My First Time Shooting on FILM! | Photography in Japan 

3:41 I love the juxtaposition of a wireless mic on a vintage film camera

Ahh potato jet shooting film. Welcome! Let me introduce to you the idea of shooting film on a drone.

I love how you chose your film camera. "Looks cool. Feels good. Sounds nice. I like it." Very rare to find anyone choose a digital camera like that.

Man this video was refreshing to watch, the whole vibe, storytelling and visuals. Not the typical “the best camera” or the “how to grow on Yt” type of videos that my feed is bombarded with these days. Great job, cheers! 📸🔥💯

This was amazing, please please please do a follow up with your Dad's camera's and history of shooting film and show Kari's first role of film shots too.

Make this a series! I loved this episode.

Would absolutely love a new series of your journey into film photography!! I like the idea that Sam had with the 3 of you each getting a camera and doing like a photo walk and it would be awesome to maybe see a video of you with your dad discussing film cameras.

I LOVED this episode! Plus plus! ❤️❤️❤️

I wonder if any other city would look this cool on film. Japan is so aesthetically pleasing

I love that portrait the dude took of you, looks so cool

Yeeeeees! One of us! One of us! One of us! One of us! Congratulations!

Film photography has been my personal renaissance ❤️ even when shooting for huge clients, film feels like art, digital feels like work

"dad's camera collection" sounds great!

And medium format is even more exciting!

Love to see this. 👏🏻

"It feels like everyone's a distant cousin here", I loved that. It's how I feel every time I go to China! I'm American born and raised so I feel like a foreigner and it's usually places I've never been, but there's a calming sense of fitting in when I'm there.

I love this! Film is the best

I just jumped into film on a trip last month! What a cool experience. There are no words to describe the anticipation of getting your precious photos developed, and the fun of finally finding out how cool they turned out. Great video, I'd love to hear from your dad about his old cameras.

Japan is my fav place so far! Been there for 8 month with a cruise ship, visiting 25 cities around the country. Its a tech heaven!

Loooove seeing you dip your toe into this wonderfully maddening and beautiful medium. 😁 Shoot, enjoy, repeat. Film is great.

seeing Potatoe Jet with an analog camera gives me goosbumps!

That was rad! It's great to see you enjoy your time shooting on film. Loved all the photos. It does make me want to go back to Japan.

I‘ve loved this video and this format.

Love the analogue photos and will love the analogue content that you are planning!

Film lives in the soul. I love my film camera!

I love this episode... Nothing like a film photography... is just something else. Thank you.

I WANT MORE OF THIS GENE DOING FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

“It’s a slippery slope” YES

I recently picked up 20 of these old Asahi Takumar lenses to cinemod. Most of them have incredible image quality, even on digital, but at the time they were some of the best film lenses you could get. The 55mm f1.8 you have isn't bad, but for my money the 50mm f1.4 stopped down to the same aperture blows it out of the water.

This is my first potato jet video, the film photography algorithm must have sent it my way and I’m glad it did! My camera rec is the Nikon FM3A the last and best manual film SLR Nikon made.

I'm honestly so impressed with how good most of these photos are! Well freaking done!

film is unique, no matter how good the digital sensors are - film has its own vibe

On a different level.

SHOTA GO SHOTA LOVE HIS WORK

You're getting into Faizal Wescott's territory, I'd love a collab between you two, specially cause you're both completely different approaches to photography. It would be a DREAM to go shoot film in Japan. And Kari, i totally want that doggo cam.

Man this has been one of my favourite videos in a while. Loved the vibe

The first time I went to Japan and shot on film, all destroyed being scanned when I flew back. 😢

Congrats on started your film journey! There are only a handful of us left in this world and I'm so happy you've joined in!

I reeeeeeaaaaaally enjoyed this first episode of you exploring film photography. I had a smile on my face from beginning to end. And you actually made me want to try out my Dad's old film camera. Definitely looking forward to the next episode!

loving all the old personal photos/footage in this and the last video

Can’t wait for part 2

Thats why I chose Fujifilm as my camera. To be able to just shoot jpg with a film simulation makes perfect sense to me.

Loved this vlog! Would definitely want to see a second part with your dad in the future!

Man those shots on film looks like it was taken in the 90s. I forgot how nostalgic it feels.

Loved this video! And also that you used the Pentax Spotmatic. It was my first SLR I got from my dad in 1990 or so (he got it new in the 60ies or so). I still use the lenses on my DSLR. I actually created the Pentax Spotmatic wikipedia article back in 2006 (and had a picture of mine in it, but it has been replaced since 😋)

Takes me back. My first SLR was a Pentax Spotmatic II - but I had the all black version with the super Takumar 50mm f1.8. It was cool then to rub the penta-prism edges with abrasive paper to get a worn, brass look along the edges. Mine still works today. The feel and sound is nostalgic, but for me the smell of the inside - whiff of engine oil and a slightly sweet aroma...

such a refreshing video, starting with film will put anyone in good running for great digital.

Glad you used your platform for this we watched you fall in love with film...... awesome

Congrats on your interest in film, for some of us, that is where our interest started, for me a Nikon FG, then in the 90s the switch to digital point and shoot. Going from almost everything manual to everything digital was a novelty, however now, w/all the digital options, menus, auto focus, etc. something has been lost. People complain about noise (grain in photos), post processing has allowed people to spray and pray with digital cameras, then spend hours post processing, w/film you either got the shot or didn't. The holy grail of film, medium format w/Hasselblad and/or the digital back for the 907x. Another option for folks put your digital camera on manual everything, cover the back screen and only use viewfinder, set an ISO and leave it that way for 24 or 36 shots and only look at photos when you get back home. I believe manual focusing, picking aperture and shutter speed for each shot makes a better photographer. I honestly look forward to your videos about film shooting, all the best.

I will shoot a single roll over the course of a year or so and then forget and get 3 or 4 developed at a time and it is amazing fun to see shots suddenly from years ago.

LOVE this journey... MORE! MORE!! MORE!!!

Stokes Gene is in his film era! Would love more film videos

I had no idea that different film rolls had didn’t ISO that’s so cool!!! I never thought about how older cameras handled ISO, honestly didn’t even know they could.

Yay Pentax! They're actually designing new film bodies as well!

so fun seeing you shoot film for the first time! me and my fiancé also started our film journey this year as a new year's resolution and we've shot a ton. we also develop it ourselves which is fun and also suspenseful. maybe you should try developing yourself but it's such a huge commitment

This was actually a fun video! Finally! It’s been a while.

I started off using a FM2 to shoot film, and after a few rolls got tired of manual focus and got a F5, it can burn through a roll in a few seconds, and it's autofocus is surprisingly good.

Definitely film photos look different than digital. More mysterious, fuzzy, charming? Thanks for reminding me old days!

filming color is so good!

Hard mode is learning camera's as a kid with a biologist mother. Years later I had to appreciate how much film I used learning how to catch good shots of flying birds while on road trips. Also, film looks like film mostly due to grain from the emulsion and how much dynamic range can be caught in a single exposure. Film cameras also do not suffer at all from sensor specific issues(think hot pixels). A single shot of film may have a defect, a lens may have a defect or be dirty, but the camera itself rarely contributes to aberrations if it's in good working condition. For example swapping out different grain sized films is something that has no equivalent for digital cameras as it would require swapping the sensor for a completely different sensor.

Yes follow up video!

shoot a youtube episode on film! that would be the most epic experiment.

Film is the best. I know they are quite common but I love my Canon AE-1 and Pentax K1000.

You should check that lens on your film camera...it might have thorium in it making the lens radioactive. Nothing dangerous. Thorium was used quite a bit in the past. Loads of old cinema lenses from Angenieux, Cooke and a bunch of others used thorium in some of the elements. They used it because thorium has a high refractive index and low dispersion. It allowed lens manufactures to make smaller faster lenses.

I have the same camera. It was my dad's and it's a lot of fun to shoot film every once in a while!

When it comes to film, where it sits on the Dynamic range scale is just different. Even though some digital cameras have surpassed film in DR, where film sits on the scale is very hard to truly replicate, at least IMO. As you adjust ISO you lose DR too, but in a perfect settings most high end digitals do surpass film. But the reason film has a certain look to it is where it sits on the spectrum, and its something that has been familiar for decades. if you've never shot film its something i feel everyone should try, but don't fall into the aspect of relying on film to just make things look aesthetically satisfying.

Do more film stuff! Trust me you’ll love it

man i love shooting film!!

I've been through the film era and also when digital first came out when they made digital backs for film cameras. I've also shot on giant view cameras . You want a challenge, try that one out but you will get awesome photos using the slower speed film on an 8X10 view camera.

Nice to see a pentax. I still have two from the 70's. Good cameras. Olympus OM-1 or 2 would also be a good choice.

I absolutely loved the audio over stills format, i am gonna steel that

We need a papa potato episode walking through film shooting mentorship.

duuude! loved this episode! please do a follow up with your pops and whatever Dylan's idea was! PS: get the nikon thing for cari.

After seeing the photo of your dad with that Pentax 67, I definitely want an interview with him about film photography!

I'll watch any photography video in Japan. Those colors looked great.

Amazing photos! I started out on film (because digital was not AVAILABLE yet!) using my dad's old Yashica 35mm as well as Kodak 110 flip cameras 🙂 [Giving away my age] I even got my wife hooked on photography and we "went down the rabbit-hole" of developing our own film (p.i.t.a. when you do it in the bathroom of your 2-bedroom apartment) - and "rolling our own" (buying bulk stock and rolling it onto 35mm cartridges!) Seeing all of the "younger" generation picking up film photography is actually really nice (and saying "younger" doesn't make me "old" 🙂 - I just love the fact that people appreciate photography again) We still have my wife & I's Pentax 35mm cameras we bought together and will never get rid of them. Although I don't do film anymore, I did get a Sony ZV-1F (not for blogging!) for street photography! There is something about a digital camera not shooting raw (only jpeg) and with a fixed focal length lens, which almost feels like film (what you shoot is what you get). There are film simulations for the Sony's and I particularly like using some of the B&W simulations as they give an "almost" nostalgic feel to the photos. We went on honeymoon to Italy in 2003 and my wife and I both had our 35mm film cameras, using slide film, and those are still some of our most treasured photos - the softness and "feel" you get from film is just amazing. When using film, you are forced to stop and think when taking a photo as there is a "cost" involved (compared to the digital "spray & pray" option) which I think is part of the intrigue. Have fun and buy Kari that Nikon! She deserves it ! 😉

Welcome back to Tokyo! So satisfying to see all those film shots 📷✨

Fun, isn't, shooting a Pentax with film. Everything is video and taking stills is almost a lost art. Still are forever, video is easily forgotten. I shot many pictures with that same camera, the Pentax Spotmatic F. It was my first of three Pentax cameras. Then I move on to the Nikon F2 when I was stationed in Japan in 1980. What a time, what a beautiful city. Yokota AB was a quick train ride to Tokyo. Love the train system. But as time rolled on, I got into digital, full-on Sony with their excellent rangefinder aps-c and A7C FF cameras. It opened up a whole new world for me. Much thanks have to go the many Japanese companies that rose out of WW2 to make incredible cameras. The Nikon history is fascinating. They started out copying the Leica then blew them away with the model F. And Japan made cameras all consumers could afford.

10/10 Content Bro

Oh gosh, now I really want to visit Japan!

Really enjoyed this one

Film is so fun to shoot in Japan, especially during winter. It was like perpetual golden hour when I went. Also Pauls Photo in Torrance develops 35mm. I priced it out and it was the cheapest I've found for the quality.

Being a photography student my first semester in college in 1980/81, I can.not. get over how youngsters are getting excited about film camera. I'm still excited about the wonderful world of digital photography. It set us free! No missed or crappy photos!! SMH

that pentax is an excellent choice

Really cool to see you use a vintage camera!

yes ! now this is what i’m here for and alll about 🥳🥳

Photos are 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️

Alr hit like in the first 5secs coz i know any video from Potato Jet is gonna be awesomeeee

And glad you discussed "bokeh" since it's a Japanese word! (As is "notan" - awesome words and concepts.)

Glad to see you in Tokyo!!

In getting back into film I found the biggest problem is focusing. After years of auto focus digital cameras the old film cameras are very difficult, especially for half-blind old people like me. Unfortunately, the sexy, appealing film cameras, like that Pentax, are mostly manual focus. Auto-focus cameras started appearing in the '80s, I think. They tend to look somewhat like digital SLRs -- black-on-black. But they work great. And it's easy to cut down the cost of film by just getting it developed and then scanning (with your digital camera) the negatives yourself. It's fun too.

I need more film stuff!!

「これ、お願いしまーす」🤣🤣🤣 Great contents! I still enjoy watching one of your videos which you talk about 「ボケ」.

Lovely video and welcome to the film photography journey. I started about year and a half ago and I love the whole process of slowing down and being observant. It makes the process intentional and pushes you to do your best capturing a photo. I also love your story in Japan, how are you tied to it. I’m traveling there in April and this video is a great preview on what to expect when I go there.

Another way to mix up digital (if you want to keep it in rotation) is to adapt old film camera lenses to digital cameras. A lot of the image characteristics come from optics. You can also put modern glass in front of film, and then really appreciate how sharp modern optics are, all that in case you get bored hah!

look at him getting sponsored fully from dji. that's great dude! love the growth of this channel and you as a creator.

Great vid! My first film camera was a Pentax K1000 I bought for $500 back in the early 90's! Enjoy shooting on your new film cam!

Looking forward to the follow up!

Wow. You just made me grab my father‘s old Minolta XE1 camera and now I have to go get it fixed so that it works. :-) I adapted his lenses to my Panasonic S5, two old Minolta Rokkor lenses and shot a full length feature with them. 28mm f2.8 and 50mm f1.4. Amazing. After watching this video, now I’m gonna go get his camera fixed. He passed away in 1988, I found all this stuff in his camera bag after he died. This is what RU-vid is for. :-) Great video.

I’m a week late from the premier of this episode but I have a canon EOS 3 film camera which is a very affordable body and fits current day EF lenses. It’s been one of my favorite purchases and feels like a 5D series body. Being able to use current day digital canon bodies and the film body and not needing to carry the extra lenses has been a perfect combo. There are other canon ef film bodies out there that you should take into consideration.