I am an independent photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. My videos include explorations of the creative process, behind the scenes on photoshoots, various social issues related to photography, gear reviews, and collaborations with other creatives. I love making bold and creative images and I am working hard to take my photography to the next level.
How fun! I love the photos you got. Yeah, there's definitely a charm to this camera, I might just have to snag it and take it for a ride. I wonder how Fomapan 400 would perform with it. That's my go-to for my Holga which is a very similar exposure, but half-frame may not be as forgiving. It makes sense the 3200 exposes way better, but foma just loves the plastic-lens, though I wouldn't wanna push it more than 800. I love that you employed the diptych technique. That's not something I would have thought of, although I have been developing a narrative photobook project for a while (kinda like a comic, but with photographs rather than line art) and half-frame would certainly be a great avenue for that. Y'know, one camera I feel obliged to mention is the Canon demi ee 17. Don't know if you knew about it or not, but when you mentioned a half frame camera as a fashion accessory, it came to mind. I think it would suit you brilliantly, plus it's way cheaper than the Pentax, oh and it comes in different colors, lol. I didn't comment on the tumblr video, but I did enjoy that, it was kind of an eye-opener. I will confess a certain animosity toward that site, so I never really noticed it had a genre of photography associated with it, but your breakdown on it was pretty illuminating. Excited for the Yashica vid! I'm still wading in the surf when it comes to medium format. I'll dive in one day soon, but I'm not there yet (I'm looking at the Fujifilm GX680. That beautiful behemoth is so 'me', lol.) Right now I'm just rockin' a Holga and an Olympus Six, but I have absolutely fallen in love with 6x6 square photos. Throwing off the shackles of aspect ratios and whatnot. Cheers, Yvonne!
One time I was on a Reddit thread about street photography, and out of 400 comments, not ONE PERSON used pronouns other than “he”. There was no room in their mind for a street photographer that wasn’t a man taking pictures of women. It just didn’t exist for them.
Watching in a pub in the UK and admittedly I have had a few beers, but tonight you remind me of Kim Novak in her heyday. Don’t know this particular camera and have never had a half frame. But I can fully appreciate the advantages and obviously some disadvantages 🙄🤷♂️👍📸
I know this just shows my age, but I started shooting Polaroid in the mid seventies. When I hear someone call an instax a “Polaroid” I’m torn by two emotions. First, “Listen dummy that’s not a Polaroid”, and secondly that I hate myself for transforming into the photography equivalent of, “Get off my lawn you hooligans!”
I loooove half frame! almsot as much as I love square frame. I especially love it because it makes all my boring typology projects viable to shoot on film.
Just wanted to give my own experience with like a 4 pack of CR2 batteries for like $15-20 and they lasted me likeeee 2 years and over 10 packs for sureeee 🥰 and that’s that I switched them between my SQ6 and Mini 70 😳
WAITTTTT, I had to check my Amazon orders because I felt like I was wrong and I was… I bought the batteries December 21, 2020 for $9.75 US plus tax 😳😳😳😳😳 so yeah TWO batteries lasted me 3 years and 8 months 😅
I need to get a half frame 35mm camera, and this one looks like a good candidate. but also, 6x4.5cm is a half frame format and I like giving that the diptych thought process too!
Hey! such a fun video! :) I love half frame photography! If you liked it in 35mm look for the Bencini 24 \ 24s \ Koroll I \ Koroll II. These are half frame medium format cameras from the 50s from Italy. Have a plastic lens and apparature f8-22 with 3 speeds. They give dreamy lo-fi looks to most photos :) They cost about 5-30$ US in Ebay. My fav camera by far.
I always tell my friends who are getting into film stuff that these plastic junk cameras are more expensive than getting an older used one or at this point even a pentax17. The keeper rate is so low youd have to spend way more on film to get a useful amount of pictures. The amount of rolls ive developed where the shutter just stopped working or half fires is more than the successful rolls by actially 3:1
Half-frame is a lot more fun than I expected, especially when I took the advice and saw each frame as a part of the whole. I used the frames to capture blocks of buildings, making each structure a part of the three-image set. Great results; I loved seeing the shots from your trips to Toronto and Montreal (Heading to Montreal in October!). And I'm looking forward to seeing your video on that TLR (Love TLRs).
@@AlexLuyckxPhoto I love the idea of photographing parts of a building and combining them into one image, that sounds so cool!! Enjoy Montreal, and don't forget to hit up Photo St Denis for some great deals on funky expired film
Does the flash fire when the switch is off only when you are taking the shot shortly after charging the flash? If so, I suspect that the capacitor is always discharged with the shutter, and the capacitor takes some time to discharge without firing.
Thank you for posting this video! I splurged on the Pentax 17 as a bday present for myself back in June, and I couldn’t be happier shooting half frame since I got it; and yes, thinking of taking photos as diptychs is definitely the way to go. (However, the quality of the Pentax 17 optics is surprisingly quite good that you could blow your photos up quite a bit and still get detailed photos!). Anyway, I’m glad that cheaper half frame options exist like the Flic Film camera you used (I’m now thinking of buying one for my nephew as his first film camera so we can take photo walks together), so thank you again for making this video!
Been a photographer for over 50 years. Neve saw any merit in half frame, TBH. They could have made a camera to take 24X24mm square format photos for the intened taeget of this one. The lens from this camera would have probably covered that format . A much more proposition than this camera.
I need to check out your Tumblr photo video, because maybe you discussed it there, but your discussion of photos as pieces of a larger work kind-of makes me think about comic books and comic art. Like, there absolutely are artists who will make every single panel look like a singularly perfect work of art (and then repeat that for every panel on every page), but oftentimes the individual panels are just a small component of the overall work. I just think that's neat, and now I'm off to watch your Tumblr video, to see what you said in more detail there. Also, this was a cool video, and I liked the lo-fi look of some of those color photos-especially the grainy reds in a few of them!
I have a really nice Canon convertible half-frame, but these look fun! I think we often overlook the reason that phone photography can be so nice is that it's plentiful and the expectations are low. Sounds like the life of having 72 frames on a focus-free P&S, right?
I got this one for my wife, while I got an old demi for me lolz , both half frames but I prefer the weight of the demi. Any thoughts for Pentax 17? yay nay or meh?
If I didn't already have the Olympus Pen EE3 I would definitely look into this camera, or Kodak's (I've heard decent things about that one, even if the price is a little high). It certainly feels like it takes forever to finish the film, which I think is a great thing lol.
@@YvonneHansonPhotography Definitely recommend it! When I first got mine I tested it with cheap Kodak film at ISO 200. The handful of under exposed photos still managed to turn out halfway decent, which was a pleasant surprise. Probably thanks to the glass lens. I definitely want to try a really nice film in it next.
I've not gotten around to it, but for some time I've wanted to get my hands on a Pen EE-3. They're so compact, and the half-frame format seems like it could be a lot of fun.
If you are interested in half frame cameras, I'd recommend the Olympus Pen F from the 60's, it is the only half-frame interchangable lens SLR ever made. I recently ordered one after being very displeased with the Pentax 17's high price, lack of changable lenses, odd focus system choices, and a cheap plastic design. Could we get a review of the Pen F? It is such a fun camera that is relatively cheap for an SLR and is great for those who want to choose their focal length and also shoot half frame film. (I'm in a weird niche minority of film photographer I realize) but it's my favorite camera. I'm also currently making a 3D adapter so I can use my canon FD lenses on this old system. While the half frame does technically make your photo lower quality, I would argue on cameras that can shoot 50, 100, 200, etc speed film and expose properly, this isn't a dealbreaking issue in my eye. The cost of saving film in my eyes is a bigger upside to the technically lower quality seen in half frame. Some people may genuinely not be able to tell on low speed film. Great video as always!
@@YvonneHansonPhotography same boat... Pentax 17 felt expensive (granted, I still want to buy it to support the effort... lol). I got a PEN F and it was a lot of fun to use. Still waiting for developing. I also have it's digital brother so that might have something to do with it, too. I ended up buying a box of "as-is" on a gamble. I lost hard, but discovered a PEN S (yes, that's a terrible name). I need to fix the seals but it seems like a fun little camera.
5 minutes for researching kodak h35n and you could find out why it is more expensive: better lens (aka not plastic), two apertures in combination with flash activation(also, flash firing after charging is normal, that energy cannot be stored in this type of camera), cable release option, a star filter and royalties for using the name. More than enough to get to double the price
This is such a cool video! I’m an illustrator not a photographer and I am in awe of how you see the world around you! I’m looking to get this camera to play around and figure out how to get more creative with the things I’m seeing. Thanks for sharing!
My opinion is, I think Polaroid is better but it’s my opinion so it’s OK. You might say no OK. I like Polaroid because it’s old and do you like your camera because well I don’t know but you like it and I have nothing against.
Great video, Yvonne! I've been curious about these filters. I wasn't aware of Nisha, I'll have to look into that. Maybe not the best quality, but an affordable way to experiment before upgrading to the premium filters. I remember Lomography had some fun looking filters back when too. Then they got into the art lens business. Some of those pretzvals are really cool, but not $400 cool, lol. I loved your photos in this video, and I can see why the rose garden set are your faves. Mine too, especially the one at 5:46. That's one for the port right there. The white hole effect is very nice indeed. K&F Concept make some nice filters too. I have the black mist filter from them. That's really the only effect filter I've messed with though. I'll have to try some of these others. Looking forward to the Doubleshot review. Half frame is having quite a resurgence this year with the Pentax 17 and whatnot. I enjoyed those photos you posted on insta from the doubleshot. Cheers for now!
Ah yes! The lomography art lenses! I've often longed to try them, but I agree, the $400 price point is a bit steep for novelty! Thanks for watching, and do stay tuned for the doubleshot! I might have to pick up the new pentax at some point too, hoping the price will go down a bit by next year!
Very cool video. I love to play with filters too and I've been living in China for the past 14 years, and here there are tons of filters just like those for around $12-20usd... :)
Knowledge can be so random to many, trying to organize so there is a flow that captures most of a subject is one method and done fairly well here. Metering for flash is an art, usually now done looking at a histogram. If you do have a digital body you can take test shots using the same iso, shutter speed and f-stop. We previewed exposure for slide (transparency) film using Polaroid of similar speed. In addition to viewing exposure, we looked at composition, safety concerns, product quality… Photography can be a process with many different rhythms, timing and end goals. All the best
Some retouch artists used graphite pencils with a machine that had rear lighting and adjustable vibration. My mothers 1940 age 16 portrait had all of her freckles retouch on a 6x9 negative.
I bought mine new, took it to a camera repair shop to add a pc (flash cord) and have film rewind leave leader out. I used manual studio flash with hand metering ( Gossen Ultra Meter) or Minolta 3 flash meter. It worked great with Metz flash units. For cold situations I used advice from a National Geo photographer, used an older FM with worn loose gears. It was good at ~40c°/f°. Metering was great with attention to meter area, spot, 12% center, or larger area. All the best, nice video.
Cokin also makes a set of creative filters including similar ones that you showed. I’ve been using and collecting theirs since the mid 1970s. By the way, have you tried shooting through a black nylon stocking stretched over your lens for a soft diffusive effect? I use it to counteract the clinical characteristic of modern lenses and produce a more vintage look.
I really want to try the nylon thing! I thought it might be fun at some point to do a "testing viral photography hacks" video but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I'll check out the Cokin line! I hadn't heard of it!
@@YvonneHansonPhotography - I made a version of the black stocking filter by sandwiching it with two pieces of thin black cardboard with the center cutout and sized it to fit in my Cokin filter holder. But when I'm lazy I just stretch a piece of nylon over the lens.
