Thats great. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!! :) ..Over the christmas holidays, we‘ll make a short video about „hacking“ the ISO DX Code on the Big Mini.
These shots are amazing. What film stock did you mostly use at 4:00-end. I just picked up a brand new konica BM looking forward to carrying it everywhere with me.
Sie ist wirklich toll.. wir haben mittlerweile mehrere davon... sind schick, passen super in jede Tasche, fallen kaum auf und sind nicht so überhyped wie andere Point and Shoots .. ;)
Daniel Ellis thank you very much. This was shot on Cinestill 800T w/o filter. Great Film, also in daylight, but a bit harder to color correct. You are welcome!
Facu Bartucci Thank you very much. I love the photo of the gasstation scene, which was shot on the Cinestill 800 as we walked by. We loaded the cinestill the night before the flight, but the rest of the roll turned out only okay. It was pretty hard to color correct, because of iso 800 and the „not too fast“ max. shutter speed. As always the Portra 400 brought the most lovely pictures on that trip. Beside this the Portra 400 and 800 is also my go to film in 120 for portraits and casual stuff. Fuji Pro 400 for shiftet architecture shots, but i will make the switch to portra again, because it is more versatile in my opinion. Most recently we decided to shoot more kodak colorplus on sunny days with the point and shoot. If you love a bit of grain in your stills and want to save huge money, the colorplus is a good , but slow alternative. If your question is a „one film forever on a lonely island“ question, the Portra 400 will come with us. Lovely colors, very push and pullability, nice grain structure and good price compared to 800. :) Thank you very much for your comment.
It‘s streetphotographer eric kim’s and his wife‘s company named ‚haptic‘ that made this ‚eric kim case‘ . It‘s very well made and pretty well designed. XF10, Ricoh Gr or 5 rolls of film will fit in this thing and of course the lovely Big Mini. Cheers.
Similar here, but we have three big minis and no Olympus stylus, but an af twin.. I think the big mini is a pretty overlooked camera. but being honest: I don't know why.. it's not that overshaped in terms of design, it's relatively good build, and if it breaks it has done an amazing job... it's a go to and a go for camera :)
@@raisinggrain8672 I think that one of the Big Mini's attractions is the lens. Konica made outstanding lenses and my Big Mini's 35mm f/3.5 lens is excellent. Olympus made great lenses, too, but I don't think the ones on my collection of Styluses (Stylii?) are quite as good. The Big Mini's automatic exposure system is, to me, outstanding. Again, the Stylus is good but I think the Big Mini is better. It also fits my average sized hands better, I think. One advantage of the Stylus is that it seems to be better sealed against moisture: it isn't waterproof but drizzle and condensation don't seem to bother it much. Another advantage of my three Styluses is that I gotten dirt cheap: my first (black Stylus) was $5 at a thrift store, the next gold one was new in the box $0.25 at a neighborhood yard sale and the third was given to me. I may have only paid $35 for the Big Mini online years ago but it's hard to beat my investment in Styluses!
I just purchased the Big Mini 701 but can't find any reviews on the 701 version or how it stacks up compared to this one.. anyone have any opinions on this one?
Thank you. Actually this is not a filter. I used the red giant vhs filter for other videos, this is a pretty amazing filter they created. But since this is the only universe filter i used, i descided to use our not that old mini DV camcorder. (Panasonic nv-gs 1, black magic ultrastudio minirecorder, some sort of chinch to hdmi converter... a filter might be a bit more convenient, i guess 😅 ) thank you very much for your comment. Cheers
@@raisinggrain8672 Ok, man. A few things: 1. You're a genius :) 2. I thought it was a plugin cause you also used a "Super8-like" plugin later on (what was it btw?) 3. I am all up for organic VHS footage. I do have a similar Panasonic nv-ds model (my nv-gs has hiccups😅 ), and I have an old SONY Hi8 camcorder too, but I think the mini-DV format has better look/resolution to works with digital 1080 while still keeping that VHS look. My question is- I never knew about this Blackmagic mini-recorder! I use an Elgato converter which isn't a live recorder. Does this mean you're getting a 1080 video out of that Blackmagic gadget? Because the native resolution of mini-DV is 720x480 tops!
@@eladbari Thank you very much :) it's great you enjoyed the video and are interested in how it was made. I don't know the native resolution to be honest, but what I recognized was a bit strange: after digitalizing hundreds of hours and editing a 45min mini-documentary about my family, I was pretty sure that the old VHS footage is a bit more pleasing and better in color, skintones, maybe also DR …compared to the Panasonic. The NV-GS has more sharpness, I guess, but it seems more like a computer generated sharpness of a smaller pixel image… Keeping in mind that VHS is an analog and MiniDV is a digital format it’s becoming conclusive… more or less..i think.. :) …. BM UltraStudio MiniRecorder made a 720p 60p file, but I think the noname Cinch to HDMI Converter made a silly upscaled version of the original (maybe pal) footage.. …The filter is actually not a ready made one. This was made by layering frame boarders and light leaks captured by Ezra Cohen or Tropic Colour on top of my heavily color graded bmpcc footage in fcpx. I would love to shoot real 8mm and 16mm film, but we develop and scan nearly everything by our self, and shooting real motion picture film might be a bit time and money consuming for yt.. ..Currently we are working on two more episodes simultaneously, which need to be tweaked a bit before releasing.. but we will, very soon.. I would love to hear your thoughts on that, because we tried to implement a kind of film, narrative style.. Would love to hear your thoughts. cheers :)
@@raisinggrain8672 First off, sure thing, man. I hope to catch your next uploads. Just subscribed. Now, regarding Super8- I shot one roll before and it's an amazing experience. Find something worthy to shoot, choose a sunny day and do it! Now, regarding the MiniDV thing: 1. First, I originally thought it was a heavily modified DSLR image because the motion of that footage felt like DSLR [apart of the zoom ins]. You kept that camera very steady and you swinged from side to side...so it felt like it. Again, great touch adding that to the mix. 2. If I understood well, you meant that you expected that Mini-DV footage to be more high quality/res than what you really got at the end? I get it. I think you can also see by how you kept it windowed in your 4k frame. So, of course you blew up the image about x2 x3 times it's original size and it still looks good. So, how did you do it? I think Davinci Resolve has an ability to blow up footage and still keep details well. What method did you choose? And what's the original captured file? 720X480 you say?
hi can u help me pls, I have the same model. It has power and zoom are all working but it doesn’t capture everytime I click the button it doesn’t work. What do you think is the problem?
Hi Leeroy, Might be a contact Problem of the shutterbutton?: We have 3 Big Minis and one of them only shoots after clicking the left side of the shutterbutton in a specific angle. If the camera seems to capture but you end up with blank images, the leafshutter might be stuck..
@@raisinggrain8672 Thank you for this! I only did it once I clicked in the left side of shutter. Do you know how to fix the shutterbutton? Oh and btw do you also know how to fix if the lcd doesn’t work also.
As I know: The LCD is big mini’s achillis.. Small issue, but due to missing spare parts not really economically fixable. ..With some luck you can order a flex cable to repair this by yourself.. but be carefull, these types of cameras do have flash capacitors !
Thank you very much. It was filmed with a Panasonic (NV-GS1) Mini DV Camera, which was forgotten on my shelf for years, but still working great. Because only the later models have a to-pc-port it had to be digitalized via BlackMagic Ultrastudio Mini Recorder and a Cinch to HDMI Converter Unit. Cable Spaghetti at its finest. Thank you for your comment. Cheers und Grüße von Berlin nach Österreich.
Yes, it has auto flash, when the metering tells it should fire with flash, a red light nearby the viewfinder indicates it. But you can turn the flash off or switch it to red eye reduction mode. Whatever mode you are shooting in, turning the camera off resets it to auto flash.
I'm not entirely sure, but the aps format hasn't really caught on and is very difficult to access in terms of purchasing and development. Hope that helps a bit, if you are into analog photography, try more common formats. :)
I'm Italian and I really love your photos :).
Finally. I have exactly the same camera at home, thanks to this video I will start it up after 20 years. I love it
just purchased a used big mini 301 because of this clip! thank you for sharing =)
Thats great. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!! :) ..Over the christmas holidays, we‘ll make a short video about „hacking“ the ISO DX Code on the Big Mini.
@@raisinggrain8672 i realized the date doesn't go beyond 2019 the moment i put in the battery as well so i kept it in 2000 haha
Wow these photos are insanely good. Lovely stuff man
Ben Droege thank you very much for your lovely words.
I was on the fence about pulling the trigger but your video convinced me to go for it and buy this camera. Awesome images and beautiful scans too
These shots are amazing. What film stock did you mostly use at 4:00-end. I just picked up a brand new konica BM looking forward to carrying it everywhere with me.
i just bought a Konica big mini ^^ thank u for the beautiful video~
Thank you very much. Hope you will enjoy your new camera as we do! BTW we also found a good deal on another bm and couldn't resist. ^^
Kalau mati itu abis batre yaa? Cara nya gimana di cas atau ganti baru soalnya ini nemu kamera jaman
Napoli!!!!!! Beautiful photos and episode. Best of luck with your channel and all that you do. Take care man
beautiful video! congrats :)
Thank you very much.
Currently working on episode 4. :)
I'm super late but all of these shots are stellar! Great video man. Subscribed!
nice nice nice. Die big mini ist ja echt erstaunlich gut. Jetzt werd ich mir wohl auch eine kaufen müssen. 😅
Sie ist wirklich toll.. wir haben mittlerweile mehrere davon... sind schick, passen super in jede Tasche, fallen kaum auf und sind nicht so überhyped wie andere Point and Shoots .. ;)
@@raisinggrain8672 Stimmt ich hab letztens eine zu einen guten Preis gesehen. Hätt ich sie mal gekauft. 😀
Hey great pics, what was the film used at 1.20? Thanks!
Daniel Ellis thank you very much. This was shot on Cinestill 800T w/o filter. Great Film, also in daylight, but a bit harder to color correct. You are welcome!
Real good job man
amazing stills my friend!
Can i ask you which film roll you preferred to shoot in this particular camera, from the above mentioned?
Facu Bartucci Thank you very much. I love the photo of the gasstation scene, which was shot on the Cinestill 800 as we walked by. We loaded the cinestill the night before the flight, but the rest of the roll turned out only okay. It was pretty hard to color correct, because of iso 800 and the „not too fast“ max. shutter speed. As always the Portra 400 brought the most lovely pictures on that trip. Beside this the Portra 400 and 800 is also my go to film in 120 for portraits and casual stuff. Fuji Pro 400 for shiftet architecture shots, but i will make the switch to portra again, because it is more versatile in my opinion. Most recently we decided to shoot more kodak colorplus on sunny days with the point and shoot. If you love a bit of grain in your stills and want to save huge money, the colorplus is a good , but slow alternative. If your question is a „one film forever on a lonely island“ question, the Portra 400 will come with us. Lovely colors, very push and pullability, nice grain structure and good price compared to 800. :)
Thank you very much for your comment.
okay i just NEED to know where you purchased that little camera case for the Big Mini?
It‘s streetphotographer eric kim’s and his wife‘s company named ‚haptic‘ that made this ‚eric kim case‘ . It‘s very well made and pretty well designed. XF10, Ricoh Gr or 5 rolls of film will fit in this thing and of course the lovely Big Mini. Cheers.
I have three versions of Olympus Stylus. Not bad cameras but.. My go-to pocket camera is my Konica Big Mini HG. :)
Similar here, but we have three big minis and no Olympus stylus, but an af twin..
I think the big mini is a pretty overlooked camera. but being honest: I don't know why.. it's not that overshaped in terms of design, it's relatively good build, and if it breaks it has done an amazing job... it's a go to and a go for camera :)
@@raisinggrain8672 I think that one of the Big Mini's attractions is the lens. Konica made outstanding lenses and my Big Mini's 35mm f/3.5 lens is excellent. Olympus made great lenses, too, but I don't think the ones on my collection of Styluses (Stylii?) are quite as good. The Big Mini's automatic exposure system is, to me, outstanding. Again, the Stylus is good but I think the Big Mini is better. It also fits my average sized hands better, I think. One advantage of the Stylus is that it seems to be better sealed against moisture: it isn't waterproof but drizzle and condensation don't seem to bother it much.
Another advantage of my three Styluses is that I gotten dirt cheap: my first (black Stylus) was $5 at a thrift store, the next gold one was new in the box $0.25 at a neighborhood yard sale and the third was given to me. I may have only paid $35 for the Big Mini online years ago but it's hard to beat my investment in Styluses!
Mate these shots are amazing, any post work done on them or just from scans? Thanks
Hey guys!
Can u gimme the music list from this video?
I just purchased the Big Mini 701 but can't find any reviews on the 701 version or how it stacks up compared to this one.. anyone have any opinions on this one?
Lovely editing, man! On @0:40 for that vhs look- did you use something off red giant universe presets in after effects to get that look? I wonder :)
Thank you. Actually this is not a filter. I used the red giant vhs filter for other videos, this is a pretty amazing filter they created. But since this is the only universe filter i used, i descided to use our not that old mini DV camcorder. (Panasonic nv-gs 1, black magic ultrastudio minirecorder, some sort of chinch to hdmi converter... a filter might be a bit more convenient, i guess 😅 ) thank you very much for your comment. Cheers
@@raisinggrain8672 Ok, man. A few things:
1. You're a genius :)
2. I thought it was a plugin cause you also used a "Super8-like" plugin later on (what was it btw?)
3. I am all up for organic VHS footage. I do have a similar Panasonic nv-ds model (my nv-gs has hiccups😅 ), and I have an old SONY Hi8 camcorder too, but I think the mini-DV format has better look/resolution to works with digital 1080 while still keeping that VHS look.
My question is- I never knew about this Blackmagic mini-recorder! I use an Elgato converter which isn't a live recorder. Does this mean you're getting a 1080 video out of that Blackmagic gadget? Because the native resolution of mini-DV is 720x480 tops!
@@eladbari Thank you very much :) it's great you enjoyed the video and are interested in how it was made. I don't know the native resolution to be honest, but what I recognized was a bit strange: after digitalizing hundreds of hours and editing a 45min mini-documentary about my family, I was pretty sure that the old VHS footage is a bit more pleasing and better in color, skintones, maybe also DR …compared to the Panasonic. The NV-GS has more sharpness, I guess, but it seems more like a computer generated sharpness of a smaller pixel image… Keeping in mind that VHS is an analog and MiniDV is a digital format it’s becoming conclusive… more or less..i think.. :) …. BM UltraStudio MiniRecorder made a 720p 60p file, but I think the noname Cinch to HDMI Converter made a silly upscaled version of the original (maybe pal) footage.. …The filter is actually not a ready made one. This was made by layering frame boarders and light leaks captured by Ezra Cohen or Tropic Colour on top of my heavily color graded bmpcc footage in fcpx. I would love to shoot real 8mm and 16mm film, but we develop and scan nearly everything by our self, and shooting real motion picture film might be a bit time and money consuming for yt.. ..Currently we are working on two more episodes simultaneously, which need to be tweaked a bit before releasing.. but we will, very soon.. I would love to hear your thoughts on that, because we tried to implement a kind of film, narrative style.. Would love to hear your thoughts. cheers :)
@@raisinggrain8672 First off, sure thing, man. I hope to catch your next uploads. Just subscribed.
Now, regarding Super8- I shot one roll before and it's an amazing experience. Find something worthy to shoot, choose a sunny day and do it!
Now, regarding the MiniDV thing:
1. First, I originally thought it was a heavily modified DSLR image because the motion of that footage felt like DSLR [apart of the zoom ins]. You kept that camera very steady and you swinged from side to side...so it felt like it. Again, great touch adding that to the mix.
2. If I understood well, you meant that you expected that Mini-DV footage to be more high quality/res than what you really got at the end?
I get it. I think you can also see by how you kept it windowed in your 4k frame.
So, of course you blew up the image about x2 x3 times it's original size and it still looks good. So, how did you do it?
I think Davinci Resolve has an ability to blow up footage and still keep details well.
What method did you choose?
And what's the original captured file? 720X480 you say?
hi can u help me pls, I have the same model. It has power and zoom are all working but it doesn’t capture everytime I click the button it doesn’t work. What do you think is the problem?
Hi Leeroy,
Might be a contact Problem of the shutterbutton?:
We have 3 Big Minis and one of them only shoots after clicking the left side of the shutterbutton in a specific angle.
If the camera seems to capture but you end up with blank images, the leafshutter might be stuck..
@@raisinggrain8672 Thank you for this! I only did it once I clicked in the left side of shutter. Do you know how to fix the shutterbutton? Oh and btw do you also know how to fix if the lcd doesn’t work also.
As I know: The LCD is big mini’s achillis.. Small issue, but due to missing spare parts not really economically fixable. ..With some luck you can order a flex cable to repair this by yourself.. but be carefull, these types of cameras do have flash capacitors !
@@raisinggrain8672 thank you! you're really helpful!
Hey, great video! What camera did you use at 0:41? Cheers
Thank you very much. It was filmed with a Panasonic (NV-GS1) Mini DV Camera, which was forgotten on my shelf for years, but still working great. Because only the later models have a to-pc-port it had to be digitalized via BlackMagic Ultrastudio Mini Recorder and a Cinch to HDMI Converter Unit. Cable Spaghetti at its finest. Thank you for your comment. Cheers und Grüße von Berlin nach Österreich.
Auto flash? Can I leave the flash off?
Yes, it has auto flash, when the metering tells it should fire with flash, a red light nearby the viewfinder indicates it. But you can turn the flash off or switch it to red eye reduction mode. Whatever mode you are shooting in, turning the camera off resets it to auto flash.
does it also take videos??
Yes but only 1/fps and 1080p (when developed at the drugstore)
You should turn the music up some more
Music is too loud I can't hear the voice at all
Hi, anyone here who knows about the konica s mini? :)
I'm not entirely sure, but the aps format hasn't really caught on and is very difficult to access in terms of purchasing and development. Hope that helps a bit, if you are into analog photography, try more common formats. :)