What is your favorite 35mm film camera? 👀

@HarmonixEnt

2 жыл бұрын

I use a Pentax Spotmatic

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the photos you took in Hout Bay with that camera! 🔥

@jaycielinh

2 жыл бұрын

favourite one rn is the bessa r2a 🤩

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaycielinh You been shooting hella good photos with that camera! 💯

@richardowen4558

Жыл бұрын

I have a couple of favorites. One is the Olympus OM-4 for its spot metering system. The second is the Nikon F100 for its autofocus capability. In both cases, the cameras were used professionally for both commercial and news work.

I enjoyed the vibe in this video!

this video is so soothing to watch. how did you managed to edit it so well and with this dreamy filmy look? unreal. hat's off!

You are the reason why I want to buy this camera. Great job!! Keep doing this bro.

I just bought one of these today from Japan. I can not wait for it to get here. I love the style these produce.

Very very nice job, video, photos, presentation, music, colors, I loved it. Thanks!

This entire video is so well made. Deserves way more views and likes and comments 😅

Lekker man! 😂 Pictures came out great! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻

Wow beautiful photos throughout this bro! Your work is always amazing!

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matt, I always appreciate you swinging by this channel! 🙌🏼

Hey man! Those portraits look really good, love the lighting!

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Hey buddy! Thank you so much, cheers! 🙌🏽

I love your composition! please shoot more with this camera!

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and will do! 💪🏽

Love the video man. Interesting little camera that with quality images. Hope we get to see more of it on the channel. 👊🏾

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you man, cheers! 🙌🏽 This camera for sure will appear in more upcoming videos! 😄

Just happened on your stream. I got a pristine GS model in 1998 after my father past. It was in a full Yashica camera case and came with the telephoto and wideangle conversion lenses with case. Being very involved in photography for since 1970, I asked my camera repair guys if it was worth keeping as I did not know anything about the camera being an Olympus SLR shooter. The repair guy said the lens was very sharp and it was definitely worth keeping. I got the door seals replaced and still shoot it to this day although I only load the camera with Tri-X, my favorite b&w film. Right now I shoot it without batteries as I try and relearn some old skills of judging light and adjusting the aperture to fit the default 1/500 sec shutter. Haven't sent the film to my lab yet (I sold my Nikon film scanner) so I don't know how I am doing yet.

You killed it 🔥 great photos, great video

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you buddy! 🙌🏼

The content on your channel it's amazing! You deserve more subs! (I just pressed the button 😅↗) And today, I bought exactly this film you used 🎞

Thanks for the battery tip! Just got my Electro 35 recently for peanuts and it actually works! Your photos are stunning

I've just bought this camera and discover your videos. Your shots are totally amazing! Can't wait to receive my Yashica!

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Anna! 🙌🏻 and welcome to Yashica club! I’m sure that you will enjoy this camera!

Den Haag! Je weet toch.. Lekkere foto's man! :)

awesome pics man, 35mm is always so fun to shoot 🤩

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jaycie! 🙌🏼🔥 and true, I had a lot of fun shooting 35mm!

DOPE VIDEO DAVIDS... THANKS FOR THE GEMS AND THE BATTERY SUBSTITUTE... WILL BE LOOKING TO GRAB ONE THE YASHICA GSN'S OR GTN'S... Peace, Love, and Happiness!!! 🙃

I dug out my Yashica 35 today after a couples years of not using it and wanted to see what others were getting from it. Low and behold the first video that comes on is this and its shot in the hague, the very town I boguht it in. Uncanny. Another tip fr the battery is to use tinfoil formed into a cylindar under the A544 cell!

hey man I love the quality of these shots!!! Do bring your film down a stop to get your shots?

may I know what are the other 2 cameras you compared in terms of shutter sound? thank you and great vid quality 💯 you earned a subscriber, keep it up!!

Wow, what a nice photos. Please shoot more with this camera. I will waiting for next video.

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you PJ, haha, I will try! 🙌🏼

Gonna have to pick one up! What canera do you use to shoot the videos? Looks great!

Great video David! Love the 'everyday' photos. I've just ordered one of these cameras.. I'm excited!

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man and welcome to the Yashica club! 😎

@acecreates

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidsKokainis it just arrived.. light seals corroded, battery corroded, lens opaque haha. I'll see if I can make it good

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Damn… you got a full package I see 😅

@acecreates

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidsKokainis haha yup!

Great video, very helpful :) My grandmother justt gave me her old yashica and im excited to try it out, never used a film camera tho lol

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mia! 🙌🏼 Be careful, film photography can be very addictive! 😄 Let me know if you have any questions!

Do you try to fix the stuck shutter? I have the exact same problem as you, sometimes in the last shot the shutter stuck.

So glad you finally ran a roll through this wonderful lil camera, been kinda awaiting this video ever since I saw this camera in one of your previous videos! And yeah the shutter is super silent, which is why I bought a rangefinder for my first film camera over an SLR coz you can just be a fly on the wall while shooting street! Also you did surprisingly great with nailing focus as a first timer shooting on a rf, did you enjoy focusing this way or do you prefer an SLR?

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Sup Siddhant! How you been buddy? I've been wanting to shoot this camera ever since I got it, but yeah, as I mentioned in the video, it was quite hard to find a battery for it, kinda sucks that in the end I solved the issue with a 5 minute walk to the closest store. 😄 And thank you man! 🙌🏼 I guess I do enjoy focusing more on a rf, because on my Mamiya I have reversed slr viewfinder and it's quite challenging to say the least. 😄 What camera are you using?

@siddhantmogaveera

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidsKokainis I'm good brother! I have the olympus 35 sp, which unfortunately has been collecting dust for a while now, need to get it CLA'd before I put another roll through it

Hey davids hello can i ask what is your settings in apperture and focus since we have the same camera thanks :))

Hey loved the photos! I’m in pinch right now lol. How do you overexpose a stop with this camera specifically? For sunrise on the boat. TIA!

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Heyyy, thank you! If you have a battery for this camera, then you just have to set ISO rating and the camera will do the rest for you! For example to overexpose 1 stop for Kodak Gold 200, you will set ISO on camera 100, for Kodak Portra 400 you have to set 200 and for Kodak Portra 800 you have to set 400. I hope this makes sense 😅 Let me know if you need more info on this!

Can I know what adapter or external that you use in front of your camera lens ?

what light bar do you use?

So what you think of Film David..

Subscribed and following you on IG! I always only shot MF, I'm halfway my 1st roll of 35mm in my Yashica 35gsn and I'm so afraid of the quality being bad that I'm watching videos like yours to remove a bit of fear.... XD

Hello where did you get the batteries for the cam?

Hi man what the camera you used in 0:15

Oh wow … very beautiful pictures. I’m new to film, did you change the iso on it when shooting the portrait with the red lights, or it was shot with the same 200 iso as per the film. Is it also at the lowest aperture? If you could you share abit of tips and tricks when shooting it would be great. 🙏

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Andrew! To be honest, I don’t remember 😅 but I assume that I shot at the lowest aperture (f.1.7) and Kodak Gold 200 I always rate at 100 iso. I like how the photos turn out colour and exposure wise.

@alessandrovitor414

5 ай бұрын

@@DavidsKokainisdid you put iso 100 for your Kodak Gold 200? Why so? Thanks brother

You do not need the adapter. The PC164 battery is a direct replacement in the yashica electro 35. I have been using them for years with no hassle. Easily found on Amazon

@TechWzrdFilms

Жыл бұрын

Link please?

@GabrielaToledoOfficial

11 ай бұрын

Link?

i just found you channel by accident cuz yesterday i had bought myself yashica electro 35 gtn (my first rangefinder btw) and I was looking for videos reviewing this camera. I got to say i was really shocked about your story with film, I've never met anyone with even little bit similar story as you, glad to have you in film community. If I can give any advice, if you feel that there's something wrong with your winder or film please do not open your camera in the light cuz you may risk losing your shots. Just open it in the darkroom and then check the camera. And also I would highly recommend you to try some street photography on this bad boy, personally for portraits i much prefer regular 35mm SLR's, they are heavier but will give you more creative space belive me, dalmeter's are great for when you need to quickly make a photo, like for journalism or like I said, street photograpy, also yashica itself is an shutter priority only camera which on the long run will in some way limit you if you do portraits.

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

Hey man, thank you for swinging by and giving some tips, I appreciate! 🙌🏼 Idk, it's just ever since I found out that medium cameras exist, I've been wanting to get one, but the biggest difference is the price tag, digital camera setup would cost me around 10-15k, where medium film camera setup costed me less than 1k. 😄 but yeah, so far I've been loving every aspect of shooting film! And you're absolutely right, me opening the back door in the light, with a stuck winder, might be one of the stupidest things I have done so far. Glad that I didn't had to learn the lesson in the hard way.😄 As I said in the video, I would like to use this camera on daily basis or when traveling, including some street photography and other things along the way, but yeah I see your point about this camera not being the greatest for portraits, it's quite inconsistent, I could take the same photo twice, but it would look slightly different in each shot. But I think I will still give it a try for a portrait shoot and compare it to 120 film, I mean, we already know the answer witch one will come on top, but I think it would be cool to compare both of them. 😄

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

@@THSposting Alright, I will check those cameras, thanks man! 🙌🏼

anybody know the name of the song playing at the first part of the video???

They have the adapter on Etsy for 10$

Bruh…what’s the name of this song? 😂🤔 it rides!

Dude, what’s the song? 😅

Those foto's are taken in my hometown

@DavidsKokainis

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite city in The Netherlands! 🙌🏼

Song?

The problem with the original battery is that it contained mercury. Mercury is toxic. Millions of mercury batteries in landfills created environmental problems. Note that a 35mm negative is much smaller than a 120 negative. So, 120 allows a photographer to enlarge a print with more detail.