Loved all of these shots! It’s so interesting- until this year I shot mostly 6X6,6X7 or occasionally 6X12 . I thumbed my nose at 645 but bought a folder and Fuji gs645s this year and have to say that the Fuji has blown me away in 645. It’s not only a bridge format but clearly holds its own with larger medium formats. Your 645 images bear this out.
Thanks! I actually just sent my first book to print, the proof will be shipped August 15th. If all goes well, I'll open up preorders at the end of August. You're the first to know! 🙂
Another inspiring video. Those photos are outstanding. The one of the falls for the thumbnail is awesome! I live in Upstate New York, 3 miles from the Vermont border and 12 miles from Massachusetts. Covered bridges, farms, historic churches, the Berkshires and the Taconic and Green Mountains are literally a view from my front porch! So, no excuses. My question is: for local or semi-local do you use the summer to go and scout compositions to take photos in the fall, winter and spring? Thank you.
Yes, summertime is good for scouting. If I were in your neck of the woods, I'd check out Watkins Glen. I think it might be less than 100 miles from where you are. I've seen some nice photos from there.
You either have a very good memory, or you were a fastidious note taker! I couldn't tell you what film I used in almost any of my old photos. I love the way the water of Ramona Falls naturally forms a diamond shape in this shot. Really nice tones on the Union Station shot too.
Not sure why I remember what I do about those shots, but some details just seem to stick in my mind. I usually remember the camera, and the film. But not the focal length for some reason. Thanks!
In this day and age where seemingly every camera geek on RU-vid is primarily interested in becoming an influencer, it is very refreshing to see only the wonderful images that you have captured while learning about the stories behind them. Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could get 500,000 subscribers just because you love the art of photography and want to share that? And not just making spurious, corporate financed drivel videos about gear that was given to you.
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography Heh, one can always dream I suppose. The funny thing is watching a group of RU-vidrs who all received the same piece of gear to review & promote then acting in their respective videos as if each of them were the only one entrusted to do so.
The coast in winter is excellent. Far less people traveling there during that time too so it's less crowded. I'll take the Oregon coast over Washington because the Oregon coast is more accessible in my experience. I hear you about "be there". I've been doing some hiking and getting some great shots lately. I will say that the longer I've been shooting though the more I'm finding satisfaction in making images without the big scene in front of me. The challenge of making images out of the ordinary is more personally satisfying in a lot of ways. I've gotten more into macro/closeup type shooting. Finding Americana and dilapidated structures to document has also become pretty fun for me. Mixing it up in general has been important for me because I don't always have the time to "be there". However, to your point, that's not what I was thinking when I was up on a firetower for sunset last weekend 😅
Yes, it's still fun to photograph other things, but there's something about getting a good landscape shot that's particularly memorable. Even if you go out 2-3 times a month, and get to the good places, you only end up with a dozen or so shots a year. Frustrating and exhilarating all at once. (Mostly frustrating... :) )
The times are pretty much the same in Tasmania: late summer to late Spring. Summer is a wonderful time to get out, just because the nights are relatively short, which means it's an excellent time for multi-day hikes. As for locations, I'm a little ignorant of your part of the world (apart from the big locations), but if you ever make it to Tasmania, I can show you some truly magical places :)
I just realized I have not seen a lot of people heading to Tasmania for photography. Sounds like a fun trip though. And likewise if you ever head to the Pacific Northwest, let me know. :)
Im not living in the US but I would visit Yosemite National Park with my 1900s camera 5x7. I used to have a Nikon D100 with a 180mm it was really a great combo.
The opening photos sure did catch my eye. Then of course, they had that Nikon D700 look to them. The D3, the D700 and the mighty D300 were the Nikon camera that were hitting on all cylinders. Cameras from a time before everyone slapped an off the shelf Sony sensor in their camera bodies and called it a day. Now you got me thinking again about getting a Nikkor 20mm. Get out there and visit the photo spots you want to while you can. My health took a nose dive and I can only get out into my backyard to shoot these days, so get going.
I used the D700 a lot. More than I remember using it. I took it for granted, and didn't realize at the time that it was probably as good as it was going to get. With 20/20 hind sight I should have just bought 3 of them and used those for the past 10 years. I hear you. I'm at about 80% of where I was 14 years ago which is god, I'm not complaining. But it is getting worse and worse every year. I can easily see where health wise things just accelerate getting worse. So I'm going to hit it as hard as I can while I still can. There's only so many autumn's left to shoot, gotta make the most of them!
OMG! What gorgeous photos! As you always say, "peak photography happened 10-12 years ago". For all of the bells and whistles on today's cameras, the actual image quality had gone backwards, IMO. I think there was more emphasis on making the jpeg engine perform than on a "raw" workflow. Stanley ID and the Sawtooth's are on my list. There is a book I want to create called the Sawtooth Mountains of North America. I am hoping to get to the range here in NM this fall. Very enjoyable video, Ed.
I am not really sure what it is, but the IQ was better back then. Sure the images are more enlargeable now, and sharper, but not necessarily any better. And the cameras are so much more complicated, more complicated than they really need to be.
The Oregon coast is about a 6 hour drive, with the major hurdle being the Portland/I-5 corridor. It's 3 lanes of traffic from Portland to Salem every day, and God forbid there's an accident (and there usually is) you can spend 5 hours going 10 miles.
Still catching up on your videos which I am really enjoying. Great summation! It’s meaningless to say this but if they had put the mono in the K1 I would have already pulled the trigger.
… learned a lot about the P67; thank you. Liked, subscribed and will be looking for more mentoring. BTW, id the P67 your optimal choice for Medium format landscape? Thanks, Edward 👍
Yes, for medium format landscape photography the Pentax 67 is the best choice in my opinion. The Mamiya 7 is nice, but the cost is prohibitive and the rangefinder has issues with calibration. At least it did 30 years ago, and I can only imagine it's worse now due to the lack of many people left around to calibrate them. You can't beat the prices of the used lenses which are some of the best lenses ever made.
So my sense of this is, and I think you said it,- the Pentax mono excels at low light/high iso BW photography . There is a slight edge to image quality to the monochrome over color sensor BW conversion but honestly not much. On the one hand I’m intrigued but as a photographer with medium format film cameras I look at the K3 mono as 100 rolls of processed medium format film. Financially it’s either/or. Low light hasn’t really been my thing, but all this being said I’m still curious. Thanks a lot 😂
Personally I opted for the film in a Pentax 67. It's the real thing and far superior to any digital camera, unless you're needing to shoot at ISO 32,000 a lot. 🙂
So my sense of this is, and I think you said it,- the Pentax mono excels at low light/high iso BW photography . There is a slight edge to image quality to the monochrome over color sensor BW conversion but honestly not much. On the one hand I’m intrigued but as a photographer with medium format film cameras I look at the K3 mono as 100 rolls of processed medium format film. Financially it’s either/or. Low light hasn’t really been my thing, but all this being said I’m still curious. Thanks a lot 😂
Last week I bought the lens ( bulk copy for 499 Euro) and love it. The sharpnes is realy good for a kitlens and use it for landscape documentary in an aspect ratio 4:3 or 5:4. That means almost no corner softness. All in all a little great perfomer. By the way I like your video’s and presentation. Very informative with a little humor. Keep going on.😊👍
Hi! I wanted to buy a used Fuji GFX 100s together with GF 45mm. Received it, started testing it, everything was WOW until i tested its dynamic range (i pushed it really hard). I sent it back because of the hot / red pixels, which turned out to be a common problem with these Fuji MF sensors, even with new ones, they say. Bought a new k1 ii one month ago, + 50mm 1.4 star + 15-30mm + 150-450mm + smc 28mm f3.5 + 100Y Pentax metal hot shoe cover) May be the best camera i happened to have, that dynamic range WOW, but there's one problem, when i shoot at night at base iso100 i get purple / magenta tint in shadows, but when i bump up iso one stop iso125, everything is cool, no magenta no purple, i do not know why it is the case, any idea? Beautiful images you shot by the way.
On the Pentax17 image quality: I don't think it is quite so much that people are raving about the quality, or more that they are surprised at the quality, given that it is half frame. As stated elsewhere, they've clearly done a good job with the lens. I use half frame and am perfectly happy with the image quality. Sure it's nowhere near medium format, or large format, or just about any digital sensor, but it is good enough for a lot of uses. (re: what isn't there in digital, I use art to get as far away from a computer as I can, have quite enough of all that at work thanks! Plus there's just such a variety of cameras, with genuine differences in the shooting process and experience, a 4x5 field camera is a world of difference from a TLR, or medium format SLR, vs old rangefinders, there just so much to explore, and it is relatively cheap)
I am pretty immersed in digital imagery, my own and others on the computer. And then every once in a while I pull down Ansel Adams 400 Photographs and realize what a joke and waste of time digital photography is. Digital can be fun though. But nobodies really is accomplishing anything.
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography I think that's very true of landscape, and to extent portraiture. It is easier to be able to take thousands of images, crop to the tiniest amount (though 4x5 can do that), and there's all the digital manipulation. But you still need the eyes, and the artistic sense. I don't think tech improves the art there. I guess nature photography is one area where tech absolutely does excel. Hard to argue against it for that. But me wandering about doing cute dog portraits and photographing my local tyre shop? Honestly, tech isn't going to make what I do any better :)
Some RU-vidrs are definitely independently wealthy. And I'm sure some of that wealth was earned but a lot was inherited. But that's capatalism, right? Always going to have some better off than others.
The only part that bothers me is when they shill for products that actually aren't that good. Kase filters has been handing out $500 filter sets to everyone with 50K subs or more, and quite frankly they are made in the same Chinese factory as the $50 filters, which are very very good these days. Just buy the $50 ones and save a ton of cash for the same thing.
I'm old and when i was young Sony was mainly in the audio business and made reel to reel tape players and then VCRs, tape players and then CD players and later DVD players etcand apart from DV cameras they weren't prominent in photography until DSLRs took off, film SLR basically died and Sony bought Minolta. Their camera business was built from there. But back before 2010 or so they really had no prominence in photography. Sony has come along way in a short time but I personally still think of them as they were before. When I think Sony, I think Walkman or VCR 😅
Great take on the intrepid cameras in general, I have owned one of there cameras, and it was excellent for what it was, and often people forget that it gives people a cheap route in to the world of large format and that has to be a good thing! I always wanted to try 8x10, I dismissed it, as I also saw said review, but it’s about context £500 vs £4000, it’s worth trying and for me you can justify it.
Hi Ed after a lot of thought and watching this video, I pulled the trigger on the intrepid 8x10 black edition! As you said it gives me the opportunity to try 8x10 at an accessible price point. Also they have a good promotion on them.
I’m ordering my k1 mii this week with the 43mm limited. When I had that before I noticed something awesome in those imagines I have not experienced before. I’d hate to say 3d pop but they were definitely different.
Yes, I see it too. Pentax has this "organic" look to the images that is very pleasing. The newer cameras I am getting very suspicious of, I think there's a lot of jigerry pokery going on in the background, even with the raws. The images look more CGI than photographic.
The FA 50 1.4, and/or the FA 28mm AL are solid choices. Of course the SMC or HD 43mm Limited is the supreme choice. Or the 77mm or 31mm. (You really need all three. Wait until the sale price comes around again. you save about $500 on all three.)
So here’s a company it started with no cameras hardly at all and finally got a very good system put together now they can’t keep up and someone’s bitching.
Fuji did put together a great system, and they can't keep up (your own words) and the CEO says "EVERYTHING IS NORMAL." And I called him on it. That's not bitching. That's pointing out stupidity. Bitching is what you're doing... 🙂
I have had an Intrepid MK4 4x5 for three or four years and have been very happy with it. It had a couple of minor issues and Intrepid was great about taking care of the problems for me. The plywood has proven to be very durable. After watching your video I'm very tempted to sell my Intrepid and get the hardwood version.
@@philipdahl9001 Compared to Beselar 45 MX, the Intrepids quite fiddly, but you can make it work. I just bought an Aristo V54 cold light for $100 off ebay, so as soon as rework my darkroom ventilation project, I'll be using that on my Beselar.
Hey, DON'T dish Mat Marassh he has great experience, and his Large Format Friday channel is Great for beginners, Yes he has a Sinar P2 and a Tachihara field camera, and a K.B. Canham 20x24 but the review is based on the precision of the other cameras, Intrepid is probably a great camera, for occasional use, but for macro, Landscape and other users who want precision, and have heavy expensive glass on the front, or want Wide angle lens coverage, a Monorail is the ONLY choice (standards and bag bellows to allow such a close gap between standards)- purely a design constraint, not a rubbishing of any particular design, just WE use the format for different subjects, which call for different features in a camera, we ALL love LF, we just like to use different cameras to shoot it.
Comparing an Intrepid to a Sinar and then disparaging the Intrepid is unfair. And nobody except a desperate person would hike 5 miles with a monorail kit. The right tool for the right job. The lack of precision of an Intrepid is compensated by the serious weight savings over the monorail. Pick your attribute: weight or precision? One camera is better for one and the other for the other. But the main point is, yes the Intrepids are horrible if they cost 3x more. BUt at the price point, they're great for their intended purpose.
Beautiful video very interesting the first part. But I still don’t get why it’s bothering you FujiFilm CEO statement.. they are not Sony that can waste thousands of million in products that probably they gonna lay on shelves for months until a new product comes out. I’m not defending anyone, but I really don’t understand.
They don't have to be Sony and still be selling leftover stock of the X-T2. But could be more like everyone else and actually keep most current cameras and lenses in stock, and increase production of the higher demand cameras. The X-E4 availability was a joke.
They are still a good healthy but small company compared to the “big brothers” in Japan. Consumers departments for Fuji are (lens and cameras) just the relative business, the core business for them is medical. Maybe they depends on Sony too much, or maybe they are trying to built up sensors by themselves. So we really never know what’s behind that statement. I repeat I’m not defending anyone, I read statements from CEO and I was surprised me too. But not worried at all.
@@EdwardMartinsPhotography What happened to the gold oval "Passed" badges that accompanied old Pentax lenses in the '70`s and '80`s. Perhaps Fuji is concentrating more on quality control. I seem to recall that you were returning new products several months ago due to sub standard performance/manufacture (Nikon). I'm not as discerning as yourself, so could easily purchase a pup, then top-up the secondhand market with more under par equipment.
@@ashleyblack327 The gold ovals were a QC standard instituted by a third party in Japan to increase quality. About 1990, they dropped it because the perception of quality from Japanese products was very high by that point and there was no need anymore. All the Nikon Z 24-70mm F4 lenses I tried were defective. Maybe it was just a bad run. Since Covid I think all the manufacturers have lost the plot a bit, as has everyone else.
