I shoot film w a Fuji GX680, which is about a manual as you can get. No aperture or shutter priority, or anything. Straight manual. It is a medium format that shoots 6x8cm. I also carry a small digital when travel as the Fuji is a brick to carry. This camera also has rise and fall, as well as tilt and shift capabilities to get creative with your image. With this particular camera, you have about 8 shots which makes you slow down and consider your shot more. I am actually considering a Fuji Xpro3 as a digital carry. I hope you keep shooting film in the future!!
The reason why I came back to film was to use a fully manual camera, the reasons why I love shooting film are it is more technical than digital and I much prefer the feeling of an old metal SLR camera in my hands, especially the mirror slap compare to the modern DSLR .. and the feeling that you never get on a digital, advancing the film 😍😍😍😍. I also noticed that since coming back to film 2 years ago, it rejuvenated my love for photography and I shoot more, not in the number of shots taken but the number of time I pick my camera and use it. The reason I will stop using film, the cost
Hi Arianna, back in the film days we also had fully electronic point and shoot cameras, as well as fully featured profesional DSLRs. The process of taking a photo with those devices was very similar to a digital photo taking process with the one exception of not being able to “chimp” at the back of the screen.
Yes you're right! I mentioned fully auto point and shoots but completely forgot about the more recent SLRs that look like the DSLRs we're so used to now.
I am glad you will continue with both film and digital photography, because you WILL hit a funk form time to time especially with digital if you find yourself getting lazy with how easy it is. To piggy-back on what you said about the process of film shooting with choosing your composition and your proper exposure triangle setting, I'll take it a step further; and that is film and print processing. When I was a freelance (b&w film) photojournalist, before newspapers went to color inks, I processed my own film and had a print darkroom. No darkroom these days sadly but I do still process my own files as I prefer, and That is where the creative magic happens. In the film only days, one would essentially compose and expose with a final print in mind and camera capture is only Half the work at best. Choosing the film stock is a big part of that look you want in the image combined with which chemical solutions & ratios and developing techniques needed... basically that negative is your Analog Raw file that has all the information you need to stylize and make your print, just as a digital Raw file is to Lr/Ps. For me the print darkroom is where the fun happens by choosing the type of paper [tone and contrast rating], developer solution strength, to mapping out how much enlarger exposure of the negative to use on every part of the image via dodge and burning with countless test strips and test prints until you reach that final print. That particular negative process and final print process is what I have pictured in my mind before I choose what film to load in the camera. Nothing is more accomplished than seeing that final print appear in the developer tray and then completely seen as it comes out of the Stop-Bath just as I pictured it in my mind. I think for any new photographer who is serious about learning the art of photo creation is [like you said] to learn the basics. Depending on each individual's situation I sometimes suggest using both a cheap digital camera that has manual mode [to understand how the exposure triangle works without waisting precious film to start] AND then Later a film body [to develop proper and efficient habits with that knowledge learned and Lots of practice]. However, If it's feasible, going straight to 35mm is ideal... the point being, spend more time on film to really learn the process and thought process to image making, which in turn will clearly explain how digital has borrowed Everything from film photography and how it modernized it. I still shoot my digitals as I shoot my film cameras, with intent and efficiency as if I was shooting a roll of 35mm or 120 film... meaning every shot counts. Fantastic video Arianna... sorry for another long winded post :/ oops
Arianna, Thanks again for another great video! I was recently gifted a 1970s Nikkormat ft2 with a 50mm 1.4 and I have since been addicted! It has a working meter and prism focus and the process is so much fun. You’re so right about the difference in the need to edit film images. I have considered getting a small 1GB memory card for my fuji xt3, deactivate the back lcd and shoot in jpg film simulations. Comes close, but still not the same as film! #filmisnotdead
Woah very cool idea about the xt3! Doing that with my x-pro2 may give me a rangefinder film camera experience...i wonder how that'd go 😂. That nikkormat is an awesome gift though!
@@Arianna-zx1ro Yes! On the xpro2 that would be really cool! May be worth trying! Thanks, yes the Nikkormat is gorgeous and spawned the purchase of my vintage Olympus Pen half frame and Canonet QL17. I also did a film photo contest last month and shot some rolls of film around my apartment in Brooklyn in the snow... I tried Cinestill 800T at night. No idea how that turned out yet, but it was so fun!
I actually send my undeveloped film to a film lab that will develop and scan my photos for me! Then I get the negatives back in the mail and digital scans via email. I haven't tried scanning my own yet.
Like always an inspirational video. Thank you for that! Did you try to develop your films yourself? I find it alway very relaxing. And most of the times I'm more attached to these films because of the extra mile of doing it myself.
Thank you for the kind words! I have not tried to develop myself yet since I haven't been shooting a ton of film recently. I hope one day I can try but it's so hard to find the time to sit down and learn (as well as figure out a bathroom set up haha).
@@Arianna-zx1ro totally get that, I was lucky learning it in university. I'm misuse my kitchen for it propably not the best option but easier to set up 😅
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I shoot film w a Fuji GX680, which is about a manual as you can get. No aperture or shutter priority, or anything. Straight manual. It is a medium format that shoots 6x8cm. I also carry a small digital when travel as the Fuji is a brick to carry. This camera also has rise and fall, as well as tilt and shift capabilities to get creative with your image. With this particular camera, you have about 8 shots which makes you slow down and consider your shot more. I am actually considering a Fuji Xpro3 as a digital carry. I hope you keep shooting film in the future!!
The reason why I came back to film was to use a fully manual camera, the reasons why I love shooting film are it is more technical than digital and I much prefer the feeling of an old metal SLR camera in my hands, especially the mirror slap compare to the modern DSLR .. and the feeling that you never get on a digital, advancing the film 😍😍😍😍. I also noticed that since coming back to film 2 years ago, it rejuvenated my love for photography and I shoot more, not in the number of shots taken but the number of time I pick my camera and use it. The reason I will stop using film, the cost
The cost really gets you 😭. I love your comment though! So many good points about why film is so great
Hi Arianna, back in the film days we also had fully electronic point and shoot cameras, as well as fully featured profesional DSLRs. The process of taking a photo with those devices was very similar to a digital photo taking process with the one exception of not being able to “chimp” at the back of the screen.
Yes you're right! I mentioned fully auto point and shoots but completely forgot about the more recent SLRs that look like the DSLRs we're so used to now.
Film photography is so rewarding! The look of film is hard to replicate, I feel more “present” when shooting film. Great video!!!
Glad you agree and I love seeing your photos! Thanks for the comment!
its always good to go back in time ! we should enjoy photography more and this is one of the best ways ; )
Totally agree!
I am glad you will continue with both film and digital photography, because you WILL hit a funk form time to time especially with digital if you find yourself getting lazy with how easy it is.
To piggy-back on what you said about the process of film shooting with choosing your composition and your proper exposure triangle setting, I'll take it a step further; and that is film and print processing.
When I was a freelance (b&w film) photojournalist, before newspapers went to color inks, I processed my own film and had a print darkroom. No darkroom these days sadly but I do still process my own files as I prefer, and That is where the creative magic happens.
In the film only days, one would essentially compose and expose with a final print in mind and camera capture is only Half the work at best. Choosing the film stock is a big part of that look you want in the image combined with which chemical solutions & ratios and developing techniques needed... basically that negative is your Analog Raw file that has all the information you need to stylize and make your print, just as a digital Raw file is to Lr/Ps.
For me the print darkroom is where the fun happens by choosing the type of paper [tone and contrast rating], developer solution strength, to mapping out how much enlarger exposure of the negative to use on every part of the image via dodge and burning with countless test strips and test prints until you reach that final print.
That particular negative process and final print process is what I have pictured in my mind before I choose what film to load in the camera.
Nothing is more accomplished than seeing that final print appear in the developer tray and then completely seen as it comes out of the Stop-Bath just as I pictured it in my mind.
I think for any new photographer who is serious about learning the art of photo creation is [like you said] to learn the basics.
Depending on each individual's situation I sometimes suggest using both a cheap digital camera that has manual mode [to understand how the exposure triangle works without waisting precious film to start] AND then Later a film body [to develop proper and efficient habits with that knowledge learned and Lots of practice].
However, If it's feasible, going straight to 35mm is ideal... the point being, spend more time on film to really learn the process and thought process to image making, which in turn will clearly explain how digital has borrowed Everything from film photography and how it modernized it.
I still shoot my digitals as I shoot my film cameras, with intent and efficiency as if I was shooting a roll of 35mm or 120 film... meaning every shot counts.
Fantastic video Arianna... sorry for another long winded post :/ oops
All good info!! Thank you!!
Dude I couldn't write it better than this... 👍
@@tomislavmiletic_ thanks!
I shoot 35mm, medium format and 4x5 inch large format film because I enjoy developing my own black & white film.
So cool!
Arianna, Thanks again for another great video! I was recently gifted a 1970s Nikkormat ft2 with a 50mm 1.4 and I have since been addicted! It has a working meter and prism focus and the process is so much fun. You’re so right about the difference in the need to edit film images. I have considered getting a small 1GB memory card for my fuji xt3, deactivate the back lcd and shoot in jpg film simulations. Comes close, but still not the same as film! #filmisnotdead
Woah very cool idea about the xt3! Doing that with my x-pro2 may give me a rangefinder film camera experience...i wonder how that'd go 😂. That nikkormat is an awesome gift though!
@@Arianna-zx1ro Yes! On the xpro2 that would be really cool! May be worth trying! Thanks, yes the Nikkormat is gorgeous and spawned the purchase of my vintage Olympus Pen half frame and Canonet QL17. I also did a film photo contest last month and shot some rolls of film around my apartment in Brooklyn in the snow... I tried Cinestill 800T at night. No idea how that turned out yet, but it was so fun!
Will you explain in a video how you digitize negatives please?
I actually send my undeveloped film to a film lab that will develop and scan my photos for me! Then I get the negatives back in the mail and digital scans via email. I haven't tried scanning my own yet.
@@Arianna-zx1ro ah ok, well I'll do it like that too. Thanks a lot.
Like always an inspirational video. Thank you for that! Did you try to develop your films yourself? I find it alway very relaxing. And most of the times I'm more attached to these films because of the extra mile of doing it myself.
Thank you for the kind words! I have not tried to develop myself yet since I haven't been shooting a ton of film recently. I hope one day I can try but it's so hard to find the time to sit down and learn (as well as figure out a bathroom set up haha).
@@Arianna-zx1ro totally get that, I was lucky learning it in university. I'm misuse my kitchen for it propably not the best option but easier to set up 😅
Your Videos Twitch a lot?
Sorry! I did this to cut out a lot of pauses and filler words, but my newer videos are better since I got similar feedback.