Useful and fun gear for Film Photographers! Do you have any of these?

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@Kim_Miller 2 ай бұрын

This is the first time I've seen your channel and it's memory lane here for me in Australia. Back in the late 1960s I bought my first SLR. It was a Minolta SRT 101. Then in 1970 I started working in the camera store I bought it from. I was the guy behind the glass showcase taking your money. We sold Praktica as well as Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Mamiya, just about anything. A few weeks ago I got a bit nostalgic and went looking for another SRT 101, and found a beauty in Japan. Perfect condition and with a 50mm 1.4 lens. So now I'm wandering through a lot of YT channels on film photography with old cameras.

@mikesmith-po8nd 3 ай бұрын

Do I have any of these? No, I have all of them and more. I have one gear bag for my 35mm and one for my medium format. I just never could get the hang of software. I do most of my corrections in camera and the rest in the darkroom. And you're right - among other uses, the soft filter makes wrinkles fade away. It's good for portraits of "women of a certain age". Many movie stars even have it written into their contracts that they must only be filmed with one. (I suppose that today they do it digitally.)

@RCAvhstape 3 ай бұрын

Same. I'm way too lazy to learn to use software, and I prefer to do everything in the camera or dark room to begin with.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I would have imagined. You can see it in older movies, that soft look.

@OriginalTLab3000 3 ай бұрын

In the early 80s, my family went on vacation in Sweden. My dad's Agfa broke on the first day, so we went to a store where he bought his first SLR - a Praktica MTL3 which later became my first real camera. He asked for the price and they said DM 200 (or rather the equivalent in Swedish krona). My dad said that he also needed a lens and the salesman said that it's included (1.8 50mm Pancolar). And that went on and on: Ready bag - included Carrying case - included Flash - included Tripod - included Filters - included, and among those filters were a starburst filter, soft filter, skylight and a correction filter. Maybe your MTL5B has a similar history?

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

ha ha, thats exactly how I imagined it back then!

@hoggif 3 ай бұрын

Film type affects what you need. For B&W I almost always have a filter set like yellow/orange/red (and/or yellow orange). For slides something like 81A/C and 82A. For landscapes similar to digital like grads and polarizer. Effect filters like star burst are not for me. For video it gets so different, mostly NDs to get shutter speed down and polarizer. ND's are soemtimes usefull to blur something like water in still photos too. I think subject matter and type of film makes a big difference on what you need (and your style too).

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Most good video cameras have ND built in. I have a selection of HDV cameras and they all have. I used to use ND filters on the ones that didn't. As you say, for bright days.

@Dwarvenchef 3 ай бұрын

Was just given a camera bag with around 30 rolls of film from the early 2000s, 35 and 120 film 😊

@f1remandg 3 ай бұрын

Thats a nice gift that gives you a minimum of £200 for free at £6 a film and you would probably have to pay more, so i think 🤔your donor needs a nice bottle of wine or gift and card.

@RCAvhstape 3 ай бұрын

As long as the film was stored at room temperature it should be usable. Snap away and be happy!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Amazing. Hope they all work.

@lensman5762 3 ай бұрын

The glass cabinet was for cameras and lenses, the filters used to be placed on s shelf or hung up from a rotating carousel along with simple accessories. I remember buying my first Billingham bag from Jacobs in Manchester and it was just off the carousel.The beauty of a proper photo shop was that one could see and touch the stuff and have a little play before deciding to buy, and there usually was someone who knew what they were talking about. On line buying is convenient but the experience is highly unsatisfactory and thenthe wait and the hassle of delivery and all that some one has to be home. I am sure I have seen a similar bag or two around my house!!!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I remember the glass counters and all the cameras and lenses as a kid. I just remember Olympus though! They must have done a good advertising campaign on TV through the 80s.

@lensman5762 3 ай бұрын

@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss yes they did. First Bailey and then Litchfield. It was quite fun though. Most Pro photographers were rather serious characters then like models were in the 40s and the 50s. All middle class or posh. Then it changed in the 60s up to the 90s. A lot of them are from well to do families nowadays.

@ianlainchbury 3 ай бұрын

Looks like bag now 😂 I have some cokin masks in there too. Never used them. I have the usual colours, though, and a Hoya R72 for rolls of Rollei IR 400. Don't know why I carry them all with me. In one place, I guess. I tend to carry any loaded cameras with the stock 50, and a 28mm lens. Cheers Roger!

@sneekylinux 3 ай бұрын

Looks like my old bag from 1980, but the first cam was a Zenit e, followed by a MTL3 then OM-10, and yes at least 15 filters!!

@flyingo 3 ай бұрын

I’ve got way too many filters like those in that bag.. most came with used gear I was given or that I bought. When I plan shoots thinking of what I want to photograph, rather than just grab cameras to have with me, I’ll select filters and actually use them. Half graduated ones, colored ones for B&W, etc. Nice Prakticas you’ve got there!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Plan is always good for traveling light. I have a Half Grad for the Pentacon Six, I've never used. I must try it.

@rdmckeever7645 3 ай бұрын

Fun video! A few years ago, a dear friend gifted me a bag with 40+ filters. Shortly thereafter, an acquaintance from work donated a dozen filters for my enlarger. I'm still playing with them, because, well... I don't know, but photoshop is boring. Love the Viking hair.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

That is awesome! Filters in the darkroom are indispensable! Use mine every time.

@davidottman9501 3 ай бұрын

Hehehe Yes I have a couple of those - a couple bags of miscellaneous photography kit that I like to have available but never use. Maybe that's a good project, to go out and use all these fun tools. Great photos, thanks for sharing them and your experiments with new old gear.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Yes David, it's good to play with all the accessories available if you can find them. That Fisheye I will have fun with.

@H70334 3 ай бұрын

Very nice vid - think about, back in those day, we haven't got Photoshop to get some kind of creative pictures, so we used filters. I still have my Cokin Filter + adapter for my film gear.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Netcom27 3 ай бұрын

I’ve been gifted by a lady at work a bag of Russian photography set similar to this one day. But after some time I realized I’m a Sunny 16 cowboy who slaps one filter and leaves it on permanently so I let it go to a better person. I always admire all the Great photographers who custom tuned all their photographs - from location, time of the day and year, emulsion, camera, lens and proper filtration. But personally I think this approach is more suited for medium/large formats, whereas 35mm should be compact so I personally prefer a more universal approach. Yellow filter used to be my staple, but I seem to progress towards Orange. Cheers! Love the hair mate!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Funny you should say that. My larger negatives, especially 4x5 are organised well. I use Orange a lot when I have the blue sky's. Rarely do I use a filter on street. Mostly 35mm for street. Glad you like the hair mate 😅

@largophoto 3 ай бұрын

(..lol my local photo shop guy was called Richard ...) and my Florida shorts also have flamingoes

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I thought my T Shirt were little dinosaurs!

@northstar1950 2 ай бұрын

When I first got into more serious photograph, in the 70s, I think I only ever bought a UV filter and a yellow one. A year or so back I bought a Meyer Optik Oreston lens and that came with a rear lens cap in the form of a Praktica body!.

@Kim_Miller 2 ай бұрын

Another memory. When you took out the lens adapter for fish eye view I remembered I used to have a similar thing called a MaxWider that screwed to the front of a standard lens. I went looking and they are still out there. It was a fun bit of kit.

@ianscott947 3 ай бұрын

The MTL5B was my first camera, because they were what we used in school.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Interesting. I guess schools had a bulk buy deal maybe, like the K1000 was popular for schools.

@RCAvhstape 3 ай бұрын

Back in the late 2000s when I went hard into B/W film photography I wound up with many of these items because I would stop at every photo shop I saw and look through the used bins, as well as my general curiosity about what each of these filters do. Since then I've settled down a lot and now in the field I usually use just a yellow or red filter. Especially with my twin lens, which uses a bayonet mount for filters, so I only have those two. For my 35mm camera of course, I have a plethora of toys.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Yes, they are good to collect. You never know!

@SloopJohnBee-vq6dw 3 ай бұрын

My first SLR was a Zenit TTL in the 1980s. And yep I had a good few filters including the starburst one!👍📸

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing Sloop!

@harry-kf7kw 3 ай бұрын

i modified my bag, so it now fits 3 SLRs , 1 with a larger telephoto lens, all the filters, memory cards, film if it's film SLRs and batteries/chargers etc.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Room for a bag of crisps I hope! 🤞🏻

@philbraithwaite1316 3 ай бұрын

That’s where my old Praktica went! Nicked at Reading festival in 1982!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Just imagine... It's somewhere!

@IainHC1 3 ай бұрын

Love the new hair bud 😀

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Sexy aint I mate 😅

@richardjames3022 3 ай бұрын

Oh god memories, my first 'real' camera was a Praktica LTL back in 1970/1. I remember a small catalogue from the 1970's that was full of gear of all sorts, some more useful than others, I am sure someone will in the comments will remember the proper name, but it was something like Polysales. In the mid-late 1970's I worked in a photographic shop and yes, we had draws full of all sorts of stuff.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I remember the 80s photography shops. Like a candy store to a kid!

@jasongold6751 3 ай бұрын

Yes! My selection of filters came with a camea bag, like yours! I useUv, 25A,Green and Y2! All sorts I've never tried! Oh! That Practica I have never loaded! The way the automatic film loading makes me fear harm to my film! Great video!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Jason

@northof-62 3 ай бұрын

When shooting Ektachrome up here in the north I always used Nikon's A2 filter (Wratten/Tiffen 81A) to warm up the colours. Ektachromes seem to be balanced for warmer latitudes. Never was a fan of skylight or UV filters. I recon they just produce more glare. Opted for hoods to protect my lenses. With BW I still have the usual range of Y, O, R, G Blue and a pola. I guess regular yellow has been used the most.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I had a mare once with a UV. Glared off all the lights in the room!

@northof-62 3 ай бұрын

@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss lol!

@rick-fstop-lewis 3 ай бұрын

Looks like they work! Love the way you used some of the filters and a FE add on to play with the compositions. They looked great!

@Resgerr 3 ай бұрын

My first slr was this camera and I git tge 50mm, 29mm and a 135mm Carl Zeiss lenses got bran new from my Mum's Catalogue) all which I still have and use 😊. I have various filters but only use my UV /sky light filter.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. The good old catalogue days!

@josephasghar 3 ай бұрын

I have the usual colours for bw. Plus the long exposure ones and step up rings. All 82mm. Couldn’t shoot without them.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I keep meaning to get the set of step up rings. So cheap and useful. I have a few, not the set.

@josephawatson 3 ай бұрын

I still have a bunch f stuff from when I started in photography but i am not entirely sure I know where all of it is. I started finding it slowly over the last few years. would be nice to know what all I had. Between moving houses and being disorganized ill never know.

@thenutter2003 2 ай бұрын

always enjoy your videos as there always fun to watch.

@nevillewatkins4997 2 ай бұрын

I do like the Praktica cameras, it has to be said. They might be cheap and cheerful, but they do work well. I had some great results with an MTL3 I used recently. And I've got my fair share of filters. I think I did try out a mist filter on my digital camera, but really I'm never going to use them.

@donball9777 3 ай бұрын

I do have a soft spot for prakica cameras, cheap and cheerful.

@jonathanreid30 3 ай бұрын

Seeing as you shoot quite a bit of film, maybe it's time you tried using contrast filters with black and white film. Close up filters can be useful and even digital photography can benefit from reflection control and contrast enhancement via a polariser.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

I have a close up for a couple of cameras. Good results.

@jonathanreid30 3 ай бұрын

I shoot mainly black and white film, and almost always have a contrast filter on the lens, usually a dark yellow which improves detail in skies and smooths skin tones.

@danem2215 2 ай бұрын

Amazed you didn't make a People Like Us reference with that camera shop skit

@stampydragon2739 2 ай бұрын

Hay if your ever around the Canterbury area i have a thew cameras you could check out i got the mamya universal press a chinnon cx as well as a thew yashica cameras

@user-ve3gh5xg9q 3 ай бұрын

Hi Boss. You look like Phil Collins 😱. I have a Praktica Super TL. It's like new. It has 50mm Carl Zeiss Jena glass. Black version. The camera is made very well. Very tasteful. Grinds. Finishes. All metal. According to Pentacon employees, the camera is much better and better made than subsequent models with a metal curtain

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Phil looks like me. 😉

@odukar2315 3 ай бұрын

Both cameras, which I own, are ideal for beginners. Robust and cheap and with a huge of lenses available on the market. They feel a little bit bulky and not modern, however true and simple machines for creative photographers.

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Agrered.

@f1remandg 3 ай бұрын

Photo shop was released in 1988 so in the film era!

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Was it that long ago! 😬

@Hystrix138 3 ай бұрын

I am wondering now, how does one end up with a hole in the curtain? I assume burning a hole into it would take some time, right? Using the camera with the mirror locked in the up position without doing an exposure and leaving it out facing the sun? Seems rather unlikely to happen in reality or am I missing something?

@ShootFilmLikeaBoss 3 ай бұрын

Good question. I always check the cloth, I didn't need to with this camera. When I was vlogging the Pentacon Six. I placed the camera on my bag, lens pointing up to the sky, and was talking into the vlogging camera. For a good few minutes. The lens was at the right position staring at the sun! The Pentax SIX mirror is in the up position before you advance so nothing in-between the lens and the curtain. Also I have a Leica iii f that had holes in it.

@Hystrix138 3 ай бұрын

@@ShootFilmLikeaBoss oh, I see, totally forgot about the cameras that don't immediately after exposure put the mirror down again (don't own one). Thanks for the clarification!