The imprint from the film carrier during processing is an easy fix (pardon the pun). It has most likely occurred because you loaded the film with the emulsion side 'in' against the ribs of the carrier. Simply load the film with the emulsion side 'out', by holding the film in your right hand with the notches in the upper right hand corner and then loading it into the carrier which is held underneath in your left hand. Hope this helps (and I also hope that I am not repeating something already mentioned in previous comments). Nice videos by the way, always entertaining to watch.
I have the same Stearman tank, I wonder if the two shots that were marked may have been loaded with the emulsion resting on the frames rather than facing out into the chemistry?
I have the same tripod but found it too unstable when using heavier large format cameras. I also found the ball head moved around too much as you put in dark slides. I've since moved to an ifootage (which I picked up at half price on special) with a bowl head. Never had a problem since.
It's not ideal for heavy cameras. It has been fine for me though. I forgot I had one of the legs slightly extended from where it was taking the photo on uneven ground near the water. It is my second one though as the other wore out quickly!
You asked about why we shoot film. For me, it's about very directly capturing the light at some specific time and place or event. It's about picking up a few seashells from the beach to remember the trip. Great video! Glad your lens survived the fall. Thank you for posting all this!
Yes! Thank you! I was just pleased the lens didn't get damaged. If it did I'd possibly would have continued but felt deeply upset inside. Happy days though!! 😀
Did exactly the same with a tripod last month. Set up my 6x16 reality so subtle on tripod. Turned to grab something from my bag, it fell over. I thought I was lucky, as it appeared fine then the film wouldn't advance. Turned out the impact had snapped the internal top plate. Fortunately James from reality so subtle, was able to send me the part.
Love your video's Love your discussions about compisitions and lenses. I shoot with a 35 mm SLR and happy to see you do too. Happy you show the problems you run into. I do run in problems now and then too.
Cheers Marco. It's too easy for me to cut the errors out and make myself look faultless but where's the fun in that! We all make mistakes somewhere and if someone can learn from mine ha ha
While watching your video I looked out the light was beautiful and the last of the Fall leaves looked fantastic. SO I paused the video and went out and shot about 10 frames of Kodak Vision 3 500T with my Nikon F with the 50mm 1.4 lens. Back to video now. I've also had issues with that tank. Also I've never dropped a camera or lens off a boat into 50 feet of water. Never did that
I do make them. Usually just a concentration blip! I was walking to my next location with tripod in hand then put it down to get the video camera. I still had one of the legs extended from the last scene! Thats why it toppled. And the negative issue! Just not thinking. I loaded the film with the emulsion side against the rack. We all get clumsy though! (I think)
Film not being properly attached happened to me once half way through a photo walk and as it was the only camera I had I couldn't take any more. Thankfully was able to just take off the spool in the dark room.
I shoot film because that it what I was raised on. I still have the first photo I ever took with my mother’s Kodak box camera way back in 1967. It was a big deal to me when 110 camera came along.
I shoot LF for the tilt/shift, for playing with the field of focus. It's the same reason I love my Lerouge pinhole, with crazy DoF and perspective capabilities 😁
I love reflections on water be it a lake or even wet pavements. When in Wales earlier this years I saw some great potential shots in sunny weather but stopping the car and getting out would have been downright risky. Narrow lanes, no pavements and people who can't drive at sensible speeds, made it far to dangerous as far as I was concerned. Your shot's reminded me of a Constable painting.
Yes there are lots of places I can't get to because I can't park up. I even got a bike for some of them but others are too much to cycle to being unfit! I think that lake would be awesome for infrared.
I use film because I enjoy it and because it’s what I’ve used since the beginning. I was always pestering my father to borrow his Ricoh rangefinder in the early 1970s. Finally in ‘74 my mum bought me a Diana F for my 9th birthday and she would process and print my films for me. I’ve loved film ever since
Thats a great story! As a nine year old getting a cool camera.Have you still got the Diana? I remember the same age I got a Hanimex 110 slim camera with a flash. It ended up as the family camera! And like you again in the 80s I would pester my much older Brother to use his Practika. So he got me a Kodak Disc camera! 😂 That was a bizarre thing! He never let me touch his camera! He sold it all in the end!
@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss Hi Roger, it’s fun that we both got our first at the same age :-) Yes, I still have the Diana, and still use it sometimes. It’s the model that came with the detachable flash but I have no bulbs for it so I only use the camera itself now. My older brother had a Polaroid Land camera that was fun. My first SLR was a Pentax Spotmatic, gifted from an aunt. I finally got a Praktica a few years ago, that thing is a beast! I think my favourite unusual camera is my Werra which is one I don’t think I’ve seen you use - time for you to get one? haha
That imprint on the film there, I have an earlier version of that same developer tank and I was crazy about that problem, The fix however I noticed was to simply dip the negative somewhere else before hanging it up for dry. It seems like the fixer does not flow out accordingly over the negative when seated in the carrier, so taking it out and dipping it somewhere before hanging did the trick!
I look forward to your videos. They always have interesting ideas and experiences and they are very well made. I shoot film because I want to use the medium as a art form. Film photographs evoke a different vibe than the clinical digital counterpart. I'm not referring to the technical deficiencies of film but rather the general feel of its images. Also, some subjects really are better to represent on film than others. Digital can do it all. When film photography came in, way back, painters vs photographers had similar issues. People still paint and film photographers still shoot interesting images. It isn't about being slavish to the final image quality but the art in it, at least, for me.
I can imagine the artists back in the days when photography started were worried it would take their living. And it did happen also with digital. Film photographers that couldn't get on in the computer world were suddenly out numbered with demand for digital. Many good photographers gave in. (I know a good fashion photographer that did just that). Film equipment was given away or put away and now it's all being shifted again.
Roger i had the same issue with the Stearman, happened on both sides ....talk about pissed off, I got up early and went to Pinjarra to shoot the Murrey river....disaster but subsequent negs have been good, go figure?
Great video, Boss. I hate when the tape doesn't hold the last bit of film to the spool. I've been adding a bit extra tape and squeezing it hard against the film and spool, and it seems to help. BTW those contact sheets really do look nice. I like that a lot! Keep it up, Boss!
I spent a dull day in the New Forest hoping to see the pigs. That didn’t happen, but there were plenty of horses, cows and deer which I shot using Kodak TriX 400 and a roll of Kentmere 400 on my F5 with a lovely Nikon 180mm f2.8. I now have to wait a few days for the negs to come back.
New Forest is beautiful for photography! As you say Pigs are not easy to spot. Last time I went there I took some carrots for the Horses and nearly got stampeded! I ran back to the car. I know they say not to feed them... Hope you got some great shots!
@@ShootFilmLikeaBossI should see when the negatives come back and I’ve scanned them. Just finnished doing long exposure at Hill Head using 10 stop ND and Delta 400 Pro. Used the Ilford reciprocity tables with extra seconds added.
I do wonder about bulk loading being cheaper once you count the total usable exposures off each roll. I tend to find that at least the first frame will have some kind of defect (actually, with the cheap plastic screw cap ones, it's a lot more than that), and then the last frame on the roll will usually have a defect too (and it's not always obvious when you are getting to the last frame). I've taken to bulk rolling 38 frames, which gets me close to what I get from an off-the-shelf ilford roll. All said, though, the one thing that I think will keep me bulk rolling is that space/packaging saving. There's just a lot less waste to deal with.
Hi mate. It is cheaper, but not by a great deal! Working it out say £70 for 17m of FP4. It’s £8.52 a roll of 36. So I’ll get around 8 rolls of 36 out of it or there abouts. Not much saving at all. And way less if you think of the wastage cutting away and losing a frame here and there from leakage. The beauty is I can load as many as I want to shoot (which leads to more wastage!). It's a love hate isn't it. ha ha. I've nearly done my recent FP4 17 meters so I am on the fence as to get a brick of ready made next time. But I'll more than likely get the 17m again! Best deal I was ever getting was ORWO UN54 100m was only £50! Now that WAS worth it!
Yes Mike it would! First thing I thought when I saw the first digital shots! I've never shot infrared!!! I must get that R72 and give it a shot! Maybe on that Lake.
I shoot film because that it what I was raised on. I still have the first photo I ever took with my mother’s Kodak box camera way back in 1967. It was a big deal to me when 110 camera came along.what was the camera bag you used Roger ?
Amazing you have your first negative Rick! The bag is K&F Concept. It was only about £70 and lasted the last three years and still no tears or zip issues. No review this week 😂.
I always find it difficult to find a good composition in large format when looking at an upside down and reversed image on the screen. Fortunately, some large format cameras (like my Toyo View 45a) allow you to use a mirror viewfinder, which I find very useful. I think a smartphone camera app that can show the correct (no longer mirrored and no longer upside down) composition when pointed at the screen would also be very useful. I don't know if such an app exists yet. Large format photography nowadays only makes sense in my opinion if you need really large prints or the tilt/shift capabilities of a large format camera. If I just want a sharper negative, I use something like a Fuji GW 690 III these days.
The GSW is great. Sharp too! LF isn't easy to compose when you don't shoot it everyday. I like to make contacts of the large format, I think they look good in frames.
There ís one thing you might try that may be the answer to your slippage with a bulk loaded film. Obtain from a mini lab some used film cassettes or use your own that were developed and attach the bulk film to the end of the existing film on the end of the commercíal cassette. Yes, you still have to stick the bulk film to it but I find it easier to do this instead of sticking the bulk film to the spindle that comes with a re-usable bulk cassette. It's what I do and I have yet to have any slippage
Thats what I do Jock. Use my used 35mm cassettes and tape the new film to the end! My trouble here is I didn't stick it down with good stuff! Cheers Jock.
@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss Thanks for the reply. I should have realised that the commercial cassette used for the demo of what happened was also the kind you used The other benefit I fínd with used film cassettes is that my auto rewind on my camera never has any trouble with the rewind whereas I did occasionally get issues with the plastic re-usable cassettes sticking when re-windíng the film
Had a few times already that I didn’t secure the film firmly to the cassette. I love bulk loading for the reason that I can load 12 exp or whatever I want.
Oh and regarding the tape you use I find some adhesives on the tape these days are crap, I have a specialist gum tape that I sourced and use it in conjunction with normal tape as I was having some problems in the Australian summer...problem solved, I will send you one to see if it works for you
Some 30 years ago, a film came loose from a spool. I was nearby Montparnasse in Paris. Had to go back to the hotel in Arts et Métiers by metro. Enclosed myself in the in corridor toilet ( cheap hotel) dark enough to fix the problem. Went back with a fresh roll of bulk loaded film in my then F3, by metro to Montparnasse, where my girlfriend was still waiting for me. No picture was lost and I’m stll married to that girl for 32 years now ...
.53 into the video and I already feel you, there is tonnes to shoot everyday when I am driving around, unfortunately with the overdevelopement here in Toronto and the clowns on city council repurposing our roadways there isn't anywhere to stop anymore to jump out and get shots, unless I drive 4 blocks away find a spot to park and walk back, this is just not possible when I am already traveling 45 minutes across the city in gridlock to get to a service call 11km away. It really is nice to find hidden gems around the city to shoot sometimes.
God, Large Format is fun, but maaaan it sure is easy to suddenly make a stupid mistake or get unlucky and lose hundreds to thousands of dollars of equipment. I have had 3 terrible disasters that for most sensible people would have made them pull out their hair and give up on the stupid format: - I had a lens mounted on an adapter on a tall tripod. Oops it wasn't secure and fell down. The back ring bent and now the lens elements (which need a clean) can no longer be serviced....it is a rare pricey Zeiss 53mm lens too... - I set up my shoot with a Wista 45 on a windy day literally next to my car. I turn around for just half a second to get film and bam wind blows down the camera. Bellows damaged (bad but replaceable). Rails damaged...(really bad..). Doubt I will ever be able to service this camera enough to sell it now. - While moving tripod a touch closer, I tilted it and the lens board wasn't perfectly secure. Out pops my precious Nikkon 75mm which goes for a roll down the bank straight into the water. I also dropped it again right after examining it now smashing the aperture lever. OOps. Sent it in for service and thankfully the shutter seems fine and the glass doesn't seem like it too much dmg but yeah no fun. Smarter people than me should have given up on 4x5 if they are this clumsy....but i just kitted myself out with an 8x10 so clearly I am a lost cause. Not related but just a few hours ago my precious Mamiya Press Lens (the coveted 100 f/2.8) fell out of my bag and now the shutter is jammed, so that's great. Love being a dunce I mean no disparage against the good folk at Intrepid (heck I just splurged on their kickstart for that new large format shutter+lens!!!), but I do think LF becomes so much more fun if the camera isn't terrifying to use. Seeing your camera wobble when you put in those film holders brought back nightmares. I am sure my light ones wobble too but in general when the camera is better built/pricier it just feels so much smoother to put in the holder (god I wish I had a bail back though). Agreed with the others on the spearman loading tip of emulsion side away from the holder back. It can also help if you leave water inside when you pull out the film. According to the manual apparently softened water can also cause the emulsion to stick to the holder. Scary. (Oh I have heard it is better to use photoflo in a tray and not in the tank but dunno if that matters ). As an aside, I suggest trying stand development with the Spearman. It is excellent with that. I got great negatives with 510 Pyro. ...just don't be a dunce like me and ruin a precious negative by loading two onto the same side... Great video as always and totally agree on film just being the most fun thing! I have a really pricey Sony but just don't use it for most things unless I am in a hurry/someone needs reliable images etc.
When using tripods, always put one leg downhill. Scared the willies out of me watching you plonk it down next to the water. Loved this video, but it was TOO SHORT!
Hi Rog. John Gossage ha a book of only 52 photographs called The Pond. Clear your mind and have a read of it. It's eye opening. Please don't get me wrong but you are too good and your channel too big for these shots Chinese mad tripods. The base does not spread wide enough on most of them to give stability. Doubtlessly and your cameras a favour, but a Proper Gitzo and he done with it. Yes it will cost you an arm and a leg, but good stuff do, sadly. Throw that piece of carp out. Good video mate.
Seconding the Gitzo. Also recommending to have a good geared tripod head (instead of a ball head) and using a pocket bubble level instead of anything built into the camera (those tiny ones i found to be not super trustworthy...)
@@kzed0 I also have a couple of the original metal Gitzos. One is a proper Studex but the other one is a much lighter one. They are a weighty compared to the CF ones that I have but rock solid even with my 4X5 or even 5X7 cameras. I also have an old Velbon Sherpa CF that speards so wide that even my 500CM with the 250 C are stable on it. When legs do not spread wide enough, it makes the tripod taller, less material but not stable.
Best tripod I have is a Velbon but it's a video camera tripod... wayyyy to heavy for photography ha ha. Back in the days when video cameras were video cameras! The K&F has saved me well though... mostly.
I quit LF ages ago! Because something is difficult, with bad things, that gonna happen, it is not better! I hate LF. It's a crap shoot.You can shoot less, a few frames in 35mm. Cut it out the camera.Old film, crapy tripod and disaster booked in advance. Ansel Adams barely used LF in later years! Hasselblad.LF users look down on mere mortals, who shoot rings around them!But some people, Iv'e met enjoyed bouts of pain! Move on!
I never take offence. I just know the time and effort I put into making these videos. My concentration is never 100% on the photography when I am vlogging and silly mistakes happen, which are sometimes good as it passes it on to the viewers. It fell because one of the legs was slightly extended from the previous position. I was carrying it to the next position but had to put it down to run back for the GoPro. I was very fortunate!
Hey Roger in 1959 I got a job with Ministry of Aviation and how.about going to the Avro.Factory.tonsnap loads of the Secret stuff of a Vulcan Bomber using aWhole Plate camera with Glass Plates while an Army of Blokes are busy Rivetting during a 3 mon Time Exposure..... All for 7 Quids a week ...
The imprint from the film carrier during processing is an easy fix (pardon the pun). It has most likely occurred because you loaded the film with the emulsion side 'in' against the ribs of the carrier. Simply load the film with the emulsion side 'out', by holding the film in your right hand with the notches in the upper right hand corner and then loading it into the carrier which is held underneath in your left hand. Hope this helps (and I also hope that I am not repeating something already mentioned in previous comments). Nice videos by the way, always entertaining to watch.
Of course it is!! Thanks.
I have the same Stearman tank, I wonder if the two shots that were marked may have been loaded with the emulsion resting on the frames rather than facing out into the chemistry?
Yes Simon it was! 🤦🏻 Thanks.
I have the same tripod but found it too unstable when using heavier large format cameras. I also found the ball head moved around too much as you put in dark slides. I've since moved to an ifootage (which I picked up at half price on special) with a bowl head. Never had a problem since.
It's not ideal for heavy cameras. It has been fine for me though. I forgot I had one of the legs slightly extended from where it was taking the photo on uneven ground near the water. It is my second one though as the other wore out quickly!
YES FINALLY ANOTHER LARGE FORMAT VID
You asked about why we shoot film. For me, it's about very directly capturing the light at some specific time and place or event. It's about picking up a few seashells from the beach to remember the trip.
Great video! Glad your lens survived the fall. Thank you for posting all this!
A few seashells on the beach. A nice way of putting it! Thanks David.
Enjoyed the video! Troubles can happen…I liked that you were able to keep a good attitude and were able to go with the flow.
Yes! Thank you! I was just pleased the lens didn't get damaged. If it did I'd possibly would have continued but felt deeply upset inside. Happy days though!! 😀
Did exactly the same with a tripod last month. Set up my 6x16 reality so subtle on tripod. Turned to grab something from my bag, it fell over. I thought I was lucky, as it appeared fine then the film wouldn't advance. Turned out the impact had snapped the internal top plate. Fortunately James from reality so subtle, was able to send me the part.
Thats a shame! I guess it can happen to anyone with a moments lapse of concentration. Glad you got the part!
Love your video's Love your discussions about compisitions and lenses. I shoot with a 35 mm SLR and happy to see you do too. Happy you show the problems you run into. I do run in problems now and then too.
Cheers Marco. It's too easy for me to cut the errors out and make myself look faultless but where's the fun in that! We all make mistakes somewhere and if someone can learn from mine ha ha
5x4 rwally slows you down.... which sometimes is a good thing
While watching your video I looked out the light was beautiful and the last of the Fall leaves looked fantastic. SO I paused the video and went out and shot about 10 frames of Kodak Vision 3 500T with my Nikon F with the 50mm 1.4 lens. Back to video now. I've also had issues with that tank. Also I've never dropped a camera or lens off a boat into 50 feet of water. Never did that
Noooo! You didn't did you! I'd be hopelessly diving in! Hope you got some goos photos.
A very good video as always. It's reassuring that some mistakes are made by more experienced people!
I do make them. Usually just a concentration blip! I was walking to my next location with tripod in hand then put it down to get the video camera. I still had one of the legs extended from the last scene! Thats why it toppled. And the negative issue! Just not thinking. I loaded the film with the emulsion side against the rack. We all get clumsy though! (I think)
Film not being properly attached happened to me once half way through a photo walk and as it was the only camera I had I couldn't take any more. Thankfully was able to just take off the spool in the dark room.
I shoot film because that it what I was raised on. I still have the first photo I ever took with my mother’s Kodak box camera way back in 1967. It was a big deal to me when 110 camera came along.
you already replied Rick! lol
I shoot LF for the tilt/shift, for playing with the field of focus. It's the same reason I love my Lerouge pinhole, with crazy DoF and perspective capabilities 😁
Agreed there is so much you can do for creative focus on the LF. Love the Lerouge pinhole cameras!
I love reflections on water be it a lake or even wet pavements. When in Wales earlier this years I saw some great potential shots in sunny weather but stopping the car and getting out would have been downright risky. Narrow lanes, no pavements and people who can't drive at sensible speeds, made it far to dangerous as far as I was concerned. Your shot's reminded me of a Constable painting.
Yes there are lots of places I can't get to because I can't park up. I even got a bike for some of them but others are too much to cycle to being unfit! I think that lake would be awesome for infrared.
I use film because I enjoy it and because it’s what I’ve used since the beginning. I was always pestering my father to borrow his Ricoh rangefinder in the early 1970s. Finally in ‘74 my mum bought me a Diana F for my 9th birthday and she would process and print my films for me. I’ve loved film ever since
Thats a great story! As a nine year old getting a cool camera.Have you still got the Diana? I remember the same age I got a Hanimex 110 slim camera with a flash. It ended up as the family camera! And like you again in the 80s I would pester my much older Brother to use his Practika. So he got me a Kodak Disc camera! 😂 That was a bizarre thing! He never let me touch his camera! He sold it all in the end!
@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss Hi Roger, it’s fun that we both got our first at the same age :-) Yes, I still have the Diana, and still use it sometimes. It’s the model that came with the detachable flash but I have no bulbs for it so I only use the camera itself now. My older brother had a Polaroid Land camera that was fun. My first SLR was a Pentax Spotmatic, gifted from an aunt. I finally got a Praktica a few years ago, that thing is a beast! I think my favourite unusual camera is my Werra which is one I don’t think I’ve seen you use - time for you to get one? haha
That imprint on the film there, I have an earlier version of that same developer tank and I was crazy about that problem, The fix however I noticed was to simply dip the negative somewhere else before hanging it up for dry. It seems like the fixer does not flow out accordingly over the negative when seated in the carrier, so taking it out and dipping it somewhere before hanging did the trick!
Inrersting JOhn. I thought it would more have been the developer! I shall keep that in mind. Cheers.
I absolutely adore reflection shots. These are gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
I look forward to your videos. They always have interesting ideas and experiences and they are very well made.
I shoot film because I want to use the medium as a art form. Film photographs evoke a different vibe than the clinical digital counterpart. I'm not referring to the technical deficiencies of film but rather the general feel of its images. Also, some subjects really are better to represent on film than others. Digital can do it all.
When film photography came in, way back, painters vs photographers had similar issues. People still paint and film photographers still shoot interesting images. It isn't about being slavish to the final image quality but the art in it, at least, for me.
I can imagine the artists back in the days when photography started were worried it would take their living. And it did happen also with digital. Film photographers that couldn't get on in the computer world were suddenly out numbered with demand for digital. Many good photographers gave in. (I know a good fashion photographer that did just that). Film equipment was given away or put away and now it's all being shifted again.
Load the 4x5 film into the SP445 with the emulsion facing outwards, no more imprints.
Roger i had the same issue with the Stearman, happened on both sides ....talk about pissed off, I got up early and went to Pinjarra to shoot the Murrey river....disaster but subsequent negs have been good, go figure?
I loaded the film with emulsion side in Andy!
Great video, Boss. I hate when the tape doesn't hold the last bit of film to the spool. I've been adding a bit extra tape and squeezing it hard against the film and spool, and it seems to help. BTW those contact sheets really do look nice. I like that a lot! Keep it up, Boss!
Thanks mate. Yes like you do I stick it on tight. Obviously not this time 🥴
I live between the Alps and the Jura, so I regularly use an orange filter. I don’t recall ever taking that filter with me when I went to the UK.
I use it often here... when the blue sky comes out!. I can imagine it is beautiful where you live. How wonderful for photography.
I spent a dull day in the New Forest hoping to see the pigs. That didn’t happen, but there were plenty of horses, cows and deer which I shot using Kodak TriX 400 and a roll of Kentmere 400 on my F5 with a lovely Nikon 180mm f2.8. I now have to wait a few days for the negs to come back.
New Forest is beautiful for photography! As you say Pigs are not easy to spot. Last time I went there I took some carrots for the Horses and nearly got stampeded! I ran back to the car. I know they say not to feed them... Hope you got some great shots!
@@ShootFilmLikeaBossI should see when the negatives come back and I’ve scanned them. Just finnished doing long exposure at Hill Head using 10 stop ND and Delta 400 Pro. Used the Ilford reciprocity tables with extra seconds added.
I bulk load film, using Cineflix style cassettes. I tape the film to the actual spool, wrapping the tape all around the spool. So far so good... 🤞🏻
Yes
I do wonder about bulk loading being cheaper once you count the total usable exposures off each roll. I tend to find that at least the first frame will have some kind of defect (actually, with the cheap plastic screw cap ones, it's a lot more than that), and then the last frame on the roll will usually have a defect too (and it's not always obvious when you are getting to the last frame). I've taken to bulk rolling 38 frames, which gets me close to what I get from an off-the-shelf ilford roll.
All said, though, the one thing that I think will keep me bulk rolling is that space/packaging saving. There's just a lot less waste to deal with.
Hi mate. It is cheaper, but not by a great deal! Working it out say £70 for 17m of FP4.
It’s £8.52 a roll of 36.
So I’ll get around 8 rolls of 36 out of it or there abouts. Not much saving at all.
And way less if you think of the wastage cutting away and losing a frame here and there from leakage. The beauty is I can load as many as I want to shoot (which leads to more wastage!). It's a love hate isn't it. ha ha. I've nearly done my recent FP4 17 meters so I am on the fence as to get a brick of ready made next time. But I'll more than likely get the 17m again! Best deal I was ever getting was ORWO UN54 100m was only £50! Now that WAS worth it!
Nice. On a sunny day that lake would be good in Infrared.
Yes Mike it would! First thing I thought when I saw the first digital shots! I've never shot infrared!!! I must get that R72 and give it a shot! Maybe on that Lake.
I don't think I'd personally be happy with such a wobbly (read: "lightweight") LF setup 😆
always fun to watch your videos I use that same tank and have also put the film in facing the wrong way and got marks.😂
I know right! Stupid too! And more stupid to forget I've done it before and not realised the error... again! Never again!
I carry a small film changing bag with me in case I decide to change the type of film part way through...or for mishaps maybe :-)
Thats actually an interesting idea if you're shooting a whole day with a bunch of film! You never know
I shoot film because that it what I was raised on. I still have the first photo I ever took with my mother’s Kodak box camera way back in 1967. It was a big deal to me when 110 camera came along.what was the camera bag you used Roger ?
Amazing you have your first negative Rick! The bag is K&F Concept. It was only about £70 and lasted the last three years and still no tears or zip issues. No review this week 😂.
@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss laughing my butt off
Had you loaded the 5X4 film elusion face in to the holder instead of facing out (back to holder)?
Yes Richard I did! I've realised that now. Thanks
I always find it difficult to find a good composition in large format when looking at an upside down and reversed image on the screen. Fortunately, some large format cameras (like my Toyo View 45a) allow you to use a mirror viewfinder, which I find very useful.
I think a smartphone camera app that can show the correct (no longer mirrored and no longer upside down) composition when pointed at the screen would also be very useful. I don't know if such an app exists yet.
Large format photography nowadays only makes sense in my opinion if you need really large prints or the tilt/shift capabilities of a large format camera. If I just want a sharper negative, I use something like a Fuji GW 690 III these days.
The GSW is great. Sharp too! LF isn't easy to compose when you don't shoot it everyday. I like to make contacts of the large format, I think they look good in frames.
I shoot film because I am more likely to take my time and think out my shots rather than go machine gunning the town with digital.😎🎞🎞📷📷
Like it!
There ís one thing you might try that may be the answer to your slippage with a bulk loaded film. Obtain from a mini lab some used film cassettes or use your own that were developed and attach the bulk film to the end of the existing film on the end of the commercíal cassette. Yes, you still have to stick the bulk film to it but I find it easier to do this instead of sticking the bulk film to the spindle that comes with a re-usable bulk cassette. It's what I do and I have yet to have any slippage
Thats what I do Jock. Use my used 35mm cassettes and tape the new film to the end! My trouble here is I didn't stick it down with good stuff! Cheers Jock.
@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss Thanks for the reply. I should have realised that the commercial cassette used for the demo of what happened was also the kind you used
The other benefit I fínd with used film cassettes is that my auto rewind on my camera never has any trouble with the rewind whereas I did occasionally get issues with the plastic re-usable cassettes sticking when re-windíng the film
Had a few times already that I didn’t secure the film firmly to the cassette. I love bulk loading for the reason that I can load 12 exp or whatever I want.
Me too. Just sometimes when that happens it puts me off. (Of course I'll keep bulk loading 😀)
Oh and regarding the tape you use I find some adhesives on the tape these days are crap, I have a specialist gum tape that I sourced and use it in conjunction with normal tape as I was having some problems in the Australian summer...problem solved, I will send you one to see if it works for you
You get all the best stuff mate 😂, I use whatever I can. I think that was sticky post labels! Live and learn!
@ShootFilmLikeaBoss leave it out lol 😂😂
Thanks!
Wow, Thanks David. Very kind
the struggle is real 😁
I think the Tmax needs more time in the fixing bath. Then the purple haze disappears.
Yes you are right. This was a 6 minute fix. Although sometimes with TMAX longer fixing still remains purple looking.
Some 30 years ago, a film came loose from a spool. I was nearby Montparnasse in Paris. Had to go back to the hotel in Arts et Métiers by metro. Enclosed myself in the in corridor toilet ( cheap hotel) dark enough to fix the problem. Went back with a fresh roll of bulk loaded film in my then F3, by metro to Montparnasse, where my girlfriend was still waiting for me. No picture was lost and I’m stll married to that girl for 32 years now ...
Imagine if someone came in! They would wonder what on earth you were doing in that cubicle! LOL
Уронить камеру и упустить пленку за одну прогулку это многовато неприятностей.
Удачных кадров!!!
😩 I know!
.53 into the video and I already feel you, there is tonnes to shoot everyday when I am driving around, unfortunately with the overdevelopement here in Toronto and the clowns on city council repurposing our roadways there isn't anywhere to stop anymore to jump out and get shots, unless I drive 4 blocks away find a spot to park and walk back, this is just not possible when I am already traveling 45 minutes across the city in gridlock to get to a service call 11km away. It really is nice to find hidden gems around the city to shoot sometimes.
That is really painful when you see a great spot but can't park the car. See it all the time!
If you carry a changing bag with your kit (and a black film tub) you can retrieve a partly exposed film, but you can't predict such mishaps. 😢
It's a good hindsight but in reality you saw how loaded my bag was. But I have thought about it after something similar happened once. Thanks.
I found the audio up and down throughout Roger. Unless I am going deaf!! 👍📸
Thanks Sloop.
40k👏👏👏🇬🇧👏👏
🎉 Thank you!
God, Large Format is fun, but maaaan it sure is easy to suddenly make a stupid mistake or get unlucky and lose hundreds to thousands of dollars of equipment. I have had 3 terrible disasters that for most sensible people would have made them pull out their hair and give up on the stupid format:
- I had a lens mounted on an adapter on a tall tripod. Oops it wasn't secure and fell down. The back ring bent and now the lens elements (which need a clean) can no longer be serviced....it is a rare pricey Zeiss 53mm lens too...
- I set up my shoot with a Wista 45 on a windy day literally next to my car. I turn around for just half a second to get film and bam wind blows down the camera. Bellows damaged (bad but replaceable). Rails damaged...(really bad..). Doubt I will ever be able to service this camera enough to sell it now.
- While moving tripod a touch closer, I tilted it and the lens board wasn't perfectly secure. Out pops my precious Nikkon 75mm which goes for a roll down the bank straight into the water. I also dropped it again right after examining it now smashing the aperture lever. OOps. Sent it in for service and thankfully the shutter seems fine and the glass doesn't seem like it too much dmg but yeah no fun.
Smarter people than me should have given up on 4x5 if they are this clumsy....but i just kitted myself out with an 8x10 so clearly I am a lost cause. Not related but just a few hours ago my precious Mamiya Press Lens (the coveted 100 f/2.8) fell out of my bag and now the shutter is jammed, so that's great. Love being a dunce
I mean no disparage against the good folk at Intrepid (heck I just splurged on their kickstart for that new large format shutter+lens!!!), but I do think LF becomes so much more fun if the camera isn't terrifying to use. Seeing your camera wobble when you put in those film holders brought back nightmares. I am sure my light ones wobble too but in general when the camera is better built/pricier it just feels so much smoother to put in the holder (god I wish I had a bail back though).
Agreed with the others on the spearman loading tip of emulsion side away from the holder back. It can also help if you leave water inside when you pull out the film. According to the manual apparently softened water can also cause the emulsion to stick to the holder. Scary.
(Oh I have heard it is better to use photoflo in a tray and not in the tank but dunno if that matters ). As an aside, I suggest trying stand development with the Spearman. It is excellent with that. I got great negatives with 510 Pyro. ...just don't be a dunce like me and ruin a precious negative by loading two onto the same side...
Great video as always and totally agree on film just being the most fun thing! I have a really pricey Sony but just don't use it for most things unless I am in a hurry/someone needs reliable images etc.
You sound a bag of fun to go shooting with. "Can I borrow your.... nope!, jinx" 😂 Yes I loaded the film the wrong way in the spearman! It was dark!
When using tripods, always put one leg downhill. Scared the willies out of me watching you plonk it down next to the water. Loved this video, but it was TOO SHORT!
Too short! Really? I thought it was too long. Interesting. With the footage I could have made it 40 minutes.
why have i gone back to shooting film? in todays world of AI and photoshop everything, i think its a more honest way of photographing
Very true!
Sure it wasn’t escaped Racoons knocking the tripod over?
Thats a good excuse! I'll take that
Test pictures with a digital camera? Sacrilege.😂
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I often do- we don't have peel apart film anymore 😢
Hi Rog. John Gossage ha a book of only 52 photographs called The Pond. Clear your mind and have a read of it. It's eye opening. Please don't get me wrong but you are too good and your channel too big for these shots Chinese mad tripods. The base does not spread wide enough on most of them to give stability. Doubtlessly and your cameras a favour, but a Proper Gitzo and he done with it. Yes it will cost you an arm and a leg, but good stuff do, sadly. Throw that piece of carp out. Good video mate.
Geez, no kidding, I'm about to send him a couple of my old Manfrottos after watching this 😵💫
Seconding the Gitzo. Also recommending to have a good geared tripod head (instead of a ball head) and using a pocket bubble level instead of anything built into the camera (those tiny ones i found to be not super trustworthy...)
@@kzed0 I also have a couple of the original metal Gitzos. One is a proper Studex but the other one is a much lighter one. They are a weighty compared to the CF ones that I have but rock solid even with my 4X5 or even 5X7 cameras. I also have an old Velbon Sherpa CF that speards so wide that even my 500CM with the 250 C are stable on it. When legs do not spread wide enough, it makes the tripod taller, less material but not stable.
@@jw48335 LOL.
Best tripod I have is a Velbon but it's a video camera tripod... wayyyy to heavy for photography ha ha. Back in the days when video cameras were video cameras! The K&F has saved me well though... mostly.
I shoot film because it unscrumples my filbert.
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That is just not a tripod suitable for a large format camera.
It is okay actually. Even for the Mamiya RZ which is heavier than the intrepid.
@ so okay it blew over and by luck didn’t scratch the lens!? So not ok really.
I quit LF ages ago! Because something is difficult, with bad things, that gonna happen, it is not better! I hate LF. It's a crap shoot.You can shoot less, a few frames in 35mm. Cut it out the camera.Old film, crapy tripod and disaster booked in advance. Ansel Adams barely used LF in later years! Hasselblad.LF users look down on mere mortals, who shoot rings around them!But some people, Iv'e met enjoyed bouts of pain! Move on!
I like it for a change. Or for certain projects.
Sorry but dropping a Large Format Camera this way is totally unprofessional
First time in 20 years. Make photography videos and sometimes your concentration slips. get it?
@ we pro photographers feel sad for cameras , so please accept my comment with fun
I never take offence. I just know the time and effort I put into making these videos. My concentration is never 100% on the photography when I am vlogging and silly mistakes happen, which are sometimes good as it passes it on to the viewers. It fell because one of the legs was slightly extended from the previous position. I was carrying it to the next position but had to put it down to run back for the GoPro. I was very fortunate!
@@ShootFilmLikeaBosswelcome to my world 😂. If you ain't made mistakes you ain't a proper photographer 😂
Hey Roger in 1959 I got a job with Ministry of Aviation and how.about going to the Avro.Factory.tonsnap loads of the Secret stuff of a Vulcan Bomber using aWhole Plate camera with Glass Plates while an Army of Blokes are busy Rivetting during a 3 mon Time Exposure.....
All for 7 Quids a week ...
You certainly have some stories to tell Pete!!