Pentax K1000 with Kentmere 100 black and white film: Is a 50mm too tight for small town photography?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- I drive through a southern Indiana small town with a Pentax K1000, loaded with a 36-exposure roll of Kentmere 100 Black and White 35mm Pan film and find some interesting rural subjects, including a guard cat, a guitar player in a pizza shop, and excellent evening sun and contrast.
I also used a Pentax 50mm f/1.7 lens with the Pentax K1000, but I do not like the nifty-fifty for general use. I prefer a 28mm or 35mm on film cameras, as the 50mm brings everything in too close. I found myself having to constantly walk backwards in order to frame up the images properly, and when you're in a small town square, that can be very aggravating (or maybe that's just me!?).
What is your favorite go-to lens length for film photography? I rarely find myself interested in anything over 80mm, but love having the 28-70mm or 35-80mm zooms for best versatility, even though that sometimes means sacrificing quality. I'll take the less quality, as sharpness can be fixed in post production. Would love to hear your thoughts!
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Film newbie here! Borrowing a friend's Pentax K1000 to test it out before getting my own. Just loaded it with Kodak Ultramax 400. First time shooting with film and found your channel today, specifically the Pentax K1000 film loading tutorial. Really digging your videos! I find them helpful, informative, and overall fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time to create them, my dude. You are appreciated. :)
Thanks so much! More Pentax K1000 videos coming! Stay tuned!
Love seeing your small town images they are so different from the places we have in the UK . Like a holiday for me eyes .
lol Thanks Adrian - more to come my friend!
Nice details on the buildings
Glad you like them! Thanks!
Can you do a video on your bnw development process? Are you using a single solution ?
I really need to do that Steve, and will soon. I use HC-110 with Ilford Rapid fix. I don't like powders/mixtures, so I use liquid chemicals. I do NOT use stop bath or anyting like that as it's unnecessary and stinks the entire house up. HC-110 has no odor at all, and the Ilford rapid fix does have the fixer smell, but if you keep things capped, etc it's not bad at all. I found I MUST use distilled water as apparently my tap is too hard, and leaves waterspots. So distilled water for my hc-110 and fixer mix, tap water to rinse, then final wash in distilled water with Photoflo - do NOT squeegee/whip - that photoflo will naturally drip dry and should leave no spots. hope that helps a bit. Thanks!
@@DozierGraphic I will look into those products. Cinestill has a one bath solution for bnw too. Still need to research on how to do it. Trying to shoot more film in 23 and self development will be key. Are you scanning with a flatbed or using a camera to digitally make copies ?
@@sdhute I use digital setup. I'll make a video about that asap as well
@@DozierGraphic thanks
Ohhh...the days of processing and even some printing from my bathroom, the memories...😊. I long since gutted my homebrew darkroom (2003). So how much more expensive are the chemicals nowadays?
I'm going to do a video on this soon, but not a lot at all. I get kentmere 100 for $4.19 a roll for 24 exp or about 5.99 for 36 exp. Then the HC-110 for developing is about $25 but i've developed about 30 or more rolls and still have more than half a bottle left, lasts for a year or more. Ilford rapid fix is $10 a bottle and will give you about 40 rolls. I don't use stopbath because it smells like rotten eggs, I just rinse for a few minutes with tap water, but then use distilled water (about a half gallon per roll, but at $1.19 per gallon) for final rinse and kodak photoflo soak for a few minutes. DO NOT use a squeegee, the photoflo is meant to drip dry on it's own (caused me problems til I figured that out). And you're done. I feel like it's easier now than it was thirty years ago. Chemicals don't have odor to them (fixer still does but not as strong as I remember, so I keep capped and quickly pour, rinse, etc) other than stopbath that I don't use at all! So it's less than a couple bucks per roll to develop, but the joy is so much more trhilling than editing digital (not that I don't still shoot digital). But cameras are also less than $20 and fun to play with. Just a natural step back to basics for me at the moment. thanks my friend!
He man I watched ur video from 2 years ago with the canon t3i and the 18-55mm lens and was wondering what setting u used?Keep up the good work
I haven't watched that video in a while, but typically I give the settings at the start of the videos. In general, you want to be at least 1/400 of a second (slower than that will cause anything else that is moving like bicycles/motorcycles/scooters to be slightly blurred). I also for street photography try to stay in the middle of the lens aperture (f/8-f/11) or higher for as much depth of field as you can get, this gives you more room for error while walking and taking shots on the fly. To achieve this it's best to also use Auto ISO if possible, not higher than 3200 should be fine with almost any camera, as you're not going for beauty on street, more of a gritty look so noise doesn't bother me unless it's too much and takes away from the rest of the image. Simple as that, tweak for your situation and let 'er rip! Thanks!
Great shots, I'm really liking that b/w film too.
Everytime I take a shot I think 'that would look better in color' lol but black and white is an artform and I'm determined to master it!