Proofing Your Film Images & Why I Do It!

The Digi-Roid! A Great way to preview your film exposures. Saves you time, Saves you money. Whats the downside??? Taking a digital test shot is a smart way to preview your lighting and get better at making the most out of your film photography

[@SYLVAINDURAND77]

You’re one of those rare KZbinrs that are real photographer! Shooting action with 4x5 E6, you have all my respect.

[@DavesFilmLab]

Appreciate your kind words! 🙏

[@HisBeverness]

Great tips/photos and cool to spot Bryce Wettstein!

[@DavesFilmLab]

Thanks! Bryce is an amazing human being and it was a blessing to spend some time making images together

[@HisBeverness]

@@DavesFilmLab She rips! Thanks for the skate photo inspo 🙏 I love this type of content - it’s surprisingly hard to find on KZbin.

[@anzaeria]

This approach is brilliant. Years ago when I shot regularly on slide film, I would use my film camera's internal light meter and the vast majority of the time, my exposures were spot on. Once in a while, they would be a little over or under. More recently, I shot some film again after a long absence. I did some testing of a second camera's light meter before the shoot but even so, I was shocked to see that my exposures were way off. And I took great care with the metering so it's quite puzzling. Bracketing my exposures didn't help either. After that, I had the idea of using a digital camera to check the exposure for my film images. Soon, I'll be shooting a test roll and I'll do some bracketing and see what the results are like.

[@agxiso]

Love it. I've always metered my film shoots with my Canon G7x. Fast 1.8 lens, fits in my pocket, 20 mp, and has been quite accurate.

[@DavesFilmLab]

This is great to hear! It’s an exceptional alternative to a light meter and Polaroid test shots

[@joelsittler6997]

Any kind of topic connected to enlarging or printing. Everyone talks about cameras and developing film, because that's fun and cool. But not as many about enlargers and developing prints, even though I think it's just as important.

[@DavesFilmLab]

This is great! I personally don’t do any enlargements, I’m very weird in that regard. Prefer the intimacy of doing contact printing, so I’ll either contact print my 4x5 negs or I’ve even done singular contact prints of 135 & 120. Check out my video about split grade printing 🙏

[@DavesFilmLab]

Here’s the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX6Vg5ejgZ2fe7M&feature=sharec