Sometimes you just feel like carrying a lighter camera. For me, it's the Super Fujica-6. Simple, light and still 6x6. This episode motivated me to walk around with the Fujica today.
Haven't been in Liverpool for 30 years, hope to get back next year. A really interesting vid and some lovely photos, that first one was a cracker. Thanks.
Never been to Liverpool. I had read that it got pretty depressed in the 70s, 80, and early 90s. Looks for the photos to be really nice at this time. Newer buildings look like late 1990s and early 2000s. Is that when the revitalization started. Certainly photogenic.
Thank you - i enjoyed your urban ramble very much! Enjoyed seeing the richness of a part of Liverpool too, and your selections. Funny - i find it refreshing to 'get away from it all' occasionally too, visiting some built-up area instead of yomping day in / day out... a bit of 'Street' 😊. Have a good one.
Wonderful look around Liverpool! Such a variety of old and new architecture! Ive been playing with an Ansco Speedex Special R. It shoots 6x6 and has a rangefinder but probably nowhere near as nice of lens as the Perkeo II has. I'm enjoying the 6x6 format though. No working about which would look better portrait or landscape! Besides my Zero 2000 pinhole, it's my first attempts at thinking inside the box so to speak!
Nice urban images, Steve. Shows me and reminds me that if you've an eye and artistic flair, there is something to be had most everywhere. Thanks for sharing your outing.
I shoot street with a 6x6 Yashica 124 g and ilford 3200. The hp5 is in a 35 mm body and portra in a third in the bag. B&w is wonderful for city geometry as evidenced by HCB.
Vlogette? Great new word. Enjoyed it and now there are two things I didn’t know I wanted until I saw this: a folder, preferably made in the year I was born (early fifties) and a trip to Liverpool next time I am in the UK!
Loved the bloggette! I've heard leaf shutters are better at slower shutter speeds, but I'm surprised you're going THAT slow! Double the focal length has gone completely out the window? I own a lot of leaf shutter lenses. I think slower speed hand-holding will be something I experiment with while keeping careful notes, in pursuit of broader depth of field. It would be nice to enjoy more moving about tripod free. Let's see what I can pull off.
Nice video - I've been looking at this camera for a while and just a few weeks ago picked up a Voightlander Bessa II with a Color Skopar lens - shot 2 rolls of Ilford Delta 100 with it and I cant wait to see how I did. Anyways - you have a new subscriber. I may still end up with a Perkeo II at some point.
Really liked the abstract steps image, as well as the geometric images. Not much for man-made things these days, but some great images all the same. BTW, I believe it was a video featuring that same camera several years ago which inspired me to get my own folder, a Zeis Ikon from circa 1929. Beautiful camera and still works great! Cheers!
The square format images in this video are something I particularly like. It is also good to see the close-up details in the photos, but I wish we could linger a little longer panning across the scenes.
I've tried a bunch of 1950s medium format folders. The Perkeo 2 is my favorite - size, portability and Scopar lens. I once had the Vito (35mm version) - also a great little camera.
Fantastic pictures Steve! I especially like those with the reflections and the silhouette shot against the sun. Your video makes me think about taking my Certo six with me on a trip to Denver where I will be for work and to Rocky Mountain National Park where I will add some days off by the end of this month. My plan was to take my Fuji X-T4 with three vintage prime lenses (20, 50, and 135mm) and for film the Russian FT-2 panoramic camera. But your video made me think about bringing the Certo six as well.
If there were a possiblity of giving a double like, I would have done it. A very refreshing change, and I do love good cityscape photography ( not ' street ' with people poking their lenses into other people's faces ), and this was really really good. Loved the one @ 5:50, as this not usually what my eyes would see. They are just not tuned to this sort of subjects. Thank you again.
Some lovely shots there Steve. It's a very photogenic city is Liverpool, lots of great architecture. I am planning a full day there with camera this summer. Another very photogenic place is Shrewsbury. I was there last week and plan to go back for a day with my proper camera (instead of my phone!). Kind regards, Phil
Thanks Phil. I’m a regular visitor to Shrewsbury and like nothing more than a walk along the river. The buildings are great too, especially the quite side streets with the Georgian architecture.
Excellent video Steve. Love the square format. Liverpool front is beautiful, I visited a couple of years before covid and I was amazed at the photo opportunities. When metering, to get those lovely darks and highlights, what did you meter for? Thanks, Graham
Who asked "Could I survive with just this camera?" (42mm small format being much like 80mm medium format.) Perhaps not as the only camera, but for having a lot of fun in between... Thanks a lot for sharing this very nice photowalk video!
I haven't used my Super Ikonta B (532/16) since I got my Mamiya Six folder. Mine doesn't have a frame counter -- maybe I should look for one that does. The lens is superb and it's quite a bit lighter than the Super Ikonta, plus having a much better viewfinder for glasses wearers. I've got some of the simpler scale focus 6x6 folders -- a couple Speedex (including the Jr., which is effectively a box camera with multiple aperture settings and a folding lens) -- the American version of the Isolette -- but I prefer rangefinders if I have the option. Still, something to be said for simplicity. 😃
I’m finding the automatic frame counter folders a lot easier to use these days. I used to have a lovely Isolette III but it was a lot bigger and heavier than the Perkeo.
Just got to say. i am double happy today that i have been watching your video's. I just booked a two week vacation to London with the wife and kid, so i will be reviewing yours' and others videos who are from the areas close by.. Also my Papa is from Liverpool, so we will likely be doing a trip out that way. do you have any recomendations while i am out there? we are staying in east London. near the tower of london.
I hope you have a good trip and do some serious sightseeing. I can’t really recommend anywhere in London unfortunately as I rarely visit and never photograph there. It’s a big place and there’s lots to see!
@@SteveONions absoultely massive i am from vancouver, and that is a drop in the bucket when comparing sizes. I am hoping to rent a car and doing some driving. the cathedral in liverpool is a possibility even though it is a touristy thing to photograph.
I'm concerned. Are you a photographer with a great ear for EDM to play your sultry B-Roll to, or are you really truly secretly an EDM DJ with cool images to enhance the aural engagement? Nice vid!
Wow, what great pictures again... Can you tell me, how you can compose the shots so perfectly with the tiny viewfinder of the Perkeo? And do you have any experience, at which f-stop diffraction normally starts to soften the pictures, when shooting 6x6? Thx again for yet another great and teaching video!
Thanks Stephan. The viewfinder is small but better than some other folders, I just make sure to keep all the important elements well within the frame boundaries. Like most basic lenses, the 4 element tessar loves to be stopped well down for best results and I find f/11 to f/16 gives results as good as most medium format SLR’s. Even f/22 isn’t too bad to be honest.
Awesome, I am soon to move to Liverpool and been visiting plenty the past 3 years. Great city, gotta take my camera out! Any other photogenic places you recommend? Waterfront and the city centre are the two that come to my mind Also, Bundobust is class 😁
You won’t be stuck for subject matter, that’s for sure. Other areas worth trying are: 1) The dock road heading north. It’s being rapidly redeveloped so well worth a long walk up there from the city centre. Lots of old warehouses and derelict buildings. 2) The Baltic Triangle. Adjacent to Liverpool 1, has old warehouses and signage along with run down streets. 3) The Catholic cathedral. Fantastic architecture and abstract shapes. Have fun.
@@SteveONions ta, been to the Pier Head yesterday with my Lomo LC-A and also discovered the Real Camera shop - very nice staff! Gotta check out all of the docks, the Maritime Museum got me into the marine mood 😂
Lovely photos Steve. Are you really good at estimating distance to subject with the scale focus camera, or were you using a rangefinder aid of some sort? Stopping down also helps keep things sharp.
I will sometimes take a small rangefinder attachment but that’s only needed for subjects closer than about 10 feet. Above that it’s easy enough to estimate and with f/11 or f/16 focus accuracy isn’t really a problem.
@@SteveONions Thanks for the reply Steve. I really like your photos from this video. Does your Perkeo II have the quick focus guide marks on it to help you with shooting quickly. I have a folding Zeiss Ikon Ikonta with those guide marks. Set aperture to about f/13, set focus to about 35 feet, then everything from 15 feet to infinity should be reasonably sharp. Keep up the great work!
For any camera, the theoretical limit is determined by the aperture and the wavelength of light, and nothing else. Expressed in µm at the focal plane, and focal ratio of the lens aperture, f, this works out very approximately as 4f/3. To represent this in digital form needs a pixel pitch that is no more than half this distance, but less yields no further detail.
@@SteveONions suppose I am doing a dslr scanning. Or if I would do a darkroom print, how big can I get before you notice softness, if I do everything optimally. ?
Great inspiration for trip to NYC next week. Taking Oly 35 SP, inspired by you 35 RC video. Just curious, did you meter your shots or just use Sunny 16? Now if there was only a Bundobust in the States! Hopeful to find some good food like that!
