The Film Photography Iceberg Explained

[@Cameron_Grey]

Your channel is currently criminally underviewed man, it's great work, keep it up!!!

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks so much Cameron. I’m just working hard for the future. I love making videos! Won’t stop.

[@postgarodegoogle2389]

If you don't like the grainy look I don't know what you're actually doing here Screams in 8*10 format

[@andrewhowarth4578]

This is possibly the best introduction to film photography on KZbin. I've been shooting film since I was double digits years old, returning to the medium about ten years ago after I realized I could buy the kit I could never afford back in contemporary film days. I love that every single one of the KZbinrs you reference is already on my subscription list. Matt, Jason, Japes, etc. I look forward to following your further adventures - you rock! Andy

[@Overexposed1]

I appreciate your comment! Happy you found my channel and look forward to keeping in touch.

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

As someone that knows little about film and photography this iceberg was very informative and well researched. Awesome vid 🔥🔥

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks Mike!!!

[@jeremyharris8796]

I owned a Hasselblad CM kit that my parents bought me back in the 90's when I was in college. Stupid me sold it when I started shooting all my jobs digital in the 2000's. I still regret that decision.

[@Overexposed1]

So sorry! Wow. I have made some dumb decisions with cameras too. It happens!

[@pashagoon]

there's no fucking way you're not 100k yet, this is a treasure trove of information. Keep it up bro! This is so sickkkk

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks! I got plenty of time. It will happen when it happens.

[@besperus4475]

I was a professional photographer. Film was the media used. Kodak created digital imaging as an off shoot at the same time many other companies were doing the same thing. Kodak also had “instant” film cameras, like Polaroid.

[@stevest55]

Really nice video. I believe that you have a bright future on KZbin! I already subscribe to Lyle McDougall, Jason (Grainydays) and Bellamy (JCH). I look forward to checking out Willem Verbeeck , Matt Day and Sophia Carey. Let me recommend a few others to you and your viewers: Nick Carver, excellent pro photographer from California with wonderful videos. Maximillian (Analog Insights) from Germany - I believe from Berlin. Ari (Shoot on Film by Ari), from Finland. I'm 66 years old and not surprisingly, I grew up on film photography (that's all there was in the 1970's). I am so happy to see film photography becoming popular again with people in their 20's and 30's. You guys are definitely helping to keep film photography alive. I look forward to your future videos! Steve

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks so much for watching! So much more on the way! You are right, there is so much great content out there .

[@stephenm103]

I've been shooting film since my dad handed me the Argus he brought back from the war. Since then I've shot Minolta, Canon, Nikon . . and lots of others in between. In the 90;s someone bought me a very nice digital. I hung up the film stuff and started learning all the tricks in post. Over the next few years I slowly got bored with my craft. Thought I had outgrown it. Then one day, we laid my father-in law to rest. The family sat around in the backyard reminiscing and drinking a little too much wine. Someone ran inside and grabbed several boxes of my old prints.and we passed them around laughing and crying . .. and it dawned on me that no one was grabbing for their phones or the tablets - - they were passing prints around the table. I know - I know - you can print digital but what occurred to me in that moment was that my best work was in my rearview mirror. What dawned on me was that there is a difference in the process between digital and analog and that difference changes the result. Digital is kinda like - BANG - BANG - BANG - BANG - - - scroll through what you got - - - keep the one you were luckiest on and toss the rest. Analog is thoughtful and pensive - - you get one or two chances. It's the difference between sitting a monkey in front of a typewriter who EVENTUALLY writes a novel after gazillions of random keystrokes . . . and someone COMPOSING a novel It's the difference between making love and casual sex. In the end - perhaps the result if similar - but the satisfaction of the participants will be very different. Look - digital has its place and one thing is for certain. Put a great digital camera in anyone's hands and they'll frequently capture some really great shots for you and the cost of that process will be a small fraction of the cost of an analog shot. Put a film camera in someone's hands and they've got a lot to learn before they'll get anything they can consider great. Film isn't going to displace digital any more than love between people is going to trump casual sex. . . . . . all that said, I know what gives me the greatest satisfaction. Cheers!

[@carbondragon]

Great video. You didn't mention Kodak HIE (black and white infrared film). Infrared photography is mostly digital now but this kodak film was really amazing. And lots of other manufacturers had one or two infrared films. And regarding Tech Pan, developed with their special developer, Tech Pan was an amazingly high detail film (without the radical contrast).

[@h1p028]

And here i am, shooting with my Kodak Disposable cams

[@Knocksteady95116]

I love The Darkroom but if you have a local film lab always go check them out first!

[@northof-62]

I'm quite deep with my Fujifilm GX680 III

[@Overexposed1]

That’s a beaut! Love to have one of my own.

[@chrissetian]

I feel like the FE/FE2 is more like the Canon AE1 program, both are electronic rather than mechanical

[@stratocactus]

Film Washi is actually a one man company ! Lomig (that's his 1st name) does everything by himself.

[@Overexposed1]

That’s super cool! He always has some really cool experimental films

[@UncleDon226]

I bought a Zorki 6 off ebay a while back and I can confirm, they are surprisingly competent. For something made in 1965, it has remarkable clarity and built like a tank. It's probably the camera I use the most, come to think about it...

[@domenicming9551]

that expired second house photo was beautiful

Thanks for all this knowledge sharing !

[@Xottapchenko]

If you’re really looking for Svema film, you can find some Russian film called TASMA, and it’s really cool. Most of the time it costs about 4-7 American dollars for their Type 42L black and white 400 ISO film, and it’s a great film for evening shoots and even commercial shootings. I personally use this thin film for evening and club shoots instead of a much more expensive HP5. And about Zorki - there’s ONE camera where you can change your setting after and before advancing the lever, Zorki 6. It’s like a Leica M2.5, the most advanced M39/Leica screw mount rangefinder to find and the only one with both a lever instead of a screwing knob to advance the film AND a door-like back instead of fully disassembling lower part of other FED 1-3 and Zorki 1-5 cameras to put your film inside.

[@JETZcorp]

What I find alarming is that there's a very precise moment in the video where I went from recognizing everything, to recognizing nothing. The only exception was Kodachrome, which I heard about before getting into film, because I'm interested in trains. "Shouldn't Paint So Fast." If you know you know.

[@mikahina3909]

Cinestill 800t is Kodak film, they don’t make it themselves. Great video btw

[@joebwan0240]

Great survey of film photography. Only wish you were in focus more often. The b-roll footage really helps though. Would also be nice to add links in the description to the channels you mentioned.

[@Overexposed1]

Bumped the focus as I started and stopped the camera :/ thanks !

[@angelluisrivera-matosii5396]

Thanks for the information very well pack and lots of knowledge sharing for sure

[@ClarkBuckner]

Great job!! Really enjoyed. Subscribed.

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks Clark!

[@Cmoredebris]

The company started well before1892. George Eastman and Henry Strong founded the Eastman Dry Plate Co. in 1881. "KODAK" was registered as a trademark in September of 1888 and The Eastman Company was incorporated in November 1889. Reincorporation happened in 1892.

[@khaitran4710]

What i like best about your vid is that you are very non-judgemental, tbh a lot of these especially experimental ones at the bottom, have kinda left a sour taste in my mouth, i always despise those washing your film kind of thing lol, but i like thst you merely stating the facts, and yeah i love the southern drawll accent! Keep up the good work.

[@Overexposed1]

Thank you! I really appreciate you watching. Unfortunately, I can’t fix the accent. Lol you guys are stuck with it.

[@khaitran4710]

@@Overexposed1 oh if anything we need more southern wild west style film youtuber haha and maybe just me but yout humor also lands well!

[@allensmithphotography]

The issue with labs and ECN processing, isn't so much toxicity of chemicals, but the machines able to handle the rem jet being removed. Current auto processing machines can't handle it. Though there are cine processors. silbersaltz being a good one

[@emur26]

This was an invaluable video, man, thanks. Respect 🙌

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks Emilio!

[@markschwochow2336]

Well done! I’m 67 and my first camera was a Brownie. I currently own (film) the Brownie, Nikons, Contax, Exackta, two Rollie’s, a Kroni Omega and a 4x5 Crown Graphic. and others I won’t part with them. A huge thing with me is sentimental but more so the actual process of shooting film. How many exposures? Do I have another roll? Everything counted. Now my digital camera can shoot a bazillion frames per second,. Where is the thought and skill with that?

[@stefanolugli1461]

Film ferrania became film for Anya 😂 but cool to get to know it, I'm Italian I had no clue!

[@diba4645]

Man this is cool crazy well done! Thanks! Go ahead. Love my AE-1, wish for a FM2. You‘ve got it!! Greetz from good‘oll Germany.

[@Overexposed1]

Thank you!!!!

[@stephenchurch1784]

The best film preset is a canister of good old retrochrome 400 loaded into an m4 (the everyman's m6), ae-1 or x-700

[@RubenRobles]

Wow! I really enjoyed this great content! You really did your research! You covered so much in one video! So coo! Strong work! 📸🔥🔥🔥🏆

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks so much Ruben. I just really love photography!

[@Mario-eh8yy]

awesome overview, great work!

[@Overexposed1]

Thank you!

[@revaaron]

The Contax 645 (six-four-five) was my first medium format in 2008. Love that camera with the 80mm f/2.0. Sharpest lens I've ever shot. But I got the rz67 (six-seven) this summer and Im shooting that more and more.

[@Overexposed1]

My main medium format camera is a 645. I adore it!

[@revaaron]

@@Overexposed1 I have collected a bunch over the past 15 years (and 24 years of digital). I try to swap around my cameras. A Rollie cord, the fuji 690blp, rz67, Contax 645, Mamiya 645 afd, plus all the 35mm cameras. My basic bag is 1 or 2 MF, 1 35mm, and a digital. Recently, it's the rz67, Contax 645, Minolta hi2, and my nikon Z6.

[@revaaron]

For concerts, it's the nikon D4, Z6, and then lenses. Sometimes the D750 or the Sony A7iii.

[@revaaron]

Fall 2020, I got 2 Mamiya 645 bodies, 2 digital backs, 2x 80mm f/2.8, 1x55mm, and 2 film back from a friend for $900.

[@revaaron]

Even though the lowest level should have been Nico's Photo News, I'll subscribe.

[@KNURKonesur]

I've been in the film photography game for over 15 years now and I literally never wanted a Hasselblad 500CM and most of my life I've shot medium format :D It's really pretty, I admit. That said a Bronica S2 still beats it in my book, so does a Voigtlander Bessaflex. Also I'm your age and home dev to us 90s kids starting in the early 2000s was on level 1 not 4 cause you just HAD to develop film at home yourself, developing in a lab was a luxury most of us couldn't afford back in the day.

[@TheOpenSpaces]

Bronica SQ all day

[@carlkligerman1981]

Fuji, after taking market share from Polaroid, stopped making their instant films, making my beautiful Vivitar enlarger useless. For this crime against humanity and those who like to use their own photography as reference to paint I will NEVER use their film again, not if it’s the last roll of film on Earth!

[@BeboBaggins-e3w]

“Film is dead. But digital was never alive.”

[@TaylerAleks]

very strange levels for me, but I like the video :)

[@Overexposed1]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@CarlsLim]

The lowest level is me!

[@Blackmind0]

Ansel Adams, yes, but only for americans, in europe are other photographers best known for their work, i am photographing since 1985 with film, never stopped, i learned about adams 5 years later....greets BM

[@richardsimms251]

Interesting video

[@Mulva234]

R.I.P. Superia 😢

[@BmcN72]

Great video

[@JavaoftheLava]

Subbed just for the accent

[@erichstocker8358]

Actually the RZ67 isn't bullet proof because it uses electronics. These unfortunately die more often than one would like. You want a bullet proof one use the RB67 which is all mechanical. Can be more easily repaired and doesn't wear out often. I specifically avoided the RZ67 and own a RB67 because of that reason. Big and heavy that it is, I still take it to the field. However, I also take 4x5 to the field.

[@tomislavmiletic_]

I respectfully disagree. Canon AE1 is NOT a camera worth of recommandation. It's on the end of its shelf life, too many of them are going bad, electronics inside simply gives up. That camera was wery popular few years back course it was produced in great noumbers what translates it was cheap. But today, with that overhyped prices, it's crazy to recommand it. If you really want to shoot Canon FD camera, than it would be wise to try Canon FTB out, a purley mechanical one, which will last far, far longer. Or the F1. Just saying...

[@tobysummers471]

Agreed! I had an AE1 in good condition, cost me £50 with a 50 1.4 SSC lens. Really disappointing camera, electronics in them are unreliable. Lens was meh. They feel cheap compared to a Nikon or Olympus equivalent. It’s such a shame that people still recommend such a mediocre camera. The Olympus OM-1 or a Nikon/Nikkormat are better cheaper choices that have a more quality feel. The Nikkormat is a quality piece of engineering.

[@tomislavmiletic_]

@@tobysummers471 Back in the day I had Nikons - F2 and FM2s. They could last me a lifetime. But as idiot as I am I sold it all to buy some autofocusing plastic crap. These days when I wanna shoot film in 35mm format I do it with my OM-1...

[@notyourtipicaltechguy6438]

This is true, however the automatic modes are great for learning, I didn't start on an ae-1 but on an A1 a couple of years ago It's what I would recommend, here it's cheaper than an F1, it has great automatic modes and features you can grow into. The lightmeter is also quite impressive... The fd mount is great when starting out. I like it a lot because with a m42 mount adapter you can buy cheap lenses to learn and figure out what kind of lenses you like On the other end. My girlfriend got a Olympus om2-n Wich honestly is amazingly compact. It doesn't support m42 lenses. And only has aperture priority, but it's huge finder makes it easier to focus when learning and starting out. So that's another camera I'd recommend. Especially because it's so easy to use. The metering needle is very nice as well because it shows things in a schale that's easier to understand as a beginner than the A1

[@tomislavmiletic_]

@@notyourtipicaltechguy6438 Well, all you've said is true. And if someone wants CHEAP Canon in Fd mount for easy learning film photography, take a look at Canon T70. All the modes are there, you have even built-in motor drive, nice viewfinder and you can get it almost all day long for sub $100, and sometimes on a yard sale for less than $10, body only. But man, that damn thing is LOUD...

[@joshuahoggard583]

​@@tobysummers471 I love my Canon digital cameras to death (I've had 2), but I can't stomach buying an ae-1 or really any electronic canon film camera. Rn I have a pentax spotmatic with the 50 1.4, and love it to death. I also recently picked up a mint olympus om-1 and so far love it to death as well.

[@timryan894]

NIck Carver and Matt Osborne would be good additions to your iceberg.

[@andresbarriga5305]

Nick Carver or sure, awsome channel and story telling for big format.

[@rastalukee]

Hey, but where is RA-4 darkroom printing?!

[@takaya4203]

Nice content, thank you...

[@Overexposed1]

Thanks so much! Means the world.

[@artstudionagoya9605]

It was interesting to see your video, a lot of work in making it. Congratulations! I have to say I would have love to see KZbins that were not only Americans. Shooting like a boss, analog insights, Lina Bessonoba, but example. Any how interesting stuff.

[@Overexposed1]

It is unusual how the “algorithm” kind of traps you in an echo chamber. I will check out those channels. Although now that you mention it, I have watched some of Lina’s videos - and the were great. Thanks for watching!

[@manny9025]

What do you guys think of minolta x700?

[@silvestersze9968]

I’ve an AE-1 too. hehe

[@silvestersze9968]

I sold my M6 and regretted… :(

[@marcellocolona4980]

Bad, bad move.

[@silvestersze9968]

@@marcellocolona4980 I know… :(

[@silvestersze9968]

@@marcellocolona4980 I’ll save up some money for a Panda. And I won’t let go again this time! haha 😛

[@silvestersze9968]

@@marcellocolona4980 M4 is also a good one in my opinion. meow!

[@marcellocolona4980]

@@silvestersze9968 Yes, I like the M4. Currently I have an M2, M5, M6 TTL and M7, plus a Minolta CLE (which has an M mount), and a Leicaflex Standard, Leicaflex SL and R7. I got heavily into Leica when I inherited an M3 kit with about 10 lenses. I started trading and always bought used. This was decades ago before prices became completely insane.

[@amamdawhatever]

Actually the EPA hates us and they are the reason Fuji stopped making the Pro 400H.

[@ronnycastaneda9888]

It’s funny that you said that you were taking law classes in college I’m in the same road as you but younger I’m 22 barely started taking photography classes in fall in love with photography

[@Overexposed1]

Best of luck! They aren’t mutually exclusive! I love law and photography

[@philipp.z]

Contax is German not japanese. They did a collab with Yashica though

[@bowenxing6289]

get contaxt 645 will cost half of my camera collection in 2023

[@fuzz2978]

Got your channel from the channel of mind unveiled,here we go.......big ups to Robots & Patriots, Justinian Deception any one want more make comment and I'll send info for others.

[@Joshua_Ott]

Okay so if somebody retrieved one of the hassleblads from the moon would they still work? 😊

[@mikebot1983]

Great vid BUT develop locally (if possible)

[@Overexposed1]

I live in the mountains of Kentucky. Nearest developer is 2 hours away, so everything for me is by mail

[@per_simmons]

Your My Chemical Romance phase 🤣

[@Overexposed1]

I’m not okay 🤷‍♂️

[@per_simmons]

@@Overexposed1 If only I knew about HP5 in my My Chemical Romance phase...

[@Overexposed1]

Unfortunately it was a Motorola razer for me. Black, obviously lol

[@per_simmons]

@@Overexposed1 iconic piece of technology

[@mstrshkbrnnn1999]

And now superia is gone 😭I should’ve stocked up

[@raymundolunalopez638]

I guess you missed Mr. Nick Carver...

[@Overexposed1]

There were ten slots. There are hundreds of film photographers. I included the ones I liked at different subscribers levels. Obviously.

[@billjacksonville]

Wisdom

[@mapsreview1507]

people, for god's safe stop saying "film stock". just say film, no stock. how stupid.

[@retromograph3893]

Not really important, but you pronounce Verbeeck as fur (like animal fur) bake (like bake a cake)

[@LaViejaConsolada]

You're still over the surface, dear. xD

[@silvestersze9968]

I’ve a FM which is equally good. Just a bit heavier. meow!

[@Blackmind0]

30:00 af doe`s not work well...

[@Overexposed1]

I bumped the focus unfortunately. I was filming on a lens that focus breathed very badly back then, the solution was to do MF.

[@BossHossStudios]

You talk waaaaay too fast. Slow down and develop your story. It just comes out like you can’t speak fast enough. I had to stop the video

[@Overexposed1]

I appreciate the critique. Thank you. You are the first person to say this. If the criticism becomes more common I will adjust.