I’ll Never Use A Digital Camera Again
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This is a hard pill to swallow, but after trying time after time to give digital photography a chance. I have accepted the fact that I was born for film haha. I brought out the Hasselblad 500c/m with the 907X digital back. Long story short, because of my personal preference I decided to use the Pentax 67 with ILFORD HP5. A wonderful black & white film I use. I hope you all rock with this one.
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I came from Digital -> Film and the main thing that's keeping me from shooting digital is mainly the process!
FILM is Actually FUN
I think a lot of people can relate with that
Absolutely bro!
I kinda relate!my nephew have been shooting some stuff for people over the years, I gave him a D5100 back in 2013 and he filled his 64gb cards up pretty fast he says!with film you actually have to set up lighting in the right places pretty much every time, with digital you take a shitload of pics that can be edited in post pretty fast!George Hurrell is my fav photografer of all time!
@@bernhardtsen74 yea! It definitely makes you be more intentional with your work (at least for myself)
@@bernhardtsen74 : Yes, film is fun. I show many photos after I joined the U.S. Air Force. Cameras were so cheap overseas, no customs to worry about. The bases I were at had photo labs and it was full of people processing B&W and color.
Shooting film disciplines you more as you have a limited number of shots on a roll. Also, printing your B&W photos is something else. Here we can pixel peep but this time looking at the grain, crop and print. Nothing like making your own masterpiece from start to finish.
Now I am digital but amazingly, I am turning more to manual settings and focusing to get the best from my cameras. I like auto exposure and focus most of the time, but it certainly gets in the way on many occasions. It's like shooting with my old Nikons, being in total control.
I spent thirty years of my career shooting film, both stills and cinema, as a photographer and cinematographer and while I’d go back to shooting moving image on film in a heartbeat ( for some jobs ) there’s no way I’d be working again with stills on film. For black and white wild horses couldn’t drag me back into a darkroom after the miserable thousands of hours I spent there and no way would I go back to color transparency with its narrow exposure latitude, even on beautiful Kodachrome. Actually, the one thing I do miss a bit is the image control on 8x10, but only a bit. I now go on assignment with 4k cinema camera , 50mp stills and a 4K drone in one large flight case. I also don’t miss the trips to the color lab etc. Of all the many cameras I’ve owned over about 50 years ( all the ‘legendary’ ones) my favorites of all time have been my iPhones. So there!!!!
😂😂😂😂
Horses for courses. I think film is more for artists and digital more for professional photographers.
@@sexysilversurfer possibly. I tried using film again a few years ago, as I still have a lot of the cameras etc ( up to 5x4 anyhow) but some of my favourite emulsions are no longer available and even some developers are hard to get, especially in large formats and sheet film. I shot some 35 and scanned etc but I found I could get very similar results with digital. If I still had my 8x10 gear and could my emulsions in that size I might be tempted. I think the only reason I’d use film again is for 5x4 and 8x10. I made specially modified lenses for both formats ( used for so called ‘art photography ) back in the day and they need that size of image to be able to work.
@@paulhicks3595 Seen some great photos taken on iPhone, but if I even suspect an image has been taken on an iPhone I just pass it by. No interest to me whatsoever. It’s just not what I’m into.
@@sexysilversurfer I get what you’re saying, but statements of such general assumption tend to be easily proven wrong. Same goes for the person saying he/she passes on iPhone photos just cause they aren’t his/her thing. Seems as though we’re all racing to find some excuse to take ourselves too seriously.
I grew up learning in the analog age of photography and I appreciate and love all the skills that I had to learn in order to produce some good results (natural and strobe). You mentioned the process, you had to do a lot more thinking, planning, walking around and pay way more attention to details before you press the shutter. I still approach photography in the same way using digital. The sad part in todays environment is that it is no longer about photography, everything is about post editing, AI, Sky replacement, plug ins, filters etc. Personally, I find the same enjoyment in digital that I found in using film. Whatever makes people happy and as always I truly enjoy your work!
Thanks so much Rene. You’re absolutely right.
Preach!
I shoot Digital the same way I did film mentally , 36 frames per roll. I do not believe I have ever shot 500 frames which is almost 14 rolls of 36 frame film. one day the most I’ve every shot is probably seven rolls of film a day. Digital in someways It’s like a 45 automatic and a 45 submachine gun.
Similar path agree 100%, I think a lot of people forget the trickery that when on the the dark room as if Photoshop etc had just invented "editing". Definitely not going back , the only thing I miss is the satisfying wirrr of a motor drive .
Film forces you to get it right in-camera. You just can't get some things to look right if you try to fix it in post. Even though I primarily shoot in digital (time is money), I try to bring my film experience to my shooting. This actually saves me time in the digital darkroom and with better results
It may be a combination of Mike's photography and Cora's modeling skills or something but Cora is INCREDIBLE!!!! I LOVE all of her work!!! Fantastic Model!!!
Wow, thank you!
@@MikeGrayFilm Ohhh No thank you for continuing to make these dope a$$ videos and giving the world a behind the scenes look at what you do and how you do it! I appreciate you sharing a little bit of your creativity with me over the years! So no... I believe I should be saying, Thank You Mike!
I wanna see you develop and scan your own feel that’s what we need!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 can’t wait for the next vid
Soon!
I noticed Photography class in junior college some of the students I feel are only there to use the chemical,Develop and printing equipment which is much cheaper to do if you sign up to monitor the class.
OKAY MIKEEE! 🤣 not the modelling direction actually being fire. Beautiful as always!
I'm the same dude. Most people start digital and find it super challenging and hindering when trying film. But if you start the other way around its all you know and you are forced to learn how to properly expose but in my opinion with digital photos, editing is where the magic happens. When I get my film scans back, that magic is already there and the editing just enhances it!
P.S. I hope your quarantine wasn't too depressing, all the best dude :D
Facts.
I appreciate it man. I’m out now but it wasn’t easy at all haha 🙌🏾
Forreal I started on film and I find digital stressful especially with all the settings :D
@@shanillakhlani5331 I know right? It’s a hassle sometimes.
Someone hasnt played in a darkroom.
Youll go running back to lightroom lol.
love the energy you bring on the set !! so chill and easy going ! you look so at peace with what you do ! keep it up bro
I appreciate it Sam 🙌🏾
I think the one thing I really dislike about digital is, everyone takes pictures the same exact way and we try and replicate it. I'm guilty of doing it from time to time and falling into these traps rather than breaking out of the trap to find my own style/voice. Film makes it easier for me to do so, it's just me and my skillset. If something goes wrong, it's my fault and lightroom or photoshop can't help me.
That’s the truth
Just a point of concern. It looked like you had the protection cover on the Aputure during operation. That's super sketchy if you did because the plastic will melt and start fuming. It should never be used as a diffuser. For modifiers, a fresnel or a P70 with a grid should be used for this kind of lighting, or just bare chip with flags. Also, when using bare chips, you can see some projection artifacts cast from the chip surface especially if you're using smoke/mist. It's fine for film but high res sensors can pick it up. Peace.
Thanks for the info
Spent 25 years in the photofinishing business in several ways. Ive shot digital, 35mm film, 645 film and 690 film. All have their place but I truly enjoy shooting film more. Love Velvia and Provia. Anything that gets you out and relax and shoot, be it film or digital.
I think the picture of the model sitting on the table was the best...but the ace was the model in the tube with her arms out in front looking up. Beautiful. I eye my RB67 occasionally, and the large tub of 120 film..but my Hasselblad H6 always calls me back. I love doing monochrome on my H6 and Phocus software. Horses for courses I guess, but, as others have said, I probably wouldn't go back to film, although I used to throughly enjoy the processing and printing. As an aside, if one doesn't like digital because of the immediacy of the results, one can always resist looking at the digital back, or just switch it off. Anyway, I absolutely love your videos, and it is great to see you enjoying the process of film photography, much as I did for a good 35 years of my life. Best wishes..David in the UK
I'll keep shooting both mediums, but film just hits differently. As always, great content man!
As you should man! Thank you.
Born analog on a rangefinder, moved to a Nikkormat SLR, then went full digital, today a Sony alpha user, watching all your videos, now dusting off my dad’s old Nikon F1 and just ordered a bunch of Ilford rolls 😳
Love your channel!
Thanks a lot bro! Haha
One thing I started doing with digital images is not looking at the images right away. Sometimes giving it a couple days or even weeks. I find I can judge pictures by how I actually feel about them instead
A great idea
I have been shooting since 1994 when I picked up a PENTAX K1000…after it got stolen, I moved on to digital and haven’t looked back…until I picked up a Canon A-1 for $150 last month. I bought two rolls of Ilford 500 and I am STILL working my way through that first roll! Now, I’m trying to scour the Net for a F6! 😩 Film is just so intimate. I am glad that it’s making a comeback! 👍🏾
Likewise man!
that harsh light plus BW is dope
Throwback vibes 🙌🏾
Great photos and always a very enjoyable and candid discussion. Your passion for that final result comes through and its both inspiring and exciting. I was a DIE HARD film fan until about 2007. Today, the capture ability of digital is crazy (as long as you protect the highlights which negative film does naturally). So try a B&W digital back and put tape across your live screen if you want. Anyhow, I have the luxury of shooting with some “exotic” (or expensive) pieces of equipment. For example, the Leica M10M with the new 35APO makes me feel as though I have an old 4x5 B&W press camera in the palm of my hand. And the Phase One B&W IQ150 can truly rival 8x10 film. Anyhow, the most important thing as you well note is to shoot with a camera that inspires you to take the photos that you do with the beautiful lighting set-ups here. For that, it seems the Pentax has become almost part of you and that comes through in every part of the shoot. Its awesome. Enjoy the Thai food btw!
Thanks so much Stephen!
Nice photos. I am strictly an outdoor shooter for my personal work but do go to events and conventions where i shoot indoors. I love the tree prop. More indoor shoots should have interesting setups like this.
This year I upgraded to the Fuji GFX system after shooting large and medium format (including the P67) film for ten years. All I can say is that the GFX is better in every way and the novelty of film does wear off eventually.
If there is one digital system that can give you the proper LOOK of film, it’s Fujifilm!
I feel the same with my Z7, tbh I put my little Xe3 side by side with my RZ67 and it downright spanked it.
Gelatin-Siver is my medium. ♡
I am now 72, a painter, copperplate engraver and passionate about photography, ... film ..
35mm, 6x6 Hasselblad,
and all formats with classic Linhof cameras, from 6x7cm to 5x7 inch.
My Black&White photography is a "P.F.Z." ... a what?
"Pixel Free Zone".
Keep the faith my friend. 👌
I LOVED THIS VIDEO!
☆☆☆☆☆
Kevin, studio in Thailand, but stranded in the Philippines, now since March 2020.
I love that
Again, another great video. Keep doing it Mike.
Thank you!
I always love seeing my film after developing---especially my medium format stuff. I'm really enjoying watching your journey. Thanks for continuing to share it.
Of course man. Thank YOU for supporting the art 🙌🏾
Like many in the 80s-the early ‘00s’, I cut my professional photographic teeth on film, both B&W and chromes and I at times miss shooting film so occasionally pulling out an old F1 load her up with a roll of Ecktachrome and go nuts, but would I go back, especially while making a living at image making….? No way in hell!
This setup it’s insane! 💥💥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks bro!!!
I´m going through an interesting moment: after almost 30 years I´m shooting in film again but I must confess is like starting all over again. First because I have more decisions to make with my new equipament that are more complexes than the almost "point and shoot" cameras that I got before and I´m in the process of fiding the film stock that suites me the most. I has been a expensive but marvelous process and I share some remarks you do in this video about digital x film. Hope soon I reach a photo quality I observed in your Instagram (lol). Thanks for sharing your way and I send you a warm regard from Brazil.
Depends on what your shooting. Digital B/W is very hard to do well and film typically destroys it(monochrome sensors don't solve the issue). I do like color digital though.
True
Real classic Hollywood feel to those portraits. Beautiful work.
Thank you.
I watched some of your videos in the past but I got to this one and, MAN WTF !?!?! I just sticked to this pictures. Awesome, really terrific work
Thank you!
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, courtesy of RUclips's algorithm I suppose as I tend to watch a fair amount of film photography content (though mostly of the street photography genre). Though I've never delved too deeply into digital myself, I think it's safe to say that both film photography and digital photography each have their relative strengths and weaknesses. As a hobbyist, I can shoot whatever I like, so I've stuck with film. However, I'd imagine for professionals, the demands of the particular job or the client's specific needs might determine the final choice for most.
As far as this video goes, I'm glad that it turned up in my feed. I really appreciate the fact that you focussed (no pun intended) on the actual process involved, rather than taking the talking head approach demonstrated by so many others (interspersed with just a few images). Looking at the setting in that house as seen in the video, I was initially somewhat concerned about how the final images might turn out. I should know better as I worked as a darkroom technician for a professional photographer decades ago and sometimes assisted with shoots. Regardless, black & white sure seems like it was the right call in this case (the proof is in the pudding as the saying goes, those final images are gorgeous).
As far as your model is concerned, what you describe as a bit of a 50's or 60's movie star vibe as seen in these shots I would simply call timeless beauty. You, your model and your assistant knocked it out of the park with the tub shot - beautiful. As for the two images of her on the table top that you've asked about, I prefer the shot where she is laying down, but it's hard to say as that particular background appearing behind the table struck me as maybe a bit too prominent or busy looking (?) as compared to most of the other images you shared from this shoot. If you were ever to share more about the lighting, composition and exposure decisions you make in order to reach your end goal, I would definitely watch (maybe you've covered this in other videos?). Overall this was a very nicely done video and as I said before the final results are gorgeous. I tip my cap to yourself, your model, and your assistant (along with your videographer of course). I'll be sure to check some of your other videos.
Thanks so much for that man. I truly appreciate it.
Great stuff as always! Of the two "table shots" I prefer the left one (where she sits). I love the triangular shape and the classic "hand behind the head" pose.
Likewise man. I agree. Thank you!
Love this bro! you're killing it with the uploads lately, the intro editing was straight fire! As someone who also started shooting film over digital (originally because film was cheaper to get into) I agree with all your thoughts about how working in digital is cumbersome! If you not part of the family you stupid join the scheme hahaha
Hahaha I appreciate it bro!
But yes most definitely.
I cry at the beautiful pictures you take bro.
Thank you.
The images were just fantastic. Everything about them
excellent video, made your point very clear, loving it. Cool model, great and beautiful images.. Way to go, big thumbs up !
Thank you!!!
Film and digital have it's pros and cons. One con that is not feasible for many is that film is more expensive to produce. I never downplay the use of photoshop. It's the same thing the masters have used for decades in film The only difference is that one is in the dark room and the other is in a computer. Follow whatever motivates or inspires you. That is the most important thing.
Very true
great images as usual! And Cora is gorgeous! Always enjoy watching your content!
Thanks so much Scott!
I love black and white photos. I getting back into photography i have the 500cm the x pan. And I print my photos. I like your work. Keep it up
That’s great. Thank you.
im set on buying this camera lmao! ur videos have helped with wanting to take pictures again! great work
I came up on film, but never tried doing the darkroom stuff. But back then, there were a lot of labs to take the film to. That is something that it is getting hard to do these days, unless you live in a larger city like new York or L.A.
I have found some of the places that you can send the film to will develop the film and send you the files, and some will make prints, but they destroy the negatives. Perhaps that will get better if film gets more popular, but being from the time there were so many places to take film, it seems so limited now. Not impossible, but a lot harder than it was back in the early 80’s when I got into it.
But I still have my bronica ETR and lenses, as well as a few 35mm slr cameras, because I do drag them out from time to time, because there is something different in the look of film.
I can agree, I do shoot digital for certain things. But, film is a different medium and have produced my by best work with film. I don’t know why, buts that is just my experience.
Something about it man
You got me man, very very very very nice. Also your Model. Great. Greatings from Berlin
Great! Bumpend on your channel and it was a sort of love at first sight. Follow that road, you’re doing great! Greetings from Belgium (Europe). I immediately became “member"
Thank you!!
That bathtub shot is amazing. Big Elizabeth Taylor vibes.
Thanks Greg!
Film is a *very* different mindset than digital. When I shoot fine art, I prefer film because of the emotion behind the look of it. Landscapes, where I shoot digital, is easy for me to shoot for the post-processing. It's easy and fun for me to look at something and go, "I'm going to focus stack and need to also do some luminosity masking so I can expose for the dramatic overcast skies."
Both are fun as hell. I love processing photos in photoshop. I also love getting it all right before I hit the shutter button. One isn't better than the other. I will say, I like using digital for test shots, though. It's saved me thousands of dollars, I'd say.
Are you filming this in film camcorder?
👏👏Loving these numbers,
go back up again. So many amazing comments😻
Excited about this movie.
By now, your probably already killing it. You already know dude. Much❤️
Thank you so much!!!
@@MikeGrayFilm 💯✨
how can you install a tree inside your apartment for photography?
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This the cinepacks studio?
Another great shoot. One of my rules in life is never say never. Safe travels to Thailand
Thanks Mark. 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ haha
I had two Pentax 67s and sold them both when the prices soared. I miss them.
Now I use a Nikon F2 with Nikkor 50mm f1.4 and Nikkor 105mm f2. 5 105 lenses. I also use a 1957 Yashica Mat with the 75mm Lumaxar f3.5 lens.
I use Trix or HP5 developed in Rodinal and print in my bathroom /darkroom with my 1959s condenser enlarger through Schneider Componon S lenses.
I love using Ilford and Foma papers.
It's all about the print for me.
I do use one digital camera that is always in my pocket as it is very small. The 8.1 megapixel Ricoh gr digital set to black and white at 800 iso with the contrast and sharpness set up a bit. Stealthy and silent.
Nice!
Seen you switching between arri and aputure, wonder which model of Aputure are you using in this shoot? Thanks for all the videos. Very inspirational.
300d! Thank YOU for supporting!
Were you guys using the COB protector as a diffusion on the aputure?
It was just fine
I used to work in a local photo lab, yeah, they still exist, and always had conversations about digital versus film with various photographers. The fact that film can reproduce the darker or blacker areas of film, and why digital can't. When you see digital photographs with all that pixellated noise (green/blue/red/purple/yellow grainy areas) it's because the digital world/sensor hasn't caught up to it yet, where the film did it's job without question, the digital sensor is still trying to figure out what the shadowed/black portions of each shot is, so it uses all the colors to try to make it black, instead of just using black. It's weird, but you're right. Film for photography AND film making is still king.
Very true
🔥🔥🔥 as always!!
You apart of the magic! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Been at it for over 50 years. I don't miss film. Film is great but you have to work best with the tools you have. The same thing can be said about vinyl vs CD, we have a lot of folks going around dismissing digital audio because they love the sound of those distortions associated with vinyl better. I think people just want to escape reality and not deal with accuracy in the world as it really is whether it comes from a digital camera or digital music source. For younger folks, it's the excitement of using something older or traditional because they may not have grown up with it. Beautiful photos and beautiful model by the way.
Maybe you’re right. I still think it’s more efficient 🙌🏾👍🏾
I discovered film the second year of me shooting photos. And for the whole year I didn't even touch my digital camera. The barrier for me is the cost even though I love the process. I'm not sure how it's gonna go with these prices nowadays
The black and white looks amazing Mike!!👌
Thanks so much Victor!
The first image on the table. The light on her is fantastic, and we’re family😬
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. Indeed we are.
I'm shooting digital now for practice once I become comfortable with my photography skills, I'll definitely switch to film because it makes you think more before taking a shot
Thanks Buddy realy nice approaching and explanation you doing really good I appreciate that more video please✌️✌️✌️
Thank YOU
Having just returned to film for the process that I love, really enjoyed this episode. I can empathise with Paul but gel with you and Rene. The process is key. Gotta love the process as it underpins you as a photographer, imho. Good work Cora, love the boots. You mentioned movie style, check out any of George Hurell's work.
absolutely you're right!
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Just discovered ur page and am now a big fan! 🎉
Thanks for subbing!
There are some serious Gregory Crewdson vibes going on here
Hey Mike, very inspiring video. what do you use to meter your shots ?
Thanks a lot. Because I’m so comfortable with my Pentax I usually only use the internal meter
how do you film your videos? :)
Must admit the image in the bathtub is just awesome, 40s-50s Hollywood. For me I like the image on left (as we look at the screen) only cos the straight lines behind her are straight, if the image was straightened then that would be so close, maybe to close for me to call.
Thanks for the feedback Paul
Per Kodak when they were putting out the first Nikon and Canon Digitals. You need 54MP to match a 35mm film for information from the image.
And film still advanced at that time.
For a 6x7 film shoot that's 270MP. And if you go to a 4x5 I haven't added up the MP it is comparable too but you get the idea. And Playboy shot the centerfold on 8x10 Film. ;-)
I do like digital. I like my 5ds R's for sharpness and what it does through L glass more then any digital out now. Specifically the EF 85 F1.2 ll and the EF 200mm F2 lenses. But the new R5 nails focus almost every time which is just insanely nice and allows a work flow Film never could match.
For Film, I still shoot my Bronica GS1. Favorites for that are the base 100mm, The amazing 200mm. And the almost impossible to find in it's day but now is on Ebay 500mm. I shot it during it's hey day and never even saw the 500mm lens anywhere. Their was even talk that none had ever been built since it was around $25,000 in it's day. Now I own 2. The newest production lens, the 80mm, is pretty special too with it's leading class coatings over all the other lenses. I went with the GS because i liked the glass over the Hasselblad. And I have a Hasselblad I shot. Even a underwater housing for it i used to use.
I also will say, photography is purely how you light the scene. I still have and use old Norman power packs with the FS10 Fresnel and Spotlites. Nothing matches that Tungsten look. But the new Apeture F10 Fresnel sure comes close. I've really enjoyed using it with digital cameras. Not to mention the expanse of different lighting options from Godox. I was a ELB Elinchrom user but the Godox system is a lot easier, more reliable, and has a ton more options for lighting a scene. Now I rarely pull out the Elinchrom. Unless its super bright out and then Elinchrom comes out to use the HS instead of the Godox's HSS.
Nice man.
Absolutely nailed the bathtub shots in particular, really love the movie star quality they exude
Thanks a lot!
Lol. Yo dawg you’re such an inspiration, not to me only but to a lot of photographers out there 🔥
I appreciate you bro
If film is better than digital why has almost everyone moved to digital?
Truth is people feel nostalgic about lots of things, old cars, antique furniture, vinyl records - and film.
That doesn't make any of these better than what replaced them, they were replaced for a reason, and the reason must have been a good one for that replacement to become permanent.
Fair enough haha
I started shooting film since 1965 , switched to digital and never looked back.
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I came from film, I've gone back to film. It just so much more satisfying.
It truly is
Well done- the bathtub shot was awesome- love love loved it.....- I think it was a bathtub- I have been playing with film of late- love how it slows me down- and makes me think....... and trying out different film types.... well done- looking forward to more from you!
Thank you!
Hey hey... I recognized that Pentax 6x7, but wasn't sure until I saw it listed in your comments. I owned it when it first came out as an affordable alternative to the RB67.
After a rather long career using film, both medium format and 35mm, there's no love lost (by me) when going to digital. After reminiscing about "the good old days," I did pick up a camera I used professionally during my early career, a Contax RTS, which was an upgrade from my Canon cameras. In fact, I've recently looked around for an AE-1 since that was my first camera, purchased new, before doing pro photography. I learned pro photography on a Rolliflex twin lens reflex, then toward the sunset of my career, worked some number of years with square format (Hasselblad)... then back to 35mm with Nikon, and finally, the Canon original 11 mp EOS 1Ds in my final year.
I guess I wouldn't mind having a Hasselblad as a collector's item, maybe even use once in a while. For that matter, going back to my teenage days, I'd take a Rolliflex for a spin again. But truth be told, digital technology is comparatively so fantastic, that it just doesn't make sense to spend serious money on film.
If I did a shoot with a Hassy or even that Pentax 6x7 vs. my Canon R5, I'd find much more joy and significantly less stress using the Canon. Having the ability to review pictures while on the job cannot be understated. The cost of a higher volume output becomes a significant factor. Back in the day when using a Hassy, the cost for film, developing, and professional printing cost about $1.25 per exposure. With 350 to 400 exposures on a job, that cost adds up. Which means, variety over duplication, so as to not waste film. That risks certain shots being defective (blinks, etc.) if not picked up during the shoot. It also meant using tricks to minimize blinks and other problems that could be missed. The R5 suffers no such restrictions. Further, niceties like sensor stabilization, focus magnification, and instant review mitigates problems with inadvertent camera shake. And then, lens selection... speaking of which, cutting edge technology and eye autofocus, makes it darned near impossible to manually match focus accuracy, something for which I hated autofocus most of my career. Now, to match tack sharpness of eye autofocus, one must use focus magnification, and make darned sure that subject distance doesn't change by even a quarter of an inch (long lens, open aperture) to avoid telltale blooming of the spectral highlight from just barely missing focus.
So, that's a lot to give up when turning away from digital technology. Of course, while film can well tolerate overexposure, digital is rather forgiving of underexposure. So, digital can blow out highlights, whereas under exposed film will look milky with unrecoverable details. Thus, with either technology, it's important to understand strengths and weaknesses, and play to them.
Maybe look back at this video in a few years and see if "never again" still holds true?
Here's the bottom line. Do what you enjoy!
love the intro!!!
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Beautiful work bro 👍
Thank you so much
Thanks, that was really enjoyable. I went back to film too. 1975-2004 film. 2005-2018 digital. 2019- film.
Thanks a lot
Another 🔥 as video bro! Keep em coming!
Thanks a lot!
Outstanding work. And she is good too. 5:49 I am subscribing.
Thank you so much
You're absolutely right film > digital and even then black and white film is the king!
Big facts Chris.
@@MikeGrayFilm We can look forward to more black and white shoots from you in the future?
the title is hilarious already, lets go
Lmaoooo
The photo of her laying down on her back is my favorite.
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Who does your scans? Know any good places?
The Icon Los Angeles
Really interesting thanks Mike. It’s the second shot for me, the one with Cora lying on the table. Must have been your modelling for her that enabled her to perfect it! 😜
Haha I appreciate it
Great lighting and wonderful mono tones film and the darkroom is pure magic
Thanks so much
I still have my first and only film cameras, which I used for 7 years, the Canon EOS 5 and A2. I recently printed a couple of photos from those years and have them on my wall. I have not shot film for 17 years but watch mostly film photographers these days. I find that digital just works better for my life and photography these days, but I love the aesthetics of film photographers and enjoy watching the innocent love of photography among a lot of the newer shooters. I like to say I shoot digital like a film photographer. Do what you love. Your love of film shows in your work.
I appreciate that Dan
I want a freakin' tree in my living room. Love that photog's huge Pentax 6x7 camera.
Thank you.
it looks like a lolita lampika perfume set up
I can rock with that haha 👍🏾
I would love to get into film photography but I don’t know the first step to take in order to make it happen
Buy that entry level film camera!
Definitely got a 60s vibe from the photos them thangs is icy ❄️. Of the 2 you ask the one when she is laying down was my fav forsure!
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I spent many, many hours in the darkroom, peering through grain enlargers, testing print exposure strips, and inhaling smelly chemicals. I've been digital since 2000. No regrets. No romanticizing over the past.
Salute to your film service haha
These photos were fireeee I get strong Poison Ivy vibes haha
I can see that haha. Thanks my guy!!!
came from digital from only shooting street photography and every since i started film i feel you on the part where looking at a digital image and shooting it and seeing the result right away just doesnt feel right anymore
100% man
The main advantage of digital is the instant proof that you have something, and the post processing you can do in Photoshop etc. There's nothing worse than getting home from a shoot and after (or during) processing the film something goes wrong and everything is gone forever and you're left with nothing. Film is largely a pain, but you should use both if you really want film. I used to use FP5 40-50 years ago.
The beauty of it all haha
i agree, i started with film, once i switched to digital I never really looked back. that's like going to a new better wife, and still having feelings for the ex...
The luminescent quality that film gives with bounced light, especially off organics like skin, is still hard to get with photo-electric.
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I have fired film now for 56 years and see no reason to stop what I do!!
I do a little bit of digital using my IPhone and it’s okay !!
March this year I found a camera pro body I had been looking for, I’m very happy with the results of the film!!
I prefer to have pro slide film for the end results !!
Nice!
What type of film have you used for both color and BW?
Portra 400 color | Tri-X & ILFORD B&W
@@MikeGrayFilm amazing! What tipe of Ilford? Fp4 100 or more?
@@skullerhead6150 HP5. I’ve even shot delta 3200 quite a few times. Just depends on the feel I want