A Guide for Poor Film Photographers 

"you enjoy photography so your time's worth nothing" bro I feel attacked 😭

Rolling your own film and developing your own negatives is taking me back to my student days… 20 years of technology and back to where I started

I use Fomapan 200 and develop with Rodinal. I print the best in my windowless bathroom darkroom on my Gnome condenser enlarger through Schneider Componon S enlarging lens. I use Ilford multigrade paper. I have been doing this since the 1960s when I was a hippie, now I guess I'm called a hipster. Oh yes and I play Vinyl, use a fountain pen and wear a mechanical watch. I am on trend with ccd sensor digital cameras like my Nikon D40x and my old 2005 Ricoh GR digital 8 megapixel camera. Peace brothers

Digital shutterbug here. Working on a project that the client wanted me to use film. The irony of using digital to scan is not lost on me…

Great video - You could buy all the equipment (Tank, Changing bag, extension tubes, etc) for roughly the same as you already paid for the film + monobath, so the price per image is still only 0.20 moneys, and will decrease the more you use it!

😂😂😂 had a lot of fun watching this!!

Every time you upload I just watch immediately, you're my favorite channel

The title really intrigued me until I saw the first 30 seconds. Please don’t get me wrong, the beginning was quite promising. But why should I buy a black-and-white film and then digitize it? By the way, photographing negatives with a digital camera and also using them up may seem like a good solution at first, but in the long run, it’s not very economical. The worst part is using AI to colorize black-and-white film; I might as well not bother at all. Analog presets in Lightroom make more sense, don’t they?

Super fun educational video! I enjoyed your humor! Thank you for sharing your film photography secrets!

It was so refreshing to watch this video. Brilliantly made

I love the sense of humor used for this video.

I consider not discovering this channel sooner one of my biggest regrets in life. You're awesome man!

Blooming brilliant! We support u. Big up yourself m8! Actually, I did do this. The lab. My dad already had the gear. Even the print enlarger. Although I used my Nikon slide / film scan. Now I need to try that Ai thingy. It looks fun

In the 1970's Freestyle Sales Co. was my non-Kodak film supplier. The "Classic European black-and-white film" turned out to be Ilford HP3 and FP3. "East European black-and-white film" was ORWO, which worked just fine with D-76 1:1 for every film. I did try Agfa Rodinal, since ORWO films were said to be a better match. Bulk 135 film was advertised as "a Penny a frame" when Kodak was the Rochester Giant. These days, "do it yourself" still saves money and "electronic scanning" is an added thing that I could only dream about back then.;)

this might be my favourite video so far

The part, "If you don't have one, sucks to be you, but I respect you going full hipster", destroyed me xDD

I wish more of the creators out there were that entertaining yet informative😄

And then you decide to go and make your new cheap black and white bulk film 3x as expensive by buying some extra equipment for trichrome photography

Thanks! You answered so many questions. Good job

Super Video! Finde ich cool, was du dir für eine Mühe gemacht hast. Preset habe ich gekauft. Kanal habe ich abonniert. Freue mich auf mehr ✌🏼

Okay lets come back to photography later - A German with sense of humour ! Glitch in the matrix...

dude this vid was funny as hell, much love keep it up!

hilarious, entertaining, kind of accurate, now I feel like my time is worthless. Or is that priceless?😂😂😂 thanks for sharing, I’m going to buy 400 hotdogs worth of film now.

I love the intro, i also spend too much on records. This video was so real

How did you know that I'm german?!?

85 bucks for the film loader, 10 bucks for 5 empty rolls, about 45 bucks for a film development starter pack plus whatever the scanning solution costs. but note that all of these costs will shrink comparatively the more you do it.

Stumbled upon your channel. Love it! Liked and subscribed!

Omg.. in Australia the most expensive country on earth, a roll of cheap 1shot film is $20 Kodak portra is around $50 and around $35 to get them scanned.

Dude, This video has forced me to subscribe!🤣 It would be good if you did one on how to do the chemical thing!

I once bought 40 expired disposable cameras. I paid for them, if I remember correctly 10eur. Took the film canisters out of them, they where 400iso 12 exposures C41. I use them as iso 100-200, and develop in diy B&W developer. It doesn't get any cheaper than this.

Fr love ur style so much man!!!!!

Excellent, thank you for sharing!!!

I love this video again mate!! Its so funny 🤣🤣🤣

Funny thing is I got into film photography because I needed a cheap hobby. I get my Kodak Gold at the drug store for under $10, so it's like $20-$25 all in. My main hobby is firearms, with some of them costing around $2.50 a shot. Typically spending ~$300 per range trip, being able to take pictures for under $1.00 each is fantastic- and that's not even getting into the guns vs camera cost comparison. And dont get me started on night vision- those make Leicas look cheap.

thanks so much for these tips felix! i got a free nikon fm2, and wanted to play around with it, inexpensively. you are way too funny i laughed through the entire video. im not even super into film but, subscribed!

Where are you getting develop + scans for 12 bucks? It's always like 30 per roll for me.

Fantastic - very informative - very humorous!!!

You had me dying at work 😂 great video brother!

I live in Canada and I just bought a 5-pack of Portra professional 400 speed film and it cost me $151

if you wanted some sort of color without using ai you could use either bichrome or trichrome photography to get color (or pseudo-color in the case of bichrome) photographs, only problem is that it cuts the amount of photos you can take down to either a third or a half, all you need is a red green and blue filter for trichrome, or for bichrome, a red and cyan, orange and teal or yellow and teal/blue or, you could also use just a red filter and unfiltered as well. hope this helps, or at least doesnt hinder! :-)

Are you interested in the myth of the Fuji Film Gx680 digital back? It was a digital image sensor that you could insert into the back of the Gx680 instead of a 120mm film, and in theory still shoot the camera setup digitally. This was only released in Japan in 2004, but it's nowhere to be found in second hand markets. I wish you could investigate or explore this myth.

lustig !!! I was buying baulk in the 70s as a poor student. Now I old and I still poor lol, I sitting on a ton of old Kodak film and I got the same A1 not from my late mom. I did get a nice flatbed scanner, so i got that. I have Sony digital but I have been using the flatbed. Love the idea of cloericzed B/W film.

Hey, rather than using AI to colorize your film, there's an alternative. It's slightly more time intensive, and uses 3x as much film, because you gotta take each picture 3 times in a row, but it works and all you need is some cheap clear colored plastic. Use the cheap clear colored plastic of red, green, and blue, as filters that go in front of the camera, one picture red, one green, one blue. your pictures will do best with a tripod for this. I don't know if it would be better to have the color screen/filters attached to the camera or tripod, i'm just going from an other video i watched, but once you have your red green and blue (or cyan, yellow, magenta, and regular black and white if you wanna have more crisp color for even more film use), you then digitally align them, and recompose from RGB or CMYK in something like GIMP (which is free). The 2 issues with this are that it uses more film per picture, and requires you take the exact same photo several times, which means no photographing anything that moves, unless you want absolutely strange technicolor ghosts. Personally I *do* want the strange technicolor ghosts, but that's just me. The way I learned this was from a video by Matt Gray (MattGrayYES) On how to use a gameboy camera to take color photos. the gameboy camera was 2-bit, 4-color grey-scale, and using red/green/blue filters in front of the lens, through simple multiplication, that's 64 colors that could be reproduced, and it worked. since B&W film isn't just 4 digital values, The colorspace is actually quite huge. His video referenced a photo taken with basically the same technique back between 1905 and 1915, and showed that photo from the library of congress, and it's gorgeous. back to this video, since you've split the cost of 3 rolls into 18 rolls, even using 3 shots per picture, it's still 7 rolls of color for the cost of 3, rather than 18 rolls of black and whites. Now, if it sounds like I don't have experience with actually doing this, it's because I don't. I'm in the process of trying to decide if I want to get into this as a hobby. Except instead of trying to take traditionally good photos, I want to take weird trippy looking photos by doing weird stuff with the film and possibly weird stuff with the developer. I saw a different video about making a film developer out of Vitamin C and Aspirin tablets disolved in something (video was by a channel called Flesh Simulator, and he also has a video on Infra-red color film techniques, though film isn't his main thing on the channel), and yet another video by another channel (thought emporium) about Microfilm and using it to create diffraction gratings. and it's just getting my noggin joggin'. I've also tried databending/datamoshing with digital cameras, and I'm curious what kind of weird stuff I could do with actual film. I'm just trying to decide if it's worth the initial investments for camera, developer tools, and the physical space that it takes up.

Fomapan is manufactured in the Czech Republic, my homeland👍🤟

Nice vid, I love the shot at flannels and beanies, seems like a RU-vid prerequisite to be successful 😂

Shooting directly on film is still cheaper than shooting in digital then getting celluloid duplicates made.

I bought a 122m Roll of Vision 3 500t for 120€ (bringing me to about 0.05€ per Image) 🗿

That was awesome

I have had a much-loved Mju-II for the last 20 years, a Trip for 10 years and a Lubitel and I never use them because it’s too expensive and too complicated. No local labs any more. I have to do it all by post. Digital is better, overall, though it pains me to say it.

Bulk film...YES...monobath developer...YES...scan with digital camera...YES...colorise with Ai...YES......orgasmic...

Best video I’ve seen in a while. Funny. A bit on point but not too much 😂

bruh i calculated it with my camera and it went to $137,60 and it costs that much only camera, chemical, PATERSON 115 Universal Tank and one film roll ( damn.... )

This is a really fun video, well done!

There's another way to get cheap. If you're some point'n'shoot/street photographer and you don't need creamy boheh from some legendary vintage lens - go to 110 system for ex. Pentax 110 Super od Minolta 110 SLR. You can cut 120 roll film into 4 strips and load to 110 cardrige so you've get ~100 frames/1 medium format roll. You can shoot any type of film (also color) ~4x cheaper per frame than 35mm. MAKE 110 GREAT AGAIN! :P

Refreshing. Liked and subbed.

Brilliant, amusing and very useful

It's an investment but I like the idea. What software or code do you use for the colorisation?

Could you not just ge a cheap 35mm film scanner/digitiser instead of a DSLR?

Good job very entertaining love the video!

Sick video! Just wondering where you get your music

Really enjoyed watching this lol. Well done.

Thanks for measuring in hot dogs 🌭 for us Americans, i didn’t understand at first 😂

Brilliant 🙂

This guys is hilarious! Love the video and great Idea!

I really enjoyed this video, soo funny!😅

where can you buy bulk 120 film

I don't have a laptop to convert scans, whats the next cheapest alternative

Half-frame?

this guys a legend

Thank you

E Laerning:Prices can be manipulated to manipulate Markets! And the Market was i Phone Cameras! 🤔

why not just buy a digicam that shoots unlimited film photos?

Sorry we were not privileged! To know how to use one of those apparatuses on film where you didn't had a screen, but you had to use your eye, you had to have a sense of prediction to be able to capture the moment. Ugh, and you could not adjust the light so easily. I'm a sniper, whoop whoop.

I die inside every time i show my pictures. "I look horrible! It's not the picture though, it's just me". What do you mean you look horrible? You're fucking goregeous! But when showing film pictures i die inside at 50x speed. Shot a roll of ultramax, got 30 good pictures out of 36. My biggest "film success" and my biggest photography technical achievement got quickly turned off by a not so nice "Ew i look horrible" aka "Don't dare showing this to anybody". Never forget guys, a good rope will always be quicker and cheaper than photography.

Hey how do you roll your own film

Very clever! I almost subscribed.....😁👍

Is the xc35 f2 better than the viltrox 33 mm f1.4 and the Sigma 30mm f1.4

thanks man you made my day)))

I have achieved hipster enlightenment.

Brilliant. Df96 is delicious.

I could buy ColorPlus and Afgavista for 2$ here on my country. Since war started between Ukraine and Russia, prices went up to 12$ WHAT THE FU

what ai tool r u using?

"just use your digital camera to scan the film, if you don't have one, sucks for you" :( "But I respect you for going full hipster" :D

Ridiculous. I love it.

You beat capitalism 😂 From the hotdog metric people good video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Haha ich fühle dich so! Melde wegen Kodak bald die Privatinsolvenz an...

Where do o get the film in bulk?

Good video 👍👍

Erst nicht ordentlich recherchieren, einen Kodak Gold 200 gibt es bei DM für ca 7,50 €. Danach die Leute anbetteln. Irgendwann hab ich nicht mehr zugehört.

and people say germans doesn't have a sense of humor

how in the name of god did i get here.

100 feet of HP5, Diafine. Get the best, forget the rest.

I feel inspired

Geiles Video 🥰

Thank you for reminding the americans not to wash down their 200 hotdogs with developer!!

I still forget you don't have a million subscribers

Idk where tf you get your stuff from, but I get film, developing, scanning for 17 EUR lmao

Doesn’t own a digital camera…or a scanner…or a computer…yup real hipster over here 😅😢

At this point why are you even shooting film? Film is pure. And by putting it under ai, you take away that purity. These aren't photos anymore. These are just bad digital images.

I get 1 roll every 2 monthes