Why I'm turning my back on digital and only shooting film!
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2024
- The beginning of my rediscovery of film. Shooting the Pentax K1000 in Niagara Falls.
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shot on:
Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro
DJI Osmo Pocket 3
film camera:
Pentax K1000
Canon NEW F1
Canon AE-1 Program
Canon 814XL
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I too started photography back on film and when I went digital, I made the conscious decision to keep my film cameras. While digital is totally awesome, blowing through frame after frame then editing and adjusting in Lightroom takes away from the satisfaction of slowing down and really paying attention to your framing, exposure and depth of field that film forces you to do. I am also rediscovering the joy of film photography, especially black and white film along with the use of filters. It makes me appreciate my photography more I think.
New sub to your channel .. I love old film cameras and fix and repair them and then use them :).. I learned how to develop and scan my film as well. I have a few digital systems including a not cheap Fujifilm GFX system but yet I still find myself enjoying film more .. Its a great hobby to not only try and get great images and memories with these old cameras but to have serviced most of the cameras I use makes the entire process even more rewarding when I am looking at the final results :). I look forward to seeing more photos you take .
I owned a Pentax ME an ME Super and a Pentax LX and a Ricoh XR-P to mention a few. I now own a Nikon D50 and D5100 and a Fujifilm X-T20 and a Fujifilm X-S10. I love digital better than film for a few reasons. Film cameras don't allow you to see your exposure or if it's in focus and sharp. It's really too expensive to buy film and get it processed and printed. Then you have packs and boxes of pictures all over the place. I still have thousands and thousands all over the place and they are too hard to look through to find just the ones I want. I won't look back. I enjoyed those old film cameras in the past but I'm a 70 year old guy looking to make the most of the time I have left and film just takes up too much time and effort when my time is short.
time to buy yourself a proper camera give this junk to charity ....ololololo
The first camera I used for professional shoots was a Canon Rebel G 35mm film camera. I purchased it back in 1998. I still own it and still use it on occasion.
Last year, I switched from Canon to Olympus M43 digital for my daily carry, but there's something very special about the whole film experience.
I had a Pentax SP1000 for my 18th birthday in 1978 and I'm still using it.
I recently bought a No1 autographic Kodak made in 1917, used Ilford Ortho Plus 120 and developed it in Rodinal. Absolutely timeless look to the images. Hopelessly soft focus, occasional lens flare....Absolutely brilliant experience. Trouble is, I'm now spending too much time on ebay looking for my next vintage camera 😂
I think film luminous is what separates it from digital in a practical sense.
Well... Lkd & Subd - that's rhe first thing. Second: I mainly shoot digital, but I have film cameras and my beloved Spotmatic is what usually gets the outing - I have a set of good Taks. Third, and most importantly - an argument that nobody ever responds to. I try to be honest about film. A film image cannot enter the digital universe - that space is the unique preserve of the non-analogue. When I take a picture of a cow with my K1, I have a digital image of a cow. When I take a picture of a film image with my K1 (or I have a film image digitally scanned), the resultant image is no longer an actual film image (the subject of my scanning), anymore than my digital image of a cow is still an actual cow. People who believe they share film photography online are deluding themselves - all online images are digital and digital cannot reproduce the essence of film anymore than a photo, however taken, can be an actual cow. The only way of sharing a film image is through the wet and messy process of (unmediated by digital) printing. Maybe I'm wrong (I often am)? You have experience - I'd welcome your view. Cheers and all the best.
Apart from my iPhone, I don’t own any digital cameras. I have a Canon VT delux (given to me by my late Father) a Canon FTb QL, I bought my first F1 in 972, and since then I have bought 4 F1s.
100% agree with grainydays "film is a memory".
But digital is also analog to a point just like film, except a film exposure is put on a substrate and a digital exposure is put through an analog to digital converter. Film, once scanned is pretty much going through the same process.
Unless it's going straight to print, it's essentially the same. (Scanning film is the same as a digital camera).
If people begin appreciating the printing process, Film will fully recover. The issue will be cost early on which is what's currently happening. Maybe we'll get KodaChrome back.
Very true. Once digitized the separation in mediums gets less. That’s why I’d love to go further down this hole and get to processing and printing myself as well. See if I can avoid digitizing entirely. Until I share it online of course.
For the cost of $20 for a film and an additional $30-$40 for development, coupled with a two-week wait for 36 pictures, with the likelihood of half of them turning out poorly, it's evident that film photography remains a niche pursuit. In contrast, digital photography offers convenience and efficiency, making it the preferred choice for many.
To be fair your numbers are a bit bloated. And the wait time for my photos was 3 days. Furthermore with convenience comes complacency. Digital pics tend to be forgotten in the void as they’re so easy to snap away. Film feels special. Unique and of the moment. For those of us that enjoy it, it’s the uncertainty that adds to the special nature of the medium. But it’s not for everyone. And it doesn’t need to be.
If half your roll turns out bad you need to get better at photography. Stop spraying and praying and start actually thinking before you shoot.
I shoot, develop and darkroom print the same day. It’s way more rewarding than digital.
I would argue it is even more expensive in other countries, for example in Brazil, expired film stock can easily be $30 and to find the shops that will develop the film the way you want, you probably will throw another $30. It is a cool niche and hobby tho, almost as cool as record your band through analog tape, for example.
@@MathcartneyAnd yet people will spend thousands on a mirrorless camera, lenses, MacBook Pro to edit etc. Despite all that the images from a £30 film camera and a £5 film often look better. Film photography forces you to put your soul into each shot. Manual focus slows you down and makes you think is this image worth taking. Developing and darkroom printing connects you with your photographs far more than just dumping them on a hard drive and forgetting about them after a single look.
The K1000 is my default film camera, and after owning more expensive SLR's and Leica rangefinders, this is the one I kept ( i actually have 3 of them!)
The original Pentax prime lenses are wonderful, and I'm not going back to using zoom lenses.
Yes, it's a bit of a tank, but I've never been let down with it, in over 20 years of use.
love the camera! agreed, I have many other "nicer" cameras but it's my go to again and again!
I LOVE the Pentax K1000. It was my first camera.
I have a Pentax K1000. Nice camera.
Great video! I turned headlong to film in June 2019, and really haven’t looked back. I really love Pentax SLR’s. If you like the K1000, you should check out the KX. It’s the same body style as the K1000, but more feature rich and capable. As far as cheap third party lenses, that’s practically all I shoot with: Vivitar, Sears, Chinon, Rokinon, etc. It’s fun to see what you can get from a bargain lens.
Which brand is the 70-210 f4 lens from? Thank you
I love film but I don't have the time or space to develop my own photos.
I’m with you! I’ve started buying back film equipment. Because not everyone has the skill set to do film these days. I’m going 4x5
Ooo good luck! I’d love to try shooting large format someday!
For me, 35mm films are practically "dead" because nowadays it's easy to find cheap, used high end full frame bodies. On the other side, 4x5 is interesting: big negatives and also various camera movements to tune your perspective.
I get the impression that film is balancing the force in photography. With the ability to generate stunning AI images by writing 3 sentences in a prompt, what do we know is real? Film is. It is created through chemistry (and magic). AI is created from what? For older people film is nostalgic, it feels like grandmas house l, for young people who only know digital, it’s new and exciting. Thanks for the video!
In recent years I have used both digital and film cameras. Every time the wow effect was with the film reveal. I decided to keep a Fuji XT2 with a zoom kit and to invest in quality lenses for my film Pentax as well as Ricoh bodies (lighter and cheaper). Maybe I will replace my Fuji XT2 for a Pentax KP ( 5-axis IBIS and old film k mount lens compatibility ). Grain is not dead.
I maintain a Fujifilm x100F as a "just in case" camera for moments I want to make sure I got.
Interesting take on that zoom lens. I’m not a fan of vintage zooms, but I was gifted a k1000, with 3 lenses, and one is a Ozawa 80-200F4 macro, that I’ve ignored and haven’t even shot with, maybe I’ll try it before somebody responds to my for sale ad.
I'm always a fan of "weird attributes" of vintage glass. there are so many lenses out there that may not be considered "good" lenses that still add so much character to an image.
Just within the last month I built a darkroom at my home. I have added 33 cameras to my collection since new year. I dusted off my 35mm Pentax Spotmatic and added Asahi Spotmatics, Yashica TLRs medium format, antique Kodak Vest pockets, 3 Leica Barnacs, Speed Graphic press cameras, Large Format View cameras. I have stop buying partly cause I’m starting to run out of space but mainly cause it all needs to get serviced and that will take a long time to do before I can go shooting on a lot of them. I love the video, I can wait to finish servicing some of my 35s so I can go out this spring to photograph beautiful Washington state while I’m still here. Thanks for the video, keep them coming please!
I love film but i am broke so i can't spend so much money on film rolls, back un 2017 i had a p cool store here in my country that sold kodacolor 200 at something close to 3 bucks, sadly now rolls are so expensive here, even the simpler ones...
I'm using old digicams just to try something different, but i usually shoot with my ricoh GR II
For sure. I hope the more people explore film the more the price goes down.
@@jbrooksfilmthe whole reason film is so expensive is because it's no longer being mass manufactured. It's a niche, photography in general is a niche and film is further into that niche especially now that phones exist so I highly doubt it'll make another big boom aside from a possible resurface as a fad
@@ish_vids true. but one can dream lol
@@jbrooksfilm it's probably going to be the same for all cameras soon enough, when some psycho invents some lenses you can put inside your eyes and activate with a neuron or something scifi and dystopian like that
Glad to see more people picking up film. Hopefully the price of film will drop 😂
Might as well do film.
It could potentially be the last days of film as we speak (or at the crossroads of a rebirth & resurgence).
0:37 Why does the video look like crap?
done nothing but films for 6 years ,... quickly gave up on digital as it was so fucking boring to me ... the process and the computer , the boring sharpness and lack of any imperfections or interesting process ... sitting in front of computer sucks ass ... dark room and printing is everything ... going on out with my pre electronic cameras, m2, F, 500CM and using the sunny 16 .makes photography so simple and so much more interesting , engages my brain and brings you in the moment more, focuses you on how to visualise the final shot when you are working exposure in your head , just a camera and me no electronics to be in the middle , every thing is on me from start to finish , shoot, develop print .. using dog old equipment is so much fun and interesting and makes photography enjoyable and rewarding , putting 4 or 5 accessories together to take a shot , is so much more involved than just changing a setting on a menu .. Digital is just so fucking boring to use and develop .
I think you need to tell your camera that youre shooting 200 iso, not 800 (to push your portra 400). Those images look a bit underexposed. Great video tho
That would be pulling the film. I rather like the exposure. But we all look at art differently 🤷♂️ thank you for watching though.
@@jbrooksfilm My mistake, pushing =/= overexposing. Forget what i said. Good job haha
If You get a chance to shoot on a Mamiya 6 do so...
LOVE that camera. looking at the Mamiya 7 down the road.
We should go back to horse carriages. There were no cars before... I believe you are overthinking this. I shot a lot of film for many years including 6x6 medium format. It was a great experience and if you want to stay with film fine. However, the medium we shoot on doesn't define what photography is or not, or what is real and more real. It's a preference and no more.
I don’t remember claiming one “defined “ photography over the other. I’m simply sharing my interests. You don’t care for film fine, you do you. As for the carriage comment do you think we need to be done with bikes because we have cars now? Or can we enjoy things simply because they enrich our lives?
@@jbrooksfilmI ride a cargo bike as my main form of transportation. It's a preference and perhaps I overstated what your point was or misunderstood.
I miss the "feel" of using film cameras but for me the image quality isn't there anymore.
If I shot film again I would get out one of my old medium format cameras ...🦘
For sure. If you’re looking for the resolution of digital medium format is the way to go. I just fixed up my old Yashika Mat 124 and can’t wait to take it out!