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I bought one of these with a couple of lenses in a charity shop around 25+ years ago. Unfortunately I didn’t know much about photography, and there was no internet at the time, and it ended up shoved in a cupboard and somewhere along the line it went missing. I’ve just won one on eBay for £1.99 (minus lens), I’m gonna have another go and actually use it this time! Excellent video thank you

Where do you get your camera s from???

Apology Accepted :) The British are so Polite.

Great video! I love my FTb. It was my first SLR and I learned so much about photography on it. I've had it for over 15 years now and despite a few age related quirks it still works great. Funny thing is, back then I knew very little about how good these cameras are and I made my choice simply based on liking the way it looks lol. Since then I've gone down the rabbit hole of collecting and shooting vintage cameras and even doing some of my own repairs on them, but no matter how many new cameras I acquire the FTb holds a special place in my heart.

I have just found one of these on ebay and can't wait for it to arrive. I was curious to know what B&W film you tend to use and how you scan them, as the sample mono images you showed in this video were amazing?

5:04 The lens corrections have already been done if needed so you won't see a difference. Some lenses will have the corrections baked in and you can't undo/disable them, some lenses will have profile information in Lightroom and it will select/enable automatically from the list (but you can still disable/adjust them), some lenses like fully manual (as in no electronics) you have to manually tell Lightroom what lens was used (if you can remember haha) and it'll correct it accordingly. In this case with your body+lens you don't need to do anything, if you try with some random lenses it'll all make more sense.

I have ordered the Holga Lens for my Canon ($20) I'm sure I will have fun with it as I have the Oreo Lens for my Fujifilm but it takes fairly good photos. I have wanted a Holga camera for years so I hope this fits the bill.

Love the videos! I generally have a Canon g9x ii with me, but also need to dig out my old Ricoh R1 film camera!

Just got one of these today for $125 AUD (body only), the weight feels similar to my Canon R6 so I'm not fussed about it at all, good to see good words about these cameras, especially it being my first film camera. Are cameras more expensive in the UK? Because I was thinking of the AE-1 and I've seen them absolutely everywhere in the city I live in for like $180-$250 with the FD 50mm. The reason why I didn't get an AE-1 is because I've never seen an FTb for sale and I heard good things about it, plus it has a much more manual approach which is what I'm looking for, basically want more of a challenge and new experience as my R6 is just good at everything to the point of boredom lol

At least you will never be short of filter cases!😂

First one is a slide viewer, I have one too.

I would be interested to learn more about the thing you mention regarding vintage flashes and new camera. I assume the electronics generate very high voltages and this high voltage probably do no good to the hot shoe of a modern one, but I don't know the details

Great video Gideon interesting story, I was listerning to a podcast by two proffesional photographers, one of which lived in, but was moving back to the UK for this reason and one other. The other being he had asked to work as a photographer on move set and a union rep approched him and asked what he was doing, he had been moving his own equipment around, and to cut a long sort the made him use some guy for medial tasks from the union and he had to pay that individual. Most of this BS is coming from America, as they have done in Denmark the professional photographers should do like wise.

Hi, I'd defo love to hear about using old flashes on modern bodies. I have a ton of them but I'm scared to put one on my Fujifilm X-T5 in case I fry it.

Hi Gideon..I was just about to pull the trigger on buying the Nikon f601m..then I came across your video, explaining the 601m, after watching your excellent video, I've decided on the Nikon f601 to buy...thanks again and keep the informative videos, and I've subscribed..👍

Beware also of rights grabs in photo competitions; make sure you read all the terms and conditions.

Fascinating and indicative of how photographers are treated in all endeavours. It seems to me that the photographers worldwide need to take the "Norwegian Action". If images stopped appearing in the media, bands and their management would quickly realise that they need photographers just as much as the photographers need them. Musicians can be quite protective of their own rights as I found out when I was posting videos of cover bands playing live - I have had videos blocked on a number of occasions and have vowed never to buy the music of certain notorious blockers like The Eagles and Led Zeppelin. It is ironic that one of the most "protective" artists, Robert Fripp, has a youtube channel with his missus, Toyah, dedicated to covering other people's work. I wonder if THEY have ever been blocked. Keep on keeping on. Keith

Thanks for making this. Interesting and informative.

I just bought my 2nd one, used from MPB (again). I bought one 7 years ago but preferred my 6D so I sold it on. I regretted not owning one immediately. I paid €229 for thie latest one, just over £200 in excellent condition. I just like owning a piece of photographic history and I think it will always be seen as an important camera. On top of that it takes beautiful images. Can I just say that a used Canon 6D is currently the best bang-for-your-buck DSLR out there. It's very much overlooked because it never had class-leading specs, but being a Canon, it it a real workhorse and produces the best files since the 5D but with way better ISO and Focussing. You can pick them up for £400 anywhere and, with a nifty-fifty, will produce stunning images. It's a portrait monster.

Hi, I'm new to your channel. May I ask where you source your job lots, please? Thank you.

The Praktica with the Ziess Sonnar 135mm f4 was my first camera then the Nikon f4 , then Mamiya M645 1000s then my photo career ended bad accident loosing all my equipment that I was still paying for lol and millions in liability should of had better insurance. Now it is just a hobby.

Yeah a flash tutorial would be cool

Please show me a Camera that has an higher Dynamic Range than the Fuji S3 or S5 series here is Ai searching for a camera that surpasses the Fuji S5 pro. Based on the information provided in the search results, there does not appear to be any modern digital camera that definitively surpasses the dynamic range capabilities of the Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro's unique SuperCCD SR II sensor, which could capture around 17 EV of dynamic range.

Thanks. I have one with a broken back film door(the latch is broken) I already have a F801 and a F90 and some lenses. It is cheaper for me to buy a new body than repair the back.

Great video Gideon, be interested in seeing more like this.

I owned it too, and happy with it.

I collect and so I’ll be interested to see what you got in other lots and maybe pick up some tips

The Fuji s 2 pro was a awesome wedding camera

Dacora also made many of the Kodak Retinettes

My photography class at school used the Kodak instamatic cameras they were good basic cameras back in their time and I am surprised that they still exist as collectors pieces because once they stopped working most people just threw them away because of their age and condition

Looks like a slide viewer

Great ideo! It's nice to peek beyond the curtain at your editing techniques and practices. Its given me a lot to think about for when I do some more portraits.

My firsts SLR was a Praktica Nova 2, with the same lens as you have. (That was in the 90s) still have it and it’s still working fine. Current slr camera is a Nikon F2,

I’ve had 7 electro 35s in various guises over the years. Not a single one has ever worked fully. One was sold as working, but the shutter was sluggish, and thanks to the badly manufactured thread inside the lens barrel, I couldn’t get the front element out. Frankly, I don’t rate the build quality of the electro 35 at all, which given that the fx-2 and the fx-d were such great cameras, it’s hard to believe they were from the same manufacturer

What is a bat tree?

My first 35mm was a Halina 160 it had a little switch to select the ISO. All it did was change the apperture.

It Lives ! Love it ha ha

호기심에서라도 구매하지 마시길 당신의 휴대폰 카메라가 100 배는 더 좋음. 노이즈 상상을 초월하고 찍힌 사진도 그 당시의 낡고 허름한 사진들에 불과항. 일단 사면 되팔리지도 않음. 과거 카메라가 좋다는 사람들은 죄다 나이든 그때 추억만 가지고 있는 사람들 뿐임. 라이카 렌즈? 웃기지도 않음. 내가 실 구매해 봤고, 몇달째 팔리지도 않고 서랍에 있음.

Slide viewer

I picked up one of these at my grandmas neighbors garage sale and I love it

Slide viewer?

Ah the XA2! Much missed. My younger daughter had "borrowed" it and then lent it to a friend who was going backpacking to Australia - neither the "friend" nor the camera was ever seen again. I then sold my soul and picked up a Fuji AX 500 (something subliminal there?) 14MP with a 5X zoom which runs off of 2 AA batteries. About the size of a packet of cigarettes (if you remember what they were) it sits in the centre bin of the car and gets the batteries checked every couple of months but is always available, given that my "proper" cameras are a Yashica 635, a Fuji GS645S and a Zeiss Super Ikonta, it does get used quite a lot!

Interesting - on the plus side an empty 620 spool ready for loading with 120 film!

the first one is for focusing using the enlarger you put it ontop of the paper and look through it for grain

I must say I am actually more impressed by the quality of the photos coming from the 18-55 kit lens. Is it better than normal kit lenses?

The Minolta X700 had similar manual exposure shenanigans. It would show you the speed it thought was right for the conditions, but not the speed you had set. Otherwise a fine camera.

Off subject SRV fan?

looks like a slide viewer

5:15 Best battery for A-1 in my opinion is the 6V silver oxide one (V28PX/4SR44). It's a bit more expensive but it holds the voltage much better than alkaline one and these old cameras can sometimes be picky about voltage. For example if I use alkaline battery on my A-1, it might stop working after few rolls but with V28PX it keeps going.

I still have mine. I purchased it new for $5000 Australian and soon added the battery grip. I have taken tens of thousands of photos with it - it was my studio camera for a while and was used heavily for weddings - and it still runs well and pleases me. It doesn't get a lot of use these days as there are a few more full frame Canons on the shelf - but it brings back many happy memories.