love the fact that everyone you asked seems happy to have there phone taken, you don't get that response in the UK. Every one seems to think you want something .
Not in my experience, I’ve been doing street portraits in the UK and most people are lovely - even the ones who say no. Probably get 1 rejection out of every 7 I ask.
@@X0MT0X Probably shouldn't though, if someone's in the background then fair enough you can't help it but I wouldn't just photograph people without permission
@@tomkenning5482 Then you lose out on candid photography. Asking permission first always ends up with a posed portrait. Take the photo fist, then if you intend to use it commercially you get the release forms signed otherwise if its not commercial just dont shoot in a way that annoys people. Thats when you ask permission lol. Some of my best holiday photos have compositions showing people playing on the beach I'm photographing. Sometimes accidental, other times I see they are about to do something and they happen to line up with a nice background.
@@dlarge6502 I wouldn't personally release it without permission, commercial or not, although that's only a personal thing and I understand why people might want to do different. If it doesn't involve faces then that's okay, like for instance I didn't have my camera but I saw a couple the other day, I was behind them and the light was on them perfectly. If I'd brought my camera I probably would've photographed that. It's all personal preference though
@@jameslane3846 Depends where you live and what currency I was quoting. I was not clear about either. It absolutely costs me more than $1 Australian dollar per frame to shoot basic C41.
love it. Little tip! with cheaper film stocks, give them a stop overexposure! so you'd shoot a 200 iso roll at 100 iso. It will likely help negate some of the photos were your subject was underexposed. Additionally, it should negate some of the grain a little too. But keep shooting!
@@MrSupereric1998 you cant change iso you only can tell the cam what iso the roll have. If you lie and tell the cam your film is iso 100 the cam thinks the shot is darker than it is and brighten it
@@sam3d There is a short blank section yes, but he advanced the film twice with the back open wasting like 3 frames. If you are careful you can get 38/39 frames out of a 36 roll
Canon AE-1 = Shutter Priority Mode (You set SS and camera selects Aperture) and Full Manual AE-1 Program = Camera can now set both the SS and Aperture, you just have to nail the manual focus. Sounds trivial today, but huge for its time. I'm an old guy, I was gifted the newly released Program model when I was 18 years old at the time. In 1981. It was the first camera that I ever owned.
Baruch Cohen I’ve never owned any camera other than the ones that come with my phone and so I decided to go with a Minolta X-700 for my first actual camera and I really like it
@@scallen3841 I borrowed my son's K1000 for a few months before I decided to get back into film after many years,. Really enjoyed shooting with it, rock solid camera. I wound up buying a Spotmatic F once I returned it to him. Essentially the same camera with a different mount.
@@kys.online Minoltas are severely over-looked and under-rated in the current used film camera market. My older brother was a pro photographer back in the 1970s and he shot only with Minolta. I also own a X-700. I own four film cameras these days: X-700, Leica M2. Contax G1, and a Pentax Spotmatic. Happy shooting friend!
It's fun watching people new to film that are coming from digital. Or just new in general. I made so many of these same mistakes coming from digital. Hope this man enjoys learning the craft that is analog as I did!
Here is the camera I bought in the video: shrsl.com/3xwrv - I'm curious, why do you (or don't you) shoot film? Watch Episode 2 of my film street photography here: Watch Episode 2 here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LJLu5T0_klE.html -
I have picked up a couple of analogue cameras and lenses at flee markets, they're so cheap and pretty. I've just shot one roll though. Too expensive to develop and a little too much hassle compared to our incredible digital cameras of today. Great video, your channel makes me wanna go to Mexico, the people seem to be so friendly.
Yea, it's a bit more of a hassle and I'm an impatient guy, so waiting to see how the photo comes out is difficult to me. But for now, I'm planning on doing a lot more analog photography!
It slows you right down and that's a good thing from time to time! Manual focus may be a step too far in this fast moving world but you need to be more considerate of your composition and metering. And patient; I don't see my shots for 2 weeks!
Dude! Huge shout out for visit my home country and being nothing short of respectful and courteous. Love shooting on 35mm myself, there’s just a certain feeling of manually winding for every shot that feels so fulfilling
I'm really happy that you are doing this. A couple weeks ago I dug out my dads old canon ae-1 and am going to start shooting with it. I'm really excited to see how they turn out.
The AE1 Program is one of the first slr cameras to have a fully automatic option (both aperture and time). You just shoot and the camera does everything.
@airscrew1 I know but I started that way, liked it and then decided to shoot in manual (and that's how I shoot nowdays). It's a good way to make a beginner start.
Here in Monterrey there is a good support for film photography because of multiple labs that Kodak supplies with film, also you can find analog cameras in flea markets got the Pentax k1000 and works really good
Nice to see this. I started off with a Nikon F3 in 1980 I believe. My daughter is off to college this week and she has the F3 as she wants to do only film for now. Great way to introduce yourself to the joy of photography by keeping it simple.
Whenever I think of doing photography with film I get so much anxiety. Like it’s so tricky and if u don’t get it right there’s literally no way of knowing plus you waste money. Props to this guy who took the leap and decided to stick with it
I bought my first analog camera last year and I was hooked right away. It was a Canon A-1 with 50mm f/1.4 lens. I really love the grain in film, and that you have to really think about composition and exposure before snapping the photo because every picture costs money, but you don’t know how it turns out before you’re developing it so it could be a bad picture anyway 🤷♂️. I recently started developing and scanning myself. Such a fun process! Looking forward to see more analog street photography! Keep killing it! Greetings from Sweden. Tip: meter for the shadows and set the shutter speed and apature according to that and you’re good to go. Film handles overexposure much better than underexposure, which is the other way around with digital.
“There’s a couple of things that you don’t really need to know about.” Oh really, like the fact the AE-1 has exposure automation and the K1000 is fully manual all the time??
I've the A1...it's like brand new,but has 40 years!Amazing!I use only black and white film, HP5+ 400 , for lens i suggest you the Canon fd 50 1.4,the 85 1.8 and the 28 2.8....i've also the 135 2.5 and It's amazing how blur the background in a portrait!Love film photography!
I started with film cameras. I used them from the 70s to the 2000 when I got my first digital. It was a good way to lean but would not go back to film now. Looked into it and just could not afford to do it if I wanted to. Around £5.00 a film and then about the same for developing etc. Going off past experience I would then get 35 frames very few of which I was generally happy with :) I would miss digital now and find it much better in many ways for what I do. I have resigned my film cameras to history and they can maybe sit on my shelf. they do look nice.
Awesome! Definitely need to shoot some kodak portra and HP5+, I feel like they are staple films. Most camera's use centre weighted metering I think. I have an Olympus OM4Ti which has the best metering system for a fully manual camera IMO. I can meter for highlights, shadows, spot and multiple spot averages and it's off the film metering. Most lenses have a depth of field scale which is helpful. I'm surprised your friend didn't talk about split prism focusing, you should look that up because you have the split prism (the middle half circles that split you want them to match), the microprisms (circle around the split prism, helpful at higher f stops), and of course the ground glass (so you can see if you're in focus when you recompose.) but I'm sure you've worked it out now! Some of the best film youtubers I reckon are Jonathan Notley, the_real_sir_robin and Eduardo Pavez Goye. There's others good for watching about gear but then they just take pictures of trees, crappy buildings and dirt. Can't wait for you to go full film nerd! #olympusgang
It was interesting to see him struggle with exposure. Something I learned early on is to always take portraits from a side angle (say 45') to have some light on the face. Never straight on.
I know those guys you were talking to at 3:20 haha. The one with the glasses plays drums with an artist named Cuco and the one with the orange hair is their photographer I'm pretty sure. That's so cool. What are the odds of this happening?
The Canon AE1 was my first Canon camera but becareful of the shutter dial as it protubes out and can alter your shutter speed without realizing it. I upgraded to an A1 and also an AE1 Program as both shutter dials were enclosed and had a protective cover to provide a simple lock. Using film makes you aware of how little exposures are available compared to Digital but trains you into making every shot count.
the thing about the pentax is the light meter, there is no off switch, you put the lens cover back on to turn it off, so It burns batteries. I use the Canon AT-1 one now, but i have the K1000 and chinon ce4 for manual cameras.
Bought my first SLR, a Canon AE-1 in 1979 (mine was the more traditional Chrome body, the Black body was $50.00 more expensive), when I was in High Scool. Though my first actual 35mm SLR was my Father's older Pentax K-1000. Stayed with Canon for pro and personal shooting up until last year then went full on Fuji. Enjoy the AE-1...
@@SwallowPollo A "Stop" is a standard change in Aperture or Shutter Speed. A SS of 1/250th of a second, is "One Stop" less than 1/500th. An aperture of f/5.6 is "One Stop" more than f/4
The street at 13:20 it's a dangerous place, even for local people, there's a lot of thieves, you must be careful for the next time, they even can beat you up if they consider you a treat, or even worse if you resist not being robbed.
The AE-1 Program has a program mode, but that's not the only difference. The shutter speed dial is also recessed in a way that makes it harder to bump and change accidentally than the regular AE-1, the ISO dial is moved to the left of the camera and is easier to manipulate, and instead of your meter indicator being a needle in the viewfinder it's an easier to see LED light. They're both excellent cameras, but I've found the Program somewhat easier to use for low light situations, and the original AE-1 is good for forcing new photographers not to rely on program mode because they're too scared to choose a shutter speed (and to think more about that shutter speed, I'm not kidding about the dial being easy to bump! I've ruined a few shots because it got bumped down to a fifteenth or an eighth of a second when I was intending to shoot at a thirtieth or higher!)
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Great video hope you had good time I shoot film on Nikon F pohtomatic I just stated I shoot film when I was learning when I was younger love your work and should do a video on you shooting film
Is there no exposure compensation on that camera - should be if there is a semi-automatic mode. All images with a considerable amount of bright areas had been underexposed.
Nice photos, man! I buy a lot of Kodak gold and color plus in the same shop. It's cheap because it's expired film, but that's ok. As someone said in the comments, you have to overexpose one step when shooting expired film. Keep on shooting film!! ¡Saludos!
shoot film again (im getting old :-) ) Its a lovely medium and the dynamic range absolutely great (better then any digital camera i ever owned. ( maybe the expensive ones are better?) I shoot with a Olympus pen ft camera, half-frame slr and before the digital days just fullframe.
One thing I've had to learn on film is that you have more latitude to overexpose negative film without losing highlight details than with digital. Might help with the exposure piece. If you figure out a focus trick please share 😂
I had my first experience in photography with an analog camera (Nikon F2), my father gave me his old camera and taught me how to shoot, to put the batteries, the camera roll, etc. I enjoyed so much when used that camera, particularly in a travel to the Yucatan Peninsula. The analog camera creates totally different feelings and emotions when you shoot and when you see the results in photos, in comparison with the digital ones.
I still have my old Nikon F but I couldn't imagine going back to sending film out to get developed and waiting the days it took for it to come back (if you didn't want to pay the extra $$ for overnight processing). But I shot on 35mm, 6x6 and 6x7cm for decades.
Glad to see you enjoying the world of film photography. I'm wondering, did you possibly have the ISO dial set to a faster film speed than that film? It seemed like the photos turned out a little dark, even the ones where there wasn't back light throwing off the meter. Just a thought.
Yeah, you very well could have had the ISO dial set correctly. It could also be that the shutter timing is slightly off. No big deal, those are the kind of things you learn about any camera and adapt as necessary. Oh, and I'd definitely vote yes to more film photography videos in the future! Though the digital ones are great too!
Also, the lab could just have scanned them a little dark. A little adjustment in Lightroom and you should be able to bring them up a little and have plenty of detail in the shadows.
i like ur style of taking the pictures. fr how i like my pictures to turn out when i go home and review all the pics i took. your photos in this video seem a bit dark . is it because u used the iso200 film? and high shutter speed? cos i like it! still learning taking pic and considering to buy a film camera after saving up my money :)
I got a Pentax MX SLR cam with a 50mm Pentax Optical installed on it.. my grandmother gave it to me the other day where I been taking pics with my note 10 plus ect and getting damn good photos with it. I havent used it yet cause it needs a battery and some film.. I'm honestly thinking bout putting it up for salw
this was a really interesting video. I am also going to start my analog adventure soon too but i wanna buy a point and shoot/rangefinder such as a olympus mju or olympus xa1/2 !
Olympus OM all the way, my friend. Have had an OM2n for years and it's excellent. Buy one, you won't regret it, and you'll learn so much more and an SLR will still be there when your skills improve.
I just got my K1000 shipped to me last night. It's confusing but you can definitely get the hang of it with time. I feel like im gaining more knowledge with every photo
so lets go over why analog photography is so great... 1) the pictures look different (better?) than digital 2) it forces you to slow down and think 3) the cameras are totally cool 4) it's a lot of fun 5) it is almost like a type of soul therapy loading the film, framing the photo, focusing, setting the aperture and shutter speed... hitting the shutter release.. 6) it's a conversation starter ----- any more ????
I just started shooting film last month and it’s definitely in my opinion much more satisfying than digital when you get that perfect shot! Great video looking forward to the next one
Keep going with the Canon AE1. It is very capable of taking amazing photos, once you learn to nail focus more and use wider apertures. There’s a really nice look to analog photos. Try a better film next time. I recommend Kodak Ektar or Tri-x for black and white.
8:56 that wasn't actually your first photo...your first ever film photo is inside a roll of film that is still sitting on my shelf...Last week I have developed 10 rolls of film hoping that the one with your photo was in one of those...but it wasn't....now I have the last 7 undeveloped rolls which I will develop very soon...this time we can be sure is gonna be in there...and as soon as I have it, you will see your actual FIRST photo....sorry, it's taking me a lot to do this.. ;) Amazing camera by the way Fred!
haha I know! That's why I said "First candid street portrait" :D But you're right! No rush mate, just whenever it's ready :)! I'm so hooked on analog now and I can't wait to do more with it!
@@FTrovatten ahah of course! I have a good feeling about that picture....we'll see :D I'm very happy you started shooting on film buddy, you'll get better and better...;)
I am curious if you set the proper ISO/ASA on the camera belonging to the ISO200 film. @7:26 I did catch 400 and 200 in the display. It looks like it was closer to ISO400, maybe ISO320. If you did not change your ISO setting after that, you could have been underexposing 1 or 2/3 stop all the time. Maybe that could explain a lot of the dark pictures. Another thing is that those camera's don't have the fancy metering modes like the modern digital camera's have. An idea to compensate that is going fully manual mode, and dailing in aperture manual also. When you meter in advance on similar luminated areas like your subject. Then your exposure cannot be fooled by bright or dark backgrounds.
That could have happened. I had a lot of things in my mind during the shoot! But I’ve shoot a lot since then and my exposure is getter improved! Thanks for the tips about manual pre-focus. I’ll definently give that a go!
Well done Frederik! Still to shot in film and you’ll see many changes in your photography approach and in your technique. Just a suggestion, next time that you will take photos in a similar environment of this in the clip, use a 400 ISO film and, if you are able to find it, a Fujifilm (more “cold” colors and less yellow). Well done!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Frederik I’m sure that you’ll see better results the next time and I’m also sure that in a few time you’re next step will be develop your films to your own. It’s really simple, believe me. I’m shootings films since the 1984
Amazing work!!! and yes you should make the series of analog photography this helps it not to die out and it brings people into the vibe of shooting it #filmisnotdead
It's really fun too shoot film, it's slow you down and think more of every shot you make. Maybe also good for analog photography is to learn the sunny 16 rule, helps me a lot about to have a good exsposure. Great video and keep shooting film and digital.
I would love a series on this! You're very good for a beginner, now you just made me want to buy an analog camera and start myself! Keep up the good work!
Please everyone stop with the AE-1 championing. It is NOT as good a camera as so many recent blog and vids nostalgically say. Plain and simple. It's adequate but temperamental, cheaply made originally, has metering issues all over the place and is *grossly* overpriced on the used market today. There are *far* better choices for price/performance. K1000 is better and more reliable but more basic and also overpriced. And there were *large* differences between the the two cameras you were looking at (one is a full manual only camera with a basic centering meter needle, and the other is a shutter-priority camera with full manual capability but with camera-selected aperture metering needle - very different ways to think and read the meters) but your partner didn't mention any of that until you'd bought the camera and was showing you how to use it. :-/ Not to mention the K1000 will operate just fine without a battery to run the meter, while the AE-1 won't operate without battery *at all*. Instead of these (which are fine, just overpriced) check out cameras like the Pentax KX or Super Program. Or look at the Konica Autoreflex line, the T3, T4 and TC for an even more incredible bargain for price/performance. The "AE-1 is BEST" myth needs to die. Respectfully.
