a special aerochrome project

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podcast: ‪@mamiyamigos‬
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cameras: nikon f2, nikon fa

[@CokeNire]

I’m tripping on that glass of water.

[@nigeltilbrook8827]

it's not optically aligned

[@baharam98]

what the heck is happening with that glass of water?! In some shots, it looks straight, in others... it does not; while everything else seems not to be optically messed up in the same region! I'm really scared!!!

[@wesley_b]

lol it was also freshly poured. Looked nice and cold. Level didn't change throughout the video though hmmm

[@Lethorio]

Kodak, look what you're doing to this man. Just give the man his Aerochrome.

[@ReimannPembroke]

Jason has officially lost his marbles in the pursuit of Aerochrome. I am totally here for it.

[@justin10054]

I'm a little worried Mountain Dew is going to discontinue the Flamin' Hot version before Kodak brings back Aerochrome and all his effort will have been for nothing.

[@RealSebus]

@@justin10054 there is always Vodka.

[@franzspringl4713]

I'm here for it, too. And I even brought popcorn. :)

[@michaeldimmitt2188]

They make a Flamin’ Hot Vodka?!?!?

[@BraeHunziker]

On next week's episode: Jason builds a space craft to recreate the infamous lunar landing images with his own Hasselblad.

[@_stefkas_]

Also there are some free Hasselblads for grabs at the Apollo landing sites, NASA cheapsters took home only the film backs.

[@u-kaer]

Or building a time machine to go back in time to the good old days to buy all the aerochrome kodak ever made.

[@keithparker7412]

Dude this is honestly beyond impressive. Mechanical engineering and photography combined together. Super interesting and inspiring

[@grahamrichards8531]

I agree, amazing, Jason you are a genius!

[@bestmoviesever1]

It would be cool to experiment with different film stocks using this rig to see how the results change. Like what would the images look like if you were to do everything the same here only use a different colour film stock ? For instance, What would Lomochrome Purple paired with the infrared Black and White film stock look like?

[@PurpleStormProductions]

The definition of “Fine. I’ll do it myself.”

[@WillemVerb]

Snap on shirt... he's a man of taste

[@tweed0929]

Next time he's gonna use double Pentax 67s instead of Nikons. So he'll wear Carhartt.

[@Leggeaux]

It doesn't matter that its not perfectly indistinguishable to Aerochrome. This was a brilliant idea, rig, and execution. Creativity met mechanical ingenuity. I love stuff like this. And don't mind the light-refractors who yelled back "NERRRRD" after your beam-splitter reply.

[@tHaH4x0r]

11:00 Tip: Press 'alt' and click on the boundary between the channel mixer and the layer you want to apply it to (the one below it). It will make the channel mixer (or any other adjustment layer) only apply to the single layer directly below it. This way you dont need to merge and you can always adjust the adjustments later (non destructive editing).

[@CristianGeelen]

I love those self engineering projects. Eventually if you develop it through the coolest sh*t comes out of it. Nicely done man.

[@jenslingspaint3523]

This is so completely outlandish. I love it. I'm just wildly impressed that you figured out how to even get the cameras nearly aligned and firing nearly simultaneously. I'm hugely impressed with how you threw it together.

[@fries4450]

Never seen something so deserving of the title "newfangled contraption" as this beast.

[@JCBSPNCR]

I absolutely love this look, maybe even more than traditional aerochrome. I wanna shoot a video with this look

[@xonor13]

I suggest buying a cheap digital point and shoot camera and removing the ir filter in front of the camera sensor. It's not too difficult and you can get some fantastic shots exactly like this, as well as video. I bought a Canon Powershot A3300 IS from a thrift store for $10 and converted it to IR. You can also upload custom firmware called CHDK to make the camera shoot RAWs and do anything you need. I tricked out my camera with a tiny 665nm filter that i can change out to block out some of the visible spectrum

[@xander1052]

@@xonor13 I mean, the fun here is the tactile nature of shooting fake aerochrome, yes an ir modded digital camera is both easier and better, but sometimes you've gotta do something silly

[@anihilistsweetpotato9535]

He fuckin did it

[@ElishaDavid]

With a little more photoshop on the color/exposure these could look identical.

[@gwyneplaine4771]

The shot of Baxter on a sea of red is amazing. Well done, Jason!

[@chris_jorge]

You’ve officially become the “I shoot film” final boss

[@classic.cameras]

Hooray today is a good day a new video from Grainydays!

[@Behrdie]

This whole build is sick. Really enjoyed the results!

[@MTimWeaver]

I've been shooting digital infrared portraiture since 2016, and (occasionally) IR film portraiture since 2019. I have to give you mad props for taking this on and attempting to go even beyond the Trichrome method. While it may not have come out perfect, the fact that you took that step to do is amazing.

[@aaronyu2841]

One of the best, self engineered photography projects I’ve seen in a while. Great Job!

[@KevinChaires]

Ngl, I loved those unintentional artsy compositions

[@loganguybaker]

You’re an absolute mad lad for this one

[@matejhomola8500]

Hello Jason, if your muscle memory wants to rest a bit, in photoshop you can turn on "actions" in the window dropdown menu. Then just create a new action (plus sign), name it whatever you want (muscle memory is an ok name) and turn on the recording of this action before any of the edits. You edit everything the way you wanted to do (channel mixer, editing layers, etc.) and then click stop in action menu. Everything you clicked is saved as an action that you can apply to the next photos, so it's automatic muscle memory in Photoshop made just for you. And as always, amazing project, amazing video, amazing Baxter.

[@EdoDijkgraaf]

I follow your work for about a year now. I am colorblind. Not your fault. I was already colorblind. I think it helps me being colorblind. At least while watching this video. Thank you for making me see that.

[@King_Dragon_13]

Did this guy just invent something and we watched him do it… this is awesome

[@RealSebus]

My first thought 'oh maybe I try it', halfway throughout the video 'I'll stick to fompan'

[@Eaton.]

The Attic Darkroom is a fantastic channel for anyone that's interested in experimentation with film.

[@Lets-Take-Pictures]

Fantastic! I love when people create custom solutions like this, because it’s always about the individual vision, the thing we want to see in the world that doesn’t exist. While not perfect, it’s a proof of concept. I’ve been reading “Photographs for the Tsar: the pioneering color photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II” which talks about his pretty amazing trichrome rig. Prokudin-Gorskii was amazing, and seeing his color photographs from 1904 onwards, it’s startling, the images look misplaced in time. Anyway, the point is, he had a clever contraption for his camera to automate the trichrome process, speed things up, and minimize camera or subject motion: “He had, in fact, developed a system of producing three-part color photographs that could be projected simultaneously. Using a small folding hand camera of the type designed by [Adolph] Mieth, he photographed three exposures of the same subject, made at about one-second intervals on a glass plate approximately 84-88 mm wide and 232 mm long, which was mounted vertically in the camera. The plate dropped to a new position after each exposure, and the image was captured through three different color-separation filters.” - Robert H. Allshouse, p. xiii “Prokudin-Gorskii used a camera that produced three individual color-separation negatives with one loading. Apparently the opening and closing of the shutter, the changing of the three color filters, and the shifting of the glass plate to position it for the three exposures were effected automatically by a spring-powered mechanism.” Allshouse, pp. 211-212 I know the whole idea with this rig is to get everything in one exposure, but I thought maybe someone who’s thinking about trying their own rig might benefit from hearing about one of the best trichrome rigs in history. Hope this helps somebody.

[@jordifarhansyah]

This is hands down the best Aerochrome recreation video that I’ve watched. But, doesn’t it intrigues you that at the end of the video Jason said he has a better solution on Aerochrome??? I swear he’s been teasing us several times in other videos as well. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it 😂😂😂

[@pedrobortoli6852]

Kodak's unwillingness to bring back Aerochrome is driving Jason further and further into madness. And it's kinda beautiful(?)

[@jkerman5113]

As soon as I saw the title I knew he had done it. Great job, jason. I've tried this technique with a digital camera (but on a tripod, taking one color and one IR image and combining them) and I quite liked my images. Though when I thought of a beam splitter I thought of a technicolor camera - one lens, beam splitter behind it, light going towards two strips of film.

[@geoffmphotography9444]

And in one bound dude joins Einstein, Turing, Hawkin, Berners-Lee and, I don't know, Galileo on the list of scientific greats. That was very clever.

[@thumperjdm]

Not all heroes wear capes. Some carry a dual-camera-TelePrompter contraption around the city, to the bewilderment of everyone around.

[@gryyphyn8639]

Oh Baxter, you wondrous fur child, your timing is impeccable.

[@robertadamsiii707]

You carried my interest all the way through Jason. Great job.

[@arturors30]

Well I have to say that the results…I like them. 👏👏👏

[@stuartcarden1371]

Great commitment to the cause - Just don't get committed for the cause!

[@wojtekscibor]

Kodak should knock on your door and officially thank you for inspiring them to BRING AEROCHROME BACK

[@Lalaland.001]

honestly I like these pictures more then the OG aerochrome...Like truly and honestly, I love the slight yellowish cast it has in the normally oversaturated reds of true aerochrome. Just my 2 cents on it.

[@aglassbrightly]

Thank you for putting your heart and soul into this doomed project, if only for our entertainment.

[@elleoat]

Amazing quality video, one of your best I think. Would love to see more Grainybuilds

[@phillippacker5920]

No doubt, with the help of your trusty sidekick, Baxter, you'd be able to overcome the theoretical physical limitations of interstellar space travel higher than the speed of light. Looks like your halfway there, already.

[@zzstrone1354]

Bouta sleep when i got a notification from Jason's youtube channel saying that he uploaded a new video and now im watching it. I have work tomorrow.

[@TheWillRogers]

"Multi-Camera C-Mount Adapter" with appropriate camera and lens mount swaps. Only costs like 3 grand, but it's the size of a can of Cheetos Flamin Hot Mtn Dew. Would reduce the number of objectives to one so they should never be misaligned unless the dork who makes it in CAD screws up.

[@headwerkn]

This is genuinely awesome Jason. I don't think you're actually too far off a very usable solution: use two identical cameras so the shutters fire at the same time, maybe go with identical 50mm lenses so you can use a smaller teleprompt/beam-split mirror, and reverse the arrangement so the 70% transmission 'side' points down to the B&W IR camera, so you have a somewhat-usable viewfinder on the colour/visible spectrum 'side' for composing (30% is more usable than 0% through an R72). Aligning both cameras will be a matter of trial and error... though the next step there would be perhaps looking at some kind of beam-splitting cube (Thor, Shanghai Optics etc) that - and I'm just hypothesising at this point - could allow a single lens mounted onto the splitter and split two ways with suitable lens mounts on each exit path. This would/could offer a more compact, rigid and optically accurate arrangement, though nutting out the appropriate dimensions would be math-hell, and the commercially available cubes seem a bit small (50x50mm) maybe? I won't pretend to be an expert on how Aerochrome looks but it seems like the IR film could maybe be pushed to increase the graininess to better ape the real thing, maybe some light diffusion over the colour film to give it a bit of that IR glow too? Given the real thing is pretty much unaffordable/unavailable now and (despite your best efforts) the likelihood of Kodak bringing EIR or HIE back is basically nil, this is gonna become an increasingly legit option. I'm actually really excited to try Trichromes now!

[@thomasbarrett3906]

This is really cool. I wonder if you could put the beam splitter behind the lens (would require using a lens that has a built-in shutter, or remounting one into a LF shutter, and then two bodies). Would solve the shutter lag issue, and could allow for a much smaller beam, but composing might be tough.

[@asdf52708]

I love when a man is obsessed with solving a unique problem. it's awesome! keep it up, Jason 🤙

[@gusatvoschiavon]

The beamsplitter setup with two cameras its pretty comum to use to record 3d movies, the difference being that they offset the lenses a little bit so it matches our eyes distance

[@nobodyneedsthis]

I do not doubt your commitment to sparkle motion.

[@LBAW]

A true scientist for our times.

[@pietervanhaaften709]

New grainy vid 😮‍💨

[@joepphoto]

I like how you say "it's a beam splitter!" as if they were supposed to know.

[@northwestdepressed]

I love that you always say you're not that smart then you come out and MacGyver a whole new rig dedicated to taking color infrared photos that would have taken NASA several years to complete.

[@KevinCockerline]

This is absurd, I love it

[@jimgoodin-analogphotography20]

Inventive! I think what you did IMO was create a machine, mechanism DIY to bring another level of creativity to your final digital product. Though in this day/age working in analog photography it is necessary(?) to produce a 'final' product of the work in digital to reach the modern times audience, you have created something still in the analog realm to present a more creative final product. Well done Jason and interesting document of your aerochrome inspiration to make something else. In other words I thought it was cool!

[@nelsonchen7823]

jason, have you thought about just putting two cameras up and down? like base plate to base plate. it'll have slight parallax, but might not matter when focus at near infinity and beyond. it will be easier to align the two cameras, and hopefully photoshop can take care of the small difference in post. just a suggestion, love the idea!

[@workinprogress9483]

jason this officially makes you the coolest person to ever live

[@yakub3962]

0 cap whatsoever, this man is a genius 💀💀💀

[@jdbsc]

this looks insanely good... it is beautiful in its own way, props to you

[@filmbenjamin]

this is one of your best videos. well done

[@Mike_cuomo]

these are beautiful, they look like the new wes anderson cinematography aesthetic for asteroid city

[@dmek1984]

To help save Jason's back, there is a petition on Change under "Bring back Kodak Aerochrome film photography"

[@SteveNgynn]

Kodak needs to see this video and this man's efforts.

[@spectrazone]

Sick as hell, I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. Maybe a deep yellow or orange filter on the vis camera would help with your color balance, since it would cut the visible blue and some green

[@regalwalnut]

Friggin' GENIUS is what it is!

[@ChrisRoutledge]

This is absolute ridiculous brilliance. Bravo!

[@paoloiaccarino7447]

this is my comfort channel.

[@sethobates]

Bravo man. Epicness!

[@ramyzhang]

this is WILD, the hues are incredible

[@amosk24]

You sitting in your chair is reminisce of Michael Corleone when he assumes the throne. Well done, Godfather.

[@Tiki_619]

That profit reference is one of my favorite episodes! 🔥

[@itzyamancam8561]

Jason never disappoints, idk how half of that worked BUT I love watching him do it. I thought the photos looked great! Also I’m stealing that cup of water.

And then there is a Zeiss Digi Prime casually sitting at his desk. He probably got it for 5$ at a thrift store.

[@denisbaranov1367]

You nailed it! I'm sincerely happy for you, man

[@Adamerhartvideo]

Dude that's insane...ly awesome.

[@tomascarlsson961]

Good effort. I’m impressed.

[@urkince26]

18:03 You can't keep teasing us like this man!

[@quintonmckimm]

"prismatic aberration" love it.

[@warrenc2306]

I see you have advanced from Junior wizard to Lead-Junior wizard👨‍🎓!!! Congrats on the build and I love the results.

[@Caballeroshot]

That's a hell of a lot of effort to manufacture something that can be replicated digitally and I absolutely LOVE IT!

[@mtb_ryan]

Really cool idea. Basically what Hoyte did in Nope for their day for night scenes.

[@OnlyAnalogue]

Absolutely. Mental. What a hero!

[@GriffonEbooks]

LOVED the amount of grunts and groans in this. Also good job on the contraption ig

[@fukolombobby]

Beam splitters are refractors btw they refract aka change the direction of light

[@erichoce8532]

13:01 - I love this photo. the colors almost give me IRL spider-verse vibes

[@justmoe7742]

The lengths this madlad goes to bring aerochrome back... I hope you will be successful.

[@CarlBergsdorf]

This is the moment Jason became Hasselblerg

[@vnombear]

✨ a l r i g h t ✨

[@benmacmillan1323]

What a crazy result, thanks for sacrificing your sanity for this!

[@philclarkart]

I respect the commitment to doing color infrared on film that you would try this instead of just getting an IR converted digital camera. I think you could work through the problems with this if you just gave in and used a tripod. At least for getting the cameras aligned. Mount that rig on your 8x10 tripod and put some paper up on a wall. Then mark the corners of the frame in one viewfinder with a marker on the paper. Then adjust the other camera to fit those corners. Also, I assume you were using the same lens but on different bodies? I wonder if finding two matching bodies might work better as far as making sure the shutters sync up better. Maybe also use ND filters to make sure both cameras have the same shutter speed and aperture.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

One way to optically align the cameras is use two laser pointers, one pointed at one viewfinder and the other at the other ones, and then just align the dots.

[@danawhite5573]

Preparing for a wedding? 👀 haha I applaud you trying this out to recreate aerochrome! Nothing like a good experiment! 👏🏾👏🏾

[@jonathanhotopf1823]

Looks like a funky Technicolor set up. If colour film ever disappears this will add a whole new level of complication! Results look way better than expected.

[@SatanSupimpa]

Cool to see Attic Darkroom mentioned in this video, I think you have a similar dry humor.

[@ryanmacnamara5919]

Quite the climax to the aerochrome saga

[@Shmooexe3440]

Wait what do you mean at the end till you find a better solution with the subtle text saying you already have? you cant tease us like that man. Amazing concept and incredible video as always

[@treyusher32]

I love the HowToBasic film loading style footage

[@TheJeremyPaul]

Damn son, I admire the dedication and obsession Jason. This is some next level hipster shit and I love the results.

[@lmnop7098]

Jason inspiring the new generation of film bros

[@zuhachan]

i'll finish the latest mamiyamigos episode and come back to this after

[@erome5903]

Love the sound of the nikon f2