I subbed for film photo content but I’m digging this style shorts video. very cool commentary on photo trends. Nice work.

Vogue magazine is a joke!!

Nobody cares.

i love his paintings and i wil surely check out his photos because thats a road i will head down the rabbit hole

Haarige Angelegenheit 😢

How did you shoot the Fuji control roll? What did you meter for and develop , 400, 800 ISO?

use a paper leader to load 35mm into a medium format camera then you won't waste any film, just a bit of tape and paper.

I live in downtown and I agree that LA is not as easy to photograph as Paris, London, or New York. There isn’t really a beautiful no-brainer focal point where you’re sure to take a great photo. You have to really look hard and work at it.

Best description of “grain” I ever heard

it's crazy that the Dori 2 16 has a removable magazine... what's the point of giving a fake gun camera a removable magazine?

Just picked up one of these cameras! Great video and love your photos!

Totally sold on Aurora, that's stunning. Sounds like most of these stocks benefit from underrating...as pretty much all negative stocks do ;-). I never knew a pro shooter that rated anything 400 over 320, and most would rate as 200-250 ISO.

He also wanted to express a sense of optimism in his paintings, and tried to work some whimsy in when he could like a floating balloon in the distance. People see decay and desolation, but I also see community and coming together despite the bleakness of the world around them, he paints lovers and families and explorers

Awesome short. You’ll be a massive channel with this quality, or maybe you already are and I’m just here early lol. Either way, I really like how many examples you showed while speaking about it. Just saw a playthrough of that video game based on his artwork. Really trippy to know that that was inspired by his time under German occupation, it’s a glimpse into how truly evil the world can be.

An actual good low liked short? Thats a first. Keep it up

👍📸❤️Getting late here in England but your enthusiasm is crazily addictive. So hyper 🤣 Do you even sleep?😂 Now I gotta chill so I can try 🙄 But I dig the subject. 👍📸

I dont understand why you'd go to such lengths yet not use a grey card on at oeast one scene

My family didn't have much money when I was a kid, so I bought disposable cameras and always reloaded them (until they wore out) with new film to save money. I'm glad someone else has discovered the joy of reloading disposable cameras!

Thank you for introducing Zszislaw Beksinski, his works are amazing.

Okay damn this earned a follow, keep it up!

A pretty good assessment if not a little uncertain and your personality is not confident but wanting to get your info out or your view, its a disjointed approach, however i cant fault your comments and a lot of your photos are like you, very across the board, a broad spectrum.

I adore beksinskis work - for somebody who says his work has no meaning or reference to any event, they sure do have a lot of emotional impact and wartime references. He's an amazing artist, both in his photography and his paintings

It really is "show, don't tell"

Pictures are pictures

I feel like this was a walk down memory lane while also being backhanded and attacked for being Tumblr basic. 😂 I miss the K-pop fandom that dominated a certain corner of the platform.

I think kodak is instead of throwing out there used portra chemicals there recycling the dirty used chemicals and turning it into funsaver film.

Not surprised you were upset at losing all that film with the Hasselblad! You should have gone Bronica. The 135N back with either ETRS or SQ system would have given 36 frames. Alternatively, the excellent 135W gives 24 full panoramic shots!

Great video

It is a great camera.I support your recommendations.cheers Geoff

The “Cathedral” you shot at the end of Wall St. Is Trinity Church - it’s the oldest church in NYC. Great video, and great shots!

Thank you for sharing and your insights on it! Looking forward to your next video on it!

Blood paper developer next?

12 mins video that should have been 5

ive been doing 35mm pano shots on my fuji gw690 for years and what helped me save a few frames was cutting a paper leader with the height of the film and the width from the film canister to the other canister + the few "blind shots" you usually take when setting up the camera after a new inserting a new film. I tape the paper leader to the actual film leader of the film and the other end on the little cut end of the receing canister.

Great research. Thanks.

Great video! So smart and gorgeous too

When will these films be exported to the US?

Intersting video!

If you really want to know the (possible) differences in color film, you should print them manually on RA-4 paper. If scanned, the systems will always interpret the picture automatically in many ways. There is no such thing as unedited scan.

I’d guess that maybe two of these are the same emulation, maybe the other one is just an off spec product that didn’t make the quality control 😅

After scanning rollls myself and comparing to how the same rolls were scanned by a lab, I can't take the comparison offered here seriously. There are huge differences in how labs deliver scans, and huge differences in how you do scans. The way the sausage is made is not pretty, and it turns out most of the film 'look' is how you do it in post after scanning. Rarely does the raw unedited tiff scan look good, and most labs have a preset when they send to customers, otherwise most customers would be angry at the flat scans they'll be getting.

I worked in camera shops when disposabule cameras first came out. It took us about five mins to figure out how to remove the film safely and without damage and then reload it with new film so you could have any film you wanted in it. After that we started daisy chaining the flash capacitors together and playing rather dubious games of dare. It was a simpler time and you had to make your wn entertainment! I should add don't try this at home kids.

What was the methodology for scanning? The best method would've been digitizing with a digital camera on manual mode to ensure 100% identical conditions and then copy and paste inversion settings (be it in Lightroom or Photoshop) to, again, ensure identical treatment to each of photo. If they were inverted individually it's hard to jugde even if everything was set to auto. For example leaving everything at 0 on NLP doesn't mean the same thing every time, NLP does different things under the hood every time you hit convert based on the individual scan you have. Do you know any more details about that? Also, blink twice if a certain film named after a natural phenomenon is the same thing as a certain product with a higher price that everybody loves 😉😉

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Okay that’s a bit weird. I’ve shot some fresh FunSaver film in my Leica and did exposure tests and it definitely came out more saturated and contrasty than Portra 800 and the grain was also noticeably larger. But the biggest difference was the over latitude and especially underexposure latitude. I’ve shot a lot of Portra 800 and the FunSave film definitely can’t keep up with Portra 800 in more challenging scenes. Also looking at the markings for the FunSaver film, it says Kodak GT 800. Which means it’s Ultramax 800. Looking at the curves in the Ultramax 800 spec sheet they’re identical to Portra 800. But Kodak isn’t always the most precise with their spec sheets. My guess is that it’s similar to how Gold 100 and 200 had the same curves. The target was the same but how they got there not. And like I said, the GT 800 was not on the same level in terms of dynamic range, grain, underexposure. And from everything I’ve seen Lomo 800 is the same as GT 800. Now what did happen is that Kodak switch from triacetate to their polyester ESTAR base for some of their films and the first to do so were Portra 800 and Color Plus. Which makes it even weirder that you said the Portra 800 was thicker and curled less because I can guarantee you, current Portra 800 is ESTAR and you can feel it. I also wanna note that I don’t know how shooting with a medium format back effects the scanning results without the scanners or conversion software being able to use the orange mask for a base balance. If you really wanna be thorough in a comparison, real world examples are super important! But using a color chart is really the way to go. This way you can scan them in a controlled way and get the RGB values for each layer precisely. But all that don’t matter! What I wanna know is what Aurora 800 is now?! Is it maybe the new Kodak movie film that’s supposed to be coming, based on a professional stills film? Did they take Portra 800, turned that into a movie film and sold that to Flick Film to sell for stills? I needs to know!!1

excuse me, but i'm not going to comment on your video. thank you

Your prediction of a new Instax Wide camera came true! ... In typical monkey's paw fashion D: Still a nifty new camera tho.

you coul have loaded the films in a darkroom or a bag and not waste frames

This is amazing, Yvonne! So much fun working with you on this experiment!! Thanks so much for providing the studio time and the film!

Yes yvone! Lomo all the way.. for the savings and the looks it produced