Wow. Always great and informative videos. And your melodious voice (after years of reading your site) makes the viewing a special treat. Thank you, good sir!
Finally! A voice!!!! I’ve seen your website for years. Have always appreciated your view on such a wide view of cameras (and other life insights). Keep up the good work!
- A Great Guy! Without Mr. Ken Roswell's invaluable advices on his web-pages, I would still be looking for a needle in a haystack after all these years. -
My great great grandfather here in Arizona was a pioneer photographer(1870-1900). George Rothrock. Took some of the first pictures of Landmarks and people in Arizona.
Mr Rockwell good to see you on RUclips. I used to frequent your website when I first began to venture into photography. I learned so much from you. Thanks for all you do.
Well done Ken. I’ve learned so much from you over the years. This was well spoken and I learned a bunch. I’m so glad you decided long ago to share your knowledge with others.
The best camera is the one you have with you ... and if the best camera that you can have with you also happens to be a phone, then you already have the best camera with you! I have no experience of the newer iPhone cameras, but I've always been amazed at the no-flash photos that my wife gets on her iPhones. I love Ken's attitude on practicality. He's not a snob. He doesn't snub cameras based on sensor size, or brand, or what is considered to be "state of the art" or "professional". If something works good enough, Ken will tell us. I mean he even uses SnapSeed on his phone! This video surprised me how recent the digital camera really is. We're in for a lot of surprises, and I think that phone-based photography solutions are going to be absolutely fantastic going forward. I'm going to dust of my Nokia 808 now ....
Thank you Ken for making videos like these, I love it!! And thank God someone still has such an in depth knowledge of the world of cameras! Keep on creating! I love your work! I use your articles for a lot of my research and buying decisions!
Great informational video! Thanks! I did expect Pentax to be mentioned though, as they had a few historical innovations such as the first Japanese SLR (Asahiflex) in 1952, the world's first instant return mirror system (Asahiflex II) in 1954, & the world's first through-the-lens (TTL) metering system (Spotmatic) in 1964...
Ken , that was a Great Ride ! I am so happy to see two of my cameras mentioned . Nikon FA and Leica M9 , actually both are in heavy use still . Just says how important these were as many people are using these still today.
First: I really enjoyed this. (hard to cover so much in 20 min.). The one thing that surprised me was that there wasn't a brief spot for the Nikon F4. Love your website and appreciate all your efforts Ken, TY. (one of the VERY few 'donation' sites I've ever contributed to.)
Ken I wonder on your opinion to the reliability of the Nikon FA? Are they rugged cameras or should be handled gently? I have picked one up as it's the pinnacle of many things Nikon :) Thanks for your work and legacy on the industry! Always great info!
Thanks for this vid, awesome!!! My film shooters these days are the Olympus OM2n, OM2SP, Minolta XD-11, Nikon F4, Olympus Flex, and the Minolta Autocord ... yeee haww!
Superb Ken, superb and succinct. I'd argue that perhaps like for almost everything else, the internet has done more for photography in the digital world. Being able to transmit, upload and view others work in a few seconds from anywhere on the globe. Plus for me, the vast amount of free information, education and reviews (like yourself) and site's like Flickr etc etc that inspire and teach... Just my 2 cents, loving all your videos !
Have you heard about "Mahabharata", A 5000 years old mythological series from India. In Mahabharata there is a character, named as Sanjay, who used a television like instrument to see live battles between Kauravas & Pandavas and did the live commentary to Kauravas king Dhritirastra who was a blind. So if there was a television like instrument then there should be a instrument like video camera too. 😊
For them world is limited upto Europe and US.. And we Indians follow them who could not count beyond 1000 till we gave them zero.. World is really crazy weird place..
Dear Ken love your honest straight forward reviews hopefully down the line you can give us your opinion on megapixels and print sizes comparisons keep up the good work
I got into photography back in 1970 while in the AF. I used Pentax, Minolta, Mamiya c220, Mamiya RB67, and Canon Rebel XT slr digital. I miss using film.
I really appreciate what fuji has done as a company. What their film stocks have done for the industry as well as what they continue to do in their film simulations is nothing but wisdom. Photography shouldn’t lack the charm that it once had with film and Fuji hasn’t forgotten that.
You should do an episode on the f2 or fm3a! the f2 is my favorite camera ever made. (Aside from maybe the fm2 and a hasselblad 500cm.) I have read that the fm3a is a mechanical/electronic marvel in that it has a mechanical (use all speeds without battery) and aperture priority shutter. Awesome video!!
Hello Ken, please let me know (in your experience and/or tests) what is the sharpest Nikon F Mount 50 mm f1.4 lens betwen pre AI, AI, AIS, AF, and G, including the f1.2 AI. Regards from Argentina. Thanks a lot. Your youtube videos are so useful for our knowledge and to make a decission before buying equipment.
stopped down to f/4 and smaller they are all the same. Wide-open the 58mm f/1.4 G is best kenrockwell.com/nikon/58mm-f14-g.htm and 50/1.4 G kenrockwell.com/nikon/50mm-f14-afs.htm is also much better wide open than the older AF and MF lenses. The f/1.2 lenses were relatively awful; sharpness had to be compromised for speed back in manual focus days. Even the 58/1.2 NOCT kenrockwell.com/nikon/58.htm was much less sharp, even stopped down, than the slower lenses. Only advantage to 58/1.2 NOCT was that dots of light stayed a dots (not blurs) at f/1.2.
@KenRockwellTV Oh, thanks a lot indeed, your comments are very helpful to me. My first Nikon was the F Photomic FTN in the early seventies and my very fist camera was a Vito C from Voigtlander at 18 years old (Cristmas gift) 'til then I used to use my fathers bellows Bessa 9x6. My very kind regards
Lots to mention in such a topic; one point, Brady gets the fame for photographing the Civil War but it was a Scot, Alexander Gardner, employed by Brady, who did the photographing. He attended the battle sites (along with his horse-drawn darkroom), not Brady.
Thought the full frame dslr’s were a big deal, 15 years ago. It was a long hard journey to finally have the same format of our younger years, in a form that didn’t cost money for every single picture.
Very informative, but the Canon EOS 620 was their second autofocus camera with the new electronic EF mount. The first one was the EOS 650 released in March 1987, the 620 followed in May of that year.
I hate to admit it but, I actually agree the I phone has turned the world of photography in a new direction. Now I use my film cameras for pure fun, which in a way kinda makes them more special!
For the 2000s you could make an argument for the canon 5d ii, as it innovated and introduced the hybrid camera market, allowing for quality stills and videos in the same body. It was a bit of a game changer to in the industry at the time.
Wow! Nice overview, and so wonderful to hear your voice. A few errors in here, for example the CLC meter system on the Minolta used Cadmium Sulfide, not selenium. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Great stuff. Much more helpful then the long form history videos of individual companies that the northrups did. While interesting not necessarily as to the point as this.
I enjoyed your video quite a lot. I have been a photo historian for decades too. But you missed one point. Why has there never been a Polariod underwater camera? The answer is quite simple. '' Polaroid Land Cameras ''... ( By the way, I am also tattoed Nikon and Fujifilm behind the ears... )
Not sure of what you’re unsure. Nikon’s SLR lenses and bodies from 1959-today use so many different incompatible technologies that you have to be careful to pick the right lens to use on any particular camera. See the details at www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
My manual focus primes 24,28,35,50,85,105,180,200 and 300) work on all of my film cameras as well as my D700, 800 andDS3. I am not challenging your knowledge cause I know who you are, was a bit confused but you are including lenses Ive never had.
@@xavierfumat7567 They arent really all compatible. Not all lenses can be mounted on all cameras. And if it can be mounted the light metering or focusing might not work either. I have couple pre-ai-s lenses. And they of course work on Nikormat or F1 bodies. But when I want to use them for example on F4, light metering wont work. Or on DSLRs, if you have D7000 or higher you wont be able to mount it at atll. But for D5000 and lower it will be possible. Which is strange, but metering wont work of course. And of course G lenses are tragedy completely.
Estate sales. Dealers make friends with mortuaries, read obituaries and scour rich neighborhoods for sales looking for great cameras no longer needed when the well-off pass on to better light.
I did a tour of Iguazu Falls with an F6, Velvia, Provia, and an iPhone X. I have to admit the iPhone kept right up. What's it called... computational photography, I think? The better gear made better photos to my own eye, but people seem to like the iPhone shots just as much. Times are a changin'.
I prefer my iPhone shots. I jack them over in Snapseed and the results are better, faster, than shooting foreign-designed old-fashioned products for senior citizens like nikon.
Great video and I appreciate your great insight and perspective and I agree with most of what you're saying except... that Milky way shot is nowhere near what one can get from DSLR or Mirrorless camera. The trouble is physics, and while the technological innovations and AI can do a lot, it still can't make more light go through that tiny lens onto that tiny sensor. But I totally get it. Just a little food for thought. Best in 2020 Cheers
But did you notice my iPhone Milky Way shot is also smart enough to simulate a clock drive electronically? I shot the same thing with a 100MP Fuji GFX 100, but since I had no clock drive mount for it it was limited by earth rotation - iPhone was better! Now maybe if I mount these to my clock drive this would be different. Thanks!
Been following your website since around 2000 - a shame you haven’t reviewed the Olympus OM 35mm - (the OM3 and 4Ti especially) the AF Minolta Maxxum 7/9 - especially the 7 which is delightful (much like the F100) - keep up the good work man - I can add the Rolleiflex to that list plus the Fuji GA645 which I reckon you’ll like as a big Fuji point n shoot
Ken Rockwell wow! That’s a shame - I wonder if you had a go with the 7? Regardless - thanks for everything and another thing - you still haven’t reviewed your Contax 645!!
@@Wildmountainsafaris Whio knows? With so much new stuff and 35mm only for historic reflection and the occasional odd man out today, I don't know that I'll ever get the time for anything other than immortal 35mm like LEICA. Thanks for the suggestions!
Cool video, but I would say one of the greatest camera systems of the late 90's and early 2000's was the Nikon Coolpix. I was a contractor at Mattel Toys in the late 90's and often directed product photography for the projects I was contracted for. To save on film processing costs, Mattel had really pushed it's studio photographers into using new digital backs on the Hasselblad film cameras. The quality was crap, they required long exposures which forced us to use hot lights, rather than strobes. Expensive prototype toys often melted during exposures! Worse, the expensive Hasselblads couldn't focus on something as small as a Hot Wheel's car. The only camera that could do this was the Nikon Coolpix, which with the screw on wide angle lens, had the macro ability to focus on a product that small. The quality was just as good as the expensive Hassleblads of the time. At only three mega pixels, the final image typically needed retouching, but this was mostly due to the fact that something as small as a Hot Wheels car looks like crap really close up. I left Mattel to do advertising storyboards in the early 2000's and one of the best tools I had in my bag was again, my Nikon Coolpix. Long before the advent of smartphones, the Coolpix allowed artists to quickly stage and shoot dozens of reference shots for artwork. Prior to Coolpix, artists had to rely on expensive Polaroids. I took tens of thousands of exposures on my Coolpix before retiring it in 2009. My iPhone quickly surpassed it, but for a while, the Coolpix was one of the most useful digital camera systems on the market.
There's a lot of history in 23 minutes but I think you should have mentioned the invention of the development of a latent image and the invention of the negative by Henry Fox Talbot.
@@KenRockwellTV OK, interesting, I personally think your readers would also like to read negative reviews as well. I just got the small and light Dynax 5 for not much money, seems a pretty good camera to me, once it's setup properly.
If you study the conclusions the scientists came to for how the image appeared on the shroud, the only explanation they could come to was that it was caused by an extremely high burst of light, leaving and image on the fabric. Technically the shroud is a photo negative. I'd suggest researching it some more. It's fascinating.
Hey Ken, I have a question regarding Leica SLR’s. I want to purchase a Leicaflex SL, but I’m not sure I should. I want it to last a lifetime, but I’m afraid by the time I’m in my 20’s or 30’s, there won’t be anyone left that can fix it. Do you feel the same? If so, should I get an R series Leica SLR? Thanks!
I’ve never liked Leica R: always behind technically and too darn heavy; Nikon was always way ahead of Leica in SLRs, so no, don’t chase Leica R. As a mechanical camera I’m sure Gus can work on them www.kenrockwell.com/tech/repair.htm#gus - but who knows wholll be around in 20 years
Wildly interesting! Thank you, Ken, for a very enjoyable experience. Thanks also for not mentioning my first SLR, a Miranda Sensorex - ugh, ugh, ugh. :-) IMHO the best (if not most notable) innovation of the '90s and '00s was the precipitous decline in world production of b&w film fixer. I'm still coughing up 30 years' worth of that crap.
runbei my first camera was a dslr the Sony alpha 100. It was a gift from my in-laws. It took me couple years to really get the bug. But once I did!! Man oh man!!
Awesome viewing Ken, I love your banter. Yes, smart phones, not just Iphones, have given camera manufacturers a right royal kick up the back side, It's just a real shame that Sony, Nikon, Canon et al, are not able to respond and seem like 10 years out of date by comparison. Live view, IBIS, it's all there, but above all else, intuitive ease of use with touch screens that are second nature. The big 4 (or 6) seem hell bent on bespoke mounts, processors, operating systems which just make them quirky to use. They are all guilty... and why? They could almost just build in a smartphone package and save loads on hardware R&D. Sony actually make their own smart phones, so there's no excuse, at least for them with some of the worse menu and rear display systems on the market - crazy. Wonder what the next decade review will be like? Can't wait!
Apple makes phones for people who just want great pictures, period, while the Japanese make cameras for people who want fancy cameras moreso than great pictures. Thanks!
You happen to know the name of you great great grandfather? I coincidentally live in Ayrshire Scotland, might be able to look up some of his work in a library.
I notice that you failed to mention one revolution in photography in the 21 century. Mathematics. I am talking on digital Noise Reduction and Digital distortion compensation and digital color fringing correction.
Hi! Didn’t fail, just didn’t have room for it. 2,000 years in 20 minutes requires some strong noise reduction of its own, and just like strong noise reduction, some of the signal gets erased with it. Noise reduction is evolutionary and not as revolutionary as the other things I crammed in there. Thanks!
That’s for static motion under undefined conditions. Far more important is how well the camera usss its sensor array, the management of which is the longest lag in every system and something Sony is smugly not considering. Shameful. Thanks!
Wow. Always great and informative videos. And your melodious voice (after years of reading your site) makes the viewing a special treat. Thank you, good sir!
Thanks Matthew!
I'm happy to see you bring your knowledge to youtube, it's desperately needed.
Thanks Kelvin!
Agreed
Truly
@@KenRockwellTV yes I agree Ken…. Good for you…. You have so much esoteric information in that mind and this is a great format to share it….
Finally! A voice!!!! I’ve seen your website for years. Have always appreciated your view on such a wide view of cameras (and other life insights). Keep up the good work!
Thanks!!!!!
amazing right? he is actually a real person!
I have known kenrockwell.com for years. The most competent source of not biased information. You helped me with lots of purchases and taught me a lot.
Thank you!
Jarosław Siudziński: Same here......its always my first stop when I'm looking for reviews of a new camera :-)
Love this history videos, such an enjoyable journey through time with great narration. You are a legend!
I’d be nowhere without great viewers like you. Thanks!!!
- A Great Guy! Without Mr. Ken Roswell's invaluable advices on his web-pages, I would still be looking for a needle in a haystack after all these years. -
Thank you!!!!
My great great grandfather here in Arizona was a pioneer photographer(1870-1900). George Rothrock. Took some of the first pictures of Landmarks and people in Arizona.
Wow! I know people who claim to be the first to shoot the slot canyons back in the 70s - yours has them beat by 100 years! Thanks!
Wow, that's the best overview about photography I could imagine. Thank you very much.
Mr Rockwell good to see you on RUclips. I used to frequent your website when I first began to venture into photography. I learned so much from you. Thanks for all you do.
Thank YOU!!!
Thank you for all you have done Ken! I am glad you are making videos. Excited for what is to come.
Thanks Riley!!!
So many, even the vast majority, of modern photographers are completely ignorant of the history of it all. Very timely and useful video Ken.
Thanks!
WonderFULL ! Again (just discovered!) THE FANTASTIC KEN ! "Bravoooo !"0
2005 I bought my first DSLR - 70s.
Thanks
Ken that was just epic. Thank you so much for doing a a video version of your article!!
Thanks Rick!
Well done Ken. I’ve learned so much from you over the years. This was well spoken and I learned a bunch. I’m so glad you decided long ago to share your knowledge with others.
Thanks! You guys make it all worth while.
I still use a 10x8 Sinar camera. Sometimes I even photograph dinosaurs. Good stuff here Mr Ken - good stuff.
Thanks!
I always know I'll come away with more great knowledge from anything you write or video. Thanks Ken!
Thanks!
Just found your videos, after reading your website for over ten years! These are awesome, thank you for all you do!!!
Thank YOU!
The best camera is the one you have with you ... and if the best camera that you can have with you also happens to be a phone, then you already have the best camera with you! I have no experience of the newer iPhone cameras, but I've always been amazed at the no-flash photos that my wife gets on her iPhones. I love Ken's attitude on practicality. He's not a snob. He doesn't snub cameras based on sensor size, or brand, or what is considered to be "state of the art" or "professional". If something works good enough, Ken will tell us. I mean he even uses SnapSeed on his phone! This video surprised me how recent the digital camera really is. We're in for a lot of surprises, and I think that phone-based photography solutions are going to be absolutely fantastic going forward. I'm going to dust of my Nokia 808 now ....
You got it! Thanks!
Thank you Ken for making videos like these, I love it!! And thank God someone still has such an in depth knowledge of the world of cameras! Keep on creating! I love your work! I use your articles for a lot of my research and buying decisions!
Thank you!!!!! That’s why I do all this.
I read the entire Photo Products of the Decade earlier today on kenrockwell.com. Thanks for the awesome content Ken!
Thank you!
Great informational video! Thanks! I did expect Pentax to be mentioned though, as they had a few historical innovations such as the first Japanese SLR (Asahiflex) in 1952, the world's first instant return mirror system (Asahiflex II) in 1954, & the world's first through-the-lens (TTL) metering system (Spotmatic) in 1964...
Thanks! More importantly they made the best spot meters as used by Ansel Adams and myself.
Fantastic, Ken… Your knowledge and passion for the subject is astonishing! And inspirational.
Thank you!!!
Ken , that was a Great Ride ! I am so happy to see two of my cameras mentioned . Nikon FA and Leica M9 , actually both are in heavy use still . Just says how important these were as many people are using these still today.
Bingo and thanks!
Ken Rockwell for camera president of the world,ken knows all
You are so kind. Thank you!
excellent work Ken. i've been a follower of your website for years and very happy we can now also follow you here. keep up the great work
Thank you!!
First: I really enjoyed this. (hard to cover so much in 20 min.). The one thing that surprised me was that there wasn't a brief spot for the Nikon F4. Love your website and appreciate all your efforts Ken, TY. (one of the VERY few 'donation' sites I've ever contributed to.)
Only had so much time. F4 is nikons most innovative camera of all time. www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/f4.htm
Most illuminating and educational. Thanks Ken.
Thanks!!!!!
Ken I wonder on your opinion to the reliability of the Nikon FA? Are they rugged cameras or should be handled gently? I have picked one up as it's the pinnacle of many things Nikon :)
Thanks for your work and legacy on the industry! Always great info!
Never had a problem with any of my FAs ever since my first one over 30 years ago.
at 9:49 - These are CdS cells (light variable resistors) in the Minolta SRT's meter. Not selenium cells (that produce voltage by themselves).
Right you are! I’ll add a footnote. Doing this all off the cuff without notes off the top of my head I forgot after 50 years. Duh! Thanks!
Tip: play at 0.75x to hear it at "normal" speed :) Fantastic stuff Ken. Thankyou!
Perfect! Thanks!
Thanks for this vid, awesome!!! My film shooters these days are the Olympus OM2n, OM2SP, Minolta XD-11, Nikon F4, Olympus Flex, and the Minolta Autocord ... yeee haww!
Thanks!
cant have enough of gr8 stuff.
Thank you, Doctor Mehta!
Another outstanding video Maestro!
Thanks!
Sehr gut!
Danke!
Superb Ken, superb and succinct. I'd argue that perhaps like for almost everything else, the internet has done more for photography in the digital world. Being able to transmit, upload and view others work in a few seconds from anywhere on the globe. Plus for me, the vast amount of free information, education and reviews (like yourself) and site's like Flickr etc etc that inspire and teach... Just my 2 cents, loving all your videos !
Thanks!
Have you heard about "Mahabharata", A 5000 years old mythological series from India. In Mahabharata there is a character, named as Sanjay, who used a television like instrument to see live battles between Kauravas & Pandavas and did the live commentary to Kauravas king Dhritirastra who was a blind.
So if there was a television like instrument then there should be a instrument like video camera too. 😊
New to me. Thanks!
For them world is limited upto Europe and US..
And we Indians follow them who could not count beyond 1000 till we gave them zero..
World is really crazy weird place..
And that’s what makes it so interesting. Thanks!
Nicely done! Really enjoying your channel.
Thanks!
Dear Ken love your honest straight forward reviews hopefully down the line you can give us your opinion on megapixels and print sizes comparisons keep up the good work
I did, over 15 years ago: www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm and www.kenrockwell.com/tech/pixel-dumping.htm thanks!
Super informative. The iPhone (for better or worse) definitely is the photography product of the 2010’s.
Thanks! I was afraid some people might not have heard of the iPhone.
Ken Rockwell truly is the Tim Mosso of photography
Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV Your website has been invaluable in my journey through photography, thanks again! You’ve got a new subscriber
i was blown out of the water by this review.
Hope that’s good! Thanks!
I got into photography back in 1970 while in the AF. I used Pentax, Minolta, Mamiya c220, Mamiya RB67, and Canon Rebel XT slr digital. I miss using film.
ThanK@s!
Really enjoy your new videos, Ken. How bout a Fuji review for one of your faves, the venerable X100?
In time. Today there’s so much more brand new out again. Thanks!
Micro 4/3 (Olympus and Panasonic) should get the credit for the first interchangeable lens mirrorless system.
Actually that was LEICA back in 1918. Thanks!
I really appreciate what fuji has done as a company. What their film stocks have done for the industry as well as what they continue to do in their film simulations is nothing but wisdom. Photography shouldn’t lack the charm that it once had with film and Fuji hasn’t forgotten that.
Thanks!
You should do an episode on the f2 or fm3a! the f2 is my favorite camera ever made. (Aside from maybe the fm2 and a hasselblad 500cm.) I have read that the fm3a is a mechanical/electronic marvel in that it has a mechanical (use all speeds without battery) and aperture priority shutter. Awesome video!!
All coming in time. Thanks!
A tour de force survey! Love it!
Thanks!
Thx for the battery tip for my D1 . Yes it's a pain. But I love it.
Still have mine to help me appreciate how far we’ve come. Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV Yours looks great!
Great video. A fascinating description
Thanks!
Surprised to see Fuji X100 series is not mentioned at all. I mean by you, of all people.
200 years in 20 minutes means not exactly everything fits. Thanks!
About the history of hybrid cameras with interchangeable lens the m43 standard delivered cameras in 2008-2009 so, far before Sony A7 in 2013.
Thanks!
Hello Ken, please let me know (in your experience and/or tests) what is the sharpest Nikon F Mount 50 mm f1.4 lens betwen pre AI, AI, AIS, AF, and G, including the f1.2 AI. Regards from Argentina. Thanks a lot. Your youtube videos are so useful for our knowledge and to make a decission before buying equipment.
stopped down to f/4 and smaller they are all the same. Wide-open the 58mm f/1.4 G is best kenrockwell.com/nikon/58mm-f14-g.htm and 50/1.4 G kenrockwell.com/nikon/50mm-f14-afs.htm is also much better wide open than the older AF and MF lenses. The f/1.2 lenses were relatively awful; sharpness had to be compromised for speed back in manual focus days. Even the 58/1.2 NOCT kenrockwell.com/nikon/58.htm was much less sharp, even stopped down, than the slower lenses. Only advantage to 58/1.2 NOCT was that dots of light stayed a dots (not blurs) at f/1.2.
@KenRockwellTV Oh, thanks a lot indeed, your comments are very helpful to me.
My first Nikon was the F Photomic FTN in the early seventies and my very fist camera was a Vito C from Voigtlander at 18 years old (Cristmas gift) 'til then I used to use my fathers bellows Bessa 9x6.
My very kind regards
Lots to mention in such a topic; one point, Brady gets the fame for photographing the Civil War but it was a Scot, Alexander Gardner, employed by Brady, who did the photographing. He attended the battle sites (along with his horse-drawn darkroom), not Brady.
Thanks for the details!
These videos are great!
Thank you!
Image stabilization was a significant innovation, came to still photography from the movie industry in 1990's
Yes it was. One of many great things I couldn’t fit in a short video. Thanks 🌈!
great history !
Thanks Zack!
I still need to get my hands on an FA camera. But I have an F100 so don't have any need for it, but is it really about needs? :)
No one needs any 35mm camera; my iPhone 5 made much better images than scanned Velvia 35mm five or ten years ago.
Phones are convenient for photos but surely can never be better than a proper camera and lenses
All depends on the situation. Thanks!
Thought the full frame dslr’s were a big deal, 15 years ago. It was a long hard journey to finally have the same format of our younger years, in a form that didn’t cost money for every single picture.
Thanks!
Glad you're on RUclips . #KenRockwellKnowsNikon
Thanks Jack!
Great breakdown on photographic history, Both a great watch for new and old photographers 👍
Thanks! I was hoping I was OK without images from the 1800s, since I don’t have any that I took myself I could have used.
Very informative, but the Canon EOS 620 was their second autofocus camera with the new electronic EF mount. The first one was the EOS 650 released in March 1987, the 620 followed in May of that year.
I know; all explained in detail at www.kenrockwell.com/canon/film-bodies/eos620.htm thanks!
Excellent!
THANKS!
I hate to admit it but, I actually agree the I phone has turned the world of photography in a new direction. Now I use my film cameras for pure fun, which in a way kinda makes them more special!
Exactly! Thanks!
Great analysis Ken! Just subscribed.
Thanks Ben!
My first camera with a Manota XE-5
Thanks! Mine was an SR-1 with a clip on meter
For the 2000s you could make an argument for the canon 5d ii, as it innovated and introduced the hybrid camera market, allowing for quality stills and videos in the same body. It was a bit of a game changer to in the industry at the time.
Yip. Thanks!
True! First DSLR to be used in professional TV production
very cool and interesting video Ken!
Thank you!
Agreed 100 % on the The most imp thing of 2010's !
Thanks!
Wow! Nice overview, and so wonderful to hear your voice. A few errors in here, for example the CLC meter system on the Minolta used Cadmium Sulfide, not selenium. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
I know; that’s in the subtitles. Thanks!
Great stuff. Much more helpful then the long form history videos of individual companies that the northrups did. While interesting not necessarily as to the point as this.
THANKS!!!
Wonderful educational video- Thank You!
Thank YOU!
I enjoyed your video quite a lot. I have been a photo historian for decades too. But you missed one point. Why has there never been a Polariod underwater camera? The answer is quite simple. '' Polaroid Land Cameras ''... ( By the way, I am also tattoed Nikon and Fujifilm behind the ears... )
I’m sure dr. Land never dared swim. Thanks!
nikon lenses are not compatible though their f mount bodies? Not sure I understand this! minute 13:20 and on
Not sure of what you’re unsure. Nikon’s SLR lenses and bodies from 1959-today use so many different incompatible technologies that you have to be careful to pick the right lens to use on any particular camera. See the details at www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
My manual focus primes 24,28,35,50,85,105,180,200 and 300) work on all of my film cameras as well as my D700, 800 andDS3. I am not challenging your knowledge cause I know who you are, was a bit confused but you are including lenses Ive never had.
@@xavierfumat7567 They arent really all compatible. Not all lenses can be mounted on all cameras. And if it can be mounted the light metering or focusing might not work either. I have couple pre-ai-s lenses. And they of course work on Nikormat or F1 bodies. But when I want to use them for example on F4, light metering wont work. Or on DSLRs, if you have D7000 or higher you wont be able to mount it at atll. But for D5000 and lower it will be possible. Which is strange, but metering wont work of course. And of course G lenses are tragedy completely.
Very entertaining! Thank you:-)
Thank YOU!
Hi. Aside from ebay and mercari, where can I find vintage Nikon camera's from the 1940's and 50's?
Estate sales. Dealers make friends with mortuaries, read obituaries and scour rich neighborhoods for sales looking for great cameras no longer needed when the well-off pass on to better light.
Amazing story. Glad to see Mr. Rockwell on RUclips. I read your website more than a decade way before RUclips. What took you so long? :)
Easy: 99% of people polled back then preferred to read rather than watch because it is both faster and easier to get away with at work. Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTVGet away at WORK :)))) So true.
I did a tour of Iguazu Falls with an F6, Velvia, Provia, and an iPhone X. I have to admit the iPhone kept right up. What's it called... computational photography, I think? The better gear made better photos to my own eye, but people seem to like the iPhone shots just as much. Times are a changin'.
I prefer my iPhone shots. I jack them over in Snapseed and the results are better, faster, than shooting foreign-designed old-fashioned products for senior citizens like nikon.
Great video and I appreciate your great insight and perspective and I agree with most of what you're saying except... that Milky way shot is nowhere near what one can get from DSLR or Mirrorless camera. The trouble is physics, and while the technological innovations and AI can do a lot, it still can't make more light go through that tiny lens onto that tiny sensor. But I totally get it. Just a little food for thought. Best in 2020
Cheers
But did you notice my iPhone Milky Way shot is also smart enough to simulate a clock drive electronically? I shot the same thing with a 100MP Fuji GFX 100, but since I had no clock drive mount for it it was limited by earth rotation - iPhone was better! Now maybe if I mount these to my clock drive this would be different. Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV I missed the clock first time around. Ha! Cheers
Been following your website since around 2000 - a shame you haven’t reviewed the Olympus OM 35mm - (the OM3 and 4Ti especially) the AF Minolta Maxxum 7/9 - especially the 7 which is delightful (much like the F100) - keep up the good work man - I can add the Rolleiflex to that list plus the Fuji GA645 which I reckon you’ll like as a big Fuji point n shoot
Just a matter of time. I did buy a MAXXUM 9, but it was so bad I didn’t bother to write the review.
Ken Rockwell wow! That’s a shame - I wonder if you had a go with the 7? Regardless - thanks for everything and another thing - you still haven’t reviewed your Contax 645!!
@@Wildmountainsafaris Whio knows? With so much new stuff and 35mm only for historic reflection and the occasional odd man out today, I don't know that I'll ever get the time for anything other than immortal 35mm like LEICA. Thanks for the suggestions!
Ken Rockwell all too true and thank you for responding ! You still have an unfinished Contax 645 review page I think :)
Cool video, but I would say one of the greatest camera systems of the late 90's and early 2000's was the Nikon Coolpix. I was a contractor at Mattel Toys in the late 90's and often directed product photography for the projects I was contracted for. To save on film processing costs, Mattel had really pushed it's studio photographers into using new digital backs on the Hasselblad film cameras. The quality was crap, they required long exposures which forced us to use hot lights, rather than strobes. Expensive prototype toys often melted during exposures! Worse, the expensive Hasselblads couldn't focus on something as small as a Hot Wheel's car. The only camera that could do this was the Nikon Coolpix, which with the screw on wide angle lens, had the macro ability to focus on a product that small. The quality was just as good as the expensive Hassleblads of the time. At only three mega pixels, the final image typically needed retouching, but this was mostly due to the fact that something as small as a Hot Wheels car looks like crap really close up.
I left Mattel to do advertising storyboards in the early 2000's and one of the best tools I had in my bag was again, my Nikon Coolpix. Long before the advent of smartphones, the Coolpix allowed artists to quickly stage and shoot dozens of reference shots for artwork. Prior to Coolpix, artists had to rely on expensive Polaroids. I took tens of thousands of exposures on my Coolpix before retiring it in 2009. My iPhone quickly surpassed it, but for a while, the Coolpix was one of the most useful digital camera systems on the market.
Thanks! I wasn't talking about great cameras, I was talking about major innovations.
There's a lot of history in 23 minutes but I think you should have mentioned the invention of the development of a latent image and the invention of the negative by Henry Fox Talbot.
Hi Jerome, absolutely; there's a lot I could have mentioned but I wanted to keep it short enough to be interesting. Thanks!
Hi Ken, you need to check out the Minolta Dynax 7 and Dynax 9 cameras, or maybe not, because it's good that they're still affordable!
I did - and they were horrible! I got rid of mine and didn’t bother reviewing it; I prefer reviews where I say nice things. Thanks!
@@KenRockwellTV OK, interesting, I personally think your readers would also like to read negative reviews as well. I just got the small and light Dynax 5 for not much money, seems a pretty good camera to me, once it's setup properly.
The shroud of Turin is the oldest photograph ever made.
Pip RN Stanton is this comment true??
When did they take the photo??
But is it a photograph? It's a portrait of a man who is God, but it's not made with light. It's made with. Thanks!
If you study the conclusions the scientists came to for how the image appeared on the shroud, the only explanation they could come to was that it was caused by an extremely high burst of light, leaving and image on the fabric. Technically the shroud is a photo negative. I'd suggest researching it some more. It's fascinating.
Damnit! No one will ever really know how much I called the "iPhone" as revo product of the 10's... :D
Thanks!
Which innovation do you reckon the 2020s will bring?
Mostly electronic processing of pictures. Look to Apple to lead; iPhone 11 is already ahead of everything.
Hey Ken, I have a question regarding Leica SLR’s. I want to purchase a Leicaflex SL, but I’m not sure I should. I want it to last a lifetime, but I’m afraid by the time I’m in my 20’s or 30’s, there won’t be anyone left that can fix it. Do you feel the same? If so, should I get an R series Leica SLR? Thanks!
I’ve never liked Leica R: always behind technically and too darn heavy; Nikon was always way ahead of Leica in SLRs, so no, don’t chase Leica R. As a mechanical camera I’m sure Gus can work on them www.kenrockwell.com/tech/repair.htm#gus - but who knows wholll be around in 20 years
Wildly interesting! Thank you, Ken, for a very enjoyable experience. Thanks also for not mentioning my first SLR, a Miranda Sensorex - ugh, ugh, ugh. :-) IMHO the best (if not most notable) innovation of the '90s and '00s was the precipitous decline in world production of b&w film fixer. I'm still coughing up 30 years' worth of that crap.
runbei my first camera was a dslr the Sony alpha 100.
It was a gift from my in-laws. It took me couple years to really get the bug. But once I did!!
Man oh man!!
I skipped the slr completely. Not sure if I lucked out or missed out?
Thanks!
Very informative
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Great info!
Thanks!
Awesome viewing Ken, I love your banter. Yes, smart phones, not just Iphones, have given camera manufacturers a right royal kick up the back side, It's just a real shame that Sony, Nikon, Canon et al, are not able to respond and seem like 10 years out of date by comparison. Live view, IBIS, it's all there, but above all else, intuitive ease of use with touch screens that are second nature. The big 4 (or 6) seem hell bent on bespoke mounts, processors, operating systems which just make them quirky to use. They are all guilty... and why? They could almost just build in a smartphone package and save loads on hardware R&D. Sony actually make their own smart phones, so there's no excuse, at least for them with some of the worse menu and rear display systems on the market - crazy. Wonder what the next decade review will be like? Can't wait!
Apple makes phones for people who just want great pictures, period, while the Japanese make cameras for people who want fancy cameras moreso than great pictures. Thanks!
Ken Rockwell the legend
Thanks!!!!!
You happen to know the name of you great great grandfather? I coincidentally live in Ayrshire Scotland, might be able to look up some of his work in a library.
James Brewster. Let me know if you find anything. Thanks!
Honor ....
Ph.D. in Photography
Thank you!
Excellent, how about a worldwide lecture tour :D
Set it up and I’ll be there! Thanks!
I notice that you failed to mention one revolution in photography in the 21 century. Mathematics. I am talking on digital Noise Reduction and Digital distortion compensation and digital color fringing correction.
Hi! Didn’t fail, just didn’t have room for it. 2,000 years in 20 minutes requires some strong noise reduction of its own, and just like strong noise reduction, some of the signal gets erased with it. Noise reduction is evolutionary and not as revolutionary as the other things I crammed in there. Thanks!
It's the guy from the website-! 😲
Oh oh - might be! Thanks!
These are great! Can’t wait for you to make one about how to FART
Heh heh heh. See a minute in at ruclips.net/video/Q0gEz6HfQbM/видео.html where I go through it. Thanks!
Sony's G Master lenses are the fastest auto focusing lenses ever made with 0.02 seconds
That’s for static motion under undefined conditions. Far more important is how well the camera usss its sensor array, the management of which is the longest lag in every system and something Sony is smugly not considering. Shameful. Thanks!
Rochester went to ruble after the digital cameras took hold.
They never could catch up. Oh well, good riddance to film. It was a pain!!!