Inspired - a 145 year old lens and passionate people
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- ► Inspired project: inspired.mhaustria.com
► Analog Store: shirts.mhaustria.com
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► Find links (affiliate) to all tools I use here: list.mhaustria.com
► Patreon : / mhaustria
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► Michael White: white.at
► Manuel Soultan: www.msctattoos.at
► Wetplatedreams: www.wetplatedreams.com
► Andreas Lenscaps: lenscaps.mhaustria.com
► Find links (affiliate) to all tools I use here: list.mhaustria.com
► Historiccamera: historiccamera.com
► Brent Museum and Archives: www.brent.gov.uk/services-for...
Chapters:
0:00 Intro of "inspired"
0:38 Flea markets and used lenses
1:16 Getting my dream lens
3:00 The history of Dallmeyer lenses
5:00 Fitting the lens on my camera - diy
8:15 Getting a handmade lens
10:15 Why to use historic lenses?
11:00 BHTS inspiring artists wet plate portraits
15:20 "Inspiring" Book and Exhibition
You can find upcoming wet plate workshops in Vienna and near Germany here:
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For individual wet plate workshops (starting with one person) please contact me here:
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If you want to buy the plates or ta limited fine art print:
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Find more of my Work on my website:
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It's so inspiring. Recently I started looking at old brass lens, it appeals me a lot.
thank you so much. These old lenses have their own soul.
I love the fact that people like you are keeping the history of photography alive. Showing how they did things back in the day is hypnotizing, at least to me. The furthest I go back with my photography is 35mm. One day I will adventure further into the past. Thank you.
Wow, thanks so much for your kind words.I shoot 35mm as well, it’s a great format. I enjoy it a lot. As soon as you try large format for the first time, you will be hooked
@@mhaustria I've been wanting to get a Graflex 4x5 speedgrafic for a couple of years, I feel like I'm going to start looking for one very soon. I do feel like once I'm down that rabbit hole I'll become a fanatic.
@@voodoowraith you will love it so much :) it’s addicting and satisfying
Beautiful. I just started this process and I'm looking so forward to experiencing all the history and magic.
Wonderful, enjoy!
There is really something magical about the whole process - and the images you get.
I enjoy this “magic” a lot. I just finished another inspired shooting today. And every time the fixer reveals the portrait my sitters get super excited. And even after these years I am excited too.I produce all the chemicals by myself. The varnish for example takes two or more days to finish. I think that’s where my own excitement starts. Because I know it’s not only this one hour I put into one portrait, it’s so much more. And it all comes from my heart. And it is the same with the people from whom I get my equipment, the metal sheets or my lens caps for example. This passion filled energy makes all the difference.
@@mhaustria Its incredible the amount of work you guys put into this. Its obvious this is a "labour of love". I found the section on the lens cap fascinating, and what a fantastic end result! Even the photographic equipment you use are like works of art.
Thank you for sharing the story of the lens and the creators. It is always great to see a new video of yours pop up. Thank you!
You are very welcome! Thank you for your kind words!
Markus you are certainly inspiring others! That lens is really something else!
Thanks a lot! I am happy I could inspire you. I just do what I love and when I can combine that with meeting inspiring people, it gets even better.
Amazing work! Also your shirt makes me chuckle, I love it!
Thanks you so much! I linked my analog store with that shirt and many others in the description if you are interested to go mirrorless too ;)
Wow that's beautiful I love the depth in the images
Thank you so much - that’s one of the reasons I like to work with the lens and this process
Your videos are educational, entertaining and inspiring. I love them.
Thank you so much! Often we take things for granted, but when we learn what is behind them it makes them much more special. That’s why I like to show more background Informationen and investigate details about them. Such videos take several weeks/months to finish, but comments like yours show me that my effort were worth it.
Excellent story telling. I love it, well done, my friend!
Thanks a lot Borut! You know, you are also on my list for this project. So whenever you are close to Vienna let me know.
Beautiful work Markus!
All the best.
Thank zoo so much!
so cool. thanks for sharing
Thanks a lot and very welcome!
Thank you for showing just how your lens caps were made. It helps me no end to make one for my Voigtlander and Sons Pitzval lens (c 1863 - 245mm f 3.6 ) Your videos I find most interesting as I am also interested in the use of elderly lenses not just looking at them on a shelf.
I am glad it was helpful. It's always nice to use these wonderful old lenses instead of looking at them.
Amazing... Thank you
Thank you so much and you are very welcome!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!
thanks for the video
Very welcome! And thank you so much!
Beautiful images and I love the soul and passion the old techniques and modern craftsmen bring to life.
Thanks a lot - I just love creating, photography and the wet collodion process
Nice! Also good selection of music for this video 👍
Thank you so much!
This is amazing work! Vielen lieben Dank fürs Video!!
Vielen lieben Dank!
Congrats on the lens!
Enjoy your new friend! :)
Thank you! I will and I just did ;)
That magical moment when the picture appears ❤️❤️❤️
After so many years this is still one of my favorite parts of the process :)
What's really amazing to think about is that the elements in YOUR lens could potentially be those being ground and polished in the photos :)
that's so true, because these images were dated between 1885 and 1905. I was so excited to get my hands on these photographs from back then and was allowed to use them. It's still hard to imagine how they made this high quality parts back then. I still get goosebumps when I get it out of the case.
Gänsehaut am Ende! Mein erstes Video von dir, ich abonniere gerne. Grüße aus Oberbayern
Vielen Dank! Dann hast ja noch einige zum Ansehen :) Das Nächste kommt auch bald.
Wow... stunning
Thanks a lot!!
Unglaubliches Video mit unglaublicher Technik---> Wunderschön in Szene gesetzt mit unfassbar schönen Bildern---> Die Schärfe und der Verlauf--> Mein erstes Video von Dir und ich bin super beindruckt--> Kanal abonniert... Vielen Dank und ganz liebe Grüße... Mark
Wow. Vielen lieben Dank! Du wirst dich dann sicher über die kommenden Porträts auf Platte freuen. Hatte heute eine sehr coole Session
@@mhaustria auf alle Fälle👍🤘📷
great work ! I am shooting a 1880 (more or less) Euryscop with strobe and 8x10 film. Old brass lenses are in a different category than modern lenses, it depends on each photographer I guess. Andreas also made a wonderful lenscap for my Euryscop
Thank you!
I see you are in connection with the right people :) Would love to see some of your images.
This is truly inspirational. And the finished photo is a thing of beauty.
I hope you don't mind me asking but how are you getting the studio light intensity correct for WPC plates?
Lovely work. Amazing.
Thank you so much!
To be honest it’s a gut feeling. After the first plate with the same chemicals, I know how the sensitivity changes over time when the color of the collodion changes. That’s why I like the process, it’s an analog one and has to do with feeling instead of measurements
Beatiful work. Love this vintage lens. Photography is the like a religion you must follow it :)
Thanks a lot - soon this series will go on :)
@@mhaustria from now i will follow you. I only have few brass lenses, a dallmeyer 3a and a hugo meyer atelier-schnellarbeiter 400mm f3
@@lucianooo4you thank you! these are beautiful lenses! I am working on a restoration video with a cool new lens that ist not so old but pretty cool.
Inspirational, it makes me miss the darkroom experience.... True photography and the process and feeling of developing pictures and the inability to continuously check the back of the camera. Get it right and get it right in camera 📷
Thank you for your kind words. One frame per hour is my usual speed. And I like to put all the effort in one plate.
Beautiful work man. I have a 4x5 but need a lens like that.
Thanks a lot! I saw a guy selling a Tele Xenar 360mm for a good price here. Send me an email if you are interested.
@@mhaustria what would something like that cost ?
@@terrywbreedloveRight now there is one available for 280 Euros
Very nice! The 3B is an amazing lens. Have you ever shot with a Ross Cabinet #3? Another awesome lens. If you have I wonder how you would compare the 2 of them. I used to own a 3B and have shot with the Ross. I mainly use CC Harrison now.
Thanks a lot. I did not, but I saw some lovely plates shot with it.
Great video! Thanks for sharing this.
Who is the person that hand made the cap for you? How could I reach out to him for a couple of caps? Thanks!
Thank you so much! You find the link in the description. I just shortened it to make it easier: lenscaps.mhaustria.com.
You will be very happy with them.
These portraits are gorgeous, Markus. Bravo. I need to read up on this process... the step that reverses the image from negative to positive is sorcery!
I'd be intrigued to know your thoughts on lighting - I see you are using modern strobes for this project (which makes perfect sense from a practical point of view). Would you consider a project using only natural light, or constant lights, more similar to what might have been done with this lens earlier in its life? I presume vintage exploding flashes are too dangerous or unavailable now?
Thank you so much Richard!
Thats a very good question you asked! This process is sensible to the blue light spectrum. That means you are depended on the UV light that is available that day and that can change. So for example it is overcast outside, you set up your sitter on a special place because you want to achieve a certain look. Then you pour the plate and put it in the silver bath. 3 minutes later you go outside and then it happens that that at this exact moment when you do your exposure the clouds are moving and your subject sits in pure sunlight. Also because you don't know how much UV light is available on that day, you have to do a series of plates to know the exposure. Because normal light meters dont see blue light. I have done it (you will find some videos on my channel) and I like it, but to work a bit quicker I prefer strobes. I also like to be able to control the light as much as possible.
If you watch my latest video from the inspired series: th-cam.com/video/ti91h0jvqZI/w-d-xo.html you see how I varnish the plates with a hot plate. Normally they used a flame for that, but because of the ether in my darkroom I don't use anything with fire. Thats also the reason I work with modern strobes. Another reason is that I can use any Light modifier ;)
The image appears during the fixing process, thats when the salt Sodium thiodulfate washes away the silver that was not exposed. The wet plate is still a negative afterwards, but because the parts are made of silver and the background is black it looks like a positive.
@@mhaustria Thanks, Markus, for those explanations. Cheers from (near) Toronto, Canada. :)
@@richardwintle1020 very welcome :)
Would be a dream to start photographing with wet plate. Is it really expensive?
It is such a beautiful process. Depending with what you want to start you can get away with 1000 to 1500 euros, including chemicals, a camera and a workshop.
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denis have a youtube chanel?
Not now - but I want to do an interview sometimes and also make a video about him when traveling is a thing again.
@@mhaustria cool
Will you sell the lens ¿
Maybe at some point, but not yet
@@mhaustria I will pay cash at that moment please let me know, and thank you for the answer, have a great day
@@asahelabisaimartinez9663 thank you for your offer, but I am not selling it right now
@@mhaustria no sorry, I mean when you decide to sell it, at that moment I will buy it. Great work and please make more videos :)
@@asahelabisaimartinez9663 thank you so much!