I have watched more than a dozen of your videos so far and I thoroughly enjoy them!! I don't know exactly what it is. Perhaps it is a combination of your thoughtful way of presenting things, the vintage cameras and variety of formats and films. Very well done indeed!!

@AnalogInsights

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comment and feedback. This means a lot to me. Thanks!

Hi Max. The martial artist Bruce Lee said 'I am no style...but I am all styles'. Bruce recognised at an early stage in his martial arts that to restrict yourself to just one fighting methodology was to limit your expression and creativity. So he set about learning and familiarising himself with every fighting style he could uncover, from judo to karate, kung fu, kick boxing, European boxing, he soaked it all up. In consequence, when he fought, he was free to engage with opponents in a fluid, unconstrained way that was not hemmed in with rigid rules and conventions, able to move seamlessly from one move to another with absolute creative control. It's the same with photography. I study street, landscape, portraiture, macro, colour, black & white, infrared, abstract, digital, film...all of it. Having familiarity and control across all genres of imaging means cross fertilisation of knowledge, experience and ideas - whatever you happen to be shooting. No acquired knowledge and experience is ever wasted, even if your efforts are not crowned with success (however you measure it) and that 360° involvement in photography keeps things fresh, interesting and exciting. There's always new stuff to learn and I describe my photographic progress as 'always travelling, never arriving' - if you accept that will never (and can't) know everything, you're free to let go, relax and just enjoy your imaging evolution, without comparing yourself to others or feeling there's some glass ceiling, through which you must ascend. Thanks for providing such a great channel.

Your humility and honesty speaks of your character, not only as an artist but as person. As a photographer that started out with film in the 1980s and "graduated"? to digital photography, following your journey has inspired me to rediscover what is important about the artform. The process of creating for me is just as, if not more important, than the end result. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to many more of your videos, especially the behind the shoot installments.

As one of the "old guys" you mentioned and I'm not grimacing Max. We all go through several-I think three-phases in our development as a photographer. I am enjoying sharing your journey with you.

It's great to hear about new developments in film photography.

You are by far one of the best on KZread. Thank you for the fantastic content, and please keep up the great work!

👍 So many young film photographers on KZread who think they know it all so it's refreshing to hear your story. Also love the quote about the watches, I say a similar thing when asked about the cost of some of my analogue cameras. I don't smoke, don't drink (much) and if it makes me happy, life's too short so enjoy what you love doing while you can. Still waiting for the Leica 😁

@Unidente02

4 жыл бұрын

I do love photography, and analog photography, though I have much, much more to learn about it. Anyway, it so happens that I also play guitars and sing (I think). I might have an occasional beer or wine with pizza, but have no other harmful addictions. Anyway, whenever I would come home with another guitar (I typically buy used) the ex (not ex at the time) used to nag me about it. "Why did you get another guitar?" "You already have guitars." "You don't need another one." The haranguing stopped when I confronted her about the 30 or so pairs of high end shoes she had in the closet. I reminded her she only could wear two at a time. Dead silence...

Its like GQ is doing an Analog themed docu. You always look sharp.

Very cool, that someone still has passion for film. Developing and printing, is truly a craftsmanship that takes some time to learn probably. I think some of us, that used to work with film professionally from 9-5, has an obligation to pass on, all the tricks one can do in a darkroom, to the younger generation.

Excellent self-reflection. Nobody can embrace the total photography from beginning on. Although for me (60+) started photography with analog, moved to digital, changed to analog back again. I realized photography in its importance, when I developed my own B&W and C41 films, and finally started printing in the darkroom. Today for most of the people photography may be only an image coming out of a smartphone. For me photography is a concentrated passion, to learn more and more about mechanic, electronic, chemistry, and most important about creativity and less ignorance.

Nice video Max. I’ve been a film shooter for about 45 years. I develop all my film (35mm,120 and 4x5, b&w, C41 & E6), print b&w and colour negative film (I’d still be printing transparencies if Cibachrome was alive😢)......and today I shot my first ever roll of infrared film. Never stop learning!

I am an older watcher of this channel and I used to develop my own black and white negatives, to taste and print my own images. Both 35mm and 5x4 large format. I can assure you there is no cringing going on here. I got to be able to do it because I studied how to. Duh! That's how we all learn to do something we have not done before. You learning it now is no different from me learning it then. And you'll probably do a better job of it than I did as well!

I was here to learn about your scanner (seen your video about scanners and loved the Epson F-3200, I barely found anything about it online. I just bought one and I'm waiting it) and I loved the reflexion that you offer us. I have made a similar choice in my photography : I decided to focus on black and white in order to control the all process from shooting to scanning. I love to learn all these little skills along the way

Gibt immer schonmal einen Daumen hoch bevor ich das Video überhaupt angeschaut habe. Tolle Qualität der Videos was Aufnahmen und Inhalt angeht.

Max, thank you for the video. I have followed you for a while and seen your channel grow. Love the openness and honesty about your route into photography.

Your channel is a true gem!

I wish that I could give myself a birthday present like that. Your attention to detail in your videos is great, and I look forward your all of your future videos.

@AnalogInsights

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment and kind words. Regarding the birthday present: Yes, you heard me sigh before mentioning that investment. This was a really tough decision back then and was/is incredibly uncommon for me. I even remember lying in bed and thinking about getting that Summicron or not (in addition to what I had already purchased). I am glad I did. Plus, there is a great quote by John Mayer in the context of his watch collection: "These watches represent all the drugs I never did." For me, my cameras represent all the drugs and alcohol I never did and the hard work I put into my career in the beginning. As a result, they are much more than a birthday gift to me. I hope this puts it a bit into perspective.

Always love your thoughtful and insightful videos. Bravo.

I enjoy all your KZread videos and didn’t realise you had only been into holography for 4 years. I have been into photography for nearly 50 and I still learn from you, Danke

You have my sincerest respect for being so candid. You were pretty much describing the Dunning-Kruger effect. The unearned confidence that comes in the beginning really is a key motivator for continuing. The fact that you are achieving this in your thirties, with an age nearly identical to my own, really makes it easier for me to hold fast to analog photography. As for my favorite Pynchon book, I am still stuck between The Cry of Lot 49 and Bleeding Edge. Best of luck!

Thanks for the heads up regarding Analog Magazine. Have a fantastic Easter and keep on rollin that film!!!

I love your approach as have always looked at endeavors as a journey, not an end. The Socrates quote, ""The unexamined life is not worth living", comes to mind. Please keep the new adventures coming!

Such a thoughtful and thought provoking video. Thank you.

I used a Nikon Coolscan IV and Vuescan for my 35mm scans. It was small, fast and high quality.

Great video Max! Love your attention to detail. Although you did this in one take, the forethought you put into this video is apparent and the message is clear. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more vids from you guys.

very nice to listen to. the more we know the more we realise we don't know...

The more we learn the more we learn there is much more to learn. Thanks again for another excellent presentation. Enjoying the journey with you. Best wishes.

Referencing Pynchon, well done Sir!

Great video Max. Another great brand of scanner to look for the Minolta Dimage Scanner series. Generally speaking the Dual Scan II, III, and the last and most advance in the series the Konica Minolta Dual Scan IV. These are for 35mm format only, so no 120 etc,. The Minolta's offer exceptional image quality, and still work for Win10, and Mac with Vuescan software. Ebay still has them that pop up every so often. I personally own the Dual Scan IV and it truly is great.

Really enenjoy your videos, I love the clean and uncluttered style, and I would adore to jump on that sofa! Regards, Jay.

great video!

Another great video like always. Perhaps make a video showcasing some your older photography and critique and describe your process then, and how you would do it now.

Max, your mature and “insightful” approach to your craft is inspiring. Looking forward to more great content as you continue to learn and hone your skill.

I'm one of those old film shooters and I'm not cringing. Photography like music is a journey and you have to start somewhere. Focusing on small parts of the process is normal as you progress. Seeing you and others of your age (35 is young!) enjoying film photography is fascinating to me. I've enjoyed your videos ever since I found your channel over a year ago. We share a love for some of the same cameras and I particularly enjoy seeing Munich in your images. I've been there a few times and my family is from Germany (Berlin and Stuttgart). Keep shooting film and making great videos!

You've made many good points here, thank you for sharing. Although maybe not applicable to a KZread channel that reviews tech, I'd like to add self-restraint as a keystone to the path. - I strive for knowing every peace of gear in my tool belt by heart. When limitation or minimalism wins over G.A.S., this well-selected gear becomes a part of one's body, an extension to hands and eyes. Utilizing it will no longer take any brain power which shifts the mental focus to the subject. - Some will find it boring to test this out to the full extent, but I think it's crucial to have a maximum of four film/developer combinations (as for analog black and white, and per film format) as long as experimental lab work is not the respective hobby. Knowing about the complete chain of exposure - development - enlarging - print development and final treatment takes a ton of guesswork out of the process. - Now that gear handling and processing are no-brainers, one can fully live up to the object or scenery and know in advance how it's going to look on print. - This is the time when one can start to creatively break rules one at a time in order to expressing a unique style. I think it's only possible with a limited number of genres per artist. For instance, are you aware of a well-known romantic portrait made by Robert Kappa? Did Avedon ever shoot war scenes? Klasse Video(s), Max, bitte weiter so, und Frohe Ostertage!

Excellent episode. Very informative. Thanks for doing this channel.

Great issue, tons of interesting info.Thank you!

Thanks for the Videos i really enjoy your content . im been rediscovering film after years of using digital .

Fancy deciding to learn photography and skipping to immediately to buying two Leicas. *cries into my Zenit TTL*

@kiwipics

4 жыл бұрын

Some are just luck enough to do so, and fancy brands don't make you a better photographer. I started out with a Zenit E 40+ years ago, and I don't exactly shoot on the latest and greatest at the moment.

@carlosfelipelopezvasquez6860

3 жыл бұрын

Just a few days ago, I sold a Smena to a peruvian collector. We were talking about cameras and he told me "look, in respect to Leicas analog cameras, they are more to have them resold rather than shooting. They did not just magically turn you into a better photographer"

@O4KAST

3 жыл бұрын

I shot some of my best photos with a zenit and standart helios 44. Don't dismiss them just because they're cheap (for now), they're still good cameras.

Your videos are always so beautifully done! I also appreciate seeing your insight and experience learning film photography. Funnily enough, I’m also into music and been in some bands myself! The difference between you and me is that I’m a drummer. I’m still learning film photography myself and I resonate a lot with what you said in this video. I think it’s easy to become ignorant when it comes to photography. As you learn and look at others, it becomes more clear of where you stand in terms of strengths, weaknesses, differences in style, and people’s motives behind taking pictures. When one starts out, this all isn’t realized yet, and it’s easy to believe that you’re really good. I think this ignorance is partially why the commercial/freelance photography market is so oversaturated. Again, it’s easy to believe that you’re really good if you happen to have a couple shots that you really like. Still, we’re all learning. In fact, a trend that I’ve seen among the serious photographers I’ve met is that they’re always looking to improve. That takes self-reflection, which is what you showed in this video. I appreciate your honesty because I feel that some photographers can be judgmental and prejudiced for a variety of reasons, especially if they’re long-established, self-proclaimed “experts.” What’s more is that I still do what you did in the past-I never develop my own film and only recently started scanning my negatives. I’ve worked in labs before, but I got so frustrated that I pretty much gave up. When it comes to film photography, post-processing and development in a lab is one of the hardest things to learn. Seeing your video made me reflect on my habits. I think I should try and develop my own film when I have the chance, as well as experiment with working in a lab again. Essentially, I’m sharing all of this because I feel that your feelings and experiences are quite normal. Everybody has to learn, and there’s a big learning curve to film photography. Thanks for sharing!

I like the honesty. There is a lot to learn in photography I am an amateur photographer I don’t shoot film for a living but I am from 1975 and have shot film with my own camera from the age of 16 had a teacher in public school that teach us a bit about darkroom etc. Some years when the digital cameraes got better I shot less film but returned more to it from about 2003 and I still feel I have a lot to learn. But I think it was a great video and hope you all the best on the learning journey with your friends and you get well through this covid crisis. Kind regards Stig

Great episode thank you,

Great video! Not many You-tubers are open about how their photography journey is an ongoing process. Everyone is an expert these days. Thanks for your openness. It was refreshing.

@Esoxhunt

2 жыл бұрын

A agree to that.

Feels so good to listen about all of this

I said it on the last video and I’ll say it again. This dude dresses like a man. Awesome video keeping dropping these videos, hell, drop a wardrobe video. 👌🏼

Thanks to share this

Great episode, especially because I think we are more or less at the same place in regards to photography/analogue photography (I am a bit behind). After destroying my digital slr around 4 years ago, I jumped into a snalogue as a cheaper alternative of continuing my photography hobby. So much so I have never went back to digital, even though I bought another dslr. Unlike you I don't have a mentor, I have to learn through books, KZread and other sources. It was through this journey where I found your channel. I also bought a scanner and invested on a darkroom to develop film, and very recently also in an Enlarger which I have just set up in my bathroom last weekend. I even set up my own channel to share experiences, even though I am not as skilled and popular as you are.

Very insightful video - I found it quite interesting, even as someone who has always shot film, I find that I sometimes forget what I know and what I don't know. There's bliss in the beginning, even in the mistakes, and I miss that period in my life when I was eager to experiment with everything. Just discovered your channel on a random search for Rolleiflex 3.5f (my new camera) - I love your take on how you present things and have just subscribed!

I subscribed a long time ago. I really liked this video, this makes me think of the videos I wanna make myself.

Well done, good reason.

Hi Max, really loved your latest episode, interesting that you referenced Ars-Imago, as I’ve just purchased one of their Lab Box’s and have had a really fun time learning home developing during the lockdown, but I didn’t realise the connection between Ars-Imago and the Analog Forever magazine. I enjoyed hearing your story of how you first got into exploring photography and it would be lovely sometime to hear the story of how you met Greg and Jules. Keep safe at this time, Glenn

I would enjoy your review of the Canon F-1 professional SLR camera. A rather underappreciated camera.

Great start to an Easter Sunday! :D

@AnalogInsights

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. Have a nice Easter Sunday. :)

Education on photography can be a deep rabbit hole. If you want to go down a interesting path find a book called "Lifelike" by Pavel Kosenko. The book is about color for digital photography but Pavel (I believe) setup some high end film labs in Moscow. I think now days he mostly shoots film (at least the latest of his work that I seen) but I understood a whole lot more in the film v digital realm. Photography education is just a crazy long journey.

P.S look forward to learning from you!

I have had this scanner for 15 years for colour negatives.

Could you please elaborate why you chose not to use a digital camera with a macro lens for your film scanning... I know a couple people who scan film with their digital cameras and get fantastic quality results... modern digital cameras seem to have enough resolution … all you need is to build a rig to keep your film flat, and there is no shortage of information on how to do it... It just seems like it would save space and money, since most of us already have a digital camera (in addition to analog one)… Thanks... I really like your videos and reviews...

@angelhaken

4 жыл бұрын

That would be my first question as well. Why not use a digital camera for film "scanning"? My prefered setup is using a copy stand in combination with a light table and a film holder. The major drawback would be portability - you don't want to travel with a copy stand. For the copy stand I use a modified enlarger. The lightbox is a cheap A3 LED pad from Huion. For the Negatives I use the 35 and 120 negative carrier from my 4x5 enlarger - Beseler Negatrans 35. It allows me to transport a film strip without moving the holder. My camera is a Sony A7ii - the fold out display and live view (+zoom) allow me to focus on the film grain (similar to the analog process). This is also the main advance I see to flatbed scanners - I can control the focus and therefore sharpness. In the end a flatbed scanner is also only a digital camera most of the time with a ccd sensor. You should be able to see the film grain if you zoom in - that is an easy test - if the film grain is sharp you got whatever resolution the film has (for standard resolution films).

More please!

@AnalogInsights

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Really appreciate your positive feedback.

If I start developing again I would really prefer not using the hybrid method, but it is a good start none the less and has advantages. I had started film photography around 1971 and lost interest in photography when digital and the digital darkroom made the process of acquiring an acceptable image too easy. I had felt it took a lot of the art out of photography and merely left composition as the challenge, so I turned to painting. I expect you too will move on to the traditional methods of print making over time. I think you would really like the differences in papers and the overall craft of the print making process that involves dodging and burning that makes you feel like you had a lot to do with the final product that to me seems lost by using canned effects in a pull down menu. On the other hand I'd rather use the hybrid method than send out to be post processed because there is no craft gained when others do the work. Interstingly the only thing I really appreciate regarding scanning and printing by printer is that the end result is perfectly flat. Getting perfectly flat traditional prints was always a challenge.

Nice TFord glasses 🤓

@AnalogInsights

4 жыл бұрын

Om Malik Haha, thanks, Om. 🤓🤟🏼

Nce. Thought provoking.. For many... 'The power of technology, delivers a quality of output inversely proportional to their ignorance...'

I would like to hear more about your interesting life.

It's weird seeing my go to store in a video :D

Awesome

That scanner didn’t receive very good press when it was released apparently. I would be curious to hear your feedback once you see what they mentioned. Here is the link: web.archive.org/web/20121229010620/www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Scanners/Epson_F3200/page-7.htm

Have you done any comparisons of this epson with other scanners (nikon super coolscan 4000, epson 4990 etc.)?

Thank you for posting this video. Honestly, I did not think it pertained to photography, because it was in my YT "Recommended for You" list, and I did not even check the poster's name. Anyway, the acquisition of knowledge seems to be limited and controlled by one's needs, one's interests, resources, social pressures and conventions, and to a larger extent, one's ego. As I watched this video and listened, I thought to myself that many "photography hobbyists" stopped watching because they thought your comments did not pertain to the subject of photography. I think that in order to achieve some modicum of learning success in any area, particularly the creative arts, one has to come to grips with one's own pride as an obstacle. Further, I believe that technology, wonderful as it is, causes us to become its unquestioning acolytes and supporters, and any apparatus or device that requires larger expenditures of effort, thought, and knowledge of its theory of operation is considered undesirable and needs to be put in a junk pile.

Which Scanner would you recommend for Medium format?

where did you purchase scanner?

Hi Max, I just started with analog photography, can you recommend where to develop film? I’m living in Munich as well :)

@wildzwaan

4 жыл бұрын

DIY! It's easy (black and white, anyway)

Hey Max, great video as always, thumbs up. You invest a lot of time in scanning. The point is not high resolution but high dynamic range. The Epson is fine and ok for 4x5 and 8x10. I highly recommend a Coolscan 8000 or 9000 because of a very good dust removal function and great dynamic range. By comparing Epson and Coolscan scans you will be disappointed.

@mitchell56789

4 жыл бұрын

But Coolscan is not available anymore right?

@stephan.scharf

4 жыл бұрын

@@mitchell56789 you are right but there is a second hand market. Best buying from ebay member nikon_coolscan, highly recommended seller and member of fb nikon coolscan user group.

@piketubeman

4 жыл бұрын

Okay then. I'm just gonna scan with a DSLR because that WILL be the same dynamic range or better.

@stephan.scharf

4 жыл бұрын

@@piketubeman works only with a professional stand and is fiddly. Time consuming dust removal in ps

I can't find a place where that Epson scanner is sold.... Nothing

@jean-claudemuller3199

4 жыл бұрын

Hans Baier , Discontinued for a long time, exists now only as second hand

@HansBaier

4 жыл бұрын

@@jean-claudemuller3199 I got some really good results from an Epson V800 . Better than the Noritsu lab scanners. Noritsu had nicer colors, but in low noise and sharpness the Epson won

I love this episode! We need more of this, and less of gear (aka GAS fuel).

Happy Birthday 🎉 (?)

Don’t mistake ignorance with affinity.

The world is so grateful to know this. I wish Michael Jackson told the world what he thinks.

Are you the guy they call "One take Max?"

@AnalogInsights

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Simon Haha, thanks for your comment. Don’t know whether I’m called like that. But yes, this was one take and the only one I recorded yesterday. :)

I believe your purchase of the Epson F3200 was a mistake. You own excellent cameras and lenses. It makes no sense to scan your film with what was even in its day a mediocre scanner. I suggest you have some professional scans made of your sharpest negatives and compare your results with them. Also, as others suggest use a good digital camera to digitize your images. Are you familiar with the website filmscanner.info ? They have test reports on many film scanners most of which are quite mediocre and cannot meet their advertising claims. There are a few good ones though still being made and you should look into them.

I'm gonna share my story as well. Since I was 5 year old I was interested in (making) movies. Until my 16th-17th year it wasn't a proper interest, only then I dived deep into cinema d'auteur (Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky etc). I wasn't among creative people, on the contrary, it was pretty low income family, with basically only one parent and poor life conditions. From there, things get a little bit more political and sad. Because my country don't have much interest in creative labor market, we have only one, and not that good, movie school. My family basically can't afford any type of studying, and me, due to various health issues can't work (at least in offered conditions in my country, which is usually 12-15hrs shifts with little to no breaks for lunch / toilet and offensively low salaries, but even in relatively normal conditions because of even moderate stress, I lost about 1kg of weight per day working, some psychosomatic crap I guess). Now, in 2020 we have about approx $4k us per year for family of three (minus 1k for taxes). I had an idea to make a documentary, in interview format, with my grandmother, which is recently celebrated her 88th birthday. She's the only live witness of Stalin's time and during WW2 she lived in a small city, starving and struggling to find any source of food and money. Last year she felt herself not that good, and caught some odd disease, and I was afraid that she might, you know, die, and after saving money for more than a year, I hurried with purchase of camera, and bought Sony a6400 kit 16-50 (which was ridiculously overpriced in my country at the time, about $300 more than officially announced prices), initially I wanted another camera - Fuji x-t3, but at the time didn't have budget for it, but I wanted to save more money for that, and due to the circumstances, bought that Sony. Which I thought gonna be a proper camera for capturing memories in decent format and quality, but faced some technical issues (mostly because of lack of equipment, such as audio recorder etc., which I didn't have more budget). But nevertheless I filmed more than an hour of material, but due to the very slow old laptop can't do much about it, can't do editing. Long story short, I wanted to sell my a6400 and buy used x-t3, but now there's a major currency drop in my country, and not only I'm not gonna afford x-t3, it's gonna be really hard to sell a6400 if it possible at all (I also thought about x-t4 because of ibis and more rugged shutter, but recent price rise because of currency drop make this way beyond of my budget). This Sony is the very first proper camera in my life (by proper I meant availability of manual controls), before that it was only very poor auto point and shoot cameras (adaptation to those can create a lot of poor, bad habits). Now, due to the isolation (and all my family members, including me, being immunocompromised), I can't do anything. And even lost the sole possibility of probable work as a photographer. Now, for the movie making part, I have some thoughts, even theories etc., and some of ideas, and wanna try to write a script with possible searching of producer, but really it's just like a lottery and sort of a desperate move, I have zero practical (professional) experience in movie making, sadly. And now, I'm still depend from my parent, which is 65 years old, and if anything happens, I'm gonna basically starve, lol. I don't have other family members nor friends etc. And have zero clue what I'm gonna do in my life further and / or in case if something bad happens. I'm thinking to move to another country, but I don't have any proper education, money nor at least moderately good health. Sorry for whining. For photography, I have some moderate interest in 4x5 format, and some experiments with focusing according to the Scheimpflug principle (see "Arrangement" by James McArdle). As well as 6x4.5, and compact 35mm cameras (Olympus xa4, pen etc).

How old are you even? You can pass for someone in their mid 20s, what the hell.

@AnalogInsights

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that's very nice of you to say. I am turning 35 in December.

@c.augustin

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnalogInsights Still a youngster … ;-)

As I sometimes like to say, if youth is wasted on the young, wisdom is wasted on the old.

I know it will be sounding rather odd but it may well be that others feel the same.... so here I go... I find that I can't watch your videos or that I'm not drawn to them in big part because of the over head angle... I understand it's "different" from all other channels, but it's just odd looking to me. No offense, just sharing !

@AnalogInsights

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment and taking the time to write some feedback. I really appreciate it. Let's see whether it works differently for me as well. I might give it a try. :)

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