You're Not Shooting Film Cameras Yet? Six Reasons To Take Up Film Photography

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@argusc3310 Ай бұрын

My dad also got me into 35mm film photography, in 1986, when I was in college and he bought me an Olympus OMPC for my birthday. Later, he gave me his Minolta SRT-101, type B1, which he had purchased back in 1968. I haven’t shot with it yet. My three main systems are Olympus (OM-1n, OM-2n, and OM-4Ti), Pentax 67, and Argus C3. I have a bunch of 135 and 120 film in the freezer. My “treasure” film is two rolls of Efke KB 25, 135 format, 36 exp, which I bought a long time ago when Efke was still in production; I had great results from that film stock in the past, and hope to do so with these two remaining rolls. Thanks, Don!

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@argusc3310 Thanks for watching and commenting!

@louisswaim7024 Ай бұрын

I owned an OM PC too, in the late ‘80s. It was a great camera, and a good learning tool. My current camera is an OM-D E-M1 mk iii. I think anyone who has shot film appreciates the film mindset even while using a modern digital camera.

@billbillings913 Ай бұрын

I was a teenager in the 80's and learned to shoot with my Dad's Minolta SRT-101 and 50mm lens. A big part of why I loved it was acquiring the skill of shooting in full manual mode. Also, the discipline of choosing your shots carefully because you would only have 24 shots on that roll! And remember the anticipation of opening the envelope of prints when you got them back from the developer?

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@billbillings913 YES! That was the best part! Seeing the pictures for the first time!

@georgemahlum6542 Ай бұрын

I just never had the desire to return to film..(except for 4x5) .Been there and done that (I am 71 years young) been shooting since I was a kid...But...Its a good idea for younger Digital users to try film for a while....Cheers

@blazerbarrel2 Ай бұрын

Learning the craft of film photography makes you understand digitals real benefits !

@vin424242 Ай бұрын

Went back to film 2 and a half years ago, still shoot mostly digital but i love using a mechanical camera, developing the film, got quite a collection of film cameras now, most picked up cheap, one or two didnt work but got em cleaned up and working, one on the bench now stripped for cleaning and hopefully working again, photography is expensive whatever way you do it and film is a bit pricey but any hobby comes at a cost

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@vin424242 I couldn't agree more!

@bigrobotnewstoday1436 Ай бұрын

When I bought my Panasonic Lumix GH2 it was weird trying to rap my head around that I can change the ISO. I was so use to shooting film and once you put a roll of film in that was your film speed. Some cameras you could rewind a roll and leave a tab out I think some motor drive Nikon's did this but not sure. What you would do is let's say you rewind the last shot as the 12th frame when you put that roll back in you shoot a dud image at 13th frame just in case nothing is overlapping.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@bigrobotnewstoday1436 no doubt that digital makes some things much easier.

@franzscaramelli2651 Ай бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@franzscaramelli2651 Thank you for watching and commenting!

@cameraman655 Ай бұрын

Now why would I want to take up film again? I shot film from ‘77 to ‘05 from my childhood all the way up to my years as a shooter for the Wires and several newspapers. Most of the film stock that I shot with are either no longer produced (K25/64) or outrageously expensive ($25-30 for a 36 exp of Fujichrome Velvia), never mind the expense of having it processed. I do have one of my beloved Canon F1AEs in my display, but it likely would need some work done to get it back in to shooting condition. When all is said and done, Digital (esp mirrorless) is my medium of choice, no going back.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@cameraman655 I get it. It's not for everyone.

@davidmill7289 Ай бұрын

Great video Dom. I’ve recently returned to film alongside digital and have acquired cameras to cover each of the 4 mount types my vintage lenses have i.e. M42 (Chinon CX & Pentax Spotmatic), Canon FD (T60 & A-E1 program), Pentax K (Pentax ME Super) & Olympus OM (OM2 Spot Program & an AF10 point & shoot). Trying hard not to buy any more 😂

@superkrell Ай бұрын

I`ve been shooting film most of my life. Went digital only because of a Leica MD 262, no screen! I can never use a camera with a screen anyway. By the way I also bought my MD 262 and a Summicron 50mm Rigid for my Leica from KEH...!

@michaelcase8574 Ай бұрын

The cheapest way to start is to just use a disposable film camera. A number of brands are ailable.

@CBortlearts Ай бұрын

I only shoot film. There are a myriad of reasons, but one that I always gravitate to as the most important to me is that with film, it will always have the cahrachterisitic of film. I have printed a lot of my photos taken straight from the negative without any editing. When I shot digital, I found them boring without editing. You cannot change your sensor but you can change your film. I have yet to hear a person say "I print all of my raw images straight from my camera with editing". It might happen, but I have not heard of it from anyone. With digital you are in the mindset of always altering the image to look appealing as digital straight from the camera is no more exciting than one from a cell phone. IMO, film looks better right from the start, without editing and it is easy to see how appealing it is.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@CBortlearts Kinda hard to argue with what you are saying! Thanks for watching and commenting!

@devroombagchus7460 Ай бұрын

Any digital camera I buy will be outdated in a few years. Analogue cameras, especially mechanical ones, last at least a life time. All they require is a very occasional CLA. I have my doubts with amateurs who need a digital camera that can do anything, tracking focus to adjusting lines in architecture to night skies. What's your style?

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@devroombagchus7460 I heard a talk one time where the speaker said that we could divide all of the things we purchase into two categories that he called guns and butter. Guns are items that hold or increase in value and butter being consumable items. His assertion was that if you spend your money on the guns category, the butter category would take care of itself. Cameras have moved from the guns category to the butter category. You are right about the life of mechanical cameras. Some of mine will surely outlive me. I like to use both film and digital cameras, but I am prone to using digital cameras in a very basic, film sort of way, not using many of the advanced features that are available. That is my comfort zone, you might say. Thanks for watching and commenting! Don

@sputumtube Ай бұрын

It's easy to get sucked into G.A.S. (gear acquisition syndrome) where every purchase seems like a bargain. In the end you have dozens of cameras, each with newly installed film, but you can't decide which one(s) to use. At this point you're no longer a photographer but rather a 'collector'.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@sputumtube I have to admit I love the cameras as much as I love photography. I guess collecting and photography are coincidental hobbies in my case.

@bondgabebond4907 Ай бұрын

In 1972, I began to shoot pictures with a Pentax camera. It was a great experience. Today I shoot digital. Though I did try to see how it was to shoot film with my Nikon F2. That settled it. No more film photography. Far too expensive. And the results are mediocre at best. And, the main reason for not continuing with film is that there is no more Kodachrome. I get the same satisfaction with the Sony A7R3 as I did with Kodachrome.

@Cracky003 Ай бұрын

Film cameras have me looking based on price. I'm extremely price sensitive and still feel like cameras are absurdly overpriced. I'm in Sony Full Frame, because I can buy 10-12 year old cameras with a modern mount, and adapt vintage lenses. It's just, when looking at bodies that take the lenses I'm using, wow, they're just as cheap as the lenses. I have some OM, FD, and LTM lenses, as well as a couple native E mount Chinese manual focus lenses. Film cameras having a true black and white option is very interesting and has me on the hunt for a great deal. Lol.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@@Cracky003 they're out there. Good luck in your search! Let me know where you land.

@Cracky003 Ай бұрын

@dongummphotography so, feeling inspired, I went for it and picked up a nice looking, and technically functional Pentax Spotmatic II as it fit my super frugal budget, and gives me a new lens type to adapt (M42). I have begun researching the OM-4ti. I love my OM mount lenses. And I like small cameras the best, and am not into rangefinders. However, I'd rather dip my toes into film at $55 than $250. Outside of my kids Instax cameras, I haven't taken a film photo since disposables were a thing in the mid 2000s. Lol

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@Cracky003 if you are okay with manual cameras, an OM1 will be quite a bit less expensive. Not sure where you live but here in the US I see them on Goodwill's auction site frequently and at good prices. Go to www.shopgoodwill.com. lots of fun auctions there. You can also find them on Ebay or try MBP or KEH. I am a big fam of KEH Camera Brokers. I've been buying from them since the mid nineteen eighties.

@bigrobotnewstoday1436 Ай бұрын

One of the problems with film its not as easy for everyone to get film developed unless you go out of your way. Its not like it was in the old days you could just drop film off at the local drug store or the local 1 Hour Lab. I might give film another spin but to get film developed I have to get on the bus or train or maybe mail my film.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@bigrobotnewstoday1436 sending your film in the mail is probably the easiest. If it really just doesn't work for you, keep doing what works!

@jenelphaba7558 Ай бұрын

Cost is a big issue

@GhostPaw24 28 күн бұрын

I love film, I shoot film, so don't get me wrong. But clients don't ask for film because they like it. Frankly they can't even tell the difference. They ask for it so they brag about it later. Take that for what it's worth.

@dongummphotography 28 күн бұрын

@@GhostPaw24 I would imagine there is some truth to that!

@disjenmgn Ай бұрын

Shooting on film is incredible expensive these days. In the 'old days' I had a darkroom and did everything at home, film and photo's. Why driving in 2024 in a T-Ford and not in an Tesla or whatever😊. Nice hobby to return to film but why should you....

@hansemannluchter643 Ай бұрын

It's a bit like hearing audioholics claiming vinyl sounds better than digital. ISO on a digital has NOTHING to do with ISO on a film-roll.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@hansemannluchter643 so you are saying that if I set the ISO in my digital camera to, say, 200, and then use my handheld spotmeter to meter a scene and apply those settings in the camera, the exposure will be wrong? My testing shows that the ISO ratings I set in my digital cameras relate to the same ISO settings I use on film. I just walked outside in the bright sunlight with an Olympus EP5 set to ISO 100 and the lens set to f16. The shutter speed indicated in the display was exactly 1/100 sec. So it seems that the digital camera also follows the sunny 16 rule just like film...

@IO470N 25 күн бұрын

ISO on digital doesn't even have anything to do with ISO on other digital cameras of the same brand! Take an EOS R, R6, R6 mk II and R5, use them on manual mode, same shutter, aperture and ISO , same metering mode, picture profile with same contrast ,NR, sharpness etc, white balance set the same with the exact same RF 50 1.2 at say f2.8. all on a tripod, at night, aimed at the same spot in the distance. None of the pictures will have the same luminosity. Add the Fooj X-T2 and X-T5 on a 33 f1.4 for a second experiment, same thing. Between these two the X-T2 exposes brighter. By a good margin.

@hansemannluchter643 25 күн бұрын

@@dongummphotography I suggest you load a 36-frame film, set the shutter-speed and aperture to /125 sec, f=4 and fiddle with the ISO-setting to get correct exposure for each frame, and see where that gets you...

@ericlundquist3466 Ай бұрын

I just need to win that mega millions so I can have a man cave-turned dark room.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@ericlundquist3466 I k ow what you mean. I have all of the hardware for a well equipped darkroom in storage but no place to set it all up. Someday...

@kostyafedot551 Ай бұрын

Film is the refuge for giftless these days. You don't need to be creative. Just pay for film and waste money or time on developing, scanning printing. Everything on film looks awesome. From my perspective as real film shooter from 2012 to 2022. Decade of repairing those "inexpensive" cameras before they could be in use again. Developing BW, ECN2, E6, C41 and printing bw under enlarger. BW darkoom paper is the total ripoff these days or you have to find some leftover FB SG paper from seventies. My annual count on film was around one kilometer, if you know what i mean. Here is absolutely nothing to be learned from film as quickly and effective comparing to DSLR in M mode. But with digital you really have to find the content to make it worth of looking at.

@dongummphotography Ай бұрын

@kostyafedot551 I cannot imagine that shooting film requires no creativity, of course, it does. Digital adds a "WOW" factor to images, but both mediums require artistic effort to produce good images.