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Beautiful work, Sathya.

Hi Sathya. Reminiscing in tempo to borrow a title from, Duke Ellington, sets the scene here. A gorgeous piece of work from you with music to compliment it. Have a good start to your week

I miss it everyday man - thank you for sharing!

SO GOOD DUDE!

tyvm!

This was a great interview. Thank you for putting this together!

Very interesting, a huge thank you Sathya. Hope you can make more videos/interviews like that.

Hi Sathya. Alys Tomlinson creates wonderful images. It was good to hear her talking about themand her processes. I did wonder if she kept the copyright on all the images she shot for Time Out. A nice informal interview and your technique will evolve the more of them you do. Did you take a portrait of her at the same time? Have a good start to your week.

Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.

Well put together video

The superman cape is an added bonus 😂 Very informative.

The attention to detail in your video production is insane. Amazing work in this video man props to you!

The Nikon F4 is my every day carry with an MB-21 battery grip. It's an amazing weapon.

Great adaptation. How do you digitally scan the panoramic 35mm frames?

645 is just enough of a difference for me to justify it. I've been enjoying shooting 645 over the last year - wish I had gotten into it sooner. Although I've been thinking about shooting with 35mm more due to just wanting to change it up.

Hey man, i just want to say your channel deserves more sub!

Sathya, Excellent video and a very organized comparison between these two formats.

Very informative, I loved how dynamic the intro is!!

THX. How did You made so lovely Colors like in video about 2:35 ? Greetings from Finland ;)

where'd you get that shirt

Great video. I never really understood the appeal of 645, it seems too close to 35mm for me. If you are going to shoot medium format then you might as well go all in and shoot 6x6 or something larger.

Informative video! Curious to learn more about the MF "look" and the math it entails. Any resources you can share that go into it further? I think it could be something neat to make a separate video on.

Thanks for the video. I'm interested in picking up a 645 camera so it's helpful. All else being equal it seems like a lot of 35mm quality comes down to scan quality. I'm really impressed with the scans people get with digital cameras at home so maybe I should look into setting that up.

thanks for making this! been looking for this exact comparison = ) concise and well done

Nice video. You can make very high quality prints from 35mm negatives. For 20 years, I did so because I could not afford to get into medium format. I used the best 35mm lenses, the very finest, sharpest film. I sought out the most fine grain, sharpest developers. I shot everything on a heavy tripod. I made exhibition prints, which were often thought to be made with MF equipment, once accused of lying about it. But that is a terrific amount of work and extremely limiting in what you can photograph. Finally, the process was killing my enthusiasm for the hobby, so I switched to MF. Same results; much less work. I almost went to 645, but elected for 6x7, thinking that if I had to accept the relative limits of MF, I might as well get the best imaging return on the commitment. With ongoing improvements in film and developers, and still using my trusty tripod, at 75 and feeling the weight of the Pentax 67 system, I shifted to 645 to save my back. No regrets for any of those choices.

A great video - thank you. I've been considering moving to medium format (from digital) for the "look". And this confirmed my suspicion that medium or larger format would be better.

You are not washing enough with the insertions. Was with flowing water for 20min at room temp. You may not notice any difference now, but long term you will.

As a professional photographer who worked on 5x4 and 10x8 for many years when film was the norm I can assure you that the zone system, so favoured by Amstel Adams is useless if you are ‘digitising’ the negatives. The zone system requires the exposure, processing and printing to all be part of the system and adjustments made along the way to accommodate the contrast range of the scene to that of the paper.

Excellent review. You should do an update now that Polaroid has released a firmware update that perfects the automatic exposures. Thanks.

You are doing it actually the way as I do (so I am probably doing it not totally wrong). Just some notes: Using the Massive Dev app is a great help guiding me through the development processes of different films and developers (I have mine configured also for C-41 and E6). Great to not get confused! Photoflo (wetting agent) is not optional, nothing is worse than streaks on your film sheets, you can "repair" this, but it is better to get it right in the first place. Just a few drops needed, one bottle will last forever. I also use a stop bath for my b/w films. To get the temperature right for C-41 or E-6 I just fill a bucket with hot tap water, this will heat up the chemicals faster (and cool down fast enough - room temperature here in DK is about 24°C). Using the TCS to heat up your chemicals takes forever, but it is ok for keeping the temperature with C-41 (but not quite reliable for E-6 as it will keep heating above 39°C). -- I know "filmscanner.info", but doubt if their information about the "real resolution" is true. According to my experience it is not i.e. the Epson's resolution is better, but I can not scientifically prove it, of course. I use digital ICE on my Epson scanner, when scanning colour or slide film, it saves me a lot of time (removing dust spots on film is nothing I like to spend my time on - having to do it on b/w is bad enough). I have used NLP, but I think it is only needed for DSLR scans, Silverfast or even Epson Scan are not worse... That were just my 2 cents/pennies.

Fuk bro I have a 67ii in my wishlist and this shit poop off 😂 I think I have to buy it now

You teaching skills are excellent.. Im new to large format and viewing your videos..learning a lot from you thanks for sharing your information !

Like your video..really great information explanation and demonstration !

how did you import the polaroids into the video? What if i want to do the same and import them to my instagram

I started with an Intrepid 4x5 Mk IV (I think that model, it was still without Fresnel lens) - and in hindsight this was a big mistake! I didn't know if I would stick with LF, so I wanted to go cheap. But it drove me crazy with all its quirks and low-quality everything. So much details I had to tinker with to make it work for me (I started with LF pinhole photography, and the light seeping in from nearly everywhere cost me so much time and ruined shots, thus money, to learn where I had to do the tweaking and blackening to fix it, and it was never fully fixable). The Chamonix 45 F2 did away with all these frustrations from the get-go, and needed only very minute adjustments to work perfectly for me. All parts that could potentially let light seeping in are coated matte black or with black felt, the mechanics are so nice and smooth (and mostly adjustable). And exchangeable bellows are an absolute (!) must for such a camera, or you are never able to use all movements to their/your full advantage. You can't use a 90 mm lens for architecture without bag bellows! And the movable back standard is a stroke of genius that I often forget exists on this camera. It is expensive, but worth every single buck it costs. Addendum: 150 mm is the diagonal of the 4x5 negative (depending on the holder a bit less or more), so this is considered the standard/normal lens. As a rule of thumb you could just go with factor 3 to get a better feel of what you will get compared to FF/135 film (works reasonably well), so 150 mm is roughly equivalent to 50 mm (think 45 mm), 90 mm is roughly 30 mm (think 28 or 25 mm) etc.

Like the camera hate the Polaroid colors. Like the instax colors hate the cameras. Can we have Polaroid make a instax version 😂

i have just ordered it..great review well done!

Fab videos! I wish I had seen this when I started 4x5. If you don't do an after wash, what do you do?

Nice video quality!

yes i'm late to the party. sorry i missed it but glad i found it. tyvm for the vid!

Hello, thank you for pointing hidden technologies in the F4 like portrait mode metering, reduce shake shutter, speed shutter from 2000 (nikon F3) to 8000, etc... It's the only one camera nikon compatible with ALL LENSES. I like it have all dials at top of the F4 without LCD screen. i own Nikon F, F2sb and F4 with I have 2 only lens, Voigtlander 40mm f2 and 105mm f2.5 sonnar version. Tested F3 but it's the most overated of the serie, nothing special for me. I'm afraid F5 is too big for me, and read the matrix metering is less efficient than the F4. I don't use AF so i don't know yet if i like to get one. I'm not fan of bigs camera like F5 or Dx serie. Thanks to Nikon released D700, a small D3. Mine is only 18k shutters atuations. His panasonic full frame sensor is so specail, so magic i regret no more sensor like in Nikon mirorless series. And more special when work with Voigtlander 40mm. I do lot of street photo, i'm lucky my favorites camera like F4 and D700 are "smalls" unlike F5 or D3, etc..

Definitely not worth the price. You are better off with a modded SX70 with BT module and external battery options as well as being able to accept i-Type film.

Sathya bhai I am so glad you make these videos man. I do concur on your opinion about the F4. A beautifully engineered Ferrariesque SLR

I agree it is a fantastic camera. despite its weight which i believe makes it feel solid in the hand.

What frame holder are you using for the scans?

Very interesting and enjoy watching your videos on this amazing camera. I look forward to see more crisp sharp colorful images created by your F4s. I’m inspired. Your images from the last video where you convert film look to sharp edge to edge slide film look was amazing, just like a high end 4000.00 dollar digital camera. Thank you

Help me to take shots to create that sharp edge to edge look from an f4 s in purchasing. I love the feel and look of this camera and your images is exactly why I got into photography. I’ll buy whatever I have to just so I can take shots like your images.

Great video. Helpful.

Just found your videos, im a fan. I just started my large format journey and can relate with your topics! Thank you 🙏

A v900/950 would be nice but low chance. I recently started doing fluid mount scans on my 700 and I am really liking the results I am getting. I scan "RAW" linear tiffs as well that that is the way to do. I use VueScan and I feel it gives you much more control over the scanner. One little feature that I like is that you can tell the scanner to make multiple passes when scanning a image.