Film Camera VS Smartphone
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2024
- I'm out with a 35mm film camera (the Minolta SRT-303) this week and comparing it to a Google Pixel 7 Pro smartphone camera.
Join me as I capture some sunset landscape photography with these two cameras and see which one produces the best results.
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Can't really put my finger on it, but there is just something about film that I do really miss. Maybe it's the wait between the shot and actually seeing the developed image...wondering if I actually "got it"! Good to see Otis out being such a good boy!! Have yourselves a wonderful week!
Yeah, without a screen, I think you spend more time looking at what you're photographing rather than what you've already photographed. Otis was really patient - after we'd finished filming we let him have a run round - he definitely had the zoomies! 😁 Thanks for watching Bruce.
Great video Robert! You know I'm a big Google Pixel fan (have had the 6 and 7 myself and will never own another type of phone), but I really enjoyed the photos from the Minolta in this video! I've been doing a lot of black &white urban street photography lately using my Sony, but trying to replicate a film look in post processing, so the look of your Minolta really appealed to me. Some really nice shots though using both cameras though! Hope you are doing well, have a great week!
Cheers Paul. I think adding a bit of grain to the images in Lightroom definitely gets you half way there to the film look. Have you considered getting the Pixel 8 yet?
@@Robert-Bishop no, I'm going to wait until the 9 comes out. I do alot of home automation (smart home stuff) and am scared to death that all of my automations won't transfer over to the new phone 😂 Definitely need to do some research on that! Hours and hours of automations!
Sounds very technical Paul! I'll probably skip 8 too. Just because the 7 is still great!
I think both are really great in their own ways. Great video :)
Yeah, definitely and both have their limitations in their own ways. One thing that I forgot to mention is that it's also really fun to use a film camera, and exciting having to wait for the results. Thanks for watching. 😊
Great and once again informative video Robert, it is nice to see how technology is moving on and how good the smartphones are today. I can remember waiting for the photos to be developed and finding out how many mistakes you made or just could not be developed. Digital is so good if you got it wrong you have usually got time to try again. 🐕👍
The scene you photographed is difficult with film. With a straight print you either meter for the sunset or the shadows. If you meter for the sunset then the shadows will be under exposed which will produce muddiness and lack of detail and a lot of grain and a color shift as you can see in the photos. By metering for the shadows you will get the detail you want but the highlights are over exposed. Print film does much better being over exposed. There will still be detail in the sky on the negative, it just has to be burned in. Using a grad filter would be preferable to even out the exposure. To quote Ansel Adams " meter for the shadows, develop for the highlights". I'm not digital savvy, but I think you could bring the over exposed sky back to an acceptable level in post.
Thanks for the tips Joseph. I definitely need to get an adaptor so that I can use a grad filter with the Minolta. It's a work in progress, but I'm enjoying the journey! 😊
Interesting comparison, Robert. I'm more of a black and white photography fan, but I was impressed with the colours you got out of the Ultramax. 400 film is always going to give you grain, and I didn't think the latitude of the film was too bad. Most photographers we used to commission (before digital got to levels where it exceeded film) would shoot on slide film (next to no grain) but probably only suitable for daytimeshooting. Maybe something to try next time. As for phones, as convenient as they are, I'm often sceptical about how much AI is now involved. I'm convinced my Samsung makes stuff up.😊 At least you can't do that with film easily.
I don't dislike the grain - the lack of detail in the shadows was probably my main concern. I need to get an adaptor for my graduated ND that will fit the Minolta. I will check out the slide film though, cheers. And yeah, I think phones definitely make stuff up. I see the new Pixel 8 will take elements from multiple images to combine into one shot. I wouldn't be surprised if it filled gaps with generated content too. Thanks for watching Andrew.
Interesting video and comparison Robert - my daughter has just got into film photography and I’ve given her my old Olympus OM10 which I had for my 16th birthday! We were out last week and just had the developed images back and unfortunately it looks like the camera needs a good old clean and service as many of the images were over exposed / blown out. We shot in Auto and the light was flat but even so I have 100s of prints that I took on it back in the day which were all fine so it was a little disappointing but hopefully a trip to the camera repair shot can hopefully resolve the issues. It certainly brought back great memories of my film days ! We too used Ultramax 400 so again I don’t think the film choice was wrong either. I’ll let you know how we get on too - all the best mate.
That's a shame Andrew - I hope you can get it working again. I think the main thing I need is an adaptor so that I can use a grad filter with the Minolta. Should be able to get a better exposure in those shadows then, without blowing out the sky. Thanks for watching mate, hope all is good. 😊
Why compare if you only edit the mobile images? No wonder the pixel doesn't have noise with all the NR.
It's a fair question, because I didn't go into detail about what I was hoping to achieve from this comparison. But basically - because the point of the comparison was to look at the differences in a final image created by digital methods (specifically with a smartphone) and one created by analogue methods (on film), regardless of what the results were.
Digital images are always edited. Even if you take a JPG straight from camera, the camera will have done some editing to the image. When I capture a digital image, I expect to edit the RAW to produce the final image. And if it isn't edited, I wouldn't regard that as the final image.
Editing film shots has always been more limited, mostly to just dodging and burning in the dark room. That's why I chose to only edit the highlights and shadows of the film shots.
You're right, it isn't surprising that the Pixel shots have less noise - but that's just part of the analysis, not necessarily a failure of the test.
Thanks for watching. 😊