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Just a question that you maybe able to help with I have my Irish Passport thanks to my Grandparents. (Both my Parents and I were not born in Ireland) However I was able to register on the Foreign book of births in the 90s enabling my passport. Question !! I am now a Grandmother and have raised my Grandson since birth he lost his parents my son Died.. he's 17 now and recently I adopted him would he qualify for a passport.. I was registered before he was born but not born in Ireland !! No one seems to know the answer...cheers great video many tks

Nice idea Brian. I've got one of those 7 Artisans bodycap lenses f6.3 fixed. Watching this I might slap in on the tiny GM5 and go for a walk....

Great video. Could you explain what a stop is? I get confused when people say the exposure should be plus one stop or down a stop. It's especially confusing with exposure compensation. Thanks

Hi Brian. A little off topic but what are your thoughts on the Olympus 7-14mm f 2.8 pro?

I remember in those film days i always hoped for a keeper rate of more than 50 % however because of my lack of patience to see the result i usually ended up shooting additional "experimental" images to get to the end of the roll. Of course this turned the keeper rate to the bottom.

Thank you for this video! I just bought this camera <3

Some great shots. Would love some info though such as F stops shutter speed ,ISO, lens length

Great little experiment Brian. Did you forget that every roll of film came with a bit of paper attemping to show Sunny 16 ? With your 30mm prime it would have been allowed to open the apature, grandad had the Ilford Sportsman. Iwould have taken advantage of that myself it would have still been within the spirit of the adventure. ? Dave B. P.S. my Canon has finally died so I might take the Samsung point and shoot out in "P" with a stop or two of -EV it tends to over expose if left to its own devices Thanks for the vid again. 😊

Some people like to look back, some forward.

Great idea Brian. In addition you could have flipped the screen so you couldn't see your framing properly either to add even more authenticity 😉

How is Mrs. 43rds??? And how did you squeeze the roll of 127 film into your GX8????? 😁😁😁😁

Well done! Superb idea!

Brought back loads of memories. My mom had an old Brownie of some sort when I was a kid and she was the one that documented birthdays, holidays and vacations. In 1960 when I was 8 she allowed me to be the developing tank spinner and when she printed images I was in the darkroom as the tray mover. It was magic to see the images appear on the paper as I rocked the tray back and forth.

Great video and photos. Watch out Brian, I started shooting digital black and white a little over a year ago and the next thing I knew I was shooting film again. I love the entire process, even the waiting to see if anything turned out. I'm shooting 620, 120 and 35mm. One of my favorite cameras is my Brownie Hawkeye, born the same year and month as I was....November 1955.

very good sir. 📸

Thank you, I have enjoyed your content. I’m sticking with my e-1mx m43. It’s all about getting off your arse and forming relationships with people. It’s all about the Len’s and the place and the people and then you might as well have an em1 mk 1! Totally agree. You helped me out though. You could go and spent 10k on all the new OM gear 😂!?

I’ll try it too👍

Oh boy! That took me back! You certainly remembered more things about the film days than I did! Loved this photo walk and the images you took, some with lovely atmospheric lighting. Have you ever thought of doing a photo project documenting Brampton? You could become a Francis Frith!!! Have a chat to the local museum if one is there. Am enjoying this new direction of your channel.😊

Another really good video, Brian, and Brampton looks like quite a place to go to see interesting buildings like the very narrow one opposite the Brampton Pharmacy. I think it is an Estate Agent and it must be a very unusual place to work. Nice interaction with those kids too.

Some good photos there Brian, interesting format for the video as well. I know that this goes against the grain for the channels new direction, but have you had any real world issues with the "shutter shock" that the Gx8 is supposed to suffer from? I'm toying with the idea of getting one. Thanks!

Lovely video that took me back to the late 60s when I received my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 26. I remember fondly using it and being so chuffed with the black and white prints I got. It started an interest for life. I was always envious of my father who shot with a Zorki 4 and Agfa slide film. But that little Kodak gave me so much fun and no need to consider shutter speed, iso etc. cause there wasn’t option. I was always very proud of the photos though.

Probably one of the things I learnt on my Nikon FM the "B" with tripod and flex cable and the shift for double exposure (who remembers those huge full moons in a night landscape) both were skills you had to learn.. the hard way, with tons of wasted film or slides.. those were expensive lessons..

I used to have 5 sometimes 7% rate and it was high one! But I wasn't a point and shoot, unless freelancing on strikes and night "happenings" .. Two Nikons, one with a 400 and one with the 64, sometimes one with the good old Ilford B&W and the other with the Ektachrome 64 or 100.. We were more worried about light/Subject/composition then ISO-AWB (what is it???) well we did play with the ISO.. bloody pushing it... ahahah, bet you remember that trick... nice 2 c u abt!

& we had like 12 shots per roll. & we loved it! Great vid.

I've passed through Brampton many times, going to and from Carlisle. I should get the bus there some day.

Good to see you out and about

i'm disappointed in all the offerings out there...hopefully things change :/

It always amazes me what you can learn just by using Google. I'm 72 and watching the videos and looking at the different sites there are many acronyms and words that the kids use that I don't understand but Google has helped me out more times than not. As for the gatekeepers I do understand those and hate them. I have worked as a professional chef and now I cook just for the fun of it but those folks that have "secret recipes or ingredients" really twist my knickers. I once had an IT person fix my computer and when I asked just what he had did he touched his nose and said it was a secret of the profession. I was sorely tempted to break his nose. My best to your misses and I hope she gets feeling better soon.

I can only think of one acronym in photography - which is JPEG, I'd be interested if people can name any others. Also 'TLA' is not an acronym, it's an initialism (look at the definitions). I think really the problem is not 'acronyms' but jargon. And absolutely, people use it to display membership of the club. The joke is that mostly they get the meanings wrong, particularly the word 'exposure', which people bandy around and fetishise ('I really know how to nail exposure') while using it completely wrongly. Hint - it doesn't mean how light or dark a picture looks.

I said a prayer for Lady Four-thirds to be restored to 100%.

Hi Brian what a great video, it maybe fun to try going back to basics, keep up the great work 👍

I once sat in a business meeting and someone used the TLA SAD. I forgot what it meant, but I will never forget that the guy besides me whispered: "What does that mean? Sexually Acquired Disease?"

Hi, Brian enjoying your video's. I retired as a press photographer in March this year after 34 with local papers. Have two bad knees (have empathy with your wife) I know the pain, and I hope she gets well soon. Also I'm in your age bracket. Keep producing the TH-cam work it's great. Ger Hore Ireland. 😀

hope your wife is better n heals well

Thanks for the tips Brian, wishing the Missus godspeed in recovery!

yea. simple cameras force us to do the framing work. i very much like having the options of both old and new

My 1st camera was a Brownie Box II, cost one pound ten shillings in 1957! Graduated to a Ricoh, then Pentax Spotmatic, and finally to an OM2 (film). Then the digital world descended and it took me until the 1990s to change over. Yes, miss the pick up, make a photo, get film developed. All getting too complicated these days, you need a degree to operate one. Hope Mrs 4/3rds is feeling better. Knees take a while, having wrenched mine a few months ago and it’s still not as good as it could be. Keep the tea cups flowing!

just a magnificent and educational video ❤

You were Posh Brian, The Zenit E. I started with the Zenit B. Same camera without the light meter.. All hail the Leningrad 4 meter, It was cheap but did the job :)

Hi Brian, If you use P or Auto mode and save your pictures in both Jpeg and Raw, you can change almost anything in post-processing with software applications. You can even rescue some poor focusing with the right software. One piece of fun is to take several shots of the same sunset as you change the white balance. The results can be dramatic.😊

Hi Brian, love your channel and as a subscriber, I watch you regularly. But as for acronyms, I was a REME Air Tech in the Army so learned a bit about them, but if you think the Armed Forces use a lot, you should have a look at Education. I retired last year after 20 years teaching in FE and the number of acronyms would terrify you. Great video as usual. Best Wishes to you and a speedy and full recovery to Mrs M43 Guy.

The name "bulb" comes from the bulb on detachable rubber pneumatic shutter releases that were used on early cameras

I have (way too) many cameras -- mostly vintage. I do like the flexibility of cameras with adjustable aperture and shutter speed. But I also collect -- and use -- the 'point & shoot' cameras of the day -- box cameras, the fixed-focus ('pseudo') twin-lens reflex cameras, lots of the plastic basic 120/620 cameras from the 1950s/1960s -- and yep -- once I get over my anxiety attack ("What?!?!? One shutter speed and one aperture setting?!?!?!?!?!?!"), I relax and focus on composition -- knowing if the overall light conditions are OK for the film/shutter/aperture -- and take some photos!

Bulb mode was named for the original shutter release mechanism from large-format/glass-plate cameras -- which needed lots of light, thus very slow shutter speeds. The remotes for these were a rubber bulb which compressed air in a tube to push in the shutter release, and the photographer would count off the seconds before releasing the bulb, which closed the shutter. Of course this meant stationary cameras and (hopefully) stationary subjects....

Aha! I have worked with many branches of the US military, from Privates to Generals, in my long career -- and yes, they have acronyms for acronyms! And what's worse is over time new acronyms of different letters will replace essentially the same thing that previously had a different acronym -- and sometimes an old acronym will resurface with a totally different meaning! Urrrrr. (no, that is not an acronym!)

I have been taking photos with cameras for about 20 years now (at the age of 8 I was gifted a 90’s Polaroid camera and I was hooked. My grandad then taught me how to shoot using his yashica electro 35 rangefinder and I loved it and went from there with lots of different cameras). I have recently come back to photography after a few years of being disinterested/unmotivated in it and I find myself using p mode 90% of the time if I don’t need to change anything specific. The way I see it is if the camera has a good smart brain which most new cameras do then surely that gives me more use of my brain to compose and capture a story or a moment!

A very good video. Thank you. They could have named the storm “Brian”. That would have been fun 😎 My first camera was a Pentax SF7, film with the luxury of a motor wind/rewind. Using the OM1 now. But to be fair, as the OM1 is full of novelties and “driver aides” it does make me think about the control of the camera (computer) as much as the photograph I am making. So, basically the OM1 does exactly the same job as the SF7. But much more simply if I want it to. The technology has taken away the pleasure of making a photograph in many ways due to its complexity. Must now go and clean my thoughts of you and nurses uniforms 🤣🤣 TTFN ⬅️⬅️⬅️ 🤣

Good tip Brian

Thank you so much, we are following in your footsteps!

Price is a function of sales. M43 is niche. Very few sell.