Half-frame is a lot more fun than I expected, especially when I took the advice and saw each frame as a part of the whole. I used the frames to capture blocks of buildings, making each structure a part of the three-image set. Great results; I loved seeing the shots from your trips to Toronto and Montreal (Heading to Montreal in October!). And I'm looking forward to seeing your video on that TLR (Love TLRs).
@@AlexLuyckxPhoto I love the idea of photographing parts of a building and combining them into one image, that sounds so cool!! Enjoy Montreal, and don't forget to hit up Photo St Denis for some great deals on funky expired film
I need to check out your Tumblr photo video, because maybe you discussed it there, but your discussion of photos as pieces of a larger work kind-of makes me think about comic books and comic art. Like, there absolutely are artists who will make every single panel look like a singularly perfect work of art (and then repeat that for every panel on every page), but oftentimes the individual panels are just a small component of the overall work. I just think that's neat, and now I'm off to watch your Tumblr video, to see what you said in more detail there. Also, this was a cool video, and I liked the lo-fi look of some of those color photos-especially the grainy reds in a few of them!
Thank you for posting this video! I splurged on the Pentax 17 as a bday present for myself back in June, and I couldn’t be happier shooting half frame since I got it; and yes, thinking of taking photos as diptychs is definitely the way to go. (However, the quality of the Pentax 17 optics is surprisingly quite good that you could blow your photos up quite a bit and still get detailed photos!). Anyway, I’m glad that cheaper half frame options exist like the Flic Film camera you used (I’m now thinking of buying one for my nephew as his first film camera so we can take photo walks together), so thank you again for making this video!
Watching in a pub in the UK and admittedly I have had a few beers, but tonight you remind me of Kim Novak in her heyday. Don’t know this particular camera and have never had a half frame. But I can fully appreciate the advantages and obviously some disadvantages 🙄🤷♂️👍📸
How fun! I love the photos you got. Yeah, there's definitely a charm to this camera, I might just have to snag it and take it for a ride. I wonder how Fomapan 400 would perform with it. That's my go-to for my Holga which is a very similar exposure, but half-frame may not be as forgiving. It makes sense the 3200 exposes way better, but foma just loves the plastic-lens, though I wouldn't wanna push it more than 800. I love that you employed the diptych technique. That's not something I would have thought of, although I have been developing a narrative photobook project for a while (kinda like a comic, but with photographs rather than line art) and half-frame would certainly be a great avenue for that. Y'know, one camera I feel obliged to mention is the Canon demi ee 17. Don't know if you knew about it or not, but when you mentioned a half frame camera as a fashion accessory, it came to mind. I think it would suit you brilliantly, plus it's way cheaper than the Pentax, oh and it comes in different colors, lol. I didn't comment on the tumblr video, but I did enjoy that, it was kind of an eye-opener. I will confess a certain animosity toward that site, so I never really noticed it had a genre of photography associated with it, but your breakdown on it was pretty illuminating. Excited for the Yashica vid! I'm still wading in the surf when it comes to medium format. I'll dive in one day soon, but I'm not there yet (I'm looking at the Fujifilm GX680. That beautiful behemoth is so 'me', lol.) Right now I'm just rockin' a Holga and an Olympus Six, but I have absolutely fallen in love with 6x6 square photos. Throwing off the shackles of aspect ratios and whatnot. Cheers, Yvonne!
I've not gotten around to it, but for some time I've wanted to get my hands on a Pen EE-3. They're so compact, and the half-frame format seems like it could be a lot of fun.
Hey! such a fun video! :) I love half frame photography! If you liked it in 35mm look for the Bencini 24 \ 24s \ Koroll I \ Koroll II. These are half frame medium format cameras from the 50s from Italy. Have a plastic lens and apparature f8-22 with 3 speeds. They give dreamy lo-fi looks to most photos :) They cost about 5-30$ US in Ebay. My fav camera by far.
I loooove half frame! almsot as much as I love square frame. I especially love it because it makes all my boring typology projects viable to shoot on film.
I have a really nice Canon convertible half-frame, but these look fun! I think we often overlook the reason that phone photography can be so nice is that it's plentiful and the expectations are low. Sounds like the life of having 72 frames on a focus-free P&S, right?
If you are interested in half frame cameras, I'd recommend the Olympus Pen F from the 60's, it is the only half-frame interchangable lens SLR ever made. I recently ordered one after being very displeased with the Pentax 17's high price, lack of changable lenses, odd focus system choices, and a cheap plastic design. Could we get a review of the Pen F? It is such a fun camera that is relatively cheap for an SLR and is great for those who want to choose their focal length and also shoot half frame film. (I'm in a weird niche minority of film photographer I realize) but it's my favorite camera. I'm also currently making a 3D adapter so I can use my canon FD lenses on this old system. While the half frame does technically make your photo lower quality, I would argue on cameras that can shoot 50, 100, 200, etc speed film and expose properly, this isn't a dealbreaking issue in my eye. The cost of saving film in my eyes is a bigger upside to the technically lower quality seen in half frame. Some people may genuinely not be able to tell on low speed film. Great video as always!
@@YvonneHansonPhotography same boat... Pentax 17 felt expensive (granted, I still want to buy it to support the effort... lol). I got a PEN F and it was a lot of fun to use. Still waiting for developing. I also have it's digital brother so that might have something to do with it, too. I ended up buying a box of "as-is" on a gamble. I lost hard, but discovered a PEN S (yes, that's a terrible name). I need to fix the seals but it seems like a fun little camera.
5 minutes for researching kodak h35n and you could find out why it is more expensive: better lens (aka not plastic), two apertures in combination with flash activation(also, flash firing after charging is normal, that energy cannot be stored in this type of camera), cable release option, a star filter and royalties for using the name. More than enough to get to double the price
Does the flash fire when the switch is off only when you are taking the shot shortly after charging the flash? If so, I suspect that the capacitor is always discharged with the shutter, and the capacitor takes some time to discharge without firing.
If I didn't already have the Olympus Pen EE3 I would definitely look into this camera, or Kodak's (I've heard decent things about that one, even if the price is a little high). It certainly feels like it takes forever to finish the film, which I think is a great thing lol.
@@YvonneHansonPhotography Definitely recommend it! When I first got mine I tested it with cheap Kodak film at ISO 200. The handful of under exposed photos still managed to turn out halfway decent, which was a pleasant surprise. Probably thanks to the glass lens. I definitely want to try a really nice film in it next.
I always tell my friends who are getting into film stuff that these plastic junk cameras are more expensive than getting an older used one or at this point even a pentax17. The keeper rate is so low youd have to spend way more on film to get a useful amount of pictures. The amount of rolls ive developed where the shutter just stopped working or half fires is more than the successful rolls by actially 3:1
I got this one for my wife, while I got an old demi for me lolz , both half frames but I prefer the weight of the demi. Any thoughts for Pentax 17? yay nay or meh?
Been a photographer for over 50 years. Neve saw any merit in half frame, TBH. They could have made a camera to take 24X24mm square format photos for the intened taeget of this one. The lens from this camera would have probably covered that format . A much more proposition than this camera.
Your camera is clearly defective, the lens is quite misaligned and the vignette is crazy high in one of the corners as a consequence. I have one of these cameras, unbranded, quite a bit cheaper than the price of the flick film, and could get good exposures with iso 320 film with the flash at 2 to 3 meters. I also wouldn't recommend using phoenix with it.
Half-frame is a lot more fun than I expected, especially when I took the advice and saw each frame as a part of the whole. I used the frames to capture blocks of buildings, making each structure a part of the three-image set. Great results; I loved seeing the shots from your trips to Toronto and Montreal (Heading to Montreal in October!). And I'm looking forward to seeing your video on that TLR (Love TLRs).
@@AlexLuyckxPhoto I love the idea of photographing parts of a building and combining them into one image, that sounds so cool!! Enjoy Montreal, and don't forget to hit up Photo St Denis for some great deals on funky expired film
I need to check out your Tumblr photo video, because maybe you discussed it there, but your discussion of photos as pieces of a larger work kind-of makes me think about comic books and comic art. Like, there absolutely are artists who will make every single panel look like a singularly perfect work of art (and then repeat that for every panel on every page), but oftentimes the individual panels are just a small component of the overall work. I just think that's neat, and now I'm off to watch your Tumblr video, to see what you said in more detail there.
Also, this was a cool video, and I liked the lo-fi look of some of those color photos-especially the grainy reds in a few of them!
Thank you for posting this video! I splurged on the Pentax 17 as a bday present for myself back in June, and I couldn’t be happier shooting half frame since I got it; and yes, thinking of taking photos as diptychs is definitely the way to go. (However, the quality of the Pentax 17 optics is surprisingly quite good that you could blow your photos up quite a bit and still get detailed photos!). Anyway, I’m glad that cheaper half frame options exist like the Flic Film camera you used (I’m now thinking of buying one for my nephew as his first film camera so we can take photo walks together), so thank you again for making this video!
Good video!
I like your year rings too 📷🎞
Watching in a pub in the UK and admittedly I have had a few beers, but tonight you remind me of Kim Novak in her heyday. Don’t know this particular camera and have never had a half frame. But I can fully appreciate the advantages and obviously some disadvantages 🙄🤷♂️👍📸
@@SloopJohnBeeRockabilly ooooo high praise! I'll take that, she looked great hahaha.
How fun! I love the photos you got.
Yeah, there's definitely a charm to this camera, I might just have to snag it and take it for a ride. I wonder how Fomapan 400 would perform with it. That's my go-to for my Holga which is a very similar exposure, but half-frame may not be as forgiving. It makes sense the 3200 exposes way better, but foma just loves the plastic-lens, though I wouldn't wanna push it more than 800.
I love that you employed the diptych technique. That's not something I would have thought of, although I have been developing a narrative photobook project for a while (kinda like a comic, but with photographs rather than line art) and half-frame would certainly be a great avenue for that.
Y'know, one camera I feel obliged to mention is the Canon demi ee 17. Don't know if you knew about it or not, but when you mentioned a half frame camera as a fashion accessory, it came to mind. I think it would suit you brilliantly, plus it's way cheaper than the Pentax, oh and it comes in different colors, lol.
I didn't comment on the tumblr video, but I did enjoy that, it was kind of an eye-opener. I will confess a certain animosity toward that site, so I never really noticed it had a genre of photography associated with it, but your breakdown on it was pretty illuminating.
Excited for the Yashica vid! I'm still wading in the surf when it comes to medium format. I'll dive in one day soon, but I'm not there yet (I'm looking at the Fujifilm GX680. That beautiful behemoth is so 'me', lol.) Right now I'm just rockin' a Holga and an Olympus Six, but I have absolutely fallen in love with 6x6 square photos. Throwing off the shackles of aspect ratios and whatnot.
Cheers, Yvonne!
I've not gotten around to it, but for some time I've wanted to get my hands on a Pen EE-3. They're so compact, and the half-frame format seems like it could be a lot of fun.
@@PatternRecognitionMusic I will try that one next! Was thinking if the Pentax, but it is so pricey!
Hey! such a fun video! :) I love half frame photography! If you liked it in 35mm look for the Bencini 24 \ 24s \ Koroll I \ Koroll II. These are half frame medium format cameras from the 50s from Italy. Have a plastic lens and apparature f8-22 with 3 speeds. They give dreamy lo-fi looks to most photos :) They cost about 5-30$ US in Ebay. My fav camera by far.
@@omerbender9985 Woah good rec! I will check it out! That sounds like a lot of fun!
HALF FRAME HELL YEAH!
I loooove half frame! almsot as much as I love square frame. I especially love it because it makes all my boring typology projects viable to shoot on film.
Interesting ! 👍🏾
Collage à deux ! 😎
I wasn't ready to listen to French words (I'm French). 😂
@@tawnee8foster655 haha, I speak just enough to sound fancy...
I have a really nice Canon convertible half-frame, but these look fun! I think we often overlook the reason that phone photography can be so nice is that it's plentiful and the expectations are low. Sounds like the life of having 72 frames on a focus-free P&S, right?
If you are interested in half frame cameras, I'd recommend the Olympus Pen F from the 60's, it is the only half-frame interchangable lens SLR ever made. I recently ordered one after being very displeased with the Pentax 17's high price, lack of changable lenses, odd focus system choices, and a cheap plastic design. Could we get a review of the Pen F? It is such a fun camera that is relatively cheap for an SLR and is great for those who want to choose their focal length and also shoot half frame film. (I'm in a weird niche minority of film photographer I realize) but it's my favorite camera. I'm also currently making a 3D adapter so I can use my canon FD lenses on this old system. While the half frame does technically make your photo lower quality, I would argue on cameras that can shoot 50, 100, 200, etc speed film and expose properly, this isn't a dealbreaking issue in my eye. The cost of saving film in my eyes is a bigger upside to the technically lower quality seen in half frame. Some people may genuinely not be able to tell on low speed film. Great video as always!
@@LewganAirsoft I'm going to try it! So many folks recommend it, and your recommendation is compelling!
@@YvonneHansonPhotography same boat... Pentax 17 felt expensive (granted, I still want to buy it to support the effort... lol). I got a PEN F and it was a lot of fun to use. Still waiting for developing. I also have it's digital brother so that might have something to do with it, too. I ended up buying a box of "as-is" on a gamble. I lost hard, but discovered a PEN S (yes, that's a terrible name). I need to fix the seals but it seems like a fun little camera.
5 minutes for researching kodak h35n and you could find out why it is more expensive: better lens (aka not plastic), two apertures in combination with flash activation(also, flash firing after charging is normal, that energy cannot be stored in this type of camera), cable release option, a star filter and royalties for using the name. More than enough to get to double the price
I think my Pen FT has fused with my hand right now
Does the flash fire when the switch is off only when you are taking the shot shortly after charging the flash? If so, I suspect that the capacitor is always discharged with the shutter, and the capacitor takes some time to discharge without firing.
@@dtree1992 I think you're right. If I turn the flash off and wait a while, it doesn't fire. This is probably what is going on!
If I didn't already have the Olympus Pen EE3 I would definitely look into this camera, or Kodak's (I've heard decent things about that one, even if the price is a little high). It certainly feels like it takes forever to finish the film, which I think is a great thing lol.
@@KristiChan1 I should try the Olympus! So many folks are recommending it
@@YvonneHansonPhotography Definitely recommend it!
When I first got mine I tested it with cheap Kodak film at ISO 200. The handful of under exposed photos still managed to turn out halfway decent, which was a pleasant surprise. Probably thanks to the glass lens.
I definitely want to try a really nice film in it next.
I bet pushed black and white would look great on this
@@hemangdama5007 i think you kinda see that vibe in the XP2! I didn't push it in development, but I "pushed" it in Photoshop if you know what I mean
I was given some expired film, so I went and bought a Double Shot yesterday! What size did you get your photos developed?
"Looks like lomography". On paper the camera has similar characteristics: fixed aperture and fixed shutter speed.
I always tell my friends who are getting into film stuff that these plastic junk cameras are more expensive than getting an older used one or at this point even a pentax17. The keeper rate is so low youd have to spend way more on film to get a useful amount of pictures. The amount of rolls ive developed where the shutter just stopped working or half fires is more than the successful rolls by actially 3:1
I got this one for my wife, while I got an old demi for me lolz , both half frames but I prefer the weight of the demi.
Any thoughts for Pentax 17? yay nay or meh?
@@thecosmicbook I was thinking of getting the Pentax but it is so pricey!!
Been a photographer for over 50 years. Neve saw any merit in half frame, TBH. They could have made a camera to take 24X24mm square format photos for the intened taeget of this one. The lens from this camera would have probably covered that format . A much more proposition than this camera.
Your camera is clearly defective, the lens is quite misaligned and the vignette is crazy high in one of the corners as a consequence. I have one of these cameras, unbranded, quite a bit cheaper than the price of the flick film, and could get good exposures with iso 320 film with the flash at 2 to 3 meters. I also wouldn't recommend using phoenix with it.
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