I don't miss Film Photography - Here's why.

[@BaraenAlex]

The more I shoot film (in addition to digital), I find that my primary enjoyment isn't so much about the film vs digital look, but more the user experience and joy of using a mechanical camera. Even the more retro-styled digital cameras don't give quite the same handling experience, but I nevertheless enjoy the digital experience as well. That being said, I do fully agree with your reasons for shooting digital over film!

[@RenelFrazer]

I just started shooting film and I definitely agree. I also feel like it challenged me to learn more about exposure because I don’t have a computer doing it for me. I think every photographer should try shooting film.

[@Mike-vd2qt]

@BaraenAlex That is the smartest comparison of film vs digital. I was a photo hobbyist back in the 1970's and 80's with a darkroom, and I dislike digital camera menus.

[@vampolascott36]

I realize that for younger people, film is romantic and retro. I grew up with film though, and I was happy to quit using my film camera over 20 years ago and I have never looked back.

[@Ivanmckt]

It isn't an age thing, the medium itself offers something different to a very modern industry with cameras that can do everything for you with a blink of an eye. Which btw, I imagine as AI gets more integrated into our technology, will only get easier in 10, 20, 50 years time. Photography is about finding the right tool to do the job and that tool has to be enjoyable to use otherwise it's not a fun process. Pretty much everyone I know that shoots photography on some sort of professional level, always shoots digital for work, and film for pleasure. Personally I think its also the reason why we've seen so many "retro" design cameras popping up because companies have come to realise that not everyone wants a Canon 5D Mark IV dull looking camera, that does it all. Design and shape has been underappreciated by some of these brands for the last couple of decades.

[@vampolascott36]

@@Ivanmckt I couldn’t care less.

[@OfficialSushiSystemAmbassador]

@@Ivanmckt Exactly. Here is sample size plus one. No way could I use mainly film for paid work anymore, digital is way easier and more versatile. On the other hand I deeply enjoy the process of exposing film (I didn’t use film since the 90s, started again about half a year ago, and now I’m completely sucked in again).

[@kevinl.3826]

@@vampolascott36 yea but one gen has one gen’s thing. We should agree to disagrees :) I shoot both and enjoy both

[@Mme.Swisstella]

May i ask your age? ​@@Ivanmckt

[@pilesan8423]

"real photographers wouldnt really care if you shoot film." most true statement in the video

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

I tried for a long time to make my digital pictures look like analog ones, but eventually I gave up. Film only looks like film when you shoot it, and digital looks like digital. One should celebrate the fact that they're shooting digitally and see the high flexibility as an advantage, getting the colors one personally desires. None of your pictures looked like film, but they looked good, and that's what matters.

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Yes digital will never look exactly like film. Maybe AI filters will soon get us closer 😂 I like both mediums the way they are. As long as the images don't look 100% life like and neutral, I am happy.

[@OfficialSushiSystemAmbassador]

@@SamuelStreetlife I guess that’s the issue. Images with modern digital camera sensors start to look more and more life like, film not so much. The video kind of missed the point, but was enjoyable, and great pictures! Thanks.

[@ufukkiblat]

That's a stretch, some of them do look like film. And if you put it on the internet without telling people that it was digital, I'm willing to bet 80% of them would believe that they're film while 20% had no idea. Here's the problem, film also don't look like film. Because different method of processing and scanning, your portra photos won't be the same as my portra photos. Not to mention, people also do some editing in their film photos on top of it so most of the images you see online is not authentic color of the film stock itself.

[@stewartcotton9954]

@@SamuelStreetlife what name brand is your puff jacket? it looks warm

[@alhOOO2O]

Completely agree. I went through the same journey. I also agree that of the excellent photos Samuel took, none of them look even close to film.

[@Johnny_shade]

Dude I love the end segment when you’re talking to yourself. The best part of your videos is your unique way of sharing your ideas. Keep it up 👍🏼💯

[@cabugs]

Hahahaha agree! A segment for all the snobs haha great video altogether :)

[@mcutler71]

Love CMOS digital photography; adore film photography - both 35mm and 120; love CCD digital photography; love hipstamatic mobile photography. Different pallets for different occasions.

[@SivertAlmvik]

In the 00s I used to buy Tri-X in bulk, and load into cartridges myself. My small apartment back then was a combined living space and dark room. I loved it back then, because I was in my 20s. Now, I'm in my 40s and I'm done with film. Digital makes me concentrate more on the images, projects and storytelling. I don't have the time for film, at least in the way I shoot now.

[@aantonic]

good for u

[@SpecialBrewCan]

I'm 66 and grew up with film photography, including having my own darkroom where I spent hours/days in the dark, or near dark, fishing prints and films in and out of horrible smelling toxic chemicals, and being threatened with divorce for there always being wet prints hanging in the bathroom. Well good riddance to all that, I'm glad to see the back of it, and I just can't understand the love that some people have for grainy blurred pictures because they look like film! I love, and have always embraced digital photography for the very reason it's everything that film isn't, and more.

[@PippetWhippet]

I think you hit the nail on the head. Poor photographers can use digital to get technically better results without having to learn a bunch of skills that the technology does for you. You are free from worrying about focus and exposure etc, and can concentrate on the aspects which make the end result better - composition, light, colour, subject and so on. It’s why AI generated photographs are so popular, they free you up from worrying about composition and subject, light and colour, going out, hiring a model or finding the thing. You want a photo of a vicar on a merry go round, easy, you’ll have it in 5 minutes flat! So now it’s all about the idea and nothing else. And yet, name the great photographers… chances are you will name a disproportionate number of film photographers, a disproportionately lesser number of digital with no ai photographers (yet). A poor photographer is still a poor photographer, no matter what they use. Getting a billion cameras per 2 billion people hasn’t produced one in one hundred thousand greats. It’s shifted it to one in a billion greats. It’s nice that the average person on the streets holiday snaps are more pleasing to them (and I proudly put myself in that group, I’m no photographer, I love digital and hate film) but the simple truth is that it hasn’t let more cream rise to the top, it just made more coffee below the same sized film of cream. We raised the bar for the bottom, gave ourselves a whole new layer of people to sniffily look down on, without having to actually get better to achieve this - “oh, your photos are out of focus and not sharp, you can’t afford the technology I can to prevent that.”

[@slothsarecool]

I mostly just enjoy the surprise you get from film, seeing how it’ll render a scene tonally etc, and never worrying about batteries 😅

[@ufukkiblat]

You must be new. You don't know there are lots of film cameras with batteries? a lot of them won't work without batteries at all. IF you just want the surprise, then you could do the same with digital.. turn off image preview, turn off LCD screen, use external OVF if you must, then only look at the photos a month later.

[@ledheavy26]

You shoot without a light meter? Must be a pro at the Sunny 16 rule.

[@PippetWhippet]

@@ledheavy26Selenium cells exist.

[@ledheavy26]

@@PippetWhippet Might as well practice that sunny 16 rule if that's your go to lol.

[@Bob-xy6gt]

In the end, do what you want and what makes you happy :) I just recently bought my first 35mm body since my first SLR I got in 2001 and couldn't be happier having it alongside my GR3. Along with the shooting process, it's such an exciting experience to wait for those negatives to come back - when you have the time of course, just as Samuel mentioned. For everything else, there's digital.

[@martingreenberg870]

It is magical watching the negatives developing. It is fun printing from the negatives. If that is what you are into. The price of film and development have skyrocketed as you well know. Many people interested in the film experience are being diverted to digital due to the cost and the advantages of digital. Too bad. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

[@RustyNotesTV]

Here's my take.. I don't care for shooting film on "normal cameras" anymore. I have a Leica M2, which is a fantastic camera. But to me, it's just not worth the hassel. But, I also have a Hasselblad 500c. That's a completely different story, because it's a completely different shooting experience. When I use my Hasselblad, "I make art", I don't take photographs. So I'm using a Fujifilm X-T5, which blends the best of both worlds, and have my Hasselblad for when I want something different. The Leica M2 will be sold.

[@powderedtoastman3093]

I bought an M4 and a Rolleiflex 3.5C for film 12 months ago. Along with my GR’s. Using a mechanical camera is a real joy. Developing at home is great fun. Get the large Patterson 5 reel tank and you are sorted

[@nickcr3919]

Hi Samuel.I watch your videos for many years but this is the first time I write a comment.You can’t compare apples with oranges.Film always will be film and digital always will be digital.I shoot film from 70’s when I was 7 years old.For me the most important think is the negative which is a physical product you can hold in your hands.I want all my pictures of my family,all my memories to be in a negative.I personally shoot digital only at night outside,when I have to share photos with a lot of people,some color photos (99% shoot film b&w),when I don’t have a film with me and sometimes when I want to travel light.Secondly,nothing compares with B&W film.Digital B&W is too plastic,too perfect,too soulless.Megapixels is not my think.I always prefer emotion,soul and beautiful aesthetic.

[@classic.cameras]

I just use a mirrorless with a vintage lens. For me its the best of Film and Digital. And I created my own vintage film presets over the years. So super clean digital look or very filmy.

[@Mike-vd2qt]

Funny video, but, as someone that walked around with an M3 back in the 1970's and 80's and used a professional dark room, digital cannot look like film on a laptop or phone screen. It makes no sense to shoot film, then use the digital files to print from or load into a software program. That defeats the "filmic look", you can edit in software and do whatever you want. Heck, these days add or remove trees, cars, people and turn them from green to blue if you want. Basically, if you're going to shoot fun stuff and vacation photos and print 4x6 like the "good ol' days" just use your iPhone. Add or subtract some Vibrance, add a little Contrast, add Black Point on the slider, and you are there. Great video!

[@AdamWilson1983]

That bit where you popped a piece of plastic into the LCD screen cracked me up😂

[@paultaylorphotography9499]

Working in newspapers digital is essential I love it to bits I couldn’t live without it if I had to pick only one camera for the rest of my days it would be a digital. I grew up in the film days and kept plenty of my old gear so literally just to use as props for KZbin content I starting using some again I got hooked not so much for the look of film but purely for the enjoyment of using old gear I particularly love fully mechanical gear it’s amazing not having to worry about batteries running low. All that being said digital is still king. Nice work here Samuel cracking vid cheers

[@frankb4483]

New haircut Samuel? It's much better..haha Did you mention where you can use these film simulation packs? Lightroom and probably more. Have to view the video again I guess. Thanks.

[@cortezzz2007]

Samuel.. you can get even closer to analog shooting experience with a digital camera. Here is what I do for years: - take an old sd card - load up some file, so that only around 36 jpgs of your camera fit on the card - set up one jpg picture profile - shoot the pics and do look at them on your camera display , dont delete them etc - just dont use the display at all! - load all of the pics into your pc and here you go (Works Best with vintage manual focus lens) I shoot all my vacations and trips with friends like this. Its exciting, I cant wait to be home to see the pics. Some pics are completely f**** up, but I love even those. I have 2 cards like that, so I can change film on the vacation once. :)) Its so liberating, to shoot only 36x2 pics in 2 weeks.. or even during a weekend. It makes you think before you shoot. And with Fujifilm film sims - it kinda even looks a bit like film, the output. PS: at most I love the group vacation style pics, when you shoot only one and there is always someone, who closes his eyes at the moment of shooting. Its trully like back in da day. 😂😂

[@Answersonapostcard]

There's a time and a place for both mediums. Sometimes I prefer the film SLR with 1.8 manual focus lens experience over my X100f, sometimes I wish I had taken digital with me over film, depending on the situation, and vice versa. Sometimes I enjoy the process of shooting over film but dislike the sheer time it takes to scan in all the negatives, and wish I had taken digital!! Both offer their own unique quality to the images.

[@themoolag]

You've transcended the aspect of process and materials and focused on results. There's definitely nothing wrong with that.

[@TheYoungBoyScout]

I’ve tried all of these and still find Caleb Salvadori’s film presets the most accurate. And they are very simple to use in Lightroom.

[@StuartWeir]

I’d love a video of comparing the same image with multiple new profiles to see the differences.

[@dlyon9673]

Your photos look great. Thank you for the information regarding Cobalt, I'll have to check out their profiles. I was discouraged in my photography journey as a kid because I simply couldn't afford to purchase and develop film and relatedly, was consistently frustrated with the process and my results. Even now, the idea of cleaning up dust from scans makes me want to pull out what little hair I have left. So I'm tremendously appreciative of the power that digital photography gives to photographers. I still prefer vintage mechanical lenses, though, and despite everything, still have a soft spot in my heart for film, which obviously is capable of producing extraordinary results.

[@maxwellwellmax878]

I grew up with film, Digital is great but my iPhone takes good enough pics too. I still have my 35mm, 6x4.5 and 6x7s and use them more than my DSLR or Mirrorless. 😎

[@andyjones5192]

Always fun and useful content. Thank you! Will check out the film simulations even though I like to keep digital and analog separate. Modern sensors and lenses got such I clean look so I love to adapt vintage lenses and bump the ISO up a notch to give it a bit more analogue look. Keep up the great work.

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Vintage lenses sure make a big difference!

[@ACatCalledBaudelaire]

Any updated thoughts on the Nikon Zf, Samuel? It seems like a highly capable body--especially in your hands--but I feel like the 6 month mark is when someone has a pretty good grasp of what they love about a camera and what features (or lack thereof) really bother them. I think there's probably more than a few of us who would love to know your thoughts on it after the honeymoon period.

[@OfficialSushiSystemAmbassador]

You’re right about the six months, but I fear you won’t hear anything new compared to what you can already read online since the camera’s release. The main cons are still: ergonomics, and “weird” ISO handling. I got the Nikon Z f months ago, and I still have the same great impression I had on the first day. I use it only with a grip attached, and its ergonomics are perfectly fine for my hands. Yes, when you want to switch between A & Auto ISO to M & manual ISO, it takes one step more than on every other body, because the Auto ISO implementation is the other way around. But it’s like this on every Nikon body with Auto ISO, so you would have to change systems if you want the other implementation. I feel like this is the biggest “issue” with the camera, but it’s not really an issue for me. I love the camera since I picked it up, it inspires me, and I love using it (I say this as an owner of about 10 more recent MILC bodies in different systems). So yeah, great fit, I guess!

[@klarkolofsson]

It doesn’t matter, is all I got to say about it. A good photo is good.

[@calk12345678]

Pictures aside never seen his hair down xd

[@joshuaconti989]

nice to see cobalt picking up what VSCO inexplicably abandoned years ago.

[@jfphotoandlife8287]

I just got the ZF with the TechArt ring, I will be able to mount all my Leica lenses. I look forward... Thank you for your good mood 👍🏻

[@petterjg]

Happy Cobalt user here. Biggest advantage to me is that all my different camera bodies can show the same colors

[@jazzyx95]

How do you feel about using zf + 40 f2 as a travel combo compared to something like the x100vi? I tried out the zf in store, it was very heavy, also without the grip it was kinda hard to hold onto, I feel like it would be painful traveling around with this camera hanging on my neck most of the time, so I bought the x100vi (upgraded from xe2) instead. What are your thoughts about the zf?

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Yes weight can become an issue with the ZF. I think he weight with a 40mm f2 or 28mm 2.8 on the ZF is manageable but compared to an X100 it will still feel heavier. I personally don't mind. I bought a little thumb rest that you stick onto the leather part on the back and it helps a lot with ergonomics. But it's not ideal. For me it works for now.

[@martingreenberg870]

Congratulations on purchasing the X100VI. I preordered on the 1st day and hope to receive it in a year or two. The XE2 is a very competent body as you know. Hope you have fun with your Fuji bodies. I’ve read and heard nice things about the ZF. The glass is supposed to be excellent and fairly priced. As in life, choosing a camera and lenses is all about compromising. At any given price, all the cameras are very similar. Also, there aren’t any bad cameras.o we make our choices and then don’t look back. With the presets Samuel mentioned all the images from our cameras will look the same. So we just select the body that has the features we want. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

[@blende5.693]

nice video, I also think, that we don’t need film photography anymore, cause it’s possible to imitate any film look digital. I’m still use film , but only for my pleasure, and I really like the film cameras.

[@DI-cm5xc]

Thanks, Sammy, entertaining video. For me, analog means film to darkroom print with no computers. All else is either straight digital or a hybrid of film and digital. You either shoot analog, digital or hybrid in my book.......and it doesn't matter one bit which one you choose!. Get out and enjoy the day with the process of your choice!

[@aquilifergroup]

I started photography in high school in the last 80’s. I used film because there was nothing else to use. As a beginner I used the cheapest film I could buy and the cheapest chemicals for developing. If we had Digital back then I would have used it just to avoid the expense of film.

[@WORDONTHESTREETphoto]

Holy shit!!!! This is innovate!!! Why didn’t I think of this!!!!!

[@SIQmai]

12:43 Samuel you're hilarious 😂 Btw, I tried cobalt and it's ok although a bit expensive. My favorite and only one I use is the positive film preset from the grii. I especially love your use of it and how you edit it.

[@ti2809]

FILM USERS IN SHAMBLES. DIGITAL IS ONCE AGAIN KING

[@aantonic]

because Sam said so? huh

[@ti2809]

@@aantonic did you even watch the video?

[@TungstenOvergaard]

Wotancraft needs to set up a EU store. Delivery + custom taxes made their products incredible expensive. Nguyen vibes at the end…

[@-grey]

Omg I love mini pouches! 🥰 I have a 0.5L Puma one that carries my GRIII with hood vertically and next to it a little pouch for the batteries. Then I have a 1L Northface that carries my R8 with the 35f1.8 laying lens facing up, with enough room for the battery pouch too. It looks like magic when I pull an enormous camera from a tiny waist pack. 😂 Small UX design things that are super useful: A little zip pocket inside for a bank card, so you can buy a drink or something while out. A little loop inside to clip things to, so they don't fall when you take your camera out. Waist strap to reduce long-term carry fatigue hanging on shoulders. Metal clip on the waist strap, so it's less likely to break if pulled hard. A little bit of fabric covering over the zip so the rain doesn't easily pass inside. Also, don't crucify me, but I prefer the digital fake film look a lot of the time. The colour palette is most of what I like about film. Character doesn't do anything for me, and chemistry chaos as a colour grade doesn't add any mystique or story for me either. 😅

[@ChritsianBucic]

Nice rhythm and ambiance, Samuel ! Digital vibe, the same for me, cool film comparison👌🏻

[@FabioAyalaRequena]

Those are a really good pictures Samuel, specially black and white ones! Keep it up!

[@izopen]

This is good mate, do you use Camera Raw most of the time?

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Yes it's my main Raw processing software.

[@Maxhuertas]

Digital all the way my friend

[@philthehuman]

Nice one :D I've been thinking about it for a while, and I think now I defined to myself what was nice about "film" times and what I'd like to take from it. It is not some special colors per se, but a knowledge that you can easily fck up your shots by a bad exposure, focus, and also the limited number of frames. For me personally it had a lot of charm: I was more careful with what and how I shoot. Nowadays, as a hobbyst I can take as many pictures as I want and it can very easily become a routine and disappoint on a dopamine level: you just know that you can easily recover and correct almost anything. The solution was to start shooting JPEGs, and here where you actually would like to have a nice color profile, because that way you either really get what you want or you ruin it. It adds a lot of fun! Now I am almost exclusively shoot on Ricoh in jpegs and trying to find some in-camera settings for my Sony A7iii. Shooting jpegs is the whole different story, I can recommended it.

[@eek0212]

The reason i dont miss film photography is rolls of film nowdays so ridiculously high. About 20 years ago 1 rolls of regular 200 iso color nega was like 1.5USD, some fancy positive films cost 4,5 USD. Nowdays those regular film cost over 10USD and more. postive going up 15 to 20USD. I dont think ill have luxury to miss that with such price range. And yeah we can simulate those 'film look' with profiles Actually you could make film look just from LR internal profile thats good enough. And nowdays Im using lots of CCD camera with RAW. With those classic CCD cameras you could easily make 'film look' and what you need is just auto WB applying from LR.

[@Lucidexplore]

The black tape you used to cover the Nikon logo, looks much smoother than gaffers tape, are you using electric tape?

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Yes it's electric tape

[@attilaadam649]

What is that ironic humor man? I like it! (((:

[@attilaadam649]

But anyway, i take photography serius, i use Google Maps.

[@bullshitter905]

by now i couldve just bought a nice digital, some lenses and a editing software with the money i have spend on films, chemicals and the money sitting around in form of Photo and Super8 Cameras. But for me its the process that is the hobby and not directly only the taking pictures part.

[@mjakotka]

i’m pretty sure we all shoot film because we like the process itself more than final results.

[@chriscard6544]

im happy for your sponsor

[@twit_t9668]

I think your photos are cool, and the only person who has to like your photos is yourself. That said your film presets are just that - presets. They have the colour look right and for many people that's fine. But for me the reason I shoot film is because it's not about colours, more so about the imperfections, variability and the process. The other day I pushed Delta to 12,800 and the results are really unique and appealing to me. If I shot that digitally there are all these safeguards to not make it look like a pixelated noisy mess. I love digital for the inherent advantage of not being punished for making mistakes but like most things, the goal of absolute perfection eventually just becomes off-putting and uncanny (see HDR). Most digital images I skip over because they end of being so derivative and similar to the point of being forgettable. To me most digital cameras stopped being interesting after 2012-13. You can pick up any camera from that point and produce the same stuff being made today, the only thing really changing is cleaning up the remaining imperfections and software. my 2¢

[@muhdarif6032]

what is that strap? looking very cool!!!

[@taniolorunyomi]

"COME TO THE DARK SIDE AND SHOOT DIGITAL!!"

[@mrdarryljones1]

Fun! 👍🏾

[@fbowie21]

so you have to buy the base pack for every camera you have?

[@lelandfitz1762]

Every time after "this is why digital is better than film" there comes a "but this is not a digital versus film video!!!" 😂

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Haha, true. but I really didn't want this to be a debate about which is better. Just want to share my stance on the topic.

[@Diakoidris]

@@SamuelStreetlifedebates are okay. Don’t be afraid of having an opinion, marvin

[@Daniel-jh7pl]

So I‘m going back to photography its been a while, so a question: how is it with photos of people like on 4:45 - do I have to ask them if I can put them online? Is there anything to have an eye on in this crazy times? 🙈

[@checkmybadself]

“Elite classic” sounds like a condom brand

[@SamuelStreetlife]

😆haha

[@IDontKnow733]

First! haha I love shooting film but I've slowly been shifting to digital with my Leica MP-240 and buying digi cams and using them as my "film point and shoots"

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Nice idea👍

[@rakipeti8397]

For me traditional photography simply feels more real. It's a speacial feeling too to get off the labor after hours and really hold in your hand something you created with you own hand. These pictures are also more precious, because it's hard to copy a whole negative, so it will always be unique and these pictures cannot be mass produced. You have to be more reasonable and take more responsibility to shoot on film. It can also create something unreproducable in the age of mass culture and AI. AI might be able to create pictures indistinguishable from reality or real pictures, but it will never be able to recreate my original negatives developed by myself stored in my room or wherever I want to store them. People are arguing on the internet, that the negatives are getting ruined over time, but I think it's just bull💩. There are pictures more than a hundred years old, stored in shitty conditions in most of their existence and they're in perfect condition. They might even have better quality than the film roll I developed last week. Digital storages on the other hand hardly work for more than a couple of decades. It's a common misunderstanding, but modern storages aren't better because they last longer, but because they are more practical. Cave walls are the least modern types of storage, but they've been holding the information for tens of thousands of years without any deterioration. Our longest lasting digital storage lasts for around a 1000 years, but it's not so easy to acces them, they need special writers and can never be rewritten. So we can say that practical storage and long lasting storage are opposing concepts and as for me photography is about saving the moments for the future, for me the latter is more important.

[@JP1050x]

Nikon ZF reminds me of Pentax K1000. I hate K1000’s. But I love your video. ❤ ….. PEAK DESIGN. Dun dun dun dunnnn. 🫡

[@DecentGatsby]

I get the sentiment but you really can’t replace film and it’s imperfection. It’s beautiful in an undeniably unique way-this isn’t a romanticization, this is a fact. Sometimes that’s what makes a photograph-is the medium used to make it. One example is Daido Moriyama’s gritty black and white film vs his modern digital approach-its polar opposites. His modern take is lacking something imo. I share the same opinion on Alan Schaller’s work-his photography, albeit beautiful, it’s too goddamn perfect. I guess this is a long winded way of saying digital will never be my cup of tea. I’ll rock the boat even more and say digital cameras have plateaued in 2012. The only thing digital photography has going is-connivence. A winner for commercial work, without a doubt.

[@pointblank2890]

Hey, thanks for introducing me to Moriyama and Schaller's work. They're fantastic photographers, and I'm glad to have discovered them through your comment!

[@DecentGatsby]

@@pointblank2890 check out Trent Parke if you haven’t already. He’s def one of my inspirations

[@imaginewedding7671]

I like this video, so entertaining, sir 😍😍

[@RussellAlboroto]

If they're not transparent about what film scanners they've used then I wouldn't call this the "most accurate" Film scanning has a big influence on the look of the image. I personally prefer my film being scanned on a Fuji Frontier SP3000

[@enigmaticreverieproduction5169]

Now that you tired this one. If you had to buy a x100 or zf what would your choice be

[@SamuelStreetlife]

I have owned the ZF since its release date. I didn't keep the X100VI and the answer is the same as in my X100VI video: ZF for me.

[@caroslavvehiculovic2171]

There is near to no analog photography anymore, beside you develop your photosheets in a darkroom and share your work via post or galeries. Today there is film photography that gets later digital or just digital photography straight away. I shoot both in parallel in order to have an analog and digital storage medium just in case. 😅

[@duschbrauser]

Exactly this is what's feeling totally strange to me. All the analog process and work, just to get a digital file in the end to share a tiny photo on instagram.

[@suzukitaka4470]

It was a fun video!

[@Morespizzle]

I want a camera like the zf but I'm sticking to my ancient m10. I think focusing with a rangefinder adds a little charm to the photo aka imperfect focus. wish that companies would give us all the power but implement a more immersive focusing system like the Leica rangefinders to allow for more imperfect moments.

[@Alex_564]

How does the Fuji emulation profiles compare to built in one's on fuji X cameras?

[@SatanSupimpa]

When someone's bio read "analog photographer" you know you've entered medium over subject territory.

[@vld-mr]

Yeah, non of them looked like film. What I found after shooting film for a while after digital is dynamic range is different in the highlights, kinda wider and the gradient is much more subtle, just feels more natural to the eye. As for colors it can be way different from reality but ultimately it's not colors what draws me in film but highlights to shadows transition

[@bigrobotnewstoday1436]

When you talk to Cobalt Image again please tell them to add Olympus and now OM Systems and Panasonic colors.

[@nickcr3919]

You will not have a negative in your hands with digital photography.This is the most important.

[@patho6]

This could be the first time I see your hairstyle

[@sarcomere1]

Samuel, do you have any friends at Voigtlander that can get me a Nokton 40mm 1.2 for my Zf? They are none anywhere bro!

[@mrca2004]

Quote from movie Kodachrome. Ever hold fake breasts in your hands? No matter how good they look they are never as good as the real thing. For people who don't know the difference, it's fine, for those who do, it's no cigar. Using film is fun. Digital, ho hum. "Medium format digital' is CROP medium format, not even 645 much less 67. I expect all the hipsters that jumped on the film band wagon because they were told it was cool.. you know like having someone use permanent ink to paint stupid pictures on your body... have an attention span of a piss ant and are moving to the next cool thing. Many thought if they used film they would suddenly make art. It doesn't. Upside much lightly used gear coming on the market and the damand for film stabilizing.

[@POVwithRC]

Bitter much?

[@mrca2004]

@@POVwithRC Hit close to home much?

[@Hangiinjohnny]

I enjoy it as an exercise but digital is more enjoyable for me. I do wanna get a zf in green but it’s been unavailable for so long I’m not holding my breath

[@todorradoulov9343]

Can you use these with RAW files in Lightroom?

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Yes you can :)

[@Muldoonite]

nice song at 10:26

[@stevieraveon]

You Rock!

[@Photogopinion]

I think what’s got lost somewhere in this antiquarian debate is that in the analogue film days, you tried to match the film with the subject you were shooting for the best effect you wanted to achieve. You didn’t (still shouldn’t!) shoot anything and everything with one type of film stock. (Though nowadays changing a film 15 or 20 shots into a 24 or 36 exposure can is going to be a lot more expensive than it used to be!) I don’t really think I want to make time consuming choices: umm, would this subject look best on Ektachrome, Gold, Velvia.. . .whatever. Even though over many years I’ve used most film stocks, without looking carefully at scans of old negs or original slides, I doubt if I’d make the ‘correct’ or ‘simulacrum’ of an original now considering all the various colour renditions-not to mention grain!-one used to have to think about before you loaded the film into the camera. And I don’t have to keep my SD cards in the fridge. Like I did, and still do, with film. (Now, I wonder. . .long ago someone suggested keeping a CD in the freezer before playing it improved the sound. . .so. . .maybe I should try that?)

[@benbiedenkopf8623]

i do this with xpro3 and 1GB Card. Thats fun. dont look on the images. Jpeg only. going to the Rossmann and print them out. And then i klebe then in a Fotoalbum. Dont retouch anything...

[@benbiedenkopf8623]

for a better experience only manual focus

[@aantonic]

glue

[@gavinkatz6260]

What’s this shot on your xs20?

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Only the last clips at the forest. Before that it was Nikon Z7.

[@gavinkatz6260]

And how are you liking it footage looks amazing

[@gavinkatz6260]

@@SamuelStreetlife got you, I’m so close on buying the xs20 do you recommend how’s your experience with it? That xs20 Portugal video of yours was soooo good

[@davemenard5089]

I don’t know about actual photography but when it comes to KZbin videos the film creators make more interesting and entertaining content IMO. Why is this the case? Digital only for me.

[@SamuelStreetlife]

Well most digital photography KZbin channel concentrate on new tech (because there is always something new...) or technical tutorials. Film photographers can share more about the process because they isn't much to talk about tech. But I also find some film photographers videos extremely boring. But the digital creators definitely are leaning towards the tech part and that is boring too.

[@rocketjacket]

Felt like a 16 minute fun commercial ....lol.

[@dorfschmidt4833]

KZbin is full of these adverts masquerading as reviews.

[@POVwithRC]

​@@dorfschmidt4833it may be, but you have no proof that this was that

[@WhoIsSerafin]

Fun video as always. But pay for film simulations? No! Kinda takes away the fun of community where people create them together and experiment. That would have been genius if Nikon would have made a little slot for my ZF to put film simulation profiles like old film cameras.

[@ianlambert1316]

the only reason to shot film outside of enjoyment, is if you are going to use the negatives for prints.

[@J.R.Y.]

Many film photographers process their images so much that they might as well just shoot digital.

[@ufukkiblat]

Many film photographers back then process their images in the darkroom. They would indeed shoot digital if they live in this era.

[@ledheavy26]

​@@ufukkiblatHonestly to get a good darkroom print you need to do a good bit of dodging and burning. Film being processed at a lab will already have a baked in tone curve too and can vary wildly. Develop and scan at home?, well that can vary heavily too lol.

[@paprhat]

Your final thoughts. Thank goodness you said it. I agree.

[@airdailyx]

M6 and one of those shorty straps!! AAHAHHAHAHAHA!!

[@theoell2049]

Just put a vintage old uv filter in your lens

[@romankampa6212]

Please try rni film: film is already in the name! 🤷🏽‍♂️😅😋 thanks for the work… 👌🏼

[@TMM6900]

He is talking about Chris xD

[@JoseHerrerawl]

Tight

[@NELSONSTREETPHOTOGRAPHER616]

Go Lintaro

[@winc06]

Hmm. Rewinding from the wrong end.

[@_._Stefan_._]

👍🏻

[@SummersSnaps]

"oh digital have to turn camera on, so annoying" 😁