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Hi Ace! As you get more experienced in photography, sometimes you get critical with yourself, when composing shots. In your mind, you want to do more and make the next photo better than the previous one. I found it’s not a conscious thing. It’s a growth process that reaps rewards slowly and methodically, with each photo you take. Be patient with yourself. After 10 mediocre photos, all of a sudden you’ll take a beautiful photo. That’s how it is! Love your videos. Keep up the great work! Tony from 🇺🇸

Hello Ace! I finally found your KZbin channel, and I’m very glad I did! Your discussion is very thoughtful, insightful and is on-point. As someone who grew up in the 1970s and 80s, before the internet, the large reference books with wonderful illustrations were my main purchase! While the books were not about photography per se, their photographs were excellent. For example, my book about the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright has exquisite photographs of his famous commercial buildings and private houses over the years. Another is a huge sized book about the films of David O. Selznick, with many sharp still b&w photos behind the scenes on all his films. You are so right - there is a joy from browsing photos on printed paper that you cannot get from a phone screen! The posing people you mentioned in one of your books was customary in film portrait photography before digital non-posed street-type photography came to be. The “Unseen” book has a stunning 1956 Dodge on its cover, so that one is a keeper! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on printed photo books. Loved the video! 🎉

Is this RAW or Fuji Jpeg Recipe?

I know I'm late to the party, but wow, only $10 is pretty cheap. I have my XA2 with the A11 flash sitting in front of me right now. Mine cost me IIRC about £100, but that was brand new back in 1984. I bought it for the times when I would have to go places while I was in the Royal Air Force, and needed a small unobtrusive camera to take with me. The times when the ME Super was far far to much camera. I still have it, and would not part with it, but I have to say it has never seen much use. In the end my RAF service didn't see me travelling the world, far from it. Also working in secure buildings where just having a camera could land you in prison, let alone taking photos, I didn't really ever need that alternative to the SLR. Have recently got into shooting some film again, and it's kind of nice having a small 35mm compact to go with my 1952 vintage Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6×6 cm folding compact. Have some FP4 in the XA2 at the moment, but I think that maybe I should put some colour film in it, given the period the camera is from, and save the Ilford films for the Nettar.

Have you got an SQ6?

I love zoom lenses, i love Minolta 7000i

Beautiful! Much better shots than what I saw prior to this in your video of sugar cane fields when you were just starting out with the recipes

Should I do a long format video about these slides?

Wow you are amazing. What an amazing video

Lovely stuff✌️🇦🇺

It brings back memories

Nice one mate

Great video ACE, hope you're well.

Looks good to me. I like the slow zooms. Very 90s tv.

Love it!

And you with the classic XT-1 and the pancake….. few if any in that caravan park would know. Loved the video, Doug from Sydney.

I absolutely love this camera. Ten times the character of a Leica. Shit photos, but great fun

You did it Ace! I'm digging it. Who needs dehancer?

I'm curious about how you did it, so that video is one you really should do (I'm sure I'm not the only one).

Hey... I'm really relaxed now. I think shouldn't have trusted that fart though.

Love the shot at 2:10!

The cowboy rides again! 🎉💪🏼🌵

The drone footage was tops! I think it's healthy to second guess your photos to some degree, but really I think knowing the basics is important, and once you have those down, that's where your real artistry begins... there is some part of your photography which is *your* photography, and that's what makes it interesting. I don't do local photography much anymore except with the phone, but sometimes if you're in a rut, it's good to change things up - whether your scenery, your equipment, your subjects, your companions etc. That's one thing I love about traveling!

It's tough to get into it these days when I have to make content simultaneously. Very nice comps, even if they don't float your boat. Can you rig up the hi 8 to your drone?

I’d say it’s like a drug. At the start it was amazing but now I’m addicted and have the same high more rarely. At the start, just getting the photo in focus with the right settings was enough for me, but now it’s like I’ve unlocked more categories to check off before I like the shot. It is what it is.

Almost a year ago I lost what I called my "photo-mojo" The desire to take photos just left me - I had no motivation to take pictures (and I've had a camera in my hand since I was in my early teens (so, decades)). But I let the feeling ride, tried not to force anything and by last month I could feel the desire to shoot return. I decided to go slowly and set my self the goal of one Polaroid a day, and I now have 30 pictures that I may not have taken otherwise. They'e "nothing" photos, but the project got me back into the habit of looking for and seeing photos. I have a new appreciation for a hobby that I had taken for granted. Be kind to yourself and trust your instincts. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Love the photo at 2:26. 4:34 is a cool moment, but I feel pulling back a bit to give more space and context around him would emphasise the way he's in his own space, disconnected from everything going on around him. The struggle is real. I know exactly what you're talking about. Just a week or two ago, I was in the city with my X-pro2 and noticed the way I saw a lot of "almost" photos, that were almost a great shot, but not quite, and a few years ago, I would have taken the shots and maybe been happy with them. But now, I let those moments go, knowing that they would not produce an image I'd be excited by. While it shows I have a deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't, and have higher standards, I also feel it's a bad thing. Because it becomes about the hunt for great shots, rather than about being in that place and immersing yourself in it, and taking photos that capture that feeling. Focusing on the product at the end rather than the moment you're in. I'm yet to figure out how to break out of that.

Yeah I’m with ya, it starts to become a destination rather than an experience. I like looking back at my old work when I had very little experience/insight… might not be technically good images, but their sure a lot more organic ❤

Thanks

You look so American and yet you sound so Oz. I am hevily into vintage lenses, especially anything Carl Zeiss. My two best are an ancent Carl Zeiss Biotar (No red T* but, coated glass) and a more recent Rollei Carl Zeiss Distagon, very worn and skuffed on the outside, but what great glass. I recently found out about the SMC Pentax-M lenses. There is a site that ranks Pentax glass, the Pentax-M f/1.7 50, is not only the most popular, it is ranked the highest. So sharp, and so cheap. $30 USD in the states. Thank you, good work, I subscribed.

Expired slide! You madman!

The XA2 is one of my favorite film cameras. It's a brilliant design.

G'day mate. Thanks for the vid. I came across you when I was searching for people who are using this film. Mainly because I've just ordered a stack of it. I'm on the Pacific coast of Chiba, Japan, about an hour and a half from Tokyo. So fairly remote film stock is really bloody expensive and processing is even more so. So I'm planning to do some black and white processing at home and for ease and cost I'm going to be interested to see what my shots look like after C41 processing.

Looks overexposed, did you try any at box speed? Also as well as being used for projection, slide film was the film generally used for professional use until digital became superior.

Fun!

Are you drinking to cope with it not being an instax book?😅

What amazing music, what an amazing video. You are exactly clever.

3:22 is great!

🍻 get a drink in ya and bring some instax 🎉

3:18 - the black and white cow is a nice shot. The X-Pro1 was my first Fujifilm digital camera and the camera that brought me back to black and white photography. (I think it is much better than you give it credit for) Now, I have the X-H2. It's full of features and bang up to date, but, I still like to set the camera up to JPEG shooting and the Acros (R) simulation. I don't bother to convert from RAW as I think I become a better photographer by limiting my choices. Next year, I look forward to buying the X-Pro4. Somehow, the X-Pro range will always be a black and white camera. I hope they make a monochrome version. Looking forward to your next uninspired effort!

3:36 "doesn't have to be fantastic" as you throw up a straight banger!

Video bien chidori!! Vientos!!!

This is great. Thank you for sharing your photos!

Love it man 👏👏🎉

100%

Yes! I have the same combo and love shooting with it so much I go out with it almost daily.

Do you notice a difference from the plastic lens?

Still want a nons?

I find a 70-210mm zoom nice for aviation (the only telephoto-ish lens that I until recently had). 210mm might be self explanatory, plane go high. But I also find myself going all the way down to 70mm with it at airshows. When a plane or especially formation of planes are coming really low, they're closer than you'd think, and 210mm would crop out some of the formation. With that said I recently got a pretty nice Konica Hexanon 135mm prime lens. That might be a good middle ground.