There are several TH-camrs that post "long" videos that are just unwatchable sometimes.. And then there are others like Sean Tucker and Paul C Smith that are a joy to watch even if they were talking for an entire hour.. You fortunately belong in the 2nd group.. Your videos are always interesting to watch.. Love your work!!!! Just keep them coming 😁 🙌🏻
I have a request, would you make a video about your scanning and color correcting proces? I struggle with getting the right colors while scanning my negatives. Which makes for a very inconsistent workflow and results. Your shots look absolutely wonderful! Take care
Enjoyed it as always Tom.. but please stop describing film as temperamental or unpredictable. Velvia is unforgiving and requires near perfect exposure.. but it's not fickle. Metered properly and well developed, it'll give perfectly reliable results. If anything is unpredictable.. it's your metering, sorry bro. :D not suggesting it's easy to meter perfectly reliably.. we're all working at it. :)
Yo! Maybe split the difference and add in a bit of sky at the expense of the land to have the river running closer to the bottom of the frame. That said, I have no idea how you get such gorgeous square format shots. I usually hate square crops.
DUDE!!!! DO. NOT. force that back onto that camera. Ease the release over, apply the back and release the release. I literally cringed when I saw that.
Also, with the V system, don’t forget the rear “barn doors” close when you release the shutter. I think you said you used 1/2 sec shutter speed, but you may not be getting all of that exposure when you release as fast as you did in the video. For long exposures, alway wait until you hear the shutter close before releasing.
Film will always produce something with more depth as the emulsion has a physical thickness to it. This is the reason it is better, for the most part, to over-expose film images; the more the film is exposed, the thicker the negative in that area, thus creating something with actual depth. If you're searching for the reason film just looks different, this is the reason. There is certainly a time and a place for both film and digital. As you said though, it doesn't really matter what camera you shoot with as long as what you are doing is making you happy.
Loved the Velvia shot! I bought your book and I absolutely love it! It is fantastic! I love the stories that you tell that you don’t necessarily hear about in the video! Keep up the great work!
I do remember fondly using Fuji Velvia back in the 90's - the reds, blues and greens on my photos from USA & NZ were fantastic but exposure was hit and miss due to my lack of skill. As I'm just an enthusiast I'd not go back from digital but I can see it would have an attraction to a Pro though.
I don't think that crop sensor is a drawback in landscape photography. To get the same depth of field, we usually use faster aperture in crop sensor camera as compared to mediam format. So the final image is mostly equal.
So enjoyable and such great images! Thanks for this video! I found myself behind the monitor saying "take the shot, do it, don't vlog, take the shot!!" 🤣
Greetings from France Wishing you well... Truly love your videos.... I was wondering.... Which metering mode do you use on your xt3 for your photos.. Thanks peace
4:52] Ok, now there is something wrong with the river..? Or is it something wrong with you? No, there is nothing wrong with the river. Problem exists between camera and operator. [PEBCO] If there is something wrong with the composition - *move.* If there is something wrong with the light that a lens change cannot fix - you might be fucked, but probably you just are not creative enough - I suffer from that problem all of the time. Just not creative enough. 5:12]. You are ini Iceland! Yay! I love Iceland! I remember standing on the Logberg itself [herself?] at Þingvellir back in 1989! Fantastic! My mother died two weeks later. You think
I have one 'modern' camera, an EOS-R, and couple of out of date DSLRs [nice ones] and a bunch of truly archaic film cameras - and a bunch of nice-old glass, much of which I inherited from my late father - but some was mine dating back to the 1980s. So, when I head out for the day I take one camera and two or three lenses. These days I buy the fastest [used] lenses I can afford, half of them are primes: 50mm, 85mm, 130mm. All of my very best fotos come from those prime lenses - they just can do more. *'Constrains force creativity,'* that is the law. Watching the dogwood trees bloom behind my local supermarket at night last spring under the parking lot lights, it was a real battle between my EF16-35mm F2.8 and the EF 85mm f1.2. One lens won in the end only because it could gather more light, I was taking 26-35 second exposures, I had never done anything like that before, but the results were magical, all of these luminous white blossoms with the 12ft tall, orange, Caterpillar tractor parked in the middle of the lot... Yes! I did not know that existed, but I got it!. At a certain point you just have to put yourself in the way of magic, and have the right set of tools in your camera bag to photograph it. You just have to be a little patient, if it is not there tonight it might be there tomorrow night - if not you are just SOL. SOL happens a lot too. That EF85mm f1.2? It weights about *three pounds,* I cary it as often as I can, why?, most of my very best photos have come from that one lens.
I think most landscape shooters in the film days would shoot 3 or more frames and bracket since chrome film required such precision. I know I started out shooting 5 frames per scene and then down to four as I trusted my metering more and more. My guess is that Ansel shot more than one sheet of film when he could.
I think Hasselblads new 907X 50c digital back might slot into the back of your film camera? Not sure but you could then potentially pick and choose, film or digital. The sensor is the same as the one in Adams GFX so not as big as film but still big. So many toplandscape photographers are incorporating Fuji gear with their photography these days. Brilliant.
5:13] He thinks he might have 'wasted a frame.' Oh Jesus! He's come all the way to Iceland, and he's wasted a frame, he'll probably have to walk an entire "half a kilometer" - in metric! - to fix the composition. If only compositions moved to where we liked! Ok, I picked the wrong spot and composition isn't moving to me. Too bad.
Being new to landscape photography I've no idea about using film, so I'm loving seeing you use the hasselblad in the field. Would be great to see you develop the images if that's what you do yourself. Fantastic image at the end. Really enjoying your content 👍
Given you are using fuji lenses designed for the APSC xt-4 you are using the full image circle. Surely it is not a cropped image so calling the Fuji a cropped sensor is not really correct. It is an APSC sensor so is smaller than a 35mm in many cameras. If you put a nikon f mount lens on the Fuji you would only have a crop of the image circle but that is not the way it was intended to be used. Doubly weird you have a Hassy with a 6cm square frame. If you mounted the Hassy lens on a camera with a 35mm sensor then it would be a crop of the intended image the lens could produce. Would your 35mm camera then equally be a crop. Don’t even start on equivalence that is just a mess. A 50mm lens is always a 50mm regardless of the sensor size. Just remember it is a short telephoto on an APSC camera, a standard on the 35mm and a wide on the Hassy. QED
1:24]. Is that a Three Legged Thing? I own that tripod! Ok, really. Take the damned shot! Maybe you can do something with it later - or not. Just take the shot, push the shutter-release button! Forty, fifty years ago, on film, every time you depressed the shutter-release button was dollars deducted directly out of your bank account. It is not like that any more. Take the shot no matter what! you can always delete it later. It has never been easier in human history to delete a photo you don't like - so take all of the photos - just get good at deleting all of the bad ones. Photos do not have feelings, they do not care if they die, only you do.
Ansel Adams “Moonrise over Hernandise” was also one of the beautiful light going bad fast. He had time for one exposure. You need practice with the Hassy to get better.
i danish follow hard canon fully happy find way use film karmar the beautiful the good, remember comrade but photo but thank you film .. do not take canon Thank you
4:44] How do you know - really - that you "don't like the composition" until after you have take the shot? and looked at it? You cannot. Take the shot, it costs you almost nothing, look at it, if it sucks delete it. Then go take the nexts shot. Don't be so attached. Shoot-delete, shoot-delete, shoot-deltete - that is the rhythm. Just don't delete your best ones. *Your photos do not care if they die.* they are not humans - they are pixels.
Fuji are killing it just now but it's never gonna beat the experience of the MF film camera . You're not only there to provide an image, the experience has to enrich you as well
somehow I feel like you would love a digital Fuji medium format, it is literally all the films you want without changing a single film! I eagerly await your 100 megapixel epic photos!
Great images. I prefer the Fuji image of the mountain, but that is because the light seems better. Using film looks just too hard for me. I have the book and it is gorgeous!
The Velvia shot looked amazing, as did the other photographs. By the way, I ordered your hardcover book, and I am giving it an enthusiastic thumbs up. 😊
I thought that first square picture looked a lot better before it was cropped down. The crop lost too much of the sky and left too much foreground. The rocks on the bottom of the frame then gained more importance.
If you're going to shoot color film you should add a couple 81A, 81B warming filters to your kit. Don't be afraid to take any shot. It pays homage to the film gods! Nice work as always!!
I'm 6mins in and I have to stop to make a comment. You're making me wanna try not only film but medium format. The decisions, for not only what we all consider, how we should expose, how we should compose but deciding there on location what film would suit the given scene. This is what is missed from digital photography, I've only ever shot film with a disposable camera as a kid, so technically have never shot film and it is seriously peaking my interest.... Right back to the video to watch the rest hehe
When you press the shutter release on the blad you need to hold it down until you have heard the shutter in the lens close. The way you are doing it on the video (just stabbing at it) you will eventually hit a situation where the baffles at the back of the camera start to close before the shutter in the lens has closed and so get black bands at the top and bottom of your shot. The baffles close when you lift your finger from the release so if you take your finger off in a shorter time than the exposure your shot is messed up. This will happen with exposures over 1/4 of second. (maybe the 501 is better at this than the 500). You can see this work by looking through the back of the camera whilst making an exposure. Also don't snap your backs on! Slide the button when you put them on as well or the catches will eventually break. Back in the day it was fine to snap them on but these days things are getting irreplaceable. I may be teaching my grandma to suck eggs here but it is frustrating watching you do it! Love the shows otherwise.
You've convinced me to try film again, 17 years after I went digital, I can't afford A Hass, looking at some of the original Canon slr cameras, mid 90s onward. Thanks again Tom for a great video.
I've got a Bronica ETRS for medium format and couldn't recommend it enough; great value in comparison to other 6 x 4.5 (£300 with a lens if you're lucky)
Unless you need the agility for street or action, I'd go MF. Mamiya and Bronica are both affordable and built like brick outhouses. My first roll of medium format film blew my mind when I got it back from the lab.
@@TarrelScot thanks for your comments Mark, I've considered Mamiya before, but I'm still attracted to Canon, as I have a Canon Dslr, I can use EF lenses on the Dslr too, cheers.
I liked the Velvia image. But I think I like the Fuji image better. After you've scanned in your film photos, do you do any additional editing in Lightroom or Photoshop besides cropping?
Really enjoying watching you on this film discovery journey mate .. loved the images .. one question.. do you do any post processing on the digitisation of the film image when putting it into the video ?
Very helpful for me for making a vlog It,s absolutely nice camera work and editing voice over is also stunning. You made my day sir. Love from Pakistan
Landscape photographers always go through these once in awhile and sometimes the results are great 👍🏻. I appreciate your commitment to the channel and putting out content for us to be entertained.
Your images looks great! Maybe you're used to take landscape you start to feel it's boring that's why you're not so satisfied? Or maybe try doing it in black and white as a refresher (Fomapan for example? 😁)
Like you, Thomas, I have a Canon 5D Mk IV, a Fuji X-T3 and a 6 x 6 film camera - except mine is a Bronica SQ Ai. I've only had the Bronica a short time and so I'm still getting used to it - just waiting for my 3rd and 4th rolls of film to come back from developing and scanning. Do you scan your own? If so, how about a video on that when you have time. I'm interested in the scanning process you use, the resolution that you scan at and the software you use on converting the negatives (besides Photoshop).
Velvia is the best. I don't shoot film anymore as I recently sold my RZ67 for the lighter Z7, but when I had it I pretty much got to a point where I shot only Velvia 50 and Delta 100. Occasionally for long exposures id use Provia too which is great for cityscapes or startrails.
Hello Thomas from Adelaide South Australia. I've thoroughly ennoyed your channel for a long time now. I"ve been meaning to get a bracket for my X-T3 for portrait shots, which one do you recommend? Taking a square shot in portrait mode :) Keep the great work going. Were you using the 80mm lens?
Ansel was able to do it because he wasn't always talking to that invisible 3rd person. It was just Ansel and the scene. Also while I do understand the differences in films but if I had brought it that far I'd use it and hope for the best. It also helps to have more than 2 film backs. That is why I have 3 backs for my RB67. One B/W, one Porta 400 and one Ektachrome 100. Oh and I the love the Velvia image.
I will say one thing. Film has better dynamic range, and the information in the shadows often renders the scene in a more lifelike way than digital. Digital can be sharper. But I notice that a lot of information in the shadows and darker areas seems to get lost when compared to film. Compare your two images and you can see the main difference is how the light on the foreground is rendered.
Hi Tom. Fantastic video, as always! I was wondering, how would the actual velvia film shot compare to the velvia film simulation jpg version on the X-T3? I always shoot raw, but in this case I thought it would be an interesting and relevant comparison perhaps?
Not the camera, but the medium! Film will give you so many choices, and sometimes it will even capture something more than just what you saw when you were there.
Why don't you have a long lens for the Hasselblad? That's not camera's fault. Also, I like the first image better. Sunlight isn't always "better". "Dull" is a preference. A dull and cold environment can look beautiful. You're in Iceland, you should know better. Maybe try watching some Vikings? Also why do you crop in-camera? You should always shoot in full sensor so you can have options. I would just frame it so that the horizon line hits the top line of the thirds. That always works. You don't hit that in first image, cropped or uncropped, so it looks strange.
There is so much paid advert here that you can't even say HASSELBLAD. 😂 For years you defended canon, now you sell your episodes to fuji, how can one trust you? You will say what ever to cash in!
Thanks Thomas. My vote is for the Velvia. The Fuji digital is nice, but I prefer the distribution of light and the way the foreground leads to the mountain in the Fuji Velvia. Either way, Fuji wins! :-)
0:35]. There was a year when I was living in Las Vegas, that looked very much like this, when was that? It had rained *a lot* that Spring... 2008?? The hillsides and the valleys were green like this, almost all of the way to the crests. It was unusual, rare, and spectacular. At the time I did not have a camera working to photograph it. I *like* this photo.
Lovely images. If you get a chance to pick up a Hasselblad H1 then I would highly recommend it. It has the best viewfinder I have ever seen and used in a film camera and good metering with built in zone system which helps a lot with Velvia. It's 645 though. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like there’s a 150mm f/4 and/or a 250mm Sonnar for that 500cm in your future gear bag. They are amazing and can be found used online for under $300. Great stuff, Thomas!!
Two quick points. 1. "Back in the day" anyone shooting Velvia for pro use would bracket exposure because everyone knew how touchy it could be. 2. MF square format was used as a starting point for cropping and only a few photographers made a style of using it full frame. In my view both of the square film images would have been better in 3x2 crop as you'd lose the featureless foreground. Just my two bob's worth......
Hey Thomas, have you looked up FujiXWeekly's portra160 film simulation for the Fuji X series? Would be interesting to shoot it digitally w the film sim on the XT3
Images from both look great, I love my XT3. I have had it for a couple of months now and also along with the 55-200 have just purchased the 100-400 which is super sharp. I hardly touch my canon now although I will keep it because of the amazing 135L prime I own...sadly an uncle in UK recently contacted me (I'm in Australia) and said he had sold off his hassleblads and lenses, he did not know I was into photography or he'd have given them to me . Think I wanna cry
Found this channel the other. Such fantastic content. I've been to Iceland before but missed out on all of this because of my lack of skill for hiking and photography. Absolutely can't wait to go back.
Neat, I enjoy the broad comparison. Fun to have two such different types of cameras to use, especially for less-serious trip like this one with friends. I wonder if the first image would look better with some helpful cropping but they're all such lovely scenes. I'm looking forward to the next video!
Yep, Velvia image = perfect. Avid Hasselblad fan and the tense moments, working for the shot brings so much more satisfaction when you hit it perfectly. I also am an avid Fujifilm user and love both systems. Thanks for sharing your work.
If one shoots film an unnecessary step has been added to the process with no benefit. One has the scan the processed film and then you're back to the same place you would be if one had digitally captured the image in the first place. We pro photographers realized this 17, 18 years ago.
@Ray KalisekI think that's great. My history with photography does back to 1971 so I've shot thousands of rolls of film as a professional. I would just comment that even though I'm shooting digitally I have as much enjoyment of the shooting process as I did with film.
Well the shots are very different as the light was changing so rapidly. I think it’s hard to discern the differences in the cameras from that. I think the main difference is in handling and working with the systems. If the Fuji is the one you grab to capture the moment then I think you’ll get more amazing moments, especially if you have a lens already mounted to the camera and tripod ready. Just bought your book 😀
Thomas Thomas Thomas what's up dude Iceland is doing good for you Except for maybe a couple of the stream crossings that are quite deep Personally when I seen that I thought for sure you're going to get stuck A little on the cloudy side but you know what that pretty darn good for your manual film camera
I think I'm usually drawn to photos not taken on film, however in this instance, I REALLY love the shot you took on your Hasselblad. I think film was definitely the perfect medium for this composition
Hehe, I recognize that frantic approach when the light happens :)
There are several TH-camrs that post "long" videos that are just unwatchable sometimes..
And then there are others like Sean Tucker and Paul C Smith that are a joy to watch even if they were talking for an entire hour..
You fortunately belong in the 2nd group..
Your videos are always interesting to watch..
Love your work!!!!
Just keep them coming 😁 🙌🏻
I've been watching Tom for so long now, he's content is fantastic but he does waffle on at times.
I have a request, would you make a video about your scanning and color correcting proces? I struggle with getting the right colors while scanning my negatives. Which makes for a very inconsistent workflow and results. Your shots look absolutely wonderful! Take care
Same here.
Seconded :)
Third-Ed please
Try Negative lab pro with dng (raw) scan from your flat bed, or you can use your camera raw file.
Enjoyed it as always Tom.. but please stop describing film as temperamental or unpredictable. Velvia is unforgiving and requires near perfect exposure.. but it's not fickle. Metered properly and well developed, it'll give perfectly reliable results. If anything is unpredictable.. it's your metering, sorry bro. :D not suggesting it's easy to meter perfectly reliably.. we're all working at it. :)
You and I have a very different definition of “ok”. That photo is gorgeous.
thomas is so hard on the the film setup. poor hasselblad doesn't know what love is LOL
Ok, that Velvia shot is absolutely stunning!
Have to agree with that. Gorgeous! ❤️❤️❤️
I personally found that with square format, more negative space is better. Meaning, less ground, more sky. But that's just me :)
Yo! Maybe split the difference and add in a bit of sky at the expense of the land to have the river running closer to the bottom of the frame.
That said, I have no idea how you get such gorgeous square format shots. I usually hate square crops.
Yo? I didn't mean to write that...
DUDE!!!! DO. NOT. force that back onto that camera. Ease the release over, apply the back and release the release. I literally cringed when I saw that.
I literally screamed "NO!" in that exact moment. Don't do it Thomas! you'll ruin your camera
Francisco Ramirez yep, those feet won’t last long doing that.
But the click? Ok, duly noted 👍
I got a slap on the wrist from a Hasselblad engineer when they saw me do this 😂
Also, with the V system, don’t forget the rear “barn doors” close when you release the shutter. I think you said you used 1/2 sec shutter speed, but you may not be getting all of that exposure when you release as fast as you did in the video. For long exposures, alway wait until you hear the shutter close before releasing.
Film will always produce something with more depth as the emulsion has a physical thickness to it. This is the reason it is better, for the most part, to over-expose film images; the more the film is exposed, the thicker the negative in that area, thus creating something with actual depth. If you're searching for the reason film just looks different, this is the reason.
There is certainly a time and a place for both film and digital. As you said though, it doesn't really matter what camera you shoot with as long as what you are doing is making you happy.
That velvia shot is hauntingly beautiful! Amazing!!!
I think that velvia shot really captured the loneliness and starkness of the landscape. Just a quality shot. Thank you for the content.
Yes the Fuji photograph is better🤔But you can not change the visible light with a different camera.
Loved the Velvia shot! I bought your book and I absolutely love it! It is fantastic! I love the stories that you tell that you don’t necessarily hear about in the video! Keep up the great work!
Gosh, amazing photos, good light ! Congrats Tom, loved all images
I do remember fondly using Fuji Velvia back in the 90's - the reds, blues and greens on my photos from USA & NZ were fantastic but exposure was hit and miss due to my lack of skill. As I'm just an enthusiast I'd not go back from digital but I can see it would have an attraction to a Pro though.
I don't think that crop sensor is a drawback in landscape photography. To get the same depth of field, we usually use faster aperture in crop sensor camera as compared to mediam format. So the final image is mostly equal.
Very true... Until you go to print large.
@@Iifecycle Yes, large print is a valid point.
So enjoyable and such great images! Thanks for this video!
I found myself behind the monitor saying "take the shot, do it, don't vlog, take the shot!!" 🤣
Greetings from France
Wishing you well... Truly love your videos.... I was wondering.... Which metering mode do you use on your xt3 for your photos.. Thanks peace
4:52] Ok, now there is something wrong with the river..? Or is it something wrong with you? No, there is nothing wrong with the river. Problem exists between camera and operator. [PEBCO] If there is something wrong with the composition - *move.* If there is something wrong with the light that a lens change cannot fix - you might be fucked, but probably you just are not creative enough - I suffer from that problem all of the time. Just not creative enough.
5:12]. You are ini Iceland! Yay! I love Iceland! I remember standing on the Logberg itself [herself?] at Þingvellir back in 1989! Fantastic! My mother died two weeks later.
You think
I have one 'modern' camera, an EOS-R, and couple of out of date DSLRs [nice ones] and a bunch of truly archaic film cameras - and a bunch of nice-old glass, much of which I inherited from my late father - but some was mine dating back to the 1980s. So, when I head out for the day I take one camera and two or three lenses.
These days I buy the fastest [used] lenses I can afford, half of them are primes: 50mm, 85mm, 130mm. All of my very best fotos come from those prime lenses - they just can do more.
*'Constrains force creativity,'* that is the law. Watching the dogwood trees bloom behind my local supermarket at night last spring under the parking lot lights, it was a real battle between my EF16-35mm F2.8 and the EF 85mm f1.2. One lens won in the end only because it could gather more light, I was taking 26-35 second exposures, I had never done anything like that before, but the results were magical, all of these luminous white blossoms with the 12ft tall, orange, Caterpillar tractor parked in the middle of the lot... Yes! I did not know that existed, but I got it!.
At a certain point you just have to put yourself in the way of magic, and have the right set of tools in your camera bag to photograph it. You just have to be a little patient, if it is not there tonight it might be there tomorrow night - if not you are just SOL. SOL happens a lot too.
That EF85mm f1.2? It weights about *three pounds,* I cary it as often as I can, why?, most of my very best photos have come from that one lens.
I think most landscape shooters in the film days would shoot 3 or more frames and bracket since chrome film required such precision. I know I started out shooting 5 frames per scene and then down to four as I trusted my metering more and more. My guess is that Ansel shot more than one sheet of film when he could.
I think Hasselblads new 907X 50c digital back might slot into the back of your film camera? Not sure but you could then potentially pick and choose, film or digital. The sensor is the same as the one in Adams GFX so not as big as film but still big. So many toplandscape photographers are incorporating Fuji gear with their photography these days. Brilliant.
5:13] He thinks he might have 'wasted a frame.' Oh Jesus! He's come all the way to Iceland, and he's wasted a frame, he'll probably have to walk an entire "half a kilometer" - in metric! - to fix the composition. If only compositions moved to where we liked! Ok, I picked the wrong spot and composition isn't moving to me. Too bad.
Being new to landscape photography I've no idea about using film, so I'm loving seeing you use the hasselblad in the field. Would be great to see you develop the images if that's what you do yourself. Fantastic image at the end. Really enjoying your content 👍
You make your expedition very interesting and fun. Your commentary is enjoyable and edifying 👍👍👍👍👍
Given you are using fuji lenses designed for the APSC xt-4 you are using the full image circle. Surely it is not a cropped image so calling the Fuji a cropped sensor is not really correct. It is an APSC sensor so is smaller than a 35mm in many cameras. If you put a nikon f mount lens on the Fuji you would only have a crop of the image circle but that is not the way it was intended to be used. Doubly weird you have a Hassy with a 6cm square frame. If you mounted the Hassy lens on a camera with a 35mm sensor then it would be a crop of the intended image the lens could produce. Would your 35mm camera then equally be a crop. Don’t even start on equivalence that is just a mess. A 50mm lens is always a 50mm regardless of the sensor size. Just remember it is a short telephoto on an APSC camera, a standard on the 35mm and a wide on the Hassy. QED
1:24]. Is that a Three Legged Thing? I own that tripod!
Ok, really. Take the damned shot! Maybe you can do something with it later - or not. Just take the shot, push the shutter-release button! Forty, fifty years ago, on film, every time you depressed the shutter-release button was dollars deducted directly out of your bank account. It is not like that any more. Take the shot no matter what! you can always delete it later. It has never been easier in human history to delete a photo you don't like - so take all of the photos - just get good at deleting all of the bad ones. Photos do not have feelings, they do not care if they die, only you do.
Ansel Adams “Moonrise over Hernandise” was also one of the beautiful light going bad fast. He had time for one exposure.
You need practice with the Hassy to get better.
Incredible Velvia composition... cheers, be safe... 🇨🇱
i danish follow hard canon fully happy find way use film karmar the beautiful the good, remember comrade but photo but thank you film .. do not take canon Thank you
4:44] How do you know - really - that you "don't like the composition" until after you have take the shot? and looked at it? You cannot. Take the shot, it costs you almost nothing, look at it, if it sucks delete it. Then go take the nexts shot. Don't be so attached. Shoot-delete, shoot-delete, shoot-deltete - that is the rhythm. Just don't delete your best ones. *Your photos do not care if they die.* they are not humans - they are pixels.
Fuji are killing it just now but it's never gonna beat the experience of the MF film camera . You're not only there to provide an image, the experience has to enrich you as well
Lol, still doing nothing at all to make those film pictures excellent. Do you have graduated NDs, color correction filters, a lens shade even?
somehow I feel like you would love a digital Fuji medium format, it is literally all the films you want without changing a single film! I eagerly await your 100 megapixel epic photos!
The GFX is great, for sure, but film simulations haven't yet got to the point where they're indistinguishable from real film.
Thomas, are you using the fujifilm simulations? Perhaps challenging yourself to only shoot jpgs?
Great images. I prefer the Fuji image of the mountain, but that is because the light seems better. Using film looks just too hard for me. I have the book and it is gorgeous!
The Velvia shot looked amazing, as did the other photographs. By the way, I ordered your hardcover book, and I am giving it an enthusiastic thumbs up. 😊
Ohh, man, you triped with Alister Benn!
What a nice company, i wanted it to be. :)
Thomas, thank you for your content. I am very interested in the location (even just the country) you have used in this video.
I thought that first square picture looked a lot better before it was cropped down. The crop lost too much of the sky and left too much foreground. The rocks on the bottom of the frame then gained more importance.
If you're going to shoot color film you should add a couple 81A, 81B warming filters to your kit. Don't be afraid to take any shot. It pays homage to the film gods! Nice work as always!!
I feel if I was to google storyteller, your face would pop up ! Haha Amazing video and shots as always. That last velvia shot 😍
You are a great photographer. Live in the moment with your photography and stop worrying so much about what people think.
Can't wait when tourism to Mars is a thing in the future and photographers are travelling there for photography vlogging
Nothing throws me off quite like a Thomas Heaton video not ending with “bye for now”.
I'm 6mins in and I have to stop to make a comment. You're making me wanna try not only film but medium format. The decisions, for not only what we all consider, how we should expose, how we should compose but deciding there on location what film would suit the given scene. This is what is missed from digital photography, I've only ever shot film with a disposable camera as a kid, so technically have never shot film and it is seriously peaking my interest.... Right back to the video to watch the rest hehe
When you press the shutter release on the blad you need to hold it down until you have heard the shutter in the lens close. The way you are doing it on the video (just stabbing at it) you will eventually hit a situation where the baffles at the back of the camera start to close before the shutter in the lens has closed and so get black bands at the top and bottom of your shot. The baffles close when you lift your finger from the release so if you take your finger off in a shorter time than the exposure your shot is messed up. This will happen with exposures over 1/4 of second. (maybe the 501 is better at this than the 500). You can see this work by looking through the back of the camera whilst making an exposure. Also don't snap your backs on! Slide the button when you put them on as well or the catches will eventually break. Back in the day it was fine to snap them on but these days things are getting irreplaceable. I may be teaching my grandma to suck eggs here but it is frustrating watching you do it! Love the shows otherwise.
I see someone already said that snappy back bit! Your life is hard being judged all the time :)
The exact same filming location as the last fuji video I watched, lol.
Cracking video and that Pano if it was wine it would be the best vintage out there, stunning light
What primary camera do you use fof landcsapes Thomas?
Fantastic video and excellent shots. I am really enjoying this series. Cheers, Duade
Velvia spell corrected comes out as Elvis.
That hasselblad image carry’s you soul to tranquility
Wowwww. What a great view! Wonderfully shot! 👋👋👋
You've convinced me to try film again, 17 years after I went digital, I can't afford A Hass, looking at some of the original Canon slr cameras, mid 90s onward. Thanks again Tom for a great video.
Just got a Kiev 80 recently. It's a copy of a Hasselblad but from the Soviet Union. Can be unreliable but I got mine for 250 quid!
I've got a Bronica ETRS for medium format and couldn't recommend it enough; great value in comparison to other 6 x 4.5 (£300 with a lens if you're lucky)
Unless you need the agility for street or action, I'd go MF. Mamiya and Bronica are both affordable and built like brick outhouses. My first roll of medium format film blew my mind when I got it back from the lab.
@@JP-gb9cd thanks for the recommendations JP, I'm gonna take my time though, mmm medium or 35mm, I don't know yet.
@@TarrelScot thanks for your comments Mark, I've considered Mamiya before, but I'm still attracted to Canon, as I have a Canon Dslr, I can use EF lenses on the Dslr too, cheers.
Why do you crop in camera rather than post, Thomas?
I liked the Velvia image. But I think I like the Fuji image better. After you've scanned in your film photos, do you do any additional editing in Lightroom or Photoshop besides cropping?
Each photo perfect. Fuji the best light
Looks like such an awesome place, I hope I'll be able to visit one day and enjoy it as well.
I actually liked the first photo a bit more. It's got more iceland mood to it.
how did you meter light when shooting with film?
Great images of the excited photographer
Really enjoying watching you on this film discovery journey mate .. loved the images .. one question.. do you do any post processing on the digitisation of the film image when putting it into the video ?
Very helpful for me for making a vlog It,s absolutely nice camera work and editing voice over is also stunning. You made my day sir. Love from Pakistan
Landscape photographers always go through these once in awhile and sometimes the results are great 👍🏻.
I appreciate your commitment to the channel and putting out content for us to be entertained.
Your images looks great! Maybe you're used to take landscape you start to feel it's boring that's why you're not so satisfied? Or maybe try doing it in black and white as a refresher (Fomapan for example? 😁)
Like you, Thomas, I have a Canon 5D Mk IV, a Fuji X-T3 and a 6 x 6 film camera - except mine is a Bronica SQ Ai. I've only had the Bronica a short time and so I'm still getting used to it - just waiting for my 3rd and 4th rolls of film to come back from developing and scanning. Do you scan your own? If so, how about a video on that when you have time. I'm interested in the scanning process you use, the resolution that you scan at and the software you use on converting the negatives (besides Photoshop).
Velvia is the best. I don't shoot film anymore as I recently sold my RZ67 for the lighter Z7, but when I had it I pretty much got to a point where I shot only Velvia 50 and Delta 100. Occasionally for long exposures id use Provia too which is great for cityscapes or startrails.
Hello Thomas from Adelaide South Australia. I've thoroughly ennoyed your channel for a long time now. I"ve been meaning to get a bracket for my X-T3 for portrait shots, which one do you recommend? Taking a square shot in portrait mode :) Keep the great work going. Were you using the 80mm lens?
Ansel was able to do it because he wasn't always talking to that invisible 3rd person. It was just Ansel and the scene. Also while I do understand the differences in films but if I had brought it that far I'd use it and hope for the best. It also helps to have more than 2 film backs. That is why I have 3 backs for my RB67. One B/W, one Porta 400 and one Ektachrome 100. Oh and I the love the Velvia image.
Don't underestimate the potential of Kodak Ektar. Great saturated colours and MUCH more forgiving than Velvia (although not quite as much as Portra).
I will say one thing. Film has better dynamic range, and the information in the shadows often renders the scene in a more lifelike way than digital. Digital can be sharper. But I notice that a lot of information in the shadows and darker areas seems to get lost when compared to film. Compare your two images and you can see the main difference is how the light on the foreground is rendered.
Hi Tom. Fantastic video, as always! I was wondering, how would the actual velvia film shot compare to the velvia film simulation jpg version on the X-T3? I always shoot raw, but in this case I thought it would be an interesting and relevant comparison perhaps?
Not the camera, but the medium! Film will give you so many choices, and sometimes it will even capture something more than just what you saw when you were there.
Have you tried the X-T3’s in-camera Velvia film simulations and compared it against the actual film shot? Your critique would be most interesting.
Why don't you have a long lens for the Hasselblad? That's not camera's fault. Also, I like the first image better. Sunlight isn't always "better". "Dull" is a preference. A dull and cold environment can look beautiful. You're in Iceland, you should know better. Maybe try watching some Vikings?
Also why do you crop in-camera? You should always shoot in full sensor so you can have options.
I would just frame it so that the horizon line hits the top line of the thirds. That always works. You don't hit that in first image, cropped or uncropped, so it looks strange.
Once again excellent Thomas
As a Fuji fan I love that shot but as a film fan I absolutely love that shot. Great video mate love it.
That last one is really stunning.
There is so much paid advert here that you can't even say HASSELBLAD. 😂
For years you defended canon, now you sell your episodes to fuji, how can one trust you? You will say what ever to cash in!
Velvia is a wonderful film stock
Your videos make me very happy
Thanks Thomas. My vote is for the Velvia. The Fuji digital is nice, but I prefer the distribution of light and the way the foreground leads to the mountain in the Fuji Velvia.
Either way, Fuji wins! :-)
0:35]. There was a year when I was living in Las Vegas, that looked very much like this, when was that? It had rained *a lot* that Spring... 2008?? The hillsides and the valleys were green like this, almost all of the way to the crests. It was unusual, rare, and spectacular. At the time I did not have a camera working to photograph it. I *like* this photo.
Lovely images. If you get a chance to pick up a Hasselblad H1 then I would highly recommend it. It has the best viewfinder I have ever seen and used in a film camera and good metering with built in zone system which helps a lot with Velvia. It's 645 though. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like there’s a 150mm f/4 and/or a 250mm Sonnar for that 500cm in your future gear bag. They are amazing and can be found used online for under $300. Great stuff, Thomas!!
Two quick points. 1. "Back in the day" anyone shooting Velvia for pro use would bracket exposure because everyone knew how touchy it could be. 2. MF square format was used as a starting point for cropping and only a few photographers made a style of using it full frame. In my view both of the square film images would have been better in 3x2 crop as you'd lose the featureless foreground. Just my two bob's worth......
Hey Thomas, have you looked up FujiXWeekly's portra160 film simulation for the Fuji X series? Would be interesting to shoot it digitally w the film sim on the XT3
Images from both look great, I love my XT3. I have had it for a couple of months now and also along with the 55-200 have just purchased the 100-400 which is super sharp. I hardly touch my canon now although I will keep it because of the amazing 135L prime I own...sadly an uncle in UK recently contacted me (I'm in Australia) and said he had sold off his hassleblads and lenses, he did not know I was into photography or he'd have given them to me . Think I wanna cry
Found this channel the other. Such fantastic content.
I've been to Iceland before but missed out on all of this because of my lack of skill for hiking and photography. Absolutely can't wait to go back.
Great picture (the last one)
Great shots Thomas, have you tried using the Velvia film simulation of the XT3 and comparing with the Velvia 6x6 film shot?
love this vlog its always happens you leave the light comes then its a mad rush . excellent video thomas
Neat, I enjoy the broad comparison. Fun to have two such different types of cameras to use, especially for less-serious trip like this one with friends. I wonder if the first image would look better with some helpful cropping but they're all such lovely scenes. I'm looking forward to the next video!
Yep, Velvia image = perfect. Avid Hasselblad fan and the tense moments, working for the shot brings so much more satisfaction when you hit it perfectly. I also am an avid Fujifilm user and love both systems. Thanks for sharing your work.
If one shoots film an unnecessary step has been added to the process with no benefit. One has the scan the processed film and then you're back to the same place you would be if one had digitally captured the image in the first place. We pro photographers realized this 17, 18 years ago.
What if Juan wants one to take an image of a prawn wonton. Would one be guilty of wanton photography? Just wondering
@Ray KalisekI think that's great. My history with photography does back to 1971 so I've shot thousands of rolls of film as a professional. I would just comment that even though I'm shooting digitally I have as much enjoyment of the shooting process as I did with film.
You do you. When your hard drive crashes, I’ll still have binders filled with negatives (and positives)
Well the shots are very different as the light was changing so rapidly. I think it’s hard to discern the differences in the cameras from that. I think the main difference is in handling and working with the systems. If the Fuji is the one you grab to capture the moment then I think you’ll get more amazing moments, especially if you have a lens already mounted to the camera and tripod ready. Just bought your book 😀
Love it. More analog photog man. Question: how do you keep from killing your back with 2 bodies, 2 tripods, ect ect??
Thomas Thomas Thomas what's up dude
Iceland is doing good for you
Except for maybe a couple of the stream crossings that are quite deep
Personally when I seen that I thought for sure you're going to get stuck
A little on the cloudy side but you know what that pretty darn good for your manual film camera
I think I'm usually drawn to photos not taken on film, however in this instance, I REALLY love the shot you took on your Hasselblad. I think film was definitely the perfect medium for this composition