Nikon's BEST SLR Tested! Movie Poster Challenge

[@t.robbrown7976]

I laughed so hard, so many times. Great sense of humor and good job deadpanning all of that. I still have my F5 ... never thought the F6 was really that big of an upgrade. The all-in-one body with grip should be more resilient vs. moisture and stronger.

[@robo2606]

F5 for me 😎

[@MyHumanWreckage]

I really believe this digital camera thing will never take off. Film cameras and film can only get better. Who really needs more than 1MP anyways? Camera companies are hinting at a digital sensor size equal to that of 35mm film. I think that’s all marketing hoopla. Never going to happen. Imagine how many AA batteries you’d need for these rumoured high power digital cameras? Mark my words- digital will never take off more than a rumour.

[@gewglesux]

hahahha That Modem Handshake... Y'all remember that? Not for nothing i miss NOT having a Manual to read. Matt you are the Best! This was epic!!

[@mattgranger]

Glad you enjoyed it mate 👍🏼

[@gewglesux]

@@mattgranger I did!!

[@benmiller537]

SAVAGE! Also, absolutely fantastic job recreating what was most definitely a composite image but getting it all in one take! Next up, a Voightlander Bessa II from 1940's!

[@jasonmcguire5206]

OMFG, it's Clint Eastwood's exact doppelganger !!! Well done, Matt and crew! I laughed my way through this one and even though I still consider "Drama!" from the Budgetography series intro to be perhaps the finest bit of photo humor on KZbin, this is now my favorite camera review ever. You nailed the poster challenge too.

[@mattgranger]

Glad you enjoyed it mate, more to come

[@grahamastor4194]

I have a LYTRO ILLUM 40 Megaray Light Field Camera. I was very excited when this came out, would this make an interesting camera for this new series? I hope you think so, and thank you for this fun and informative video.

[@JLTPhotog]

This was hilarious Matt. It also is a GREAT reminder how far all of this has come. Especially from that "blazing fast 56k modem...".🤣

[@mattgranger]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼

[@joerg_koeln]

Excellent video. Interesting to see/hear what the computers of these days were able to deliver (40 GB hard drive). Also interesting, that most of us didn't expect the digital SLR to replace film SLRs that fast. "Rear-view mirror" would be a good title.

[@FredericPhotography]

Matt, that was Brilliant !

[@MikeJamesMedia]

You had me at the intro. Hilarious! :)

[@EugeneMaynard]

🤣🤣🤣Never say never because we never know what the future brings!🤣🤣🤣 Love this flashback!👍🏾🙏🏾

[@danbarros5672]

Great time warp moment Matt !

[@danbarros5672]

Given the shortage of semiconductor chips we may go back to film.@message me on telegram App @mattgranger1

[@MrBarberousse]

Is it April 1st already?

[@bajanyeti]

Is this a thinly veiled allegory to the mirrorless revolution skeptics ? Awesome video, I enjoyed it.

[@gjfreem1]

I enjoyed that, thanks Matt. I'd like to see a review of the OM1, please. My then fiancee bought me one (in 1976) as an engagement present as I didn't want a ring. She says it's turned out to be the most expensive gift she's every bought - because it promoted my love of photography. My OEM sufficed until I went digital, with a D200. This in turn was superseded with a few D8xx's, and now a Z9. She's bought me every camera and lens I've owned since that OM1. BTW, if you think that the IT tech was big and slow when the F6 came out, then take a look what I (as a Computer Science undergraduate) was using in 1976: CDC 7600, PDP 11/40, and Manchester University's research computer - the MU5. Ahhh happy days 🙂 As for a movie poster from '76, how about : Taxi Driver, All the President's Men, or A Star is Born?

[@JRodPhotoArt]

Love it Matt!!! Let me know when you are done with the F6, I can take it off your hands!!

[@aref6561]

I love your sense of humor lol just pure gold

[@tonytfuntek3262]

But does it shoot uncompressed RAW ?

[@agnethaladuff8559]

Awesome F6 camera, images and recreation of the Million Dollar Baby poster shot. You got the coolest and best camera. Great video.

[@gabrielh7718]

Great video Matt, need more of this!

[@thegr8stm8]

Got a Nikon D90 in 1998. Still have it but never installed the upgrades. Any chance of reviewing it and how the upgrades improved performance. Cheers… did enjoy this vid.

[@ToothlessSnakeable]

You mean 2008

[@thegr8stm8]

@@ToothlessSnakeable … my mistake! Yes! Got it in Taiwan for a trip to NZ.

[@thegr8stm8]

@@ToothlessSnakeable … my mistake! Yes! Got it in Taiwan for a trip to NZ.

[@mattgranger]

That sounds fun! Where are you based?

[@thegr8stm8]

@@mattgranger Hi Matt, Johno here… an Aussie living in Orange County, CA… relos used to live in Young. In a past life I looked after Technical Sales n Mktg in 14 countries in Asia. HKG was northern hub and Singapore southern hub. That was a lifetime ago. Love what you are doing.

[@kh1188ish]

Great idea! For a theme title maybe a play on “Stranger Things” -> like Stranger Gears or Stranger Images?

[@t.robbrown7976]

... Granger Things... Hahaha

[@kh1188ish]

@@t.robbrown7976 Perfect! So perfect I can't believe I missed it.

[@shafhamid83]

Did you reupload this video? I think I've seen this one before where you pretend that it's 2004 and you're showing the last film SLR produced by Nikon

[@FelixCervantes]

From the comments, no one saw the previous one or they forgot?

[@scriptosaurusrex]

He did. I had the same moment. He does add a little disclaimer at the end. I personally would have preferred it at the beginning so I could have viewed the video with that in mind, instead of trying to figure out of there was a major glitch in the matrix going on, or I was just imagining that I had seen this all before. 🤷‍♂️

[@mattgranger]

Thanks Rex - considered it, but it messes up the flow to have the disclaimer interrupt the setting the scene of what era we are in.

[@UnconventionalReasoning]

Doc Brown, please review the Minolta Maxxum 7000 from 1985, the first integrated AF SLR.

[@Biker_Gremling]

Wait? Wasn't this uploaded like 4 years ago?

[@mattgranger]

Yep; it’s a re-uploaded

[@reallynousername]

1:45 what is your myspace account?

[@mattgranger]

I shut it down... no one made me a top 8 friend... so I quit

[@reallynousername]

@@mattgranger lol!

[@senseofeverthing]

I love this kind of review!! How about reviewing all the F-Pro-Cams? That would be great! Which filmstock are you using? Would be nice if you could mention it in the videos!

[@bzumbob9819]

Sometimes I use the old Nikon FE2 from my Dad with the old 50mm f1.2. It would be a pleasure for me to see this setup for a classic review.

[@JV-tg2ne]

I own and love this camera, had it since 2004

[@leod1671]

How about a D100? It was my first digital.

[@photomaster1]

Nice one, I thought I was in the twilight zone for a minute. Matt, you got me... I hope you do something like this again.

[@jessekoskinen]

Any Leica M analog camera would be great. Pick whichever matches the best with a film poster time period you want.

[@gacrepair]

That's fun. I'm still using an FG for my film camera.

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

Sigma DP Quattro? FM2N or FM3? Sigma SD9, SD10, SD14?

[@davidroberts6766]

I still shoot film quite often, on a variety of old Nikons & Minoltas, many I have had for decades. I have an F100 or “ baby F5” and often wonder if an F6 would really be a marked upgrade, in terms of output, given film/glass would be equal. My favourite shooter is an FM3a…a brilliant machine. To me the F100 feels like shooting a modern camera. I assume the F6 is similar. Just for being the last of the line of 35mm flagship SLRs, I feel I need to get one sooner vs later.

[@shang-hsienyang1284]

I have shot with the F100 for a week and then settled for the F6. The usability is much better. The ability to leave the film leader out is very useful considering how expensive film has become. The overall autofocus performance is also noticeably better, albeit still slower than anything newer than the D3.

[@lionhawk555]

Nice one. That digital stuff will never catch on. My Z9 arrived yesterday - finallly. What film stock do you recommend for it?

[@FelixCervantes]

Scandisk?

[@mattgranger]

Congrats. 🎉

[@lionhawk555]

I dont know what the telegram app is. Anyway I dont have a mobile phone.

[@Kit2Canada]

Superb! As for the rumour of cars with electric motors…. What nonsense - the power cord would get in the way while driving.

[@fuzzytalz]

Hilarious! Although, as early as 2003, the writing was on the wall for film photography: The improvement trajectory for digital cameras-even with admittedly small sensors-was so steep, it was apparent within a decade, digital would be delivering superior potential image quality. I remember shooting assignments using both a Bronica SQ-A with Zenzanon S 80mm f/2.8 and a Canon Powershot G4 (4 MP) and, after scanning the 6x6cm negatives with my Nikon Super Coolscan 8000 ED, how well the converted CR2 files from the Canon compared. Of course, the 1/1.8” sensor and correspondingly short focal lengths resulted in deep-DOF digital point-and-shoot look but resolution was more than enough for offset printing at essentially any size and the color depth was actually better than the medium format film scans. Once I tried the Canon 10D, I sold or gave away most of my film cameras, and it’s been digital all the way since 2003.

[@hikingsteven7665]

can you still buy that camera

[@dansmith7077]

Matt, please review the Rolliflex 2. 8f

[@kaminobatto]

I swear I have seen this video before a few years back! Did I lose my mind or is this a reupload?! Edit: OK, commented too soon before getting to the end :D I would love to see more of this series. How about a Nikon S3 2000 limited edition video?

[@mattgranger]

Ohhhh that’d be a nice excuse to buy that camera, I’ve always loved it

[@Skipsul]

That was great fun! As an old Minolta hack, er hand, would love to see either the X700, or their first A-mount.

[@Windeath1969]

More videos like this Matt. As an Ozzie I appreciate your very Australian "wicked" sense of human. Great stuff!

[@alex-chicago-80]

I have the F100 and it's a tank of a camera. I would love to see that reviewed at one point.

[@shawnvine4918]

That was a lot of fun. I got the retro feel and the same kind of details that you've put together for the more current cameras. I hope you can do more like it. One thing I remember from when I first got interested in 'serious' 35 mm photography was that the Pentax K1000 was kind of the king of the entry level cameras, at least in the US. Don't know if you want to stick with film, but it's a thought. Thanks.

[@boostedmaniac]

Very nice!!! Looks very close to the movie poster on film is amazing skill.

[@mattgranger]

Thanks!

[@swistedfilms]

When we look at the night sky we're seeing light that's traveled a long way, often for thousands of years, before it reached our eyes. So in a sense we're looking back in time. We're gazing at the past. Maybe there's some inspiration in there somewhere.

[@hugaukulele]

I really enjoyed this video. I, too, was a late starter with digital cameras, having used Pentax, Nikon and Hasselblad cameras before buying a Nikon D2x. It would be interesting to see a 'review' of a Pentax Spotmatic as used by Alan Wicker on his travels. Perhaps you could re-create something around those lines.

[@donovanchambers6327]

Witty . . . Witty . . . Witty . . . Man this was great. I went to Cuba in 2001 to shoot stills for a documentary film and took my trusty Nikon F3HP (correction it was an F4) and 4 lenses: Nikon 16mm f/2.8, Nikon 50mm f/1.4, Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D (wish I had not sold this), and Nikon AF DC-NIKKOR 135mm f/2 D. For laughs I also brought along a Canon Digital S100 Elph. I seem to remember if being a 3MP camera. I shot 40 rolls on the F3 and 1200 “snapshots” on the S100. The S100 was to allow quick turnaround for a promotional website. To my surprise the S100 yielded fantastic photos for the workflow of website development, not to mention the cost savings over film development I quickly saw the benefit of digital and due to some hard times ahead sold my film equipment and shifted to digital. Workflow wise a great decision with my only regret the selling of the lenses. Today, still with Nikon: Z7, Z6II, and waiting on B&H for my Z9 and still have about 20 lenses 6 of them Z glass. Love your sense of humor and enjoy reading your articles.

[@mattgranger]

Cheers Donovan and thanks for sharing your story mate 👍🏼

[@WhoIsSerafin]

I’m thinking is this some video you did back then 😂

[@raisinsawdust]

Tongue in cheek, dead pan presentation and suddenly I think it’s 1998!

[@RaySweeting]

Did I step through a time warp LOL good fun Matt

[@ralfherweg7832]

Very nice! At that time I was using a F100 and F5. The F5 is still the second best camera I have ever had and never thought of going for the F6, even more so since DSLRs were at the horizon. My best camera is the D850 which I am still using, all I ever wanted. I would like to see a Nikon F3 nostalgia video, though. Thanks.

[@scott-wright]

I miss these videos! Such a great review. Please do the mighty D700 again!

[@mattgranger]

Thanks! Will do!

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

Nikon F, F2, and F3. Maybe a Canon A1 or AE-1. The F3 with the MD-4 did a Blistering 4 or 5 frames per second.

[@charleswilson8897]

I feel almost 20 years younger!

[@ThomasHalways]

Excellent, delightful. I think though it is a resend, I am sure, I saw it a few years ago!

[@davidb9547]

Thanks for the chuckle.

[@leod1671]

Loved it. Fun video. Should do more like this. People are so stuck on current technology. This video puts things back in perspective.

[@mattah]

Not everyone is stuck on current technology. There is a renaissance of film photography, with lots of film photographers active on youtube, instagram, Facebook etc. Just need to go looking. 😄

[@RRRCCCDDD]

great vid... as always. If/when you get the new Nikon mirrorless to test, please test by doing sports, action and bifs

[@mattgranger]

I can’t tell if you’re joking 🙃

[@RRRCCCDDD]

@@mattgranger I'm not. Just in case you have a new model to test

[@mattgranger]

See my channel - loads of videos already live

[@peter6481]

Great stuff, now I really miss my 850 Polaroid😄 Next KZbin video on 8mm perhaps, if you can afford it😂

[@lillternatphoto6076]

Nikon F was the best. I got mine in 1971. it still in my possession - and still working!

[@FelixCervantes]

My uncles had Nikon F cameras. I remember that time very vividly. My first Nikon was the FE. It is somewhere in the house, I just need to find it. Stayed with the brand ever since. I is kinda nice that the lens that I bought in 1975 still works on my current cameras.

[@ivansmiljkovic88]

Lovely and funny video 😊😊😂😂

[@drgashi]

I like Nikon F100. It has everything that you need and some for film photography.

[@JohnHavord]

Great video and looking foward to more. Suggestion for series name - Focus on the Past

[@davidiskandaryan6755]

Your lighting is cool, but you didn't notice that in the original Freeman and Clint had Rembrandt triangle light on their face, that changes the game. You should fix that before your shot .

[@mattgranger]

Yep noticed, however they almost certainly composited the image too. I was limited how far I could bring my key light around before I would be interrupting the light on the female model.

[@abbeythangiah2004]

it would have been epic if it was shot on a VHS

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

Oooo that FireWire on the G4!! So fast!!!!

[@juergenwittsiepe]

You describe it really as it was ... Great job. I would like to see a review of the Nikon F3. At that time people were crying because the camera had only a mechanical 1/80 s and was not working without batteries. Or you might review a Hasselblad where they were always praised the quadratic format and that the camera was on the moon.

[@pakuplue]

Nothing will replace my trusty F5 😤

[@gingerghost697]

Nikon d100. Back in the day I was looking at the d100 and canon d60.

[@davidrees7389]

loved it, what a hoot!

[@sergtrav]

Your Handicam looks so... so digital... Is it from the future?

I actually laughed a lot. Thanks for this!

[@mainmain5303]

Brilliant! Plz do the Nikon Z6 plz!

[@mattgranger]

Haha not much of a flashback there

[@mainmain5303]

@@mattgranger Then D3 most definitely

[@MyAmericanMorning]

Great video ... especially after I realized I wasn't having a stroke. I didn't know what the heck was going on there for a while.

[@mattgranger]

😂

[@lcador9]

Great! Like stepping out of a "Way Back Machine."

[@malmedia]

Series name ideas... Flash Forward, Flash Back, Flash from the Past, Flash to the future, etc... I might try to come up with some without "Flash".

[@stevenmccaughan2752]

Love the video it’s funny that years ago everyone had written off film as dead and now in 2022 they can’t make film fast enough and my Leica M6 which I bought new for a 1000 dollars is now selling for 3000 dollars

[@FelixCervantes]

Most of the good film cameras prices have thought the roof. A Hasselblad X-Pan is now $5K to $6K, same with a Contax 645, $6K or higher.

[@mattgranger]

Yes … of course the reason supply is low is because so many production lines have closed and the recent demand is still a tiny fraction of what it was. There’s still people making records and selling used 8 tracks too :)

[@Moonrakerd]

lol :D when f6 came out film was out of the picture in professional market "D

[@MrXDenmark]

Great product , this is the future!

[@johnhjic2]

Series's name Flash Back? How about a Pentax SP1000 or the Hasselblad C500.

[@manojchandramishra906]

I do have the F, F3, 5 and 6 besides a few others... But I much prefer the Canon EOS1V somehow. Would love to see your review of that too…thanks. The poster is top work!

[@quite1enough]

it's ergonomically better?

[@52701970]

Wow, Matt you were so off on many predictions. No full size sensor in digital in your life time. 😂

[@takaharu]

Really entertaining change from the norm. I feel sorry for anyone seeing this out of context (if the first video they see on the channel). How about something along the lines of "Back to the Nikon" for the series' name?

[@ukyo2010]

I was one that missed the first bit and at first thought it really was a 2004 video and thought it was hilarious. Great acting job, Matt and somehow getting a NIB F6, at least really appearing to be. But then I started noticing clues that it isn't an old video: Matt and the female model (Felicia?) looking the same as they do today, the video is in 4k. Still, good job! Please, Matt, keep the 4k video. Don't try to be "authentic" and go to 480p.

[@FelixCervantes]

@@ukyo2010 I guess you are new to the channel. He posted this video 3 years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqWZdqOwi9OtnK8

[@oshcan]

LOl! Awesome Matt...so true

[@Joseph-iu6ip]

It was like being there

[@Tom_367]

Hilarious! As nice as the F6 seems I will still stick with my two F5. Like the solid feel. Battery life could be better, though. When Pulp Fiction was in the cinema I was watching it in Santa Barbara in 1994. On my trip to California I had my Minolta X700 with me.

[@Skipsul]

Still got my x700 and use it from time to time.

[@kevinconnery1974]

Hilarious! How about Canon's F-1 (1971) with A Clockwork Orange or Diamonds Are Forever? It was a pretty groundbreaking camera for the company, and Canon's first professional SLR, and the first real serious competition to Nikon at that time. If you want to stick with Nikon, how about the original Nikon F (1959)? For the movie, North by Northwest or Ben-Hur. More recent milestones: Canon's 1Ds (2002, their first full-frame dSLR), with Catch Me If You Can or Spiderman. Or Nikon D3 (2007, their first full-frame digital), but no great movies or movie posters that year. :(

[@Wh33lsofFortune]

Obviously you have to review the Nikon D700! This was an awesome video

[@FelixCervantes]

When Matt started his KZbin channel, he was on a D700.

[@Wh33lsofFortune]

@@FelixCervantes I remember lol. Would love to see a Re review I guess you could say lol

[@mattgranger]

It’s already on my list 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Wh33lsofFortune]

@@mattgranger yessss. I love shooting with my D700. That glorious shutter sound

[@bkcampb]

Entertaining and funny

[@MikeMena]

Lol that was awesome 🤣

[@mattgranger]

Cheers Mike!

[@mattgranger]

BTW interesting channel you have! I hope we cross paths some time soon

[@logskidder5655]

Humm? Old camera gear reviews? I was just looking at some family daguerreotypes (1850s). A bit of a challenge to get all of the materials (some toxic) together, or maybe just a bit of editing of digital images to simulate the effect.

[@djdottor]

Now we need a D2H :)

[@thedondeluxe6941]

I still have my old G4 MacBook... still works too! :-)

[@LOLA6ifyable]

Fujifilm , Kodak so much choice! what a time to be alive.. Just ordred , Classic chrome ASA 400 let's goooo!!!

[@hikingsteven7665]

cool i love it great job

[@keysignphenomenon]

best video ever made😀A++

[@dominiclester3232]

F6 still looks desirable!

[@GeorgePrince]

I have my F5, best film camera ever!