I am a film photographer and started film photography when I was just 16 in 1983. Starting with a Praktica MTL5B. After many years I switched to digital photography and loved that for some years. But the draw back to film was the thing and over the passed 2 years I have been shooting film once again. I love it all the more.
I develop all my back and white films at home other than XP2. I like to share my results here I also shoot color which is sent out for processing and scanning.
I am collecting cameras and now have a few, I am collecting cameras that I once had and the ones I could not afford back in the day.
My favorite cameras that I have owned years ago but would like to have again are a Bronica ETRS and a Canon AE-1
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Thank you for the video and sharing your experience with infrared films! Photographs you show is really great! I had experience with Efke 820IR film and it was grainy but good IR tonality. Some unexposed rolls still lives in a fridge. Also I did some test a Rollei Infrared 400S and it looks great. There is rumors that Rollei IR 400 is Agfa Aviphot and I think it really so. Hope to take some IR shots soon. Thanks for the inspiration by your work!
Thanks for your kind comment. I did not know about the Rollei AGFA link that is interesting. Let me know how you get on with other films. Thanks
well done!! very nice voice and handel IS not easy. I LOVE the activities your doing ,my mother IS 91 years old and plays bingo with her friends
Thanks for your kind comment sadly my mum passed away in February.
@@FilmPhotography Sorry for your loss!!! as I said before she was so talented
Nothing wrong with any of your choices, but I'd err towards keeping a completely manual camera, just in case. Because electronics can always fail.
Thanks for your comment. I may do a video on that.
I personally wouldn't go with those choices I have had a number of Minolta X series (in fact I still own one x300 and three x700's. all working well at the moment.) They are all slowly dying. Old electronics are always bad news. Mechanical cameras are the way to go for long term reliability.
I have a Minolta X300s which is great to shoot, and I had an OM10 with the same lens as your OM20. For my K-Mount lenses I use two cameras I was given - a Ricoh KR-10 and a Chinon CE-4. As long as you have good lenses, camera choice is all about the shooting experience so I know where you are coming from on these three. Keith
Great comment Keith thanks. Great that you have a similar collection you can probably understand why I've chosen these cameras.
maybe you should push this film
Send me a roll and I will 😎
The one after the crane gives a really Brassai look 🖤 I was looking for information on Foma pushed 3-4 stops as I wanted a 400 speed film that could cover evening to night time shooting. I’ve shot delta and it is just very nice. For daytime I’ll stick with Foma 200, I love the look I get from it, also I can be pushed 2 stops so it covers my day light needs Just getting stuck on selecting a 400 speed film
I get all my info from Massive dev chart. I found this I hope it helps. Fomapan 400 Rodinal 1+25 6400 Dev for 90 mins. Thanks for your comment
@@FilmPhotography thanks I’ll note it down
It seems you forgot the step where you remove the orange mask. Unless this negative stock is sometning unusual ...
I don't have a clue what you mean by orange mask?
Send me one bruh. Ill pay you
Hello sir i am 17 year old photographer and i would like to communicate with you via email would you please write your email address (i couldn't find it in your about part i am sorry if its my bad)
I personally think that you should keep them, I don't know if you have children or grandchildren, but it is always a nice thing to show them. My grandfather has a canon ql17 and it is so cool to use, I had never seen one of those before and it always has a history.
Thanks for your comment I dont have anyone that I can give them too. I am going to keep three of them but want the others to go to people that will use them. Thanks for your comment.
Hey, I'm curious which cameras you're planning to keep?
HI I am going to do a video about that later this week or early next week. Thanks for your comment.
Hello! I'm David, a Social Communication and Cinematographic Arts student at PUCMM in Dominican Republic. I fell for film two years ago and from the eyes of a gen z I can tell it you, is so different from digital. It is the process, the pre meditation, the not knowing if the photograph will go as planned after that click that makes me want to keep going. The fact is that I just wish you the best in finding a new artist to work with those splendid film cameras, and enjoy wondering what film will he/she shoot next.
HI David that is such a kind message thank you.
Your shots look like the result of overdevelopment. What a lot of people don't realise is that your local water supply can have a lot more influence than you imagine. I moved from Lancashire to South Wales years ago and had to recalculate all my film development times simply because of the water. I'd suggest dividing your current development time by 1.4 and trying another roll. Good luck and best wishes.
Thanks for your comment thats a great help. I will give it a go. I have changed what I am doing with development and getting better results with deionization water.
You said to let you know if you wanted one of the cameras? Would I just do that here?
On my about page you will find an email address.
Perhaps an idea to donate them to a school where photography classes are given ?
A good idea but dont know any local ones.
film rolls are also quite expensive i doubth they'll use it much if they needed the cameras to be donated in the first place
@@Coppersulfate9009 Thanks for your comment.
@@Coppersulfate9009 True but they can be valuable as educational examples of 'how it used to be', or even to learn how to do small repairs on 'vintage' camera's... Etc :) PL.
@@PeterLunk fair point indeed
Cheap lenses really can be a joy to use
They truly can. Thanks for your comment.
Sir at old age you look so handsome . You have nice energy too. God bless you
Thank you for your kind comment 😀
The film is trix 400?
Yes I said that at the start of the video
Comes to us all sooner or later. I've harboured similar thoughts myself.
Thanks for you comment It's not just me them 👍
@@FilmPhotography Using film is like a war of attrition. It can wear you down in the end. I often look at my collection, and I'm just now realising that I'm just not going to use some of them.
All the pictures in this video was shot by fumapan100?
Hi it's a mixture of all of them and some 200iso push processed to 400iso. I hope that helps
@@FilmPhotography your photograph of the bridge preserves the detail and level of the blue sky and white cloud .did this push from 200iso to 400ios?
Did you push the film ?very perfact!
HI No I did not push process it was at box speed developed in ID-11
what should be if no any push?shot in normal ios?
Just keep it a box speed unless you are push processing it.
stunning 😮 a rare gem of that time
Hi Thanks for your comment. We think the same as you its kind of strange that she was aloud to walk around and film like that then. You may enjoy the documentary as well. Thanks.
That's very interesting.
Thank it's a clip from a full documentary about the Children's Film Foundation available on the BFI boxset release. Children's Film Foundation bumper box box (1)
Such a pretty camera. It should be possible to make this today aswell. It's plastic but the sturdy kind. It has everyting you need in a point and shoot. Would be better than all those cheap plastic "reusables" of today.
I agree thanks for your comment.
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Agfa makes their own film, I don't see why two companies (them and Harman) would have the same film. Rollei could be either, as they are just bankruptcy vultures, not a real company.
Big fan of CHS 100 II and 510-Pyro, but I also enjoy the film in FX-39. Great shots, I love these sorts of events, and CHS 100 II is a perfect medium.
Thanks for your comment glad you like the video.
Hi mate, I enjoyed your video. I just bought some Konica infrared 750nm in black-and-white expiry date was for 1994. I’m just wondering if you could help me out in regards to how many stops over I should take these photos at? The ISO is meant to be at 32.
Ouch do you know if the film has been kept frozen or chilled if it has box speed. if not its 2 stops per decade. I would also say the ones you saw in my video were taken with a red filter not an Infrared filter. To get someting I would go with a Red Filter as a IR filter will make it to slow to work with also you dont know how bad the emulsion is to be honest. Thanks for your comment.
@@FilmPhotography it’s been kept chilled. Not sure what you mean with the filter? This is an infrared film so are you recommending a red filter. Also just so I’m clear, if the iso is meant to be 32 I should then be shooting this at 8 iso? 6 stops for three decades
Who cares? When you (or this home brand) buy a product it's yours. You can resell it or hang it up on your balcony as tinsel if you want, or whatever else. None of Ilford's business anymore. The only reason it matters to me is if I can buy it cheaper this way, which you didn't help with by pointlessly not saying what it was in the video. So... thanks...
That's the problem it was more expensive 😔
Costco wholesale club carried Kirkland film which is a Costco brand name which was actually Agfa film.
Thanks for your comment.
If you can easily find out what film it actually is and it's cheaper, no problem.
It was not that's what annoyed me I forgot to say in the video about that. Thanks for your comment.
Its a good idea. Ilford has been losing market share to the home brand newcomers, so why not take them on? It will always sell to professionals, but this gives price sensitive people a quality alternative.
Thanks for your comment 👍
Do you recommend exposing Phoenix 200 at box speed or some other exposure index? Does it benefit from slight overexposure like Kodak color negative films?
I would use box speed to be honest. I know people to change the ISO. Thanks for your comment.
i like using my trip good no fuss camera i have only use fp4 at box speed i like the way it looks.
Thanks for your comment 👍
Fomapan is actually also a worldwide well known brand. They were only behind the iron curtain and thus not so well known here. Rebranding has always happened. Agfa, Fujifilm, Kodak and Konica all had there film sold through in house brands. Maybe, it is film that did not meet the quality standards to get the Ilford batch, etc. A lot of in house cereals are made by Kellogg‘s, in house toothpaste is Colgate, etc.
I think you are missing the point with this one. The film is etched as FP4+ nothing to hide the brand. When I got rebranded films in the passed they had no brand etching. They also look like they came off a bulk loader.
@@FilmPhotography ah, ok. Sometimes it happened even in the old times that the supplier was not able to provide enough stock and the film in the Aldi cartridges was having „Kodak“ marked on the sprockets. But that it looked as if it is respooled, well… It does kind of make sense because the more you buy at once the cheaper it gets. However, it is interesting what you can then do in terms of branding when you sell it. If I would do it and sell „at cost“, it will probably be ok. But yeah, I don’t know…
It's a niche' film at best
Yes 100% But if it is successful the hope is we get more and better film?
This is MARVELLOUS!
Thank you for your kind words. My mum sadly passed away in February.
@@FilmPhotography May the love you shared envelop you. Having discovered your mum's talents, I've certainly experienced much needed joy. Thank her. I'd lay a flower, if I could.
Lovely images! Thanks for sharing your approach!
Thank You for your kid comment I am glad you like the video
James Robertson Justice was fantastic as Mr Scrumptious - like a posh version of Brian Blessed without the swearing.
Thanks for your comment
Inexpensive? Its nearly £7.00 a roll now. FP4 Plus is only a Pound or so more expensive. Good on you for facing the thug face to face. They have a job to do, but being a pain in the ass of the photographers it is not.
Let me see I will travel back in time predict a world pandemic. Lack of supply and remake the whole video to make you happy 😩
@@FilmPhotography I really fail to see the relevance of the rpice to the quality a film. People keep onsaying ' cheap film ', ' expired film ', etc as if these practically meaningless attributes are significant in judging the end result. If a film is sub par, the cheap or expensive it is useless,. There is no magic to an expired film but that we may not expect of it. Test a film show the rsults and be done with it. Cheap, expensive, premium, expired, fresh, frozen etc do not make the results any more viable or less.
Hi 👋 I bought the Agfa Optima Sensor secondhand so I’m very curious to see if it works. May I ask which batteries and which film you use for it? I’m a total beginner at film photography so looking for some tips!
Any 35mm film. I think it take 625U batterys. If you search Google there is a pdf manual you can download.
@@FilmPhotography thanks a million! 🙏
Although all three films should be pretty much identical (they are all made by Harman) I feel like Kentmere is more prone to flare/halation than the Rollei RPX films. It makes me wonder if RPX has a stronger anti-halation layer than Kentmere. Never used Agfa APX, so can't say, but looking at images on flickr it seems prone to the issue to the same or nearly the same degree as Kentmere. A stronger anti-halation layer might also explain the subtle difference in curves between the RPX and the other two.
Fantastic comment thanks for you input very interesting information.
Most of my edits take less than 30 seconds as I only adjust exposure and level where necessary. I never sharpen or adjust colours. My editing is really just to correct my mistakes. I think the worst offenders are the "Professional" landscape youtubers who shoot digital and resort to focus stacking and exposure blending, but I suppose if you are producing images that people like viewing it's all good. You can't edit out bad composition though. Keith
ps. I forgot I had already commented here. It must be my age 🥴
Thanks for your comment and great to hear you are much like me when it comes to editing. I agree with you on many of our focus stacking kin 😂
You have GOT to deal with that nose hair if your doing to talk down to your camera boss 🫡
Point taken 😂
Keep doing videos, very relaxing and memories come back when I used to live in London 😊 might try more lenses like telephoto or wide angle lens. Super film with lots of shades 👌🏻
Hi Thanks for your comment I have lots of cameras but not a huge lot of lenses for each. Glad you like the videos.
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