Finally emerged from the Bokeh forest to post another video. Also, my son and I set up a little studio in the garage. Let me know what you think. Nice to film a bit wider and be less self conscious about nose hairs while filming.
God dammit I LOVE your videos so much. I wish more people appreciated them as much as I do. I’m an audio visual technician (mostly tv but sometimes indie shorts) so I know. I know. Big hugs from Chile, keep making these please!
I owned a 500CM for a bunch of years. Sometimes I pull out the negatives and it makes me want to toss all my digital gear into the pond. Selling that camera is one of my biggest regrets in life. It was an absolute work of art.
I imagine you have forearms like Popeye! Bravo on making it work for you. You probably get a really interesting perspective just because other people are lazy. Thanks for watching!
Darn, Jesse! I found your channel like a week or two ago and I binged all your vids plus rewatched some even if the topic is not entirely relative to my interests (I'm more of a video gal) and I swear I can spend all day listening to you talking. It's such a calm vibe, and your advice give a whole different (and valuable) perspective than all the other photography/videography channels. Ps: The unexpected twisted jokes that keep going deeper and deeper are the best. Please keep feeding my need for animated pictures through the screen. 💜 Cheers from Spain!
Thanks so much for the comment, makes me really inspired to keep making these! It's hard for me to upload a video without some weird, awkward joke in there somewhere!
RZ67 was my dream camera too. Somewhere along the way I got distracted and ended up with lots of other cameras instead :) Really love your style and humour. Enjoyed spending 14 mins with you today!
Hey thanks so much. Your dream still has a chance to come true! And blows me away anyone can listen to me for more than one minute, so I appreciate it!
@@jessesenko The accent is definitely part of the magic! I've known my whole life that I perform better behind a camera than in front of it, so it has been a struggle to push beyond my own self-awareness and just get out of my head to make TH-cam videos. Maybe a more years of practice and I'll find my feet properly. This particular video is a great example of how to bring all the essential elements together and deliver excellent entertainment in addition to the beautiful cameras.
If it helps, I get a very loud “you shouldn’t post this” voice in the back of my head before I post EVERY video. Just keep pushing yourself and do it for you.
this camera was my intro to film photography - I was gifted a broken one as a teenager and when I moved to New York I went to a shop and got it fixed. I've taken some of my favorite photos of friends on this thing. But I always forget how to use it since I only take it out about once a year. I love this camera (it looks great on you)
Thanks! What a great starter camera. Right into the deep end! I shoot film so sporadically as well and have to relearn every time. Thanks for the comment and I hope you get the camera out more often. (And/or you get a smaller, more manageable film camera :)
Outstanding content. I laughed so hard that you earned my sub. I have two Yashicas TLRs that I love so much. They were my first cameras when I started photography in 1972 when I was 12. I tried the Mamiya 645 a long time ago, and I am looking into getting one. Thanks for the video.
Always felt like the camera was so massive due to the bellows focusing. I have a 500CM and a C220 and will admit that the bellows (albeit on a TLR) are so cool to shoot with. Thinking aloud here, this is probably why the Mamiya TLR systems are bigger than others in class.
I‘m quite tall myself and carry this tank around more often than I’d like to admit. I absolutely love The RB ❤ and I think I understand the Aspect ratio of 6x7 better than 35mm 🤔 I‘ve taken much better pictures on it, than on any 35mm camera with lenses from 24-135 mm focal length. Great Video and photos! Greetings from Germany
Cool video and I like the new setup! I have an RZ67 which I absolutely love. The size and weight of it though does keep me from taking it out a lot. Wish I could just shrink it down a little bit to bring it along with me. Oh and I’m definitely one with the bokeh. 😁
Lol. Yes, these are specialty, "intentional" cameras like another commenter said better than i... I need a tripod upgrade now too 😬 Thanks for the comment, Els!
My 4x5 inch view camera is my slowest and biggest camera. When I want to shoot with something faster and smaller, I use a Mamiya RB67 SLR, a Fuji 6x7cm rangefinder, or a Fuji 6x9cm rangefinder.
Too funny. I was recently looking at the same camera, with a bunch of lenses on marketplace and it was a great deal...but i didn't do it. I'll have to live vicariously through you.
Intentional. That's the word I would use to describe medium or large format film photography Jesse. I shot the Hasselblad 500 Series commercially for 10 years before transitioning to digital. In the studio, it was always on a camera stand, and in the field it was either on a tripod or handheld. I would highly recommend a tripod to maximize results. The Hassy 6x6 has a mirror pre-release function that slaps the mirror up, before you tenderly snick the Zeiss leaf shutter (preferably with a cable release). Vivian got away with hand holding her TLR, because there was no mirror slap.
100%... intentional is the right word. My 35mm is the fun walkaround camera with a fast lens. I was never a "professional" with film cameras so it's great to hear your perspective. I took a pic of the camera on my dinky tripod yesterday and definitely need to upgrade from a ballhead-something that is not going to flop the camera over if it loosens. I saw him use an interesting one on the "grainydays" channel that seemed way better. i'll look into it. Regarding "mirror slap" i've gotten away with my TLRs handheld in daylight, but is there a rule of thumb for shutter speed baseline? With my 35mm cams i use 1/60 sec as a last resort and try to keep it at 1/125. Always appreciate your input!
@@jessesenko Yes, the OM-1 is a great film camera with a tremendous viewfinder. I owned the OM-1 MD and OM-4, plus many Zuiko lenses. They are little jewels. Enjoy your RB. I knew a tiny female photographer who used one in Atlanta for many years to photograph weddings. But she had a big, burly husband to tote her backup body, lenses, tripods and lighting. 🙂 It is definitely a beast of a camera. Cheers!
@@jessesenko regarding shutter speed, the old adage holds. At a minimum, 1/focal length (which you'll quickly note means that 90mm needs probably 1/125). A leaf shutter TLR is better for hand holding because there's no mirror slap, which is more pronounced with MF than 35mm. Also, that ISO 400 film is really only about ISO 100 since proper exposure means building shadow density on a negative. Completely opposite of shooting digital or transparency film. Good to see you using an incident meter. FAR better than a reflected meter, which is easily fooled by subject reflectivity.
You’re suggesting to overexpose for shadow detail? And thanks for that shutter rule of thumb it rings a bell from decades ago and makes total sense. And would be amplified with long MF lenses I guess!
@@jessesenko technically not overexposing, just correctly exposing, cuz it's a negative film :-) Think of it as polar opposite to digital or transparency film where we never want to overexpose the highlights. If you are happy with a general 18% incident reading, and your negs look good, then rock on at box speed. Most folks drastically underexpose neg film leaving murky, muddy shadows.
Really fun experience. Like any hobby photographer, I have GAS for whatever camera I don't have. I naturally want a medium format camera now. Film, even though...eeesh, film. ;) In a lot of ways, you sold me on the TLR. ;)
If you want big try a Fuji GX680. I have the 680 III and with a waist level finder and the 135mm lens it weighs in at just under 10 pounds. The 6cm x 8cm negs are pretty darn nice too
Thanks for sharing, that was fun. I have 100 cameras at last count... including RB67, 503CX, LEICA M3, TWO BARNACS, WISTA 4X5 PLUS 94 MORE... THEY ALL FOUND ME LOL
Thanks, is the one stop overexposure your general rule for all films / sizes or just Medium format B&W? Someone else mentioned this and I'm not familiar.
Finally emerged from the Bokeh forest to post another video. Also, my son and I set up a little studio in the garage. Let me know what you think. Nice to film a bit wider and be less self conscious about nose hairs while filming.
Love the new studio!
Your way of presenting these videos is uniquely wonderful. Your delivery is genuine and exudes a comforting warmth. Love this channel.
Thanks so much Tom!
God dammit I LOVE your videos so much. I wish more people appreciated them as much as I do.
I’m an audio visual technician (mostly tv but sometimes indie shorts) so I know. I know.
Big hugs from Chile, keep making these please!
lol. Thanks so much, Vito. Means a lot!
I owned a 500CM for a bunch of years. Sometimes I pull out the negatives and it makes me want to toss all my digital gear into the pond. Selling that camera is one of my biggest regrets in life. It was an absolute work of art.
Totally a perfect camera. I regret not grabbing one when they were a LOT cheaper. Thanks for the comment!
An RB67 ProSD is my every day carry with a 90mm lens and hand grip. It's fantastic for hand carry.
I imagine you have forearms like Popeye! Bravo on making it work for you. You probably get a really interesting perspective just because other people are lazy. Thanks for watching!
That montage at 0:27 . *Michael Bay has entered the chat*
lol. I had my son help move the camera and had to explain it to him as the scene they were parodying in hot fuzz
Darn, Jesse! I found your channel like a week or two ago and I binged all your vids plus rewatched some even if the topic is not entirely relative to my interests (I'm more of a video gal) and I swear I can spend all day listening to you talking. It's such a calm vibe, and your advice give a whole different (and valuable) perspective than all the other photography/videography channels.
Ps: The unexpected twisted jokes that keep going deeper and deeper are the best. Please keep feeding my need for animated pictures through the screen. 💜 Cheers from Spain!
Thanks so much for the comment, makes me really inspired to keep making these! It's hard for me to upload a video without some weird, awkward joke in there somewhere!
RZ67 was my dream camera too. Somewhere along the way I got distracted and ended up with lots of other cameras instead :) Really love your style and humour. Enjoyed spending 14 mins with you today!
Hey thanks so much. Your dream still has a chance to come true! And blows me away anyone can listen to me for more than one minute, so I appreciate it!
@@jessesenko The accent is definitely part of the magic! I've known my whole life that I perform better behind a camera than in front of it, so it has been a struggle to push beyond my own self-awareness and just get out of my head to make TH-cam videos. Maybe a more years of practice and I'll find my feet properly. This particular video is a great example of how to bring all the essential elements together and deliver excellent entertainment in addition to the beautiful cameras.
If it helps, I get a very loud “you shouldn’t post this” voice in the back of my head before I post EVERY video. Just keep pushing yourself and do it for you.
@@jessesenko :)
Dartboard & old tv - noice ✌️The RB was my first medium format. Definitely a solid starting point
Extremely solid! I guess the RZ was my first that I tried so not far off! Thanks for noticing the details.
this camera was my intro to film photography - I was gifted a broken one as a teenager and when I moved to New York I went to a shop and got it fixed. I've taken some of my favorite photos of friends on this thing. But I always forget how to use it since I only take it out about once a year. I love this camera (it looks great on you)
Thanks! What a great starter camera. Right into the deep end! I shoot film so sporadically as well and have to relearn every time. Thanks for the comment and I hope you get the camera out more often. (And/or you get a smaller, more manageable film camera :)
that's the content i was looking for and couldn't explain
Outstanding content. I laughed so hard that you earned my sub. I have two Yashicas TLRs that I love so much. They were my first cameras when I started photography in 1972 when I was 12. I tried the Mamiya 645 a long time ago, and I am looking into getting one. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Luis! Wow, what a great history in those cameras. Lots of years captured. Here's to many more!
i cant stop watching this is soooooo good!
Always felt like the camera was so massive due to the bellows focusing. I have a 500CM and a C220 and will admit that the bellows (albeit on a TLR) are so cool to shoot with. Thinking aloud here, this is probably why the Mamiya TLR systems are bigger than others in class.
fun video and got a good chuckle out of the "presence" of those chickens.
So true about perfect cameras finds us.
Have you tried the Fuji GX680? A nice big camera for a big man.
I hadn’t heard of of it and now I’m obsessed! Although I’m tempted to skip right to large format
Yes!!! Thanks for the video, great stuff!
Thanks for watching!
I‘m quite tall myself and carry this tank around more often than I’d like to admit.
I absolutely love The RB ❤ and I think I understand the Aspect ratio of 6x7 better than 35mm 🤔
I‘ve taken much better pictures on it, than on any 35mm camera with lenses from 24-135 mm focal length.
Great Video and photos!
Greetings from Germany
Nice! I need to shoot more with it. Just getting back into the format. Thanks for sharing!
Cool video and I like the new setup! I have an RZ67 which I absolutely love. The size and weight of it though does keep me from taking it out a lot. Wish I could just shrink it down a little bit to bring it along with me. Oh and I’m definitely one with the bokeh. 😁
Lol. Yes, these are specialty, "intentional" cameras like another commenter said better than i... I need a tripod upgrade now too 😬 Thanks for the comment, Els!
Due to the rotating back the RB/RZ bodies are actually 7x7cm, hence the impressive size.
A good way to think about it!
LETS GO HES BACKKKKKk
im a film student at liberty university, i love your videos, huge inspiration to me
Lol awesome! Thanks so much for watching and commenting... keeps me going!
My 4x5 inch view camera is my slowest and biggest camera.
When I want to shoot with something faster and smaller, I use a Mamiya RB67 SLR, a Fuji 6x7cm rangefinder, or a Fuji 6x9cm rangefinder.
This made me miss my rz76pro II I stupidly sold many years ago. Earlier this year I got a Pentax 645nii but I still think about those 6x7 negatives.
Too funny. I was recently looking at the same camera, with a bunch of lenses on marketplace and it was a great deal...but i didn't do it. I'll have to live vicariously through you.
It looks so good on you, Jesse. A match made in heaven. :-) Cheers! //Rick
Thanks Rick!
Intentional. That's the word I would use to describe medium or large format film photography Jesse. I shot the Hasselblad 500 Series commercially for 10 years before transitioning to digital. In the studio, it was always on a camera stand, and in the field it was either on a tripod or handheld. I would highly recommend a tripod to maximize results. The Hassy 6x6 has a mirror pre-release function that slaps the mirror up, before you tenderly snick the Zeiss leaf shutter (preferably with a cable release). Vivian got away with hand holding her TLR, because there was no mirror slap.
100%... intentional is the right word. My 35mm is the fun walkaround camera with a fast lens. I was never a "professional" with film cameras so it's great to hear your perspective. I took a pic of the camera on my dinky tripod yesterday and definitely need to upgrade from a ballhead-something that is not going to flop the camera over if it loosens. I saw him use an interesting one on the "grainydays" channel that seemed way better. i'll look into it. Regarding "mirror slap" i've gotten away with my TLRs handheld in daylight, but is there a rule of thumb for shutter speed baseline? With my 35mm cams i use 1/60 sec as a last resort and try to keep it at 1/125. Always appreciate your input!
@@jessesenko Yes, the OM-1 is a great film camera with a tremendous viewfinder. I owned the OM-1 MD and OM-4, plus many Zuiko lenses. They are little jewels. Enjoy your RB. I knew a tiny female photographer who used one in Atlanta for many years to photograph weddings. But she had a big, burly husband to tote her backup body, lenses, tripods and lighting. 🙂 It is definitely a beast of a camera. Cheers!
@@jessesenko regarding shutter speed, the old adage holds. At a minimum, 1/focal length (which you'll quickly note means that 90mm needs probably 1/125). A leaf shutter TLR is better for hand holding because there's no mirror slap, which is more pronounced with MF than 35mm. Also, that ISO 400 film is really only about ISO 100 since proper exposure means building shadow density on a negative. Completely opposite of shooting digital or transparency film. Good to see you using an incident meter. FAR better than a reflected meter, which is easily fooled by subject reflectivity.
You’re suggesting to overexpose for shadow detail? And thanks for that shutter rule of thumb it rings a bell from decades ago and makes total sense. And would be amplified with long MF lenses I guess!
@@jessesenko technically not overexposing, just correctly exposing, cuz it's a negative film :-) Think of it as polar opposite to digital or transparency film where we never want to overexpose the highlights. If you are happy with a general 18% incident reading, and your negs look good, then rock on at box speed. Most folks drastically underexpose neg film leaving murky, muddy shadows.
Really fun experience. Like any hobby photographer, I have GAS for whatever camera I don't have. I naturally want a medium format camera now. Film, even though...eeesh, film. ;)
In a lot of ways, you sold me on the TLR. ;)
I love my TLR. And it’s not crazy expensive. Prob around $200cdn. Has a lot of character!
Great video, and the new studio is 🔥
Thanks Will!
Dear algorithm.. Why the hell haven't you sent me this content before. Great stuff, Jesse. I'll be binge watching your channel for the next few days!
lol. Thanks!
Yep! Well done!
Fun and funny. Thanks again for another great video!
Thanks for watching, Brian!
You're killing me at 7am here with that bokeh bit.😂
Wonderful! As usual.
Thanks, Jose!
I absolutely love your videos.
Thanks! It means a lot... i spend wayyyy too much time on them, lol
If you want big try a Fuji GX680. I have the 680 III and with a waist level finder and the 135mm lens it weighs in at just under 10 pounds. The 6cm x 8cm negs are pretty darn nice too
Oh don’t tempt me! I’ve heard about this cam and I’ll look for it next time I’m in an old camera store
What a great video 👌
Great video!
Great blog, thank you!!
Can't wait to get into the 6x7 medium format world. Shooting only 35mm rn
Do you know there is a video about f 0 lens
it looks so good on you!
(are you happy?)
Finally! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing, that was fun. I have 100 cameras at last count... including RB67, 503CX, LEICA M3, TWO BARNACS, WISTA 4X5 PLUS 94 MORE... THEY ALL FOUND ME LOL
Thanks Tom! I think 4x5 might be the next thing I try out, but waiting for it to find me!
Nice RB. Large format when?
lol. I’m making myself shoot some sort of series with this camera before I let myself get distracted by the next film size
I think that camera looks great on you. Now, imagine if you also get a Hasselblad hehehehe
Have a good one cheers!
lol. Was looking them up on Marketplace last night
@@jessesenko You and me both! :D
Nice cameras. Your photos were underexposed. I always open up one stop in shadows. And use flash indoors.
Thanks, is the one stop overexposure your general rule for all films / sizes or just Medium format B&W? Someone else mentioned this and I'm not familiar.
@@jessesenko You are welcome. All films.
It looks good on you. 📷🧑💼completely justified
Phew. Thanks Thor!
I'd like a bokeh family 😊
lol. Start with a good pair of bokeh balls! As always, thanks for watching, Marty!
This is a very cool video, but for some reason, I'm looking at this old TV bleeping behind you. Is it me, or is it a little bit too much distraction?
Maybe a distraction! Trying a new setup with this one. Thanks for watching regardless!
@@jessesenko sure thing! your videos are great! maybe its just me :) take care!
better play subway surfers on that screen