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Ben Arduino
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2013
Filmmaker & Editor sharing what I'm learning.
Start shooting Film - STARTER GUIDE - Choose your first camera.
Let's talk about some starter film cameras!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:11 Where Do I Start?
00:20 Types of Film Cameras
00:32 The Perfect Camera
00:40 SLR
00:54 Canon AE-1 Program
01:12 Why Start With SLR?
01:28 SLR MIRROR
01:44 VS Zone Camera
02:21 SLR Light Meters
02:48 Auto-Mode
03:35 Downsides of SLRs
04:17 Sound oif SLR
04:52 Learn on SLR
05:10 Where to buy a SLR
06:01 Caution to FB Marketplace
06:41 Pros to a Camera Store
07:24 Explaining Film
08:43 Join Film Community
08:56 What Camera Are You Using?
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:11 Where Do I Start?
00:20 Types of Film Cameras
00:32 The Perfect Camera
00:40 SLR
00:54 Canon AE-1 Program
01:12 Why Start With SLR?
01:28 SLR MIRROR
01:44 VS Zone Camera
02:21 SLR Light Meters
02:48 Auto-Mode
03:35 Downsides of SLRs
04:17 Sound oif SLR
04:52 Learn on SLR
05:10 Where to buy a SLR
06:01 Caution to FB Marketplace
06:41 Pros to a Camera Store
07:24 Explaining Film
08:43 Join Film Community
08:56 What Camera Are You Using?
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Every person REALLY needs THEESE cameras that are small enough to take everywhere you go.
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The best camera is the one you take with you.
STORY TIME 4
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Chuck, Nick and Ben tell about the time they hosted "Beat Bumpin Donald Trumpin Obama Mama Coco Mansion Back To School Banger"
The Leak
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The Leak (feat. Graham) uhh, just us friends telling funny stories from college? Funny to us at least. Can't wait to watch this in 20 years. xoxo, The Brown House Boys
Cat Toss
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Cat Toss with Lucifer. uhh, just us friends telling funny stories from college? Funny to us at least. Can't wait to watch this in 20 years. xoxo, The Brown House Boys
Story Time: Chuck Almost DIES!
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The Mill & The Picket Fence. uhh, just us friends telling funny stories from college? Funny to us at least. Can't wait to watch this in 20 years. xoxo, The Brown House Boys
Bro you have nv3 I have nv4😊
Can you tell me what mode you used, the pictures are great!
I believe P for program. Can slightly adjust a few settings like exposure comp, iso and I think white balance? I think I also edited them slightly in Lightroom. It’s been a minute so don’t fully remember
@@ben_jamina oh okay. thanks!!
nah, its not 22 years, just 17 years :)
Hi, cool work! We'd like to collaborate, how can we get in touch? :)
Why can't people not understand that it is not about the quality of the photo that is important. Sure our phones can shoot amazing photos, but what he is trying to convey is that the experience of using a dedicated digital camera is just different. If a digital camera can inspire you to explore and shoot more photos is that not a valid thing to feel, we are not the same some of us just needs a push/help and if that camera is what you need, let them be. Sorrymasen for all my rant, it just really triggers me when people dismiss other's feelings. 👁️👄👁️
This^^ exactly. You understood it perfectly
Wouldn't it just be easier to just take your smartphone along with your Fuji x100f instead of those old point & shoot cameras? For me, the "camera that I always have on me" is just my iPhone 13 Pro Max. That smartphone camera can handle most situations easily when I don't have my Canon 5DmkIV or my M6 on me.
yeah I 100% agree with your perspective. And I do take my phone with me pretty much everywhere. However the phone is a phone. We use our phones so much already. While the photos are high quality, they do have a very specific look. It's so easy to distinguish photos taken from a phone these days despite their quality. Holding and using a camera to me brings a different value than using my phone. It's also so easy to have my phone and then next thing you know, you're in nature and on IG or Tiktok. I cannot check my texts, social media or anything while using a camera and the look and feel my Fuji produces as well as the older digicams produce is something the iPhone or any smartphone can't replicate. It's kinda like why read a book when you can read it on a screen that fits in your pocket? There's something about holding a book in its physical form that no phone or tablet can replicate. Sure they're useful tools but sometimes I just want to be dethatched from phones and some tech and connect with my area and photos that my phone doesn't allow. I do find myself using my phone a lot for quick easy photos, but when I go out to enjoy photography and capturing moments, I tend to use my cameras if possible. I also get wayyy more excited to take photos on a camera then running around using my phone. It electrifies my brain and makes me think more about what I want to take then simply taking out my phone and tapping a virtual button to take 40 photos from the same angle. Hope this helps explain my perspective! There is nothing "wrong" about using a phone and if that's all you got, then more power to you. But I would highly recommend getting for "funsies" camera to just test it out!
@@ben_jamina thanks for that thoughtful reply and I agree with you. I also try to be a digital minimalist. But your point about the experience of photography is valid. Even though I have three Kindles, I still buy hardcover physical books and read them, so I understand where you are coming from.
Well, I still love my very small Mamiya RZ 67 with AE Finder and 380 mm lens.😉😅
Hi! Question, have you edited in any way the images you've shown from the NV3? Or are they straight from the camera? :-)
Yes I generally edit them just a bit. Some of my friends like them SooC, but I like to accentuate the "digitalness" in them. Generally I'll boost the saturation and contrast to highlight the digital grain and/or the digital lines within the image. But Nothing too crazy because the images on the NV3 cant be pushed too much before it does start to look bad haha. I'm planning on doing some more videos focusing more specifically with the individual digi-cams I own, so stay tuned!
@@ben_jamina ohhh thank you! I'll def be on the look out for that video 👀 x
@@ben_jamina also! your images taken with x100f from 4:30 have such a beautiful 'film' quality and grain to them. Do you use any particular preset? or film simulation recipe?
@@stmn7286 I have a few custom presets saved in my 100f that I took from Fujixweekly but tbh I haven't found one that I absolutely love to just shoot in JPG. If I owned the x100v or xpro3 I think I would use the film emulations more because they have the newer sensor and a few more detail settings for the recipes. I really love to edit my photos so I mainly shoot RAW when using my x100f. I got the VSCO Lightroom presets like way back in 2013/2014 and I still use them! I don't even know if they still sell them? but I bet you could find them online somewhere if you look hard enough. Huge fan of them and I have like 300+ presets from the pack I have that are mostly film emulation presets. There's probably only like 10-15 presets that I really use and I just fluctuate between as a base, before I go in and dial in the edit to something I like. LightRoom has some pretty good grain effects and I just use that if I'm batch editing a lot of photos. Photoshop can also produce some good grain if you know what you're doing, but that is a lot more editing time and I generally only do that for one specific image IF I really want to do that. 98% of the time I just use the grain sliders in LR. Hope that is helpful!
I already have a small camera in my pocket. It's called a phone nowadays.
I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-W830. Tiny and slim and slips into just about any pocket with ease. 20megapixel sensor and 8X zoom, can take some pretty darn nice photos in good light. 720p video is reasonably clean and the image is optically stabilized so not a bad little video cam either. Also have a Canon Powershot SD850IS, takes decent photos but the video is not great. Also have a Nikon 1J1 with a pancake 10mm (27mm equiv, Also have an 18.5mm 50mm equiv.) Now that's a nice little camera and I can fit into a jacket pocket or cargo pocket easily and takes great photos and 1080p video.
I have a couple of Powershots, including the orange model shown in your video. Got it for $7 at a garage sale. The still images are just fine for my purposes. The SD video is meh, but will do in a pinch. My other Powershot is the dinky 780, which I like even more. I have an older iPhone, but just prefer the feel of a real camera for impromptu shooting.
That was always the appeal of Leica’s to me, and why I gave up SLRs and carry a Leica M11. Always take it with me, highest possible quality. Perfect combination.
Great share. Amazing after all the tech development with large sensor cameras and perfect lenses, the basic act of being there, showing up, capturing the moment far exceeds the technical perfection. The other layer of that idea that you bring is that using an actual camera vs your phone camera makes a different statement about the same thing - you are intentionally taking the pic, not just hamming a selfie. People dismiss the cell phone, I think.
this was wonderfully said and I agree. Whatever ~the camera~ is for you ultimately doesn't matter as long as it brings your the joy of doing the act and for me that is a smaller hand held camera over the phone, but to others it might be the phone. Whatever floats your boat.
what do you think about the samsung wb35f in 2023 ?
is that hat available for sale anywhere? love the video, that scene you are filming in is beautiful
Appreciate it! I custom made the hat. I have lots of designs I want to put hats and tees, maybe in the future sometime 👀. Thanks for the love ❤️🤘🏼
Point and shoot compact cameras are simple and fun and are sufficient for all but photography snobs.
Looked everywhere but couldn’t find those “go to cameras” you mentioned FFS.
Which ones? The digi cams or the Fujifilm? The Fuji x100f and x100v are hard to get without paying a significant markup at the moment. A lot of people want them and I think there is a chip shortage/supply chain issues (still). Digi cams are pretty easy to find. Maybe not the exact ones but you can find similar cameras with less than 10mp all over Facebook market place
Amen to that brother! I own some good kit like the Sony A7 III, Panasonic GH5, G9 and 5D Classic but I really get a lot of joy from my older smaller shooters such as the Canon G9X, Panasonic GM1 which I picked up for a stupidly good price of $40 AUD and my trusty Panasonic GX85. I agree with you when you drop those hindering thoughts like worrying about the size, weight and especially costs. You'll have a weight lifted from your shoulders and just shoot naturally without a great deal of thought.
iphone 14 is better than those small powershoots
I didn’t make this video to compare what camera is “better.” I was just making some points I have been thinking about how smaller cameras, regardless of their quality, give you the opportunity to take more pictures and think about taking a picture more than thinking about your gear. Yes, the old digicams take objectively bad photos but that’s the point. The image it takes is a very specific look and feel that an iPhone 14 can’t reproduce. For me, it’s very nostalgic and that’s why I like to use it. Using your logic, anything “old” is worse than something new. A painting made before the invention of cameras must be bad compared to an artist taking a portrait on the phone or camera. Different mediums and tools exist to make people feel differently and convey certain emotions and that’s the art of it.
@@ben_jamina I understand. I will try to re activate my own old digital cameras if I can get them to work
I'd be happy with a compact camera that has a quality 23 or 24mm pancake lens and an APS-C sensor that shoots RAW and JPEG. Something I can stick in a coat pocket (or leave in a coat pocket) and take with me everywhere I go and only take my more serious camera kit out for planned shoots. I own a Sony a6600, but the compact 16-50 or 20mm lenses that are available for the camera are old designs dating back to the days of Sony's early NEX-series cameras. Neither lens is a very good performer. One reason for that is that the NEX-series cameras they were intended for had maximum resolutions of 14 and 16MP, until the arrival of the NEX-7 in 2011 with 24MP, and so the lenses were engineered to deliver maximum resolutions of about 16MP. So far, Sony have not seen fit to update or replace these lenses. I guess they'd rather have you buy their much bulkier and more expensive G and G Master series lenses. Or buy one of their expensive RX-100 series cameras, which, while nice, offer lower resolutions and less capable lenses.
Just make your own--Canon original EOS M, or EOS M2, with the legendary 22mm pancake. Or Fuji X-E1 X-E2, or X-E2S with the legendary 27mm pancake. Bingo, there you are.
that potra 400 and 800; chief's kiss!
I bought a Nikon Z50, because I thought it was small and unobtrusive. Yesterday, I took it out with a 3-lens kit. That system stayed in my car, and I walked about with my Sony RX100 Mark V, instead. Used it in B&W and got some great shots. It and an extra battery goes everywhere with me.
That’s what I’m talking about. Less thinking about the gear and more energy and ease to think about taking pictures!
@@Leah-ju8ht I LOVE the 16-50mm kit lens and have some GREAT photos that I took with it. I, usually, shoot color.
Sounds like the Ricoh GRiii or GRiiix is gonna be the perfect camera for you!
Ricoh GR III & GR III X, because they’re APS-c and fit easily in a trouser pocket. If you get both then there are adapted lenses to increase focal range from 21mm to 60mm.
I started with an early canon eos, now I use a Minolta
Or a cheap slr
Canon f1
Jesus loves you all!
I would love to see a video about the Kodak Ektar H35. I have yet to purchase it but it looks fun!
About to raid all of my family's attics for old film cameras. KEEP THESE COMIN'
Ben the 🐐 no cap
What was your first film camera?
a pentax ME with a 50 f2
oh wait before that i managed to restore and repair my grandpas voightlander vitessa so ig that
Nikon F2A.
Ricoh GR for the win!
Agree that smaller cameras are the best, hence I have GRIII and Sigma fp
Dude, this video explains a very valid point. I totally agree with you.
thanks!
That Ricoh gr is sounding wayyy better than 120 mm prices right now
I personally haven’t used the Ricoh yet, but I’ve seen a few videos on it. But it fits the mold of a nice point and shoot. A daily carry for many photographers are these small cameras. They’re just so easy and fun to use.
very cool ! nice to know you in youtube bro
Mine is a Nikon V1, shooting with it since 2012⚡ only 18.5mm f1.8 lens
Your phone. The end.
Honestly cant wait for ur upcoming videos 😊
Absolutely nice video. Good thoughts.
The smallest camera I have that I take anywhere is my phone.
And if that works for you then by all means keep it going. For me, there’s something different about putting down my phone and holding a camera. It switches something in my brain when thinking about photographing something. And it feels good to hold a camera over a phone, in my opinion. Yes I still use my phone camera a ton, but it’s just different. It’s fun for me to use cameras but I just love using all sorts a cameras. Whatever makes you happy and helps you photograph the world is a win!
Everyone who used to own a Kodak or a Leica now carries an iPhone and the bokeh is as a good as a top of the line film camera.
Totally agree!! And love my small cameras 🙌
My current GO-TO camera is my Olympus E-M5 mk ii. It is compact and I am a sucker for their color science and jpegs fresh out of camera with their lower budget primes. My for-pay portrait camera is currently the Nikon D5300. I want to get the Pentax Q model cameras and tiny lenses. I attempted the Nikon 1 line up but just was pretty disappointed.
That's what I'm talking about! All love for the small cameras. They provide so much value
great advice. thanks for sharing your wonderful thoughts and ideas to the world.
i totally agree with the points you made! i knew that if i got a fuji camera with an interchangeable lens i would literally be broke rn hahaha also dang it dude you made the samsung look so appealing.... 😅 love your video style as well!
A good point made well. I’ve now put my old Panasonic LUMIX on charge ready to take out. I’ve not been well and the idea of lugging a Nikon D850 around is not appealing ….. but I just so need to get out and do photography! The small camera is the best idea for me just now. Thanks for making this video it’s helped me. Oh and I do like the idea of the old cameras being appreciated for their image style. Why use filters when you can just take the original with an old camera. 😅 Alastair.
The cat crossing over was perfect! Subscribed just for that! I love small cameras, regardless of the year and sensor size. I do like small for portability and also for my own comfort!! Great video, subscribed!
Thanks kary! And I’m so glad you resonate with the cats 😂 I love them so much. Appreciate the support 🤘🏼
Don’t know anything about cameras but I’m in favor of anything mr ben jamina shoots with
lfg ethan!!