I purchased my G1 kit brand new in October of 2000. I am still in awe that it still works as well as it does despite surviving hurricanes and everything else I have thrown at it the past 24 years. Glad to see you having fun with yours. P.S. I have loooooong ago figured out the focus quirks and can hear when the focus is not quite right. Good Times!
@@popularbehaviour I have the 35mm... someone else on youtube said to avoid it. They couldn't be more wrong. I haven't compared it to the 45, since I never bought the 45 as a 35 owner. But the 35 is as sharp as my other lenses (the 21mm and the 90). It's super crisp and probably my favorite focal length. That sweet spot between a 28 and a 50 (or in this case a 45).
as a G1 user, you described the system accurately. as long you take your time and be mindful with the focus, the shots will 9/10 times focused. Great video btw! pls do post more!
I have watched this video about 15 times now. Absolutely beautiful! The emotion in this video is amazing and really resonates. I don't know how you top this.
RUclips Film camera reviews don't get much better than this! Great camera, great images. You truly made it feel like the 90s/early noughties were with us again (aka Time Before Digital). Fabulous.
Dude..... I don´t tend to comment on youtube videos, but what a way to start a channel. Just like many other people mentioned before- simply amazing! We need more videos from you!
great video man. i was utterly shocked when i saw only 800 subscribers. that won't be the case for long, this channel will blow up if you continue crafting videos of this standard. beautiful work. good luck.
@@lucasjohnpotter thank you! It’s been a great learning process seeing what I can achieve without a team of professionals on board. I have do much respect for editors now!
Algorithm god fed me this video, and couldn't be happier. I can already tell the potential this channel has. Looking forward to watching more of your stuff!
@@popularbehaviour just by chance saw the video looking at g1, taking the kids to universal and Disney and don't want to carry something huge,and I remember when they came out and I wished and dreamed lol
@@popularbehaviour I could definitely send some photos once I’m done with this role. I’m also traveling soon so I could send those as well once that happens
Before my Contax G1, I used a Canon Canonet QL17 G-III 35mm rangefinder with fixed 40mm normal lens. Great camera but I needed interchangeable lenses. I bought two Contax G1 bodies with the following lenses: Zeiss 90mm f/2.8 Sonnar Zeiss 45mm f/2 Planar Zeiss 28mm f/2.8 Biogon Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 Biogon My favorite three-lens combination 90/45/21mm. When I shoot landscape, I like to use my Contax G1 mounted with the 28mm lens, and pair it with a Fuji GSW III medium format rangefinder with a fixed 65mm f/5.6 wide-angle lens.
Great video! What surprised me the most was the quality of those scans! The colors look really nice and similar to what i get when printing in the darkroom (but yours are better 😅). Usually everyone scans look super weird, with a bunch of color crossover and weird gama, and i have huge difficulty making scans with colors I’m happy with, in the darkroom you set the white balance and every tone is smooth and falls where it should. I’ve scanned with a sony a7ii and a nikon coolscan 4000, with either vuescan and nlp, and neither gave me good results sadly. Would love to know how you do it, if you’d be alright sharing it, of course
Thanks for the comment! All of my 35mm film gets developed and scanned by Rocket Repro in Vancouver, they seem to give me what I want! I do minimal edits in Lightroom, usually just get the RGB channels to where they need to be. Dave Herring youtube.com/@davidherring posted a video which completely changed the quality of my scans. Not sure how this would impact your workflow but for lab scans I've found it essential. ruclips.net/video/qmZkabr6w3Y/видео.htmlsi=iM-L08VwTUlOxETW
@@popularbehaviour thank you! guess i gotta start using curves more, kinda forget they are there to use. gonna be trying it out on a couple photos today!
I have a G1 I bought in 96, and (eventually) a full set of the primes. I love the camera, but with the advent of digital I dreamed they would make a digital back or body. What wound up happening is I waited for a digital mirrorless camera to appear, and I have adapted the lenses to be used on Sony Alpha bodies. 24 MP really will show the limitations of the lenses much more than 35mm did, but I love the sharp yet dreamy quality of the lenses. I often use them for my RUclips channel on an A7S iii. The lens that was almost permanently attached to my G1 was the 21mm f2.8 Biogon. What an amazing lens. I even like the vignetting. The 16mm f8/f16 Hologon was a blast if very slow. The 45mm is an even better portrait lens than the 90mm. I never the softness some complained about with the 35mm f2 until using it on my Sony A7 The character of film you talk about, I see it as the difference in the way emulsion records light, different color science and response, and different gamma curves all baked into the product. I am missing black and white film, I think it's time to load up the G1. 💓
I sometimes think about what it would look like if film wasn't a niche alternative to digital today but the primary way in which photos were taken still, what today's cameras would look like. The end of the film era saw so many impressive feats of engineering and technical leaps. The Contax G1 and G2 give you a small glimpse at what the film world might look like today if film cameras were still being developed with modern digital R&D budgets. The Nikon FM3A showed the pinnacle of mechanical 35mm engineering as late as 2001, still ~24 years ago now, would we still be seeing the development of new manual focus, mechanical cameras? We just can't know, but at least the 90s and early 2000s gave us some incredible cameras that can still be put to work today.
I’m still amazed that film production survived and that we still have shops who can scan and develop. I asked a technician at a local film lab what the majority of their clientele has been over the last 25 years and she said school photos! Also think digital was inevitable, without it there wouldn’t be RUclips. I do hope prices of film can normalize. Thanks for the insightful comment!
Beautiful colors! Eye! The G2 stole the show back in the day. Legend has it the 45mm was a gift from the photo gods. All this film photography is making me want to break out my Leica 😮😊 but first my Olympus om-4 with the 50mm. Your video was awesome pity about the out of focus two rolls. That's why manual focus is King!
Thank you for the comment! The 45mm is really special, would love to try the 35mm too. Love to see what you can do with the Olympus. I’ve often thought about picking up a Nikon F3…
@@popularbehaviour The F3 is all right. Don't get me wrong it's a great camera! just all right. there are some special versions like that F3T or the F3p. The viewfinder is good. The lens choice is the key to the F3 success. The F3 has some quite heavy shutter slap don't get me wrong it's not bad but it's not good. I have two working nikons F5 a bruiser and a Nikon FA. The FA shutter release is very smooth very elegant. A camera which is totally overlooked. And very similar to an F3 but I believe is better but that's just me. Take a look at a few videos of the Olympus om-4 or 0m-4TI and the om-3. There is a channel called analog insights coupler German guys. The om4 is small like your G1! The shutter release is just stunning with a great light meter. Check it out. Please keep me in touch with your decision.
Wow. What a magnificent video. I have been on the fence about getting a Contax G1. Years ago I purchased the lens with an adapter to my Fujifilm camera and the results are almost always magnificent. My only concern about purchasing the camera body is the age of it and the possibility of needing it serviced. I will probably find a couple of lenses to sell on ebay and with the proceeds go ahead with the G1.
The viewfinder is small but glasses might actually be ok. The G2 might be improved but I haven’t tried one yet. Would be worth trying to borrow one for a week!
Is there any other differences between the green and silver label other than more lens compatibility? I bought a silver label one with 100$ cheaper price than the green one
This is a really engaging video - I beg you cover more Contax G stuff, you've got a really good way of presenting your videos. I had a G1 recently for a few months and I really loved it but I had a hard time adjusting to the viewfinder. Shots were in focus and I actually really liked the focus distance scale thing, but I really didn't enjoy the dim, tiny VF. Another gripe - and I'm sure it was just user error - but I found that when half-pressing the shutter button I'd frequently take the shot haha Obviously my error but it just seemed a little sensitive when in loud, hectic, and busy environments. I hear people say they made the G2 VF bigger and brighter and added the focus button to the back of the camera so I've been keen to look into that. Finally, I'd love to see you cover the G system lenses - i never got to try the 90mm and 85mm is my usual go-to focal length. I also have an obsession with the T3 so anything on that in the future would be cool.
People tend to forget it’s the lens that gets the great looking quality image. I have the Planar on a different camera and the results are the same…because of the lens. Also I’m pretty sure this Contax is battery reliant. Pretty paperweight if the battery dies. All mechanical is much more reliable. Nice video though…
Ex-user of Contax G1 here. The Zeiss glass was amazing, but I hate the tiny viewfinder so I foolishly sold it for cheap (just about $800 for the body and the trinity of 28, 45, and 90). The price was skyrocketed since then. I should have waited a few years before selling it.
It really depends on the subject, the light available and how much I want to be crisp. Learning about the exposure triangle and things like the Sunny 16 rule have been so useful.
Hello, Mr. Behavior. These cameras sell for $550-600 on eBay right now. You have probably increased that by 25% or so. 😏 I have a couple of Legendary Rangefinders ®. I like them, and get excellent results with them. I prefer SLRs though, because of the manual focus screens with split prisms. That said, I am not sure that your view of the transition to digital is correct. The first digicams were point-and-shoot cameras, like many film cameras before them. Early DSLRs were really not more complicated, nor that different from late film SLRs. Anyway, I was out with a Nikon FM and 55mm f1.2 today. The simplicity is wonderful.
I can’t help but think of the days and weeks of companies like Kyocera and Mamiya shutting down operations and ending production of their film cameras. Talk about industry disruption!
i had one around the mid 2000's when it was cheaper, a range finder style camera that you have to slow down with and make sure is focusing correct just isnt what a range finder is all about. i loved the build, the lenses but hated everything else especially the viewfinder
@@yesanton I remember purchasing a LOMO film camera in 1998 as an ironic purchase. Film definitely died! Don’t get me wrong, digital had to happen. Without it RUclips wouldn’t exist!😉 Companies like Contax, Mamiya and Bronica were essentially put out of business. I often wonder about the employees who worked on film cameras for those brands, did they pivot and start working in digital divisions? The march of technology will never stop, I just wish I started buying high end film cameras sooner!
3:22 (the colors you can get out of this camera are incredible) dude, its a film camera!!!! what if im using black and white film?? this sounds like a whatever review from chat gpt
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This is the most beautiful video on the internet
Thank you so much! Another video is almost ready to upload.
I almost cried at the beauty of this video man, its emotional and really highlights how special film is
I purchased my G1 kit brand new in October of 2000. I am still in awe that it still works as well as it does despite surviving hurricanes and everything else I have thrown at it the past 24 years. Glad to see you having fun with yours. P.S. I have loooooong ago figured out the focus quirks and can hear when the focus is not quite right. Good Times!
That’s amazing! Which lenses do you have? I’m really curious about how the 35mm compares to the much lauded 45mm
@@popularbehaviour I left you some messages on your gram! RUclips keeps deleting my reply to you for whatever reason.
@@popularbehaviour I have the 35mm... someone else on youtube said to avoid it. They couldn't be more wrong. I haven't compared it to the 45, since I never bought the 45 as a 35 owner. But the 35 is as sharp as my other lenses (the 21mm and the 90). It's super crisp and probably my favorite focal length. That sweet spot between a 28 and a 50 (or in this case a 45).
Might be one of the best videos regarding film photography I’ve ever seen. I hope there’s more to come!
as a G1 user, you described the system accurately. as long you take your time and be mindful with the focus, the shots will 9/10 times focused. Great video btw! pls do post more!
Absolutely, thank you for the comment!
As another g1 user, I’d say it’s even better! Like 35/36 focused
Have some rolls to develop this week from Japan, feeling good about the odds!📸
I'm anxiously looking forward for your next video release!
@@IAmNotABot9 this might happen on Sunday 🤞
This is a great video, wonderful work my dude
Always good to stumble upon an actual professional creative's youtube channel.
I have watched this video about 15 times now. Absolutely beautiful! The emotion in this video is amazing and really resonates. I don't know how you top this.
@@MrKnockton that’s great to hear, Mamiya 7 video on the way
Damn, that intro hit me hard.
Can't wait to see more videos from ya
RUclips Film camera reviews don't get much better than this! Great camera, great images. You truly made it feel like the 90s/early noughties were with us again (aka Time Before Digital). Fabulous.
Very thoughtful comment, thank you!
Awesome shots. That Porsche is amazing
@@jstay3946 cheers for that!
Dude..... I don´t tend to comment on youtube videos, but what a way to start a channel. Just like many other people mentioned before- simply amazing! We need more videos from you!
@@LukasVymyslicky thank you! More coming very soon
Love it!
What an absolutely wonderful video man, so aesthetic! Keep it up and it won't take a long time till this channel pops ;)
great video man. i was utterly shocked when i saw only 800 subscribers. that won't be the case for long, this channel will blow up if you continue crafting videos of this standard. beautiful work. good luck.
Thanks! Had a busy summer, more videos in the works.
I really wish more photography channels took this approach. This is incredible
@@lucasjohnpotter thank you! It’s been a great learning process seeing what I can achieve without a team of professionals on board. I have do much respect for editors now!
wow, what a way to start a channel!
Thanks Slim! Upward from here!
Algorithm god fed me this video, and couldn't be happier. I can already tell the potential this channel has. Looking forward to watching more of your stuff!
@@jmro7 thank you! More coming soon!
I remember when that white house on Granville St was built but I've never seen inside it--until today! Thanks!
@@ianrobbins wow! I hope it’s getting restored, quite a storied house apparently
Great video. Great camera. I always pump the half-shutter twice, one to get kinda focus, once more to get better focus.
@@jamiegray3245 will give that a try!
awesome first video!
Working on a format!
This is such a high quality production and the photos are wonderful as well. Definitely earned my subscription.
Thanks for that! More videos to follow.
I have to say wonderful video! Really great story and shooting :)
truly original and full of style...awesome watched twice real work
Thank you so much! Working on some more…
@@popularbehaviour can't wait very fresh,it's good to see that even on infomercial tube someone can actually do their own thing
@@illegalmindset4122 it’s an incredible platform especially if you go premium with no ads! It has the potential to reach so many people.
@@popularbehaviour definitely best platform and finally the quality that it was sold as in the beginning definitely the future
@@popularbehaviour just by chance saw the video looking at g1, taking the kids to universal and Disney and don't want to carry something huge,and I remember when they came out and I wished and dreamed lol
bold choice beginning your chennel with G1. such a suitting one for the video too! keep it up.
Beautiful video and photos, love that this is from Vancouver
Beautiful video!!! I recently got a G1 with a 35mm, since I only wanted to have 1 lens, and I love it so far.
Really want to try the 35mm lens. I think that’s the one Juergen Teller favoured.🔥
Love to see some photos
@@popularbehaviour I could definitely send some photos once I’m done with this role. I’m also traveling soon so I could send those as well once that happens
I got a few photos I could send you if you still want to see the 35mm!
Having been a pro for over 48 years ... the Contax G2 system was the best camera system hands down!
Definitely like the idea of a G1-G2 upgrade!
wow! what a wonderful video
Appreciate that!
Bro! You are killing it! 💯 Seemingly came out of no where. Would love to see more content from you. Keep producing this fantastic work...wow! 🔥🔥🔥
🙌🙌🙌
Amazing video!!
Thank you!
thank you for this beautiful video
Thank you for watching!
so well made, love it! also really lovely photos, portra 400 never gets old
Thank you! More to come
Interesting video! What I don’t understand is the background music? What is its purpose. It is a distraction to me.
fantastic video! Film truly is amazing! Agree!
The production quality of this video is right up there with GxAce. Excited to watch this channel grow.
👊
Love my G1. Its 28mm and 45mm lenses feel sharper than my Leica Summicrons.
Enjoy your channel.
I think the lenses for the Contax G1 and G2 are truly magical
it's my favorite camera. Got one a couple of years ago and I take it with me everywhere.
That was gorgeous
🙌
Great Video!! keep it up... i happen to have a Black G2 and a GA645wi as well ;)
Before my Contax G1, I used a Canon Canonet QL17 G-III 35mm rangefinder with fixed 40mm normal lens. Great camera but I needed interchangeable lenses.
I bought two Contax G1 bodies with the following lenses:
Zeiss 90mm f/2.8 Sonnar
Zeiss 45mm f/2 Planar
Zeiss 28mm f/2.8 Biogon
Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 Biogon
My favorite three-lens combination 90/45/21mm.
When I shoot landscape, I like to use my Contax G1 mounted with the 28mm lens, and pair it with a Fuji GSW III medium format rangefinder with a fixed 65mm f/5.6 wide-angle lens.
I have the 45 and 28. Thinking about adding the 90. Love to compare the 35 with the 45 too.
wow, what a great video!
Great video! What surprised me the most was the quality of those scans! The colors look really nice and similar to what i get when printing in the darkroom (but yours are better 😅). Usually everyone scans look super weird, with a bunch of color crossover and weird gama, and i have huge difficulty making scans with colors I’m happy with, in the darkroom you set the white balance and every tone is smooth and falls where it should. I’ve scanned with a sony a7ii and a nikon coolscan 4000, with either vuescan and nlp, and neither gave me good results sadly. Would love to know how you do it, if you’d be alright sharing it, of course
Thanks for the comment! All of my 35mm film gets developed and scanned by Rocket Repro in Vancouver, they seem to give me what I want! I do minimal edits in Lightroom, usually just get the RGB channels to where they need to be. Dave Herring youtube.com/@davidherring posted a video which completely changed the quality of my scans. Not sure how this would impact your workflow but for lab scans I've found it essential. ruclips.net/video/qmZkabr6w3Y/видео.htmlsi=iM-L08VwTUlOxETW
@@popularbehaviour thank you! guess i gotta start using curves more, kinda forget they are there to use. gonna be trying it out on a couple photos today!
This is amazing
Happy you like it!🙌
I have a G1 I bought in 96, and (eventually) a full set of the primes. I love the camera, but with the advent of digital I dreamed they would make a digital back or body. What wound up happening is I waited for a digital mirrorless camera to appear, and I have adapted the lenses to be used on Sony Alpha bodies. 24 MP really will show the limitations of the lenses much more than 35mm did, but I love the sharp yet dreamy quality of the lenses. I often use them for my RUclips channel on an A7S iii.
The lens that was almost permanently attached to my G1 was the 21mm f2.8 Biogon. What an amazing lens. I even like the vignetting. The 16mm f8/f16 Hologon was a blast if very slow. The 45mm is an even better portrait lens than the 90mm. I never the softness some complained about with the 35mm f2 until using it on my Sony A7
The character of film you talk about, I see it as the difference in the way emulsion records light, different color science and response, and different gamma curves all baked into the product. I am missing black and white film, I think it's time to load up the G1. 💓
Thanks for this comment! Very interesting and I love how you describe the look of film.
I sometimes think about what it would look like if film wasn't a niche alternative to digital today but the primary way in which photos were taken still, what today's cameras would look like. The end of the film era saw so many impressive feats of engineering and technical leaps. The Contax G1 and G2 give you a small glimpse at what the film world might look like today if film cameras were still being developed with modern digital R&D budgets. The Nikon FM3A showed the pinnacle of mechanical 35mm engineering as late as 2001, still ~24 years ago now, would we still be seeing the development of new manual focus, mechanical cameras? We just can't know, but at least the 90s and early 2000s gave us some incredible cameras that can still be put to work today.
I’m still amazed that film production survived and that we still have shops who can scan and develop. I asked a technician at a local film lab what the majority of their clientele has been over the last 25 years and she said school photos! Also think digital was inevitable, without it there wouldn’t be RUclips. I do hope prices of film can normalize. Thanks for the insightful comment!
Beautiful colors! Eye! The G2 stole the show back in the day. Legend has it the 45mm was a gift from the photo gods. All this film photography is making me want to break out my Leica 😮😊 but first my Olympus om-4 with the 50mm. Your video was awesome pity about the out of focus two rolls. That's why manual focus is King!
Thank you for the comment! The 45mm is really special, would love to try the 35mm too. Love to see what you can do with the Olympus. I’ve often thought about picking up a Nikon F3…
@@popularbehaviour The F3 is all right. Don't get me wrong it's a great camera! just all right. there are some special versions like that F3T or the F3p. The viewfinder is good. The lens choice is the key to the F3 success. The F3 has some quite heavy shutter slap don't get me wrong it's not bad but it's not good. I have two working nikons F5 a bruiser and a Nikon FA. The FA shutter release is very smooth very elegant. A camera which is totally overlooked. And very similar to an F3 but I believe is better but that's just me. Take a look at a few videos of the Olympus om-4 or 0m-4TI and the om-3. There is a channel called analog insights coupler German guys. The om4 is small like your G1! The shutter release is just stunning with a great light meter. Check it out. Please keep me in touch with your decision.
Wow. What a magnificent video. I have been on the fence about getting a Contax G1. Years ago I purchased the lens with an adapter to my Fujifilm camera and the results are almost always magnificent. My only concern about purchasing the camera body is the age of it and the possibility of needing it serviced. I will probably find a couple of lenses to sell on ebay and with the proceeds go ahead with the G1.
Thanks for the comment! Definitely try one out if you can, the view finder can really be a dealbreaker for some.
Finally someone processed Portra into normal colors, not yellow cast everywhere
Wish you went in depth about how to read the focus meter.
wow, what a video with my favorite film camera.
I am amaized and grateful.
Thank you for this!
It feels like a poem of appreciation!
@@BogdanGrigore thanks so much!
Great video. I want to get this camera too, but I was wondering if the viewfinder isn’t too small for me with glasses.
The viewfinder is small but glasses might actually be ok. The G2 might be improved but I haven’t tried one yet. Would be worth trying to borrow one for a week!
Amazing I love this!
Cheers Derrick!
Is there any other differences between the green and silver label other than more lens compatibility? I bought a silver label one with 100$ cheaper price than the green one
I believe that’s the only difference.
wow very nice, i love the way to share images.
what lens do you use in g1?
Mainly the 45mm and occasionally the 28mm. Love to try the 90!
This is a really engaging video - I beg you cover more Contax G stuff, you've got a really good way of presenting your videos. I had a G1 recently for a few months and I really loved it but I had a hard time adjusting to the viewfinder. Shots were in focus and I actually really liked the focus distance scale thing, but I really didn't enjoy the dim, tiny VF. Another gripe - and I'm sure it was just user error - but I found that when half-pressing the shutter button I'd frequently take the shot haha Obviously my error but it just seemed a little sensitive when in loud, hectic, and busy environments.
I hear people say they made the G2 VF bigger and brighter and added the focus button to the back of the camera so I've been keen to look into that.
Finally, I'd love to see you cover the G system lenses - i never got to try the 90mm and 85mm is my usual go-to focal length. I also have an obsession with the T3 so anything on that in the future would be cool.
Awesome comment! Will see about a lens video. Definitely want to try a G2…
Pls post more sir.
On it!
I comeback to this video every now and then, pls don't stop.
@@alissong. promise!
@@alissong. will have a video on the Fuji GA645 soon!
I trust u @@popularbehaviour
This video is ok. I love the comments section of the fellow friend photographers from this person’s YT channel. 😂😂😂
Go-to Setup here - G1 & 35/2 Planar.
What’s the computer sound in the beginning?
@@johanstam3602 just a synth sequence I made.
@@popularbehaviour it's just awesome.
Such good video. Got an instant subscribe from me.
Thank you! More videos to follow, just in Kyoto with a Mamiya 7😍
I watched one of your videos a while back at least 5 times!
Your videos provided much needed comfort at the time. 💪
Dude no way that’s bananas!
What filter do you used on Contax?
I don’t use any filters on the lens when shooting and I don’t use any digital filters when editing.
At the 8:41 something on the lens
@@wemalpa6943 that’s the protective UV filter
@@wemalpa6943 that’s the protective UV filter
haha I was just using my contax g1 today I love it I'm never getting rid of it
What do you think about the viewfinder? Is it good enough with glasses?
@@malypavel25 it isn’t the best viewfinder but you’ll get used to it. I think you’ll be fine with glasses
@@malypavel25 the viewfinder isn’t the best but you’ll get used to it, especially if you just snapping photos away. You should be fine with glasses
People tend to forget it’s the lens that gets the great looking quality image. I have the Planar on a different camera and the results are the same…because of the lens.
Also I’m pretty sure this Contax is battery reliant. Pretty paperweight if the battery dies. All mechanical is much more reliable. Nice video though…
@@ivanmuniz9812 absolutely, have thought about getting adapters for my other cameras.
Ex-user of Contax G1 here. The Zeiss glass was amazing, but I hate the tiny viewfinder so I foolishly sold it for cheap (just about $800 for the body and the trinity of 28, 45, and 90). The price was skyrocketed since then. I should have waited a few years before selling it.
When it’s time to sell a piece of gear, it’s time to sell. I’ve lost and won on a few deals so it’ll balance out for you I’m sure!
what f stop did you find yourself using mostly?
It really depends on the subject, the light available and how much I want to be crisp. Learning about the exposure triangle and things like the Sunny 16 rule have been so useful.
Hello, Mr. Behavior. These cameras sell for $550-600 on eBay right now. You have probably increased that by 25% or so. 😏 I have a couple of Legendary Rangefinders ®. I like them, and get excellent results with them. I prefer SLRs though, because of the manual focus screens with split prisms. That said, I am not sure that your view of the transition to digital is correct. The first digicams were point-and-shoot cameras, like many film cameras before them. Early DSLRs were really not more complicated, nor that different from late film SLRs. Anyway, I was out with a Nikon FM and 55mm f1.2 today. The simplicity is wonderful.
An F3 is definitely on my wish list
I can’t help but think of the days and weeks of companies like Kyocera and Mamiya shutting down operations and ending production of their film cameras. Talk about industry disruption!
Very wise advice on the focus. S…l…o…w..D…o…w…n… Would have loved to see some other film stocks in this video, but all in all a great review!
i had one around the mid 2000's when it was cheaper, a range finder style camera that you have to slow down with and make sure is focusing correct just isnt what a range finder is all about. i loved the build, the lenses but hated everything else especially the viewfinder
All valid points. Are you shooting film now?
this is AMAZING video!!! auto subscribed and follow IG!!!
@@wk2139 thank you! More vids in the works
Wow
Richard's face!!!! LOL!!!!!!
Definitely a film user! I thought about zooming in on his face as she talks about film labs being a thing of the past!
I've started a Popular Behaviour IG account. Will be posting photos from this video and more as we go.
instagram.com/popularbehaviour
900th like 🙏🙏
Too dramatic. Nothing got thrown away. Just the film is replaced with digital sensor.
Thanks for the comment Anton! Out of curiosity, how old were you in the mid to late 90s?
@@popularbehaviour why? I was reasonably young
@@yesanton I remember purchasing a LOMO film camera in 1998 as an ironic purchase. Film definitely died! Don’t get me wrong, digital had to happen. Without it RUclips wouldn’t exist!😉 Companies like Contax, Mamiya and Bronica were essentially put out of business. I often wonder about the employees who worked on film cameras for those brands, did they pivot and start working in digital divisions? The march of technology will never stop, I just wish I started buying high end film cameras sooner!
3:22 (the colors you can get out of this camera are incredible)
dude, its a film camera!!!! what if im using black and white film??
this sounds like a whatever review from chat gpt
I believe that when the light hits that glass, the film gets a dose of fairy dust ✨
!!!