1970's Camera Tech: How they showed you what settings to use
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- Ever wonder how pro cameras from the 1970's worked? Learn about their single most important tool for the photographer (and lots else!) in this exposé.
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The background looks fake because it is so ridiculously well lit.
I like how the gray box behind his head looks like a square halo. (Like in medieval paintings of saints, where the halo was shown behind/around the head.)
Not to mention well designed
@@KevDoy It should. That's a few hundred bucks worth of IKEA, namely KALLAX shelving units and bunch of door and drawer modules.
@@christopherdavis478 the borders of the overall units look too thick to me to be KALLAX. I think it’s EXPEDIT, whichever is the previous version. All the internal dimensions are the same so all the accessories fit, but the thickness of the outer walls is a bit thicker on the EXPEDIT. I know because I got an EXPEDIT mere months before they discontinued it and replaced it with KALLAX, which annoys me no end as it means additional units don’t quite match. Sigh.
@@timotab Hah, a fellow aficionado. I've got a mix of the two as well, though fortunately nowhere side by side. You're probably right, I just said KALLAX as it's the current line. I love the damn things as they're so versatile: I've made behind-sofa tables, night stands, mini-bars and that most revered usage, record storage.
"and yet some of you think Captain Disillusion and I are the same person."
That's exactly what a skeptical superhero with a secret identity would say.
imagine what Alan would say if he knew the Captain and Technology Connections were the same person! :o
It's a distraction ploy. We're supposed to be stringing red yarn on our cork boards to connect TC to CD, when it's obvious that he's actually Default Cube!!!
Dang! I didn't expect to find traces of the Blender world here! 🎉
Tbh hes probably the guys brother since tc seems to be fatter than cd
He's alan the intern
Not only you look like Captain Disillusion but you two are probably the only two youtubers left that make simply 10/10 content and dont show sponsor messages, you two also never repeatedly asking from viewers to ''like subscribe check patreon etc.'' and both are completely underrated and treated unfairly by the YT algorythm.
They don’t look the same captain
Just looks odd with the face paint
I have to type I like this comment😅😊
Although I agree both are amazing content creators, I don't have any issue with other youtubers I follow doing things to make some money for making content.. 99% of the time, if the content creator is able to rely solely on youtube for income, the production quality improves, and it allows them to post more than they would otherwise.
@@SUBtrauma I don't have anything against them as well. more income helps them create better content of course. I'm just observing the similarities of those two 😋
If you want an honest TH-camr who never does sponsor reads, you can always go to Matt's off road recovery. Because they are all it is is I dude who owns a towing company just to try to get people out of sticky situations using the TH-cam ad revenue to lower his prices (in many cases he doesn't charge a thing)
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Pre-digital mechanical designs like this feel like sorcery until you get a look at the right part of them. So cool!
And the fact that more advanced leaf shutters predate this camera by 50 years
Petition to name the episode on film, "35mm Film: Exposed!"
Overdeveloped? Underdeveloped?
@Atari Master Aperture Science. We do what we must, because, we can.
Don't be so negative.. you must have an underdeveloped sense of humour.
@@richardoakley8800 that idea slides in my mind
Okay, now you are really pushing it.
Wow! When you reached for your camara, and pulled it off the "set", there was no way I could tell it wasn't real! You must be some kind of wizard with AfterEffects!
It's funny because the first videos were indeed greenscreen.
@@K-o-R but not the ones with this set :)
That effect was seamless!
It seems suspicious he spent so much time claiming it was "real" and a "set"
He is Captain Disillusion, so of course!
XD At this point these jokes almost feel cruel.
When you said that "SLR" stands for "Single Lens Reflex", I thought to myself: "ah okay, so DSLR must be Dual Single Lens Refl- wait.."
actually there's a dual lens camera called "twin lens reflex" ("TLR").
@@khairulhelmihashim2510 I am also fairly certain that SLRs are analog only and when someone figured out you can use a couple lcd displays instead of a complex prism and mirror set up to take the same picture is where Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras come in.
@@michealpersicko9531 , mirrorless camera.
@@michealpersicko9531 SLR's are indeed analog only, by definition. That's because the D in DSLR stands for digital. Digital Single Lens Reflex. Also, both terms refer to the mirror mechanism itself. As khairul pointed out, when they got rid of the pentaprism/mirror assembly, they called it "mirrorless" or MILC (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera).
@@jasondashney Mirror I'd Like to Clean
As someone who didn't switch to digital photography until 2009, it still seems kind weird to hear film photography discussed as (nearly) ancient history.
A lot of people still use film as well!
I still use film in my large format camera. For everything above medium format, digital STILL cannot compete with film. It's quite expensive, but I can get perfectly sharp 400 MP scans out of my large format film. There is no digital camera on earth that can deliver this quality (though the difference has become noticably smaller in recent years).
I'm in the same boat. In fact I made it a point in 2000 to switch to Pentax because like Nikon you could use the older lenses on the DSLRs. I kept the analog body for a fair amount of time before giving it to my kid's school as, well, no chance I'd ever buy film again.
Yes, agree, and I think this is more nostalgia than anything else. I do own a film Canon AE-1, and as good as that camera is, it is no comparison to my Canon 6D. The quality of the picture, the dynamic range, sharpness, and quick focus time. I have the same opinion about turntables. They are nice and nostalgic. I enjoyed the process of taking the album out and placing it in the turntable, but the quality of the music is no match for a good high-quality digital player.
Wait til you hear about all the Tiktok kids who are all shooting on film now because they were simply too young to have ever experienced it the first time around...
That little “crash course in basic photography” was the most comprehensive explanation i’ve seen on youtube, and it wasn’t even supposed to be the focus of the video!
What a pleasant surprise it was!
Thank you.
Yes that was excellent. I really learnt a lot.
This video series is best I've watched:
th-cam.com/video/3eVjUrY9a9c/w-d-xo.html
Exactly! He'll have another video about focus later. Many light-meters from now.
Yes it was very well focused and not at all shallow.
the line about you and captain disillusion being the same person made me laugh a little to loud at my desk.
i only now spottet the simularities xD
for some reason i actually thought about CD as soon as he mentioned his background and aftereffects... then he actually mentioned him... i felt very cool... for once...
Has anyone seen them both in the same room? No?
Hypothesis proven.
Poor desk, laughed at for no reason 😉
Your DEFINETLY REAL desk.
There's something satisfying about the sounds produced from analogue cameras like the Canon F-1.
And that's why I like the mechanical shutter inside my GH5. It just gives the nice feedback that you actually made something happen instead of the almost indistinctive clicks from a small relay in older digital cameras and the completely silent operation on the GH5 when set to electronic shutter.
Analog is what the video signal was before it went digital. Non-digital cameras are FILM cameras. That is why there are SLR and DSLR cameras. :-)
@@Rocketryman people call film cameras analogue cameras because it differentiates them from motion picture film cameras, digital still cameras and digital motion picture cameras.
Proper terminology be damned in this case, it just makes things easier.
@@sumvs5992 Clearly, you know nothing about film cameras, or digital still cameras or digital video cameras. The only thing it makes easy is you do not learn and it shows a weak understanding of the craft. If I called an x-ray, MRI, or CAT scan an xray. If I told you I was going in that big tube to get an x-ray. You would not only correct me but you would go into what the difference is. People call film cameras analog cameras because they do not know what either is.
@@Rocketryman ok, no need to get hostile.
Let's say we're at the beach and I say "I'm going in the water" are you going to correct me and start spouting off about it being salt water and part of the "Bay of X"? Surely you would understand that I meant I'm going into the sea? That's the same thing as saying "anolog camera". It's for clarity, it's so you don't need some long winded explanation that inevitably confuses the person you are talking to.
In fact, I was talking to my mom about my analog cameras about a month ago and because I used the term "film camera" she thought I meant a motion picture film camera, not a still camera. People do get confused about these things, and industry terms confuse people if they aren't in that industry.
Like it or not mate, your world where we refer to all film shooting cameras as film cameras isn't coming anytime soon, probably never.
Also I have shot on about 6 analog cameras now, and about 4 digital cameras. I can tell the difference between them.
The Canon F1 was my main camera when I worked as a press photographer in the UK some 50 years ago. Excellent workhorse, never let me down. Happy memories!
I worked with Canon F1/F1n from 1971 to 2003 when I moved to digital photography. Never the slightest functional issue with any of them over the whole time.
Great video. Really pulled out all the stops for this one.
That one hurt
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, this video wasn't over in a flash
Wow... the Tech Connected :)
Holy flaming hot roast beef, Gav watches my favourite channel. And I know this is Gav and not Dan as theres no cross eyes females here
That "floating mirror" isn't "neat". That's absolutely ingenious!
My mom still has one of those and as a kid in the 80's, I loved playing with that thing. The feel of the buttons, knobs and levers and how each one was unique in its size, shape, and tactile feedback was just delicious. I memorized where each function was with my eyes closed for some reason. Watching this video, I can still feel what each button and knob felt like back then.
Can you tell me how did they print the shots taken from this camera,if you know?
@@incognitou I personally don't know. I understand the basic concept, but you're on the internet... all you have to do is search and you'll find the answer.
@@incognitou This camera takes 35mm film so the images are printed the same way as with any other film negative. Nowadays the negatives are developed and then scanned as a digital image but back in the day they would create prints in a darkroom by shining light through the negative onto a photosensitive piece of paper underneath which would create the positive image.
@@tristanwh9466 usually, I am a weird person who still makes darkroom prints instead of printing from scans. Doing either one at home would cost some money and a darkroom seemed more fun.
This is more informative than 4 years of school based photography lessons were. Wish I'd had this when I was first trying to learn.
Waste of money eh
I love how it takes 11 minutes into a 28 minute video to actually even mention the subject of the vide. Wouldn't have it any other way!
Yeah that quick side note went another way lol
Try @1:42
I agree
Aperture: How big the hole is.
Shutter Speed: How long the hole is open.
ISO: How sensitive (the film or sensor inside) the hole is.
OK, noted.
These days sex words are strange...
I've never managed to get any Aperture for any length of Shutter Speed. One day soon, guys🤞 some girl gonna be desperate as me.
W-Why am I sweating???
@securitycountercheck antici....
guys it’s fucking nnn
That shirt is awesome.
The shirt is awesome; what it represents is not.
I love that shirt
@@fafmotorsport what does it represent?
@Chip Wiseman OHHhhhhhj COOOOL I lovs it
@@fafmotorsport yeah I thought it said patent pending too
At first I wondered if such a young guy knew what he was talking about? In the end I can confirm: he knows. Very well explained!
Yeah, I can't imagine how someone that's only had 30+ years to learn a subject would ever understand even 10% about it, let alone enough to explain it simply to others. Wow! /s
How old do you think Alec is? 10?
The camera is definitely older than Alec is, so I'm not sure why you're being a dick about it. It's not like a classic car, where you still see them all over the place.
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 I see those cameras all over the place. Before camera phones in smartphones got good many photographers still preferred to use these cameras. And as explained they aren't rocket science. So I don't get why it's so amazing that a dude in his 30s could understand a lot about a camera.
@@trippmoore where are you going where you're seeing 40 year old cameras all over the place, and how do you know they're specifically Canon F1?
@@catfan__ congrats, you go to the one public school in the country with a budget to buy $500 antique cameras for their students. Most public schools can't even afford updated textbooks for $50 a piece, so forgive me if I don't believe that every high school kid has seen them.
Love the "Media pending" shirt
Kinda cool, if I find it I might get it for Christmas
yeah i want one
Yeah, friggen love it but I would totally wear an “Analyzing in background” shirt though.
I litterarly opened the comments to write the exact same thing, and this was the first thing I saw!
What does that mean?
plot twist: The stage is 100% real. Alec is fully CGI.
Created by Capt. D. no doubt
@@QualityDoggo Plot twist: the background IS Capt. D.
Yeah, and Ami Yamato is 100% real while her backdrop is CGI.
But what does Captain Dissolution think?
Loved this! I was a photography professor at our local community college for 20 years, and my favorite class to teach was beginning photography. Your explanations were dense content-wise but perfect!
Your affection for the F-1 was clear. It was (is) a great camera.
I can’t wait to see more of your photo-related videos! Well done, Sir!!
I absolutely love devices like this. Everything from extremely-intricate to cleverly-simple engineering in a single product.
Then do a collaboration with "captain disillusion", show us the PROOF and the truth.
I surely never saw them in the same room... waiting for it!
He won't expose himself
Silence is as good as admission at this point...
Captain disillusion collabs with himself. It proves nothing.
@@2010ngojo Worse still, he'll make a video to clearly show us exactly how he did it in easy to understand language so that even an idiot could comprehend....
.....That CD used magic and a collaboration with the time lords to accomplish it.
Man, now I'd really like to see a collab between Captain Disillussion and Alec. I don't even know how that should work, but I know I need it
But Alec isn't real, this whole thing is animated.
@@wesleymays1931 animated by Captain Disillusion obviously
So an episode featuring both is possible
I love how far analog tech can go, I never thought these things were doable without digital.
Considering (mechanical) analog computers can do from calculating weather to calculating bullet trajectories for battleships
It’s pretty darn good
Yeah
Analog is what the video signal was before it went digital. Non-digital cameras are FILM cameras. As SLR is not analog tech it's film tech.
Analog electronics is a dark art, but in the right hands, it can accomplish (almost) anything
@@Rocketryman it's more intuitive this way
Love this episode! I have been a photographer since this camera was new. I also once worked in a camera store selling these era of cameras. I reluctantly switched from film to digital cameras some time ago. I have recently returned to using film media since the reintroduction of Ektachrome film stock. I have even purchased two medium format cameras that I use quite a lot. I had to remember how to use these cameras, with the light meters and exposure requirements of the film stock that I had not really needed to do with the new digital cameras. It has awakened my creativity. Please consider more episodes covering photography in the future.
As a lifelong film camera user, I'm super impressed by how much you accurately covered in 30 mins. I actually laughed out loud when you covered sunny 16 since I assumed you'd never have time in a short video.
The amount of engineering here is amazing, like imagine making this thing.
Pre-CAD/CAM people were smart.
Fully mechanical shutters are honestly kind of arcane to me. It sounds like an insane task to create a door that opens only for a thousandth of a second without any electronics let alone one that can, within the same mechanism, additionally open for a bunch of other, longer times. Yet here we are! So beautiful.
I also have the F-1 although it is a newer model than the one represented in the video. There are three different iterations of this beautiful camera and is one of the setting stones why Canon started really gaining on the professional market compared to Nikon. Its funny to me how the current users of these systems compete with eachother when looking up the history you realize they were once very tightly tied to eachother, but thats a topic of its own. The F-1 is by far the most complex purely mechanical camera to have ever been built, bar none. The amount of parts that go into all of these mechanisms is insane.
My late grandfather owned a camera store in Manhattan years ago. He could have taken that camera completely apart and put it back together again. He knew in full detail exactly how all of those mechanisms worked. He explained it to me when I was a kid; it blew my mind. I wish he was still here. I mean seriously: he would have known exactly what every last spring, gear, etc did in that camera. At the beginning of this video, when he pressed the shutter and it took a second or so, and made that noise--that noise is actually a mechanical timer clicking (probably around) 1,000 times per second. You may well have known that, but I had to make sure. Think about the intricacy of the mechanism that does that.
@@mickocastren6544 My parents have a Nikkormat, which is similar. It has a focusing screen just like that one. The light meter wasn't quite as snazzy looking, but almost. That thing really takes awesome pictures. They don't use it anymore, I should beg my dad for it. He would probably be very protective of it, still. Understandable.
I’m always amazed how you can make such long videos about seemingly small niche topics without making them seem drawn out. Keep it up!
8:57 When I was learning video engineering we didn’t abstract the ccd sensitivity into iso numbers on our CCU.
We called it gain and we would express that as dB, with 0 dB being roughly analogous to ISO 320. Each additional 3 dB of gain would double the sensitivity, so +3dB would be ISO 640, -3dB was ISO 160 and so on.
That's basically what film engineers described as DIN. It's given in degrees for some reason but it is a dB scale starting at ISO 1
Wow, CD really made that "pull from greenscreen" look flawless ;)
_"After effects is a program that I open accidentally, stare at in terror, and then feel guilty about never bothering to learn despite multiple New Years resolutions"_
How did you manage to so perfectly describe my exact relation to After Effects? 😅
It's basically Photoshop for masochists. Photoshop you can easily teach yourself without even a manual, let alone a tutorial. With After Effects on the other hand, you just look at it as if it was some alien artifact and quickly close it again, fearing it may wake up and swallow the planet.
You should feel validated rather than attacked: Look, even Alec… 😅
@@calmeilles Excellent point. If even Alec feels that way, that does make me feel a little less bad about it.
... Adobe sits quietly, twiddling thumbs and making “ka-ching” noises ...
You just described all Adobe products. After Effects and Adobe Connect have achieved the rare negative sloped learning curve.
0:35 thank you for clarifying, after watching nearly all your videos, I was wondering why you were a superhero once
My gosh, I love how you still take the time to complete the sub titles. Google removing user generated is sad; I think more people use CC than they know. It's fantastic for keeping the volume low at work, at night, and when you miss a word, you can just read below!
Also the lav mic has seemingly disappeared some 9 months ago with no trace left. A mystery.
Imagine Captain Disillusion's blood pressure after social media explodes with requests to explain how 0:45 was done.
... the reflection in the background made it very convincing!
Captain will spot the pixels we can't see, and reveal that this whole channel is being operated by a 75 year old bald swedish man with incredible blender skillz
ISO is a name, not an acronym or initialism.
From their website:
_"Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek 'isos', meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO."_
the more you know...
I thought it stood for "International Standards Organization"...
@@janlentan892 That isn't even their name lol
Nice
Ahhh... Personally, I prefer the Deutsches Institut für Normen or DIN for short
This was a walk down memory lane. My first "real" camera was an Asahi Pentax that worked (and was laid out) almost identically (except for the flash shoe location). I stopped using it some time in the 90s, but I remember well trying to find a suitable replacement for the mercury button battery for the built-in light meter.
can we just appreciate that you've implemented screen capturing just to show us the impressive engineering in that slr
You're not Captain Disillusion, you're clearly his unpaid intern Alan.
Alec or Alek I believe 🙂
@@morganeasy787 No, it's Alan.
@@Tunkkis technology connection is called Alec. I think it was supposed to be some joke.
"And yet some of you think me and Captain Disillusion are the same person..."
You look more like Allan to me, tbh.
Who? 🍄
@@davidbergmann8948 Alan is the Captain's intern
I'm convinced Captain D and Alan the intern are the same guy, but the Captain refuses to debunk this.
@@ptah956 Something that obvious shouldn't need debunking. They're nothing alike. I mean Alan is obviously not a silver skinned alien!
I know what I saw
I have the 1980 Olympics version of the camera.
My parents got it for me as a gift.
The pictures I took made a lot of good memories.
Those pictures are still on my walls today.
One of the best quick explanations of analog photography and the shutter speed/aperture relationship. Well done! From a photographer of 60 years (and still happily using ‘70s SLRs)
We have to remember one thing: This system looks intuitive and simple because it has been an object of countless design proposals and staff meetings.
That's what always fascinated me about these things. We just use small things that were someone's work for like 3 months.
3 months is kind of optimistic in most cases though. ;)
Canon took about 5-6 years to create the F-1 system
When I worked as a software engineer for a large software company there was an inverse relationship between the number of design meetings/reviews and the complexity of the code. As a designer/coder I could build an elegant solution, only to have it torn apart and bloated with useless post hoc requirements from (usually) the QA department.
@@trippmoore ahh. The good ol camel.
Canon actually stole this from Nikon. The Nikon F already came out in 1959.
He didn't wipe his hands through the dust on the "set."
GREEN SCREEN CONFIRMED
I didn't notice that. I know it's green screen because he never used a green jacket.
Also, you can see how there's a missing asset for his shirt render. Obviously a complete fabrication.
DarwinsChihuahua I think you're tugging at strings...
@@kip258 At this point, I would say it's more like trying to drag the table cloth off a set table without destroying the dishes and the food in the process.
Maybe _he's_ the greenscreen. mindblow.jpg
How is it that I watched this 6 months ago, and am rewatching now with almost as much enjoyment as last time?
This video makes a great early watch for anyone learning photography.
"And yet some of you think me and Captain Disillusion are the same person - how?"
Me : Laughs
Best joke in here. Must be the hair.
outside of him looking vaguely similar, is there another joke I'm missing?
This is nearly a Canon F-1 review. You should change the title to include "Canon F-1" so that people can search for it.
There are tags that the uploader can add.
@John Verne Actually, in most cameras, they did not use a needle matching meter, but a ‘centre needle’ meter, where increasing the exposure time caused the needle to move in one direction, while increasing the F-number caused it to move in the other direction. Meanwhile, more light moved the needle in one direction, while a higher EI moved the needle in the other direction.
One simply had to keep the needle centred. The description here does not match that at all, in either appearance, or workings. Yes, they both used a light sensitive module, and they both used an aperture linkage, (for open metering), but how that linkage affected the needle is quite different. In some cases, it could have manually moved the needle support, while in other cases, it was a potentiometer, or some other electronic solution.
So substituting a Pentax and quite a lot changes. Indeed, whereas Pentax was one of the first to do “open metering”, they were one of the few to also allow stop down metering simultaneously. I.e., on some brands with open metering, the DoF preview function meant that the light meter failed.
Pentax also used light through the lens to illuminate the needle, so that if one was in a dark theatre, shooting a brightly lit stage, one can still see the light-meter.
I’m always impressed by your videos. I just assumed the background wasn’t real until seeing this one.
Please never stop doing this TH-cam thing, your videos are hours upon hours of unbridled joy for me. Thank you.
Me, starting video: "Man, this guy kinda looks like Captain Disillusion.."
Video: "People think I look like Captain Disillusion"
Me: .......
Honestly? I didnt see it until he brought it up, now i cant stop thinking about it
I still don't see the resemblance. I guess they have similar looking hair, but that's about it.
@@trippmoore have and facial shaper mostly, maybe lip shape
Now I'm shocked seeing that he's from Latvia just like me
12:12 attaches lens with a clockwise motion.
Nikon: “no no you’re doing it wrong!”
😂😂
In 1653, Patriarch Nikon enacted reforms of Russian Orthodox Church. Those who haven't accepted the reforms were called Old Believers (Raskolniks). This is known as Raskol (split or schism). There are still settlements of Raskolniks in Russia. Some visitors report that Nikon cameras are met negatively, while Canon are approved.
Well whatever the reason for it is, The reality is that every time I pick up my nikon I spend a solid few seconds aggressively trying to stuff the lense on the wrong way. It gets exceptionally weird when you run adapters for old lenses on the digital, where the old lense mounts the proper way, but you have to turn the adapter backwards to take it off the camera
@@Alexagrigorieff Interesting. Actually, the Nippon Kogaku company began making cameras by producing the German Zeiss Ikon camera under license. They called it "Nikon" for Nippon Ikon.
Bro, 100% I was lookin up sociological reasons why cameras are so important and of course you have a video pertaining to cameras 😭
Hands down you’re my favourite nerd on the internet. Never change, man.
As someone who was trying to get into film photography in this day and age, this was definitely helpful!
Four and a half decades ago I used a Canon F1 when I was a photographer for my high school newspaper and yearbook. The F1 was pretty much my constant companion in my junior year, I took it with me all the time in school to grab candid photos and to photograph school assemblies and sports events. This video was a great refresher of an old friend. Thanks.
Candid?
@@ThompYT like taking a picture without someone knowing you're taking a picture, or they act like the camera isn't there. It makes for more realistic photos. Photographers at weddings or events are supposed to be Flys on the wall to just get pictures of people enjoying themselves in a natural way.
What stocks did you shoot on?
Was it mostly color or black and white?
@@LaskyLabs We used Tri-X 400 because we almost never used a flash and we could push it if we needed to for low light like in hallways (it was an old, dark school) or night football games. We bought it in bulk and loaded our own canisters.
Are you… Peter Parker?
The F-1 is the camera my parents grew up on. The simplicity of these older mechanical cameras made easy to understand what shutter speed and aperture meant when my dad explained to me what was going on.
In the late 90's I shot film with an "AE-1 Program" (another Canon FD-mount SLR) for a few years, but I was so hesitant to use film that I spent a month to expose a roll and didn't really get enough practice to learn from my mistakes. Also I was super slow at manually focusing with a split-prism. Still, I very occasionally miss the physical split prism on modern DSLRs when AF just can't get the job done.
I still have my AE-1…
This video makes me want to pick up a roll of film for the weekend.
I wish all modern DSLRs had split-prism focusing. After using film for so long and auto-focus working only about 80% of the time, it would make life so much easier.
For most DSLR's you can still get split-prism screens! (if not official, usually still aftermarket. I got one for the nikon D7000 for $20 iirc.)
The Fujifilm X-T3 and X-T4 have a digital split prism mode that seems to work? I dunno might be worth a shot.
Nothing gets your eye dialed in for manual focus without a split prism like macro work. It's a struggle at first, but with practice you get to know where your focal plane is without needing an aid, and the skill transfers nicely to ordinary lenses.
There is something so satisfying when you hear all of the clicks, fizzes, and clacking sounds on these cameras. Digital tries to replicate but in my viewfinder (yes I went there) failed. So glad I was born when analog camera were all the rage.
Very satisfying sound when you attach the lens. Enjoyed seeing the light meter adjust at the same time too.
ISO is not an acronym for International Standards Organization, a common misconception. The group is actually called the International Organization for Standardisation. The abbreviation ISO comes from the Greek word isos, which means equal.
It may be a silly semantic point, but I’m a member of one of the standard development organizations that is governed by ISO and Its like a nervous tick I have to inform people of the nuance.
I’m a huge fan of your content and a pleased patron. You’re a blessing during the COVID madness!
Neat, but I kinda wish its actual name were International Standards Organization, sounds better to me and even avoids the "s vs z" problem
standardization, baby
@@Dorumin Hell yeah! The thing I love best about standards is that there's so many to choose from.
It’s not just silly pedantry! “ISO” was intentionally *not* an abbreviation for the name of the organization, since that would only work in one language (or be a different abbreviation in different languages), and, in the spirit of global standards, they didn’t want to privilege one language over another.
Standards are great! Everybody should have their own!
@@Floaf1 Sometimes I even have double standards, that's how great I think they are!
Really? People actually think that set is rendered? Anyone who has been to Ikea once or twice can see that it is an Expedit or Kallax with fancy LED lighting mounted in it.
Doesn't mean you can't render it.
I really have to say his after effects are astonishing. Everything looks so real as if it would be real (but we all know it is not)^^
There would be two ways to make a compartment look black and white. The easiest is to put monochrome stuff in the compartment, e.g. motamuseum.com/2015/07/23/stavinsky-bw-rubiks-cube/. This also works well with the colored(!) background of that compartment. The other way would be to light it with infrared. Some cameras can register infrared and it usually looks like a gray or bluish color. Try your TV remote on your phone camera to see what I mean. Now as the background of that compartment is colored, this is not a viable option, as the light from the background would spoil the illusion.
(Almost) everything in the IKEA catalogue is rendered. They have gotten/are getting rid of the photography division. It does not make sense, since everything in the catalogue was already rendered for aesthetics and virtual stress-testing, anyway, before they wee ever manufactured, using the same 3-D renders to fabricate the materials.
Why re-invent the wheel? They are not the only people who do this now. Product photography is becoming niche.
I mean, if you watch his old videos, he did use a green screen for those, but yeah he hasn't used anything like that in a long time.
Only the sheeple believe that. As if people "buy" "furniture"!
What I love about your channel is that, as you're talking, questions pop into my head and, almost without fail, you answer that question nearly immediately. Great videos! I've been binge watching them.
This is literally the first time all these camera nomenclature and details started to make sense for me. Thank you.
Interestingly ISO is actually not an acronym. According to ISO.org:
"It's all in the name
Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek 'isos', meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO."
It’s not even “International Standards Organization”, it’s “International Organization for Standardization” (as in the above quote)
I too was going to point this out. Thanks, epaminondas3294.
He actually addressed that point in the subtitles at the very end!
@@NanoMan737400 He addressed the pronunciation, but not the fact that their official long name doesn't match the initials.
incidentally Germany DOES use ISO.
“That is a real dust spot, BTW.”
I appreciate your authenticity. My toy room is authentic as 🙊.
In about 1972 when I was in the Navy, I bought a new 35mm slr: A Yashica TL-Electro X. it was all manual like this great Canon F-1. I think I bought the Yashica because it was not as expensive as the Canon. I am glad the camera was all manual because I had to learn about film speed, aperture, F-stops, focus, different film types, light meters ( internal & external ), etc. I took thousands & thousands of slides and print pictures and the Yashica performed flawlessly. Yea, I didn't know how my pictures came out until I had the film developed at a camera store, but I mostly got what I had wanted. Today's digital cameras are so nice to be able to just delete something when you don't like what you just snapped, a major difference for sure, and no wasted expensive film( at least today...film was cheap enough back in the 70's ). Good educational video...thanks..!!
Being a nerd today is glorious. So many fantastic channels to dork out on.
There’s something I just remembered (and I can’t wait to see whenever Alec can finally release it since I’m sure he’s working pretty hard on it)- *Teletext!*
That would be cool. I don't know if it ever really took off in the US, but here in the UK (where I believe it was conceived and developed) it was a big thing right up until the advent of the Web. When I was a kid (early 80s), Teletext-equipped sets and decoder boxes were expensive, so our public library (a wonderful old Victorian building that was torn down in 1993, right about the time my family got their first TT set) had a couple of sets available for public use, much as today's libraries have PCs.
We still have teletex here in Finland. Well, it is DTV version of it, but look and functionality is still the same.
@@rich_edwards79 he's mentioned in one of his videos he's doing a teletext video.
The entire Turner broadcasting family and a few local systems (Chicago, LA, etc) had teletext services. It didn't take off because of TV guide pressuring companies not to use the system as they were worried it would reduce their magazine sales. Ah American commerce. Stifling innovation since day one.
@@medes5597 I think Richard was talking about the similar looking but quite different system where a modified TV and a keyboard were hooked up to a 1200/75 bps modem for online services like searching public records or ordering train tickets. This is quite different than the TTV system that distributes up to 800 pages of text information via the closed captioning part of TV signals.
@@johndododoe1411 the BBC Micro did basic 800 page teletext and was the computer of choice for libraries because of government subsidies, educational grants from the government and BBC and various Acorn price reductions for buying more than one. I assumed they meant that. I concede I may be wrong.
Did you you know you could buy a TV with a built in teletext printer? It's insane to me that existed.
I’m a 36 year old German and started experimenting with photography at about age 10, i.e. in the beginning of the 90s. I have never used or even heard of (until this video) DIN degrees for film speeds. Today, everyone here uses ISO just like everyone else. I even remember that when I was young, films were marked with “ISO/ASA 400” (or whatever number), but I don’t recall ever having seen the degree system in use.
I used DINs. Had them on "Zenit" camera and my light meter (both made in USSR). Greetings from Poland
This video had the best editing, camera work and scriptwriting for a video explaining how film cameras work that I've seen. Pure Class
I forgot all this stuff years and years ago. I used a 70's Fuji manual camera for many years. It got retired in the late 1990's. It had a needle inside the view finder for light metering. It was super easy to use. Set the ASA, hold the button and adjust the f-stop. Perfect exposures every time!
You explain things quickly and concisely. I really love your videos
"Light-meter, not only a questionable astronomical unit." I don't know why I found this so funny, but good one.
It should be a unit of time, since a light year is a unit of distance.
@@ThisIsTheBestAnime I came here to say the same thing! It would be how long it takes light to travel 1 meter.... About 3.3 nanoseconds
@@dennisdavis6943 thanks for saving me the calculation :P
@@ronniepriveprofiel3876 my pleasure! How could I go on living my life without knowing how long a lightmeter is!?
I paused and laughed for a solid 15 seconds. So dumb. 10 big points
Finally, I understand how the light meter work. Thank you.
Thanks for the memories! I still have an Olympus OM-1 still tucked away in my basement collection - about the same vintage as your Canon. I shot many rolls on it starting in the 80's, when I bought it second hand from a friend who had used it since the 70's. I love the elegant engineering that went into these devices and the tactile control of it. The distinctive scent of film emulsion that lingers inside, even when you open an old camera, brings back memories. Cheers!
10:25
It actually says "news" on screen on the exact frame of the flash.
Literal news flash lol.
I love his sense of humor so much.
It does!!
I read this comment the instant the “news” flash happened lmao
Love it! I got into analogue with the Nikon F2 which has an early digital light meter. Looking forward to more on this topic!
I just wanted to refer to your channel for more in-depth videos about lighting, shutter and aperture. But then you already commented.
I have a Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n. Its digital, but I turned off pretty much any fancy features and use it pretty much like a film camera. Manual focus, manual speed, aperture, the only fancy feature is the light meter. And I use lenses from the 70s on it (its sensor is the same size as 35mm film). And I shoot in raw so I have more control over any over/under exposures. This was darkened a little, and cropped to 4% of the image... imgur.com/a/m1FF3HG and it can even look like the photos were taken in the 70s imgur.com/a/UkEG40c
Nikkormat FTN for me
@John Texas stock and processing costs compared to digital means you'ld need to be a millionaire.
@John Texas how about a global-H Soviet copy of widelux. Built for tractor pulling but you have to shake it hard before taking a photo to get the gearing to mesh.
PS who you calling kid. I've got 2
twin lens medium format staring down at me right now.
Watched this video two years ago and enjoyed it as a fun tech deep dive and now I'm taking notes so I can buy a manual film camera of my own. Great work!
Wow. I didn’t know that’s how the Canon bends the light to the meter. I always thought they worked like the old Nikon F did where rather than a mirror in the focus screen, it was the prism bending light both right the eyepiece and the sensors. The Nikon version definitely seems easier to manufacture replaceable parts like different focusing screens, but the Canon version is pretty epic.
When I found your channel a long time ago when you only had a few tens of thousands of subscribers I wanted to copy your set almost exactly. Seeing as though you have now passed me in subscribership, I'm glad I didn't do that 🤣
I never realized you weren't a million sub channel, ya really seem like one and put effort into your productions as if they were a television program/ mini doc. Love the ModBook saga
Also, I love seeing this YT tech community all supporting each other and not competing. It's really refreshing to see. I mean hell, even SlowMo Guys Gavin Free is in this comment section
@@WalnutSpice yeah yt tech community is one of the most engaging and informative...!
So you would not care about copying small youtubers? But if they grow afterwards you would then regret it?
"Only" a few tens of thousands... 😂
You guys live in cloud cuckoo land. I've got only around 2,000 subs and I'm blessed to have each one of them. Life's more than subscriber and "like" metrics my young friend.
Being old, I was a young photography buff in the late 70s, but the Canon F1 (and later A1) were for rich folks only. I had to make do with my trusty old Pentax K1000, which did pretty much everything the F1 did, and all mechanically too, but didn't have all the cool expansion modules. Those were amazing cameras too, and a lot more affordable.
I picked up a Canon A-1 with 200mm f2.8 lens and auto winder for $50 last year. Worked like it was new. Sadly someone stole the camera and lens from me along with other camera gear. I do have a second A-1 I use though.
I still adored my k1000 as a young photography buff in the early 90s. Great camera
K1000 was a great camera, and was pretty much standard college photography starter kit. I believe, though I could be mistaken, that you could also change the focusing screen on the K1000.
i got my moms k1000 from highschool sitting on my shelf with my other old cameras, its great for what it is, to the point i still use it time to time
@@sloth0jr You could not change any of the focusing screens on the K series cameras. You could on the MX and LX though (The LX being Pentax's equivalent to Canon's F-1n)
Funny how your video about Digital ICE intially brought me to your channel years ago (still watching every new video) and now we're coming full circle back to analog photography.
Wow. 5 minutes 37 seconds to explain almost all of photography (and that includes tangents and digressions). You, sir, are an amazing expositor. Keep up the good work!
This just taught me more about how a cameras exposure works than I ever knew, including when a professional photographer tried to explain it to me. well done.
8:41 It's sort of like how SCSI was pronounced "scuzzy". But I agree trying to force it is weird.
Was?
@@hikariyouk Is
Because the other pronunciation for SCSI would have been "sexy".
Damn, sexy drives!
Now that we have SAS everything is so boring... xD
Or some pronounce SQL as school.
brilliant, thanks for that! I'm 68 now, I've used all that fun stuff.
It is beautiful and incredibly elegant technology.
I own a Minolta SR-T 101b and it is my favourite out of all my cameras. The SR-T series came out in 1966 and I think was one of the first cameras to couple the aperture to the body mechanically to enable very similar match needle metering as this Canon has. It was also one of the very first cameras with "smart" light metering: It has two meter cells that take into consideration if the scene has, for example, one bright and one dark half (such as a bright sky against a darker ground) and compensates accordingly.
It's magical that a device made 50 years ago still works just as intended.
I really look forward to more videos on analog photography. There is a lot to cover!
Wow - that was amazing - thank you! We almost need a TC-extras on how you got those in viewfinder shots!
"we are going to see a lot more about analogue photography" .........me smashing the like button instantly
This about covers how I learned photography. And it made it so easy to learn to understand the "trinity" of exposure. Most cameras these days have so much bells and whistles that learning those basics seems much harder. (I've seen a few other people learn those on modern stuff.) I also found this interesting because I learned on Nikon F2. It's from same time period and a lot is very similar but then there are small details that are different.
Man, the kind of stuff people came up with during the mechanical/analog era is amazing. I know that the same level of ingenuity is present in the modern day digital solutions for other things, but it's just that you can physically touch this piece of human inteligence.
We love your bloopers. It shows us that you're human, and proves to us that you aren't Captain Disillusion. He never makes mistakes.
Hi Captain Disillusion. How long is a light meter in feet? I also love the dust you added in post.
A light meter is actually a measurement of time, similar to how a light year is a measurement of distance. Since the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second, a light meter is 1/299,792,458th of a second or 0.0000000033356409519815204957557671447492 seconds
One advantage of Canadian spelling is that it distinguishes "meter" and "metre".
A light meter is a measurement device, and a light-metre is a unit of time as described above.
Ontario Traffic Man: reaperexpress This is a kinda random tangent, but I just want to say that it’s interesting that English (in the vast majority of places besides the U.S.) distinguishes between “meter” and “metre” when IIRC the French “mètre” which the words are both derived from doesn’t distinguish between the two concepts. Makes me wonder when the distinction first started being used.
@@NandR u r more precise than me (3.333333333333333e-9) since I round up to 300 million meters per second :(
No lie I bought an analog camera and this is one of the best videos explaining what each setting actually does
Gosh, I remember cameras like this - in 1996, I bought secondhand an example of the very earliest Canon SLR, the Canon FX - that had *cloth* curtains. Even back then, the mercury batteries for the meter were not available, so I never used the meter: instead, I used an even older hand-held selenium cell meter.
It is amusing to see you explaining these basic photography things from the ground up that, when I started out in photography in the 1990s, every beginner's guide would explain and thus everyone interested in taking anything other than basic snapshots would have known.
I can only imagine years in the future a video like this with lines such as "...yes, that's right - back then, you actually had to *touch* the screen. Weird".
As a photographer who shoots mainly with a 1986 Nikon FM2n and also a fan of your channel, I was waiting for this video! More old camera videos please!
Newsflash! *bling*
ROTFL you had me there... outch :)
But did you actually catch the word “NEWS” flashed on the screen??
This was mind blowing!! I'm a huge fan of tiny mechanical devices. Watches being at the top of my list. I always knew that film cameras were a feat of engineering marvel taken for granted in a huge way, but I didn't realize how damn clever it is!
I have very fond memories of playing around with one of these. It is a _fascinating_ device, and I still find it mind blowing how quick and precise it can be, while being powered entirely from a single stroke of my thumb.