thanks Marco! The brickonos shall be fondly remembered for many moons to come, and I’m investigating the potential of a repair since it’s demise has affected me greatly hahaha, also strongly considering not owning electronic cameras anymore if they’re going to behave like this lol!
@@willysheepskin nikonos III time?!? Only problem'll be how you'll meter underwater but I'm sure you can figure it out
i had no idea you're still so young! Happy Birthday! shame about the under water cam, those were always some of my fave pics you produced with it.
I’m glad that 26 is still young haha! Thankfully I have a backup Nikonos so once I’ve got it tested and ready to go I’ll be back in the water making the fun stuff!
Happy belated birthday and RIP to the Nikonos :( the circle of life eh...
The circle of life indeed, although two people I know lost theirs in similar fashion since I put this up so maybe it's the end times for all Nikonos' ahah
Wonderful sunset and great examples with the lens. Interesting to see you create with both ends of the spectrum, super wide angle and super tele.
Congratulations again and also to Maya.
Thanks Tian! I'm going to break out the super tele at some point again and see if I can get some really nice results going hopefully, feel like I haven't quite gotten the most out of it yet!
@@willysheepskin from time to time it’s good to break out our lesser used equipment and spark some creativity. On the RB I feel that anything less than 65mm or more than 180mm doesn’t see that much use.
Happy birthday man! Can I ask u where this beautiful place is where you took the pictures?
Thank you! It's Sunset Rock overlooking Camps Bay in Cape Town!
Damn this photowalk is on an different level, two Mamiya 7 and an Hasselblad 907x ?!
Happy birthday man! Came across your channel because of an reddit post and I really enjoy your videos.
It really felt like a very fancy little camera stroll haha! Glad you found things through Reddit that’s awesome!
Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas and congratulations! And RIP Nikonos. Cool lens though!
Thanks Louis! Merry Christmas to you too, the joy of the lens evens out the disappointment of the Nikonos haha!
Happy birthday amigo!
Thanks man!
As always, interesting and lots to learn. And oh the light, how you get the light. Beautiful!! Happy birthday for yesterday!
Thank you! The sunsets around here really are quite special!
Hey William, happy birthday. Compliments of the Season to you and your wonderful family.
Thanks so much Aristo! Seasons greetings to you and yours as well!
Nice video William...Merry Christmas!
Thanks Steve! Merry Christmas to you!
Happy birthday Will! You’re not kidding-low distortion. 😯. Sorry to hear about you Nikonos. To use a thing is to use it up I suppose 🤷🏽♂️. Love the graduation photos at the end. Cheers!
Thanks Justin! I like that saying, to use a thing is to use it up indeed! Although it seems worth looking in to a repair on this fella since they aren’t making any more of em and it really is minty haha - shall have to see how my enquiries go!
Really great review William. I have the 50, 80 and 110mm. When I bought the 50 was very tempted to get the 43 instead, but not disappointed with the 50. I find myself now using it more than the 80mm. These lenses are superb. Just blew up a landscape image taken on fujifilm velvia 50 blown right up to a biggy, 1.3 meters x 1.0 meter printed on canvas, sharp as a tack corner to corner. Very spectacular and my clients loved it. I'd really like to get the 210mm but it would be a bit of an indulgence given the expense and you can't focus the thing, but it might be fun for landscapes. Keep up the good work.
Happy birthday, Will! This was a great video.
Thanks Alp! I had a great deal of fun making it!
Top tier video, love the colors you were getting in these shots.
Thanks a bunch Acirimis! The golden hour light around here is truly special!
Happy Birthday Will. May all your dreams come true!
Ahah thank you kindly, the dreams are looking very achievable at the moment so hopefully things continue to line up haha!
happy belated birthday;
also thank you for your amazing videos :)
Thanks lonker! It was a lovely birthday, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video, had a bunch of fun putting this one together!
You should try and review the panoramic adapter for the Mamiya 7 since you got your hand on the 43mm
That would be awesome!
Wishing you a happy birthday and a happy festive my guy! Hopefully somebody gifts you as many full boxes of Portra as there were empty boxes in that one vid😂
Ahahah thanks AJ! That many boxes of portra would probably buy a house at this point lol! Hope you're having a good festive as well!
Well, Happy Birthday Will!
Thanks so much Paul!
Beautiful video, absolutely incredible shots as per...also Happy Birthday Will!!!... bummer for the Myk... maybe the pretty olive version will be a nice replacement.
Thanks Galvatron ahaha! Im hoping the olive fella serves as a good replacement too, going to try thoroughly test it to make sure nothing that I can control goes wrong lol!
Happy birthday, I hope the brickonos doesn’t spoil the day. Congratulations to Maya!
Thanks Samuel, it didn't at all! That was a 25 event, 26 is a whole new year lol! I'll forward your congrats to Maya :)
Waiting for Mamiya 7 150mm lens review 🙌🏼
As soon as one crosses my path it'll happen haha!
Happy Birthday and Happy Holidays too. I'm not a big fan of rangefinders. I have two but they aren't my favorites. I bought a Fujica GW690 and I have my dad's very old Argus C3. I can use them but focusing can be tricky, at least for me. I need to experiment with zone focusing I guess. Send me that Hasselblad, I need that Hasselblad. I have both a 500C and a 503Cx. I got the 503 because the 500C has lots of sentimental value for me. I have the 50, 80, 120, 150 and 180 lenses for them but lately I use the 503 more than the 500. Again Happy Birthday and send me that Hasselblad
Ahahahah I’ll send you that Hasselblad once it’s been sent to me first Bob! It really is glorious, so precisely machined, and every frame is like a max resolution scan from my Imacon but instant! Want to have a proper tinker with some of the files from it to see how close I can get the look to be to medium format film, but it’s reaaally special for sure!
Where is this place, it photographs very nicely.
HAAPY BIRTHDAY FOR YESTERDAY MR.SHEEPSKIN!
THANKS FOR BEING THERE MISS SAREMBOCK!
The gear pron aside, where do one find that East Wrapper thing? 2:45
I’m not sure, might be a bit of a vintage thing but it’s really cool, sort of like semi Velcro material that sticks to itself haha!
Happy late birthday my man thanks for all the content you put out 🙏🏻
Thanks a ton Cody, only a pleasure as always haha!
This is super impressive , my Mamiya 6 50mm flares so bad when shooting into the sun I am so impressed by these pics.
It really is spectacularly non-flarey haha, just not quite as non existent as some might suggest ;), new grail lens lol!
happy birthday!!!! thanks for another great vid
Thanks Mike! You are most welcome!
Great now I wanna buy a Mamiya 7. Thanks a lot William!!! 😩🤣😩
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎈
Ahaha they’re lovely but way too expensive currently! Thanks so much for the birthday wish!
Happy Birthday Will! Wish you many good photos and less camera failures!
As for the lens I've never liked wide lenses because of the distortion but this one looks really good.
btw the other flower is called "Nerium oleander"
Cheers Lyubomir! This one and that 16mm are like my grail lenses now cus of the low distortion haha, the joys of rangefinder optics! Also thanks for the heads up on the flower, gonna have a look into them now, love learning new things like that!
I feel like this video highlights the eternal conflict of Mamiya lovers: stick with the rugged, mechanical mass of the RB67 or risk the potential electronics issues with the sleek and lightweight Mamiya 7.
I'm sticking with my RB67 for now...but the way this 43mm renders does speak to me....
Fantastic video. Thanks for it. And Merry Christmas!
It speaks to me too for sure haha! Can't say I'd pass on it if one became available locally - I guess time will tell haha. Glad you enjoyed the video Ben, my Christmas was lovely hope yours was too!
That guy at 6:44 in the background seemed real interested in what you doing lol.
I really wish he'd spoken to me so I'd have known what was going through his mind lol!
Happy birthday Willy! Didnt mind the underexposed shots. Gave a real mis en scene.
Thanks Sunny! I'm glad you like the shots, I'm feeling some of them a bit more now but would probably still rather have a good negative and then choose to make things dark rather than being forced into it by my mess up aha!
These shots are so cool. The closest I can get to super wide is a flippen 16mm on a digital camera and it doesn't even compare to how cool that is. Sorry about the nikinos and Belated Congrats MAYA!!!!
Cheers mr. gpcy! 16mm on digi is still very cool, I hope to get a fisheye like that for the video cam I'm going to pick up soon hopefully haha! I'm coming to terms with the Nikonos already, but big shoutout to Maya indeed!
the guy at 6:19 was really interested in what you were doing haha
He really was ahaha, was funny noticing him when I looked back on the video footage, I wonder what he was thinking lolol
Used the 43mm for a few decades for transparencies/underexposed Velvia 1 stop, got beyond perfect pics, now some of them are priceless. The 50 and 65mm are excellent too, rather the 65 as a normal lens, use the 43mm like you would a Hassy SWC.
Happy birthday!
Thanks Michael!
06:19 man to the left standing there like 🧍♂️
He knew what the lens was he was plotting a heist ahaha
Hey William!
There is no way mounting the 37mm with Mamiya 7?
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Happy Birthday Will! :D
Cheers Jakob!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks Joshua!
6:53 my god...
Cheers man! Was stoked with that one too, although curious how it might have rendered with the 80mm haha!
6:53 is so fucking good bruv
Thanks man, was quite a cool scene with how the light was falling! I wonder if it might have been better with a closer crop like the 80mm would have given, but definitely stoked to have gotten a photo at all haha!
@@willysheepskin Nah I think it; perfect. The wideness of it adds so much depth and context, and really frames the people perfectly with their long shadows, whereas a cropped photo would have destroyed alot of these small atmospheric details that I really think add to the shot.
It's interesting to see how the imacon scanner sees underexposure of protra as magenta redish, when i get my scans back from a noritsu frontier, they are always green lol. Much prefer the underexposed look though! as is with the 7:05 image.
Ahah I've set mine up quite specifically to lean more towards the magentas than the greens, cus the Imacon can definitely end up quite green if one lets it lol! Glad you dig that one Samuel, a really cool example of how special the lens is for landscapes!
Merry Christmas 🎅
And Happy Birthday 🎂
Merry Christmas Anna! I hope your festive season is lovely! And thank you for the birthday wish!
#WIDEBOIS #SHEEPSQUAD
#SPECIALISTSQUAD #RETURNOFTHESPECIALIST
Happy birthday 🥳
Thanks Mehran!
Hope the nik is repairable
Me too! Waiting for the repair guy to get back to me with some thoughts haha
sick video
Thank you!
I LOVED the photo at 5:51..the colours, the light! 🤌 💜
haha thank you kind fish! I reckon that's my favorite as well, the fence was very interesting looking and lent itself quite well to the wide angle I think!
lmao 6:20 dude took hella interest in you..?
ahahah I feel like he was wondering what on earth I was up to lol!
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I think you’re going to see a difference between this 43mm lens and the 37mm mainly because the 43 is a rectilinear (corrected) lens, whereas the 37 is a fisheye (non corrected) lens.
Thanks for pointing that out Mike! I should probably get into that at some point actually, the main goal in comparing the rb fisheye to this was just to give an example of the rendering from the widest lenses available for the mam7 and the rb, but definitely worth mentioning the idea of rectilinear things going forward! Cheers!
Hey Will. Love your passion for photography. Would be really great to see images of the other 90% of SA society.
Hi David, thank you!
There is much to the society of South Africa I have yet to present on this channel for sure - this particular video is a lens review.
The main issue with heading out with the specific intent of photographing “the other 90% of SA society” as you put it is that if I’m heading out into the world to make photographs of people and then show them to folks outside of South Africa I would feel like I was presenting subjects not as people, but as a museum exhibit, and profiting off of the position other folks find themselves in in life.
If some day I find myself in the position to make a photographic body of work that I feel will positively impact “the other 90% of SA society” then I shall surely go out and make that work.
Heading out to make photographs purely so that I can satiate the curiosity of an international audience or appeal to the somewhat misguided idea that photographing someone in a moment of crisis will somehow help them is not something I am particularly keen on.
My deliberate focus on my close circle of friends and other non controversial subject matter on this channel is not for the purpose of idealising South Africa, or brushing issues under the rug, rather I am acutely aware of the inherently exploitative nature of making photographs of “the other 90% of SA society” for no reason.
There is a series of videos on my channel called “rural South Africa on medium format film” where I’m out in a town in the middle of nowhere and offer some thoughts on some of the uniquely South African interactions that come about being in that location. I shall surely return there sometime when I can afford to, and shall continue making work there where I feel comfortable photographing people that give me their informed consent.
I’m not going to head out to kayletisha or Mitchell’s plain or grassy park or turn my camera on someone in a moment of crisis to appease the curiosity of someone that lives in a bubble and will never see these things for themselves - which is the express purpose of photographing people in disadvantaged positions when the only platform for the images to live is a film photography RUclips channel.
Hope that makes sense
should have been a purple stool color for architecture.....
Not at UCT haha! Architecture is part of the engineering and sciences faculty there so they get green - at least I think that's the reason - but green is deffo right here!
@@willysheepskin South Africa has things very different than the states. it would be orange then for engineering schools
you are the new negative feedback
Ahah honored to hear it!
That’s what happen when you buy non serviced nikonos , and show how to check it (which is the wrong way) and still brave enough to submerge it , open the rewind lever screw and make yourself nice tea 🍵
Yah... Someone's new to the channel 🙈.
Hey man if you tell me the right way to check things I’ll be happy to share that, I’ve always been very clear about the fact that my knowledge is based off of things I’ve managed to learn through use and what I’ve managed to scrounge on the internet - and that things are still fallible once you’ve serviced all the user accessible o rings, please let me know where I’ve gone wrong so that I can avoid it with my next Nikonos haha!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks Aleksander!