When you want something in focus you have to have accurate control! Nice you figured it out! well done!

The filmbase of my roll, processed with rodinal, turned out quite dark as well. I fixed it for at least 7 minutes in new fixer. It is known to be Orwo N75 cinema film.

I am fond of using a red filter to photograph plants close up, when I know that I can get the gray details of the surface of the leaves and stems to look like dust. You can make the exterior of a green plant look remarkable, the green goes black and the surface skin of the plant becomes highly visible. But as you note, this is an extreme effect, it makes the plant looks sinister, it's not something you would want to just slap on and walk around with.

Getting this one from ebay, thought it was the 4x5😢. Should I resell?? And get my 4x5 or keep this little critter? Will definitely make a glass back for it eather way! Thanks man❤

Maybe you needed a reciprocity calculation?

Last one is awesome 👍🏻😎 Very sharp for pinhole

You can use magnifying glass too, its faster than pinhole

Yours is the 3rd video I've watched where there is something about 1cm from the bottom on the right hand side... Any idea what causes it? I imagine something loose inside but seen it on 3 camera reviews now... Just curious

The problem with the window on the Brownie is that it is designed for Orthochromatic film and you were probably using Panchromatic film. Ortho films are only sensitive to blue and green light and are not sensitive to red light. Having said that, my first camera was a hand-me-down Ferrania Ibis 34 which was effectively a half-frame 127 roll film camera with two such windows on the back to line up the frame numbers. I never had any problems, but I guess that's because the film had paper backing (with the frame numbers on it).

I know the new fresnel/ground glass didn't work but when you installed the new one it replaced both of the old fresnel and ground glass so that you now had only one fresnel/ground glass in the camera?

Seriously, I gave you a shot. By the 3rd minute I switched you off. Good luck with your channel.

Ground glass should always be facing the lens (or mirror). The ground glass distance from the lens should not change. If you had a separate fresnel lens inserted between the lens and ground glass then pretend it didn't exist -- the new ground glass + fresnel combo should be treated like ground glass and be the same distance as the old ground glass. This may require a spacer if your ground glass was physically sitting on the separate fresnel. To dial in a spacer you will need to tape some ground glass onto the film plane and get a loupe and focus on infinity, then dial in the spacer until the center and all 4 corners are in focus in the viewfinder and film-plane. Now using the viewfinder, focus at 5 meters and confirm focus on the film-plane ground glass. Now repeat at 1 meter. Infinity, 5 meters and 1 meter should all be in focus. If not, your lens needs adjustment. I have one lens in need of adjustment and I just choose to accept a slight misfocus at infinity because I'm usually shooting stopped down when shooting at infinity (or hyperfocal distance). Good Luck.

Finally a reviewer that tests cameras with COLOUR film and not just the same black and white bull.

Nice collection of cameras ! Holgas are fun, I just bought the panoramic holga and the panoramic pinhole holga, more fun than serious cameras but seem fun all the same.

I'm a Japanese user. Please note that there may be some errors due to the use of translation tools. I feel sad that I don't see many people using it in Japan. With this camera, when loading film, if you align the starting point of the film with the triangular start mark in the center, you may only be able to take 11 shots. Has this ever happened to you?

Would you get similar effect from push/pull process?

Great news and a brilliant video to boot. Well done, you're getting good at this. Cheers

I'm curious to see if anyone uses colour filters for Digital BW photography? Obviously you could probably achieve the same effect in post and with custom white balance.

Rob is a star

You still get battery holders for 6 AAA batteries for this camera, ranging from 130-200 $....

And AstrHori includes a cute little manual with your warranty but JUST TRY AND GET SERVICE. I have 11 messages out there for a meter that was dead when I received to and they have not answered even one, message. THEY OFFER NO SERVICE and are awful!

Which film will be suitable for this camera?

The magnifying specs would be a big help for me. Surprised you didn't use them for the dismantling. Any chance you could provide a link, please? Many thanks.

This a good attempt but the caveat is that it doesn’t measure humidity, temperature variation nor time which makes the test inconclusive. The most obvious failure is the Elmers. Some of these definitely would test differently over time. While you want to use one which not too difficult to remove nor do you want one that fails too soon. Only time and conditions will tell.

Hey can I ask what spot meter you were using in this video? Thanks!

The camera is almost 50 years old , so what do you expect ? would a 50 yr old car be any better. Now I owned 2 of them when introduced ,with 3 lenses the 50mm . 90mm and 140mm. The seperate levers for shutter and film advance were never a problem, if i wanted that i would have used my Nikons. The RB67 was a workhorse , perfect for weddings and that revolving back Sooo good, landscapes and more often than not on a tripod. You actually had to know what you were doing, and understand the interactions of aperture/shutter/ASA ( now iso) . Apart from the 120/220 film backs, i had a polaroid back, great for checking exposures and composition on say catalogue work. I had all of this in a black aluminium photographic case, Unfortunately on a return trip from Nairobi at the airport it took the attention of the customs officers, their eyes wide open when, I opened the case. They refused me to take the case onboard as I had been previously, the case never went on the plane, stolen by the Customs officers at Nairobi airport. a KLM flight the max compensation was £250 . i felt sick as if a close family member had died when it never appeared at heathrow. I had been in Nairobi 5 yrs and my insurance had just expired. I think it was insured for £5,000 ( a lot of money mid 1980's) Ive just bought another 1980's classic a Canon T90, When it came out i changed from all Nikon to all Canon, its a piece of sculpture 1. I beleive you can get a digital back now for the RB67, but id buy the camera from Japan, they must give accurate descriptions of the condition. Shame about the import duty /VAT

Love that video, nicely done. Seems the highlights tend to shift a bit to the green side of colours. The studio shots are wonderful. I also like the folwer field shots. I will definitely grab some rolls (I also skipped the 35mm). Nice to see the S2A in action. Thx for sharing.

I love the Lomo LCA 120. I’ve taken it to all my travels, from Puerto Rico to Europe. Mine broke because I dropped it a few times so I had to save and wait a bit before replacing it.

I can tell I wouldn't like the RB67 personally either so I agree with you. Too big and bulky. 6x4.5 is still medium format and way larger than 35mm film. In my opinion it's the sweet spot for medium format photography. Not a fan of the 6x6 square framing either but there are some cool TLR cameras out there which are fun to use. (I have a yashica A and love it.)

Excuse me, my Etrsi 6x4.5 focus screen seem dark and scratched. The bright focus screen is so expensive for my budget. If i buy a big focus screen from other 6x6 camera then cut it to fit my camera. Could it be problem about the focus precision?

Hello, will you tell me what the dimensions are of the dark slide?

i have used phoenix in 35mm and really like the vintage look you get like photos from the 70s- and 80s good video. I think the pink camera suited you.

Thanks for this. The camera is great when it works. My first one had a broken double-exposure mechanism and was replaced by Lomography. Since then, I treat the working copy very carefully and would NEVER take it to a beach.

Finally someone talks about folding cameras! I absolutely love the low tech workflow with a seperate light meter and just a viewfinder, it's very calming to me.

SCAN YOUR 6X7 NEGS AND NOW IT BECOMES DIGITAL.

Since 1981 until today the RB67 "Pro S" film back will not allow you to take a picture with the dark slide in. You're issues is the back and after market dark slide also the pro S back will not allow you to do a double exposure unless you slide the same frame switch located on the back of the back. Great camera I even did a Grammy Award winning album cover with the boss the RB67 "PRO S" THE ONLY CAMERA TO DO WEDDINGS, PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE THIS CAMERA HAS NEVER FAILED ME SINCE 1981. KEEP IT.

so glad u checking the lca120, i plan to get it and was till that video unsure

To me the shots at the flower field seemed slightly over exposed. Just a tad washed out. The beach shots a little better. The model shots again over exposed. Maybe should be rated at 400.😢

Big downside for me, is the lack of an orange mask as i print in my darkroom... And even if i was not printing, i think modern scanners are based on that orange mask too, i don't unterstand why they don't make it...

Nutter! LOL Michelle at Harman is brilliant. I like Phoenix and it will only get better. Ivy looks fab to work with.

Found your channel recently as I'm making the jump into 120 film. I quite like the Holga look you got there but it does feel quite niche and being Bristol based myself I can't see opportunities for that kind of look all year round 😂 Looking forward to more of your content!

Great review thanks! On the last roll in the City of London can I ask please if you think the roll was overexposed or the lightness of the images is more to do with your scanning of it and editing in post? Were thr negatives well exposed or over exposed in your opinion?

Nice review. Great photos of Ivy. Send some Phoenix to Australia. Regards Peter.

I picked up a couple of rolls today at my local WEX ( Belfast ) today to give it a try out. I actually didn't know it was out but I'll give it a go and at £11 a roll it isn't going to really break the bank. Great video as usual.

Did I see a Bronica S2 :) ?

Great to see this. But it won't inspire me to get my ETRS out of its case and use some! Sorry.

I like the extreme of the holga images. Compared to cross processing, it's remarkably subdued. I can see the lomography types ( do they still exists). Liking that look. I'm going to give it a go in a holga when I get round to it.

I'm sorry if this seems rudimentary, but a lot of the symptoms you mention can be attributed to running 120 film through a 220 film back. Only brought up because it wasn't mentioned and just wanted to confirm which back it was.

It is a really warm film. I did not mind your Holga shots - I liked the almost cross-process intensity. I like it as an effect film. I will not bother with it in 35mm. Directly to my Yashica A.

Been daily driving Phoenix in 35 for the last 6 months and I've learned so much shooting it. It's like slide film at its core. I love the way it looks with flash, all my friends at the lab have been laughing at me for using it so much but it feels like this is a potentially once in a lifetime opportunity to use a limited brand new film stock, so I'm accepting all my results as a Harman the company is accepting it as well. It really is a HARD film stock to use and I love that, from the blown highs to crushed blacks or the wack scanning, It just feels right to use it after the insurmountable amount of time and money that has went into the development. I may be tripping a little but I believe the emulsion material theyre using is very very good, ive shot many many rolls of it and it's a really easily film to handle and ive never seen it scratched really? Love that it's always flat and always has a great surface. I love how it looks in overcast and sometimes i like shooting it at like 20iso. Just bought 5 rolls on B and H to hold me over till labs get it in.