Brian, I’m older than you and got my first Brownie around 1960. It had a really crude light meter and an adjustable aperture of maybe three stops. Lots of underexposed photos because bright sky in the background really messed with the meter. A real challenge at a young age. I figured out how to adapt though. I’m thinking that people who have never used film might try to change the ASA dial to from 100 to 400 because there isn’t enough light! Oops, they’ll learn. A friends’ ‘frig. magnet says “life begins outside your comfort zone”. I don’t intend to go back to film again (40 years was enough) but my comfort zone might be stretched by spending a week with a single prime and nothing else. Oh, but which one?
I am about to go outside my comfort zone and start developing photos at home. A big driver is that sending unprocessed film to a service takes time and also requires providing copyright permissions to the company to use your images for profit and possibly sell to another company for stock photos.
That’s unbelievable that they would demand copyright to develop your film. No ay would I agree to that. On the other note, developing your own film is great fun but can be very expensive. Are you doing print from the film too on photographic paper? I’d be tempted to develop the film then scan it into your computer and faint on computer printer from ther. Whatever you decide, good luck and enjoy it.
Going out in public with my camera is out of my comfort zone, so it doesn't happen very often. I've just bought some film for an old mechanical camera, that will definitely be our of my comfort zone. Love the content Brian, keep 'em coming!
Sunny 16 FTW! I practice it for a while now, it forces me to calculate the reciprocity of exposure triangle in my head, the more I do it, the more confidence I get and less depend on in-camera light meter. Only times that I still struggle with Sunny 16, is in Rainy season and Evening time which have inconsistent light, it can get dark quickly so I use the wrong aperture often. So far so good. 👍
Am shooting in manual these days with a prime lens (24mm, 50mm & 85mm f1.8G on a D780) just for the fun of it but in RAW. Slows me down so I have to think! Happy days with the Sunny16!
I own some Olympus 4/3rds vintage lenses. They are manual focus lenses. Using manual focus on a mirrorless camera,without magnification and without focus peaking, can be a challenge. 😊
Brian, I’m older than you and got my first Brownie around 1960. It had a really crude light meter and an adjustable aperture of maybe three stops. Lots of underexposed photos because bright sky in the background really messed with the meter. A real challenge at a young age. I figured out how to adapt though. I’m thinking that people who have never used film might try to change the ASA dial to from 100 to 400 because there isn’t enough light! Oops, they’ll learn. A friends’ ‘frig. magnet says “life begins outside your comfort zone”. I don’t intend to go back to film again (40 years was enough) but my comfort zone might be stretched by spending a week with a single prime and nothing else. Oh, but which one?
I am about to go outside my comfort zone and start developing photos at home. A big driver is that sending unprocessed film to a service takes time and also requires providing copyright permissions to the company to use your images for profit and possibly sell to another company for stock photos.
That’s unbelievable that they would demand copyright to develop your film. No ay would I agree to that.
On the other note, developing your own film is great fun but can be very expensive. Are you doing print from the film too on photographic paper? I’d be tempted to develop the film then scan it into your computer and faint on computer printer from ther.
Whatever you decide, good luck and enjoy it.
@ i plan to both print / enlarge to photographic paper and create digital scan
@@KG-theknickerbockerkid is this a thing in the UK? I know they do with digital prints, but I didn't know the same applied with film
Going out in public with my camera is out of my comfort zone, so it doesn't happen very often. I've just bought some film for an old mechanical camera, that will definitely be our of my comfort zone.
Love the content Brian, keep 'em coming!
Go for it!
Sunny 16 FTW! I practice it for a while now, it forces me to calculate the reciprocity of exposure triangle in my head, the more I do it, the more confidence I get and less depend on in-camera light meter. Only times that I still struggle with Sunny 16, is in Rainy season and Evening time which have inconsistent light, it can get dark quickly so I use the wrong aperture often. So far so good. 👍
Am shooting in manual these days with a prime lens (24mm, 50mm & 85mm f1.8G on a D780) just for the fun of it but in RAW. Slows me down so I have to think! Happy days with the Sunny16!
I own some Olympus 4/3rds vintage lenses. They are manual focus lenses. Using manual focus on a mirrorless camera,without magnification and without focus peaking, can be a challenge. 😊