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always use strobe at least for the key light, continuous light wont have the same pop and contrast, thank you for the comment ;)

the d700 is the best digital camera ever created, i am shooting film now after 8 years of d700, there was absolutely no camera that could outperformed the d700 except for a film camera but thats a totally different medium with its own pro and con

tri-x seems to have more character and density ... it is my favorite film stock for black and white portrait ,,, fp4 looks closer to a digital image while still retaining that black and white film vibe

no only two lights on set i now use an even more simplified lighting setup ;)

hello you can read about it here. www.gilbertcarosin.com/post/shooting-analog-35mm-film-in-the-studio-why-i-will-never-go-back-to-digital-photography

you can get ilford film at era photo shop in Port Louis for colour or kodak tri-x i import it via B&h

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thank you the scanning is also very important these were scanned with a fuji frontier sp3000 there is something quite special with this scanner i have tried higher resolution scanner and while the the resolution and details were higher there was something less charming about the image i cannot explain why

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography I understand perfectly. I have an ols Nikon Coolscan 5 which I scan my 35mm negatives with, also an old V700 flatbed. The Nikon is merciless in bringing out every last bit of detail and resolves the grain perfectly, but the scans are just too sharp. People shudder when I say that at times, I prefer the V700 scans. It is the same argument bewteen film and digital.

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exactly ;)

yes you are right better try the latest mirrorless Nikon less so so so sharp you can see all face imperfection ;)

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography no dear. With sharp lenses you have the OPTION to soften the image if you want. Even women´s socks can do it. With soft lenses you do not have the option to sharpen them anyway.

@@zarrir you can add sharpness in post you cannot add micro-contrast in post you are stuck with what you have ... i use this lens on 35mm film now trust me there is no better lens for portrait except the 135mm f2 dc which is actually a bit softer than this one but have better bokeh .... sharpness is overrated ... do you go the museum and and watch if all the work of the master painter are sharp or not ... not sure if Rembrandt painting or Mona Lisa are sharp but am sure they have HUGE mirco-contrast like all great work of art ... if all you care is sharpness get a sigma they are super sharp and super boring ( flat with no micro contrast ) just like most Z lenses

for colour the the zeiss 135 and also the nikkor 135mm f2 dc are a better option because of their apo design ( nikon have something under the hood with the defocus lens that make it quite special with colour rendition ) they also have better bokeh but for black and white the 135mm f3,5 is still ahead in term micro-contrast and also you get the amazing face compression that comes with it ... the 180mm f2.8 ed nikkor is a superior lens in all department but i find 180mm very difficult to use in the studio even the 135mm require quite some space to be used properly,,... i have been using the nikkor f3.5 Ais with 35mm film lately ... this lens is really amazing used on a film camera with studio lighting ... you can check my other video to see how it performs on film

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from what i have gathered the nikon d700 and d3 sensor are not the same or they are tuned differently i have read somewhere it was panasonic but these are just claims

sure but the reason i am using the nikkor 135mm f3.5 Ai is because it has an extreme level of micro-contrast, there are no other lens like this one in the nikon line up only 4 internal element of glass, the only lens that could outperform this one is the 180mm f2.8 ed

it is one of nikon best lens slightly outperformed by the 180mm f2.8 Ai sadly the 180 is too long to use in my studio so the 135 does the job the 180 has better rounded bokeh but in the studio this is not important, as the for the micro-contrast the 135mm is in another level ... it is simply amazing when doing 35mm film black and photography ;)

thank you so much i really appreciate ;)

my recommendation would be to buy directly a medium format if you are going with film but the f5 is a very good camera but if money is not an issue the f6 is an even better film camera

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography But this kind of shiny light that I see in your pictures. I didn't see it in Mamiya and any other medium format cameras.

@@saman.artman6845 well the studio lighting plays a huge role my elinchrom modifier is a very large one and it is not cheap... most picture you see done on film and also medium format are with natural light.... using studio light ( and i insist on using flash/strobe and not continuous lighting ) would make a medium format photo really amazing.... just look at the work of Sandra Coan on youtube ... she shoot film medium format and was a huge inspiration in the decision to go back to film ... whatever camera and lens you have your lighting will enhance the picture 3 or 4 time better

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thank you so much for your nice comment and thanks for watching take care

1500 click is almost new mine has 70k most model goes easily beyond 200k i have used mine for 7 years until recently, i only shoot film photography with a nikon f5 now ... still got mine although i dont use it all now... next upgrade will be film medium format ... enjoy your camera it is in my humble opinion the best digital camera ever created

i sincerely doubt it, but this might be an endless debate, after 7 years of d700 there was only one upgrade to consider either digital with medium format or back to analog photography.... if one camera can get close to the film micro-contrast well it is the d700 ( notice i dont say look because there are many different film stock with different colours contrast tonal hues grain texture etc and those attribute can change depending on how you expose the film or simply by their iso rating ) ... these looks of film can not be replicated digitally, film blend light in an organic way this result in colours that are very different, not the colour themselves but the nature of how they mix together ...while you can get the colours digitally, you will never be able to blend them in an emulsive way like film does another very important aspect of film is the way it retain highlight information and crush very quickly the shadows ... i had to completely change my way of using light in the studio so that i can push different gradient of highlight ( with digital you work with the shadow detail ) on film the shadows get lost if not properly exposed but you get some magnificent gradient on the highlight that digital can not retain ... my next video will be about black and white and you will clearly see how film can retain some pure white highlight detail on the clothes of model with dark skin complexion ... something that quickly become a headache with digital... one last thing i work with a dedicated high quality lab that process my film properly ...so i dont edit anything when the scan come back .... this a huge benefit for my workflow ... and the scan are higher resolution that the d700 photo ... ( i get a 15-20 mb jpeg for high quality scan the resolution is 3649x5397 on portra 400 )

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hello i used to shoot raw then convert with iridient developer ...when shooting raw the colour profile does not affect the picture you can experiment with many colour profile from this page nikonpc.com/ there are some classic film simulation here that maybe you would be interested with

thank you so much for your comment .... in this is age of Ai i feel it is very important we preserve this craft thank you for watching take care

thank you for watching you are pretty much covered with those lenses, have you tried some landscape with the 28 or 35 ...i have sold quite a few prints using the cheap but excellent Nikkor 28mm f3.5 Ai

Thanks, yes, I will try landscape using the 35mm and the 28mm. Best Regards

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the f5 is an amazing camera i had one session with it yesterday and it is so refreshing to just have to measure the light in the studio adjust and shoot the camera is set at f8 1/200 shutter and you don't need to worry about anything else just take the picture ... the film then goes to the lab and you dont have to worry about any editing or anything ... the only problem is i have to send the rolls to South Africa for developing as no one does it here in Mauritius ( i mean for now ) the shipping is very costly sadly i have to put it on the studio price ... the 105mm f2.5 Ai is another legendary lens.. i believe steeve McCurry took the famous afghan girl picture with this lens... it might even be with the same camera you have ( not sure which f model was used ) .... i normaly shoot portra 160/400 and kodak tri-x in the studio .... will try some ilford next week ... i will send all the rolls at once for developing by next month to save on shipping and post the result here thanks again for all you comment take care

thank you so much

price of dslr are going down d3 d3s d3x are very good investment if they are in good condition and average shutter life 60-70 percent of shutter life is what i recommend

​@@GilbertCarosinPhotography In terms of life, I saw a model of d3x that had shot one and a half million times. And it still worked great. This first model was made for the US Army and NASA, so it has an exemplary build quality

@@saman.artman6845 all nikon d700 d3 d4 have exceptional built quality when i say d3 i mean all d3 model d3s d3x etc these are buil to a standard that we wont see today ... I have just bought an f5 and this another amazing nikon camera that i intend to use for a very very long time

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography I agree that negative 🎞️ is forever best

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ali express very cheap... found this also on ebay www.ebay.com/itm/204379770528?hash=item2f95fbcea0:g:4C4AAOSwl-Vkm3MJ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4Mc1XVabWai9GN1L9L0OsnXDgkCP9NL%2BOsoDtTaEWttCWDolfaYftEbmMrcIkggy3tu0GQzmXbYm34O%2FxDcxlFz7f7fPKmJ4EqRmdd7ArMwpTPDuQ8ak79cYQ%2Fy8tOMT%2BywhMigOKXsUFcggEja7BUjo7qSd82OodbLw0adlB8Sj9PpuiCtAQJdfLDRAjE95UN9X2lYo35Sf1W3ckLKzQhxDCP9QhWjmAJFuz5feq78nfMmhlUvnvC0S%2FQh5WJdXrKZONwIK13ykpTPyoN2nfoGg2Xw8T4EBv6cYtOK1lGXW%7Ctkp%3ABFBMroeDqqNi

i started by accident i am classical guitar teacher i have been doing photography for. a long long time mainly landscape and occasional portrait but 5 years ago a group of student wanted me to do some lecture on photography and lighting thats how my studio started and it got a bit out of control since then lol ( in the good way ) ... i love this camera, but i have found a new one to replace it that brings a lot of joy in my photography, it's the nikon f5 a film camera i will post about it in the coming months and also put some picture from my session with it ( i am building a film portfolio as we speak )

yes all my lenses are manual focus

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography how do you manual focus without focus pica …??

its an amazing camera built like a tank and very reliable

congratulation on your purchase ... that 135mm is perfect match for the d700 i have been using that combo for the past 4 years in the studio... never got a complain always very good comment and pleased customer ... i will keep it and use it on my new film camera nikon f5

thanks for watching ;) take care

ccd sensor are very special they look almost like a painting and the colour remind me of film ... the d700 is not very far in this regard also amazing colour maybe the best colour on a full frame sensor... i am now shooting film just bought an f5 will post some comparison in the coming month thx for watching

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its also very durable and will probably outlast your d7200, i have just added a nikon f5 to my collection will post picture from it in the coming months the f5 is another legendary beast pretty much an analogue version of d700/d3

i sometime print up to 1meter by 1.50 meter without any detail loss... not long ago people would print billboard with a 6mpx camera .... what i like to do also is 3 vertical panorama shot ( or more ) and stitch it with affinity photo sofware to get higher resolution

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography Interesting experience. Can you be more specific about the quality of detail I could expect at 24x36 inch prints? Its only 12mp but I have seen the original Fuji XT1 which is 16mp to produce way sharper and detailed images that its pixel density would suggest. I would like to stich vertically 3 shots and my fear is the short side will not reach 24 inches with excellent (not just passable deatil from normal distance) and make a photo with sufficient detail from verry close inspection - as if it was printed at 300ppi. From your experience printing 24x36 do you see exceptional detail from close distance? Acrylic prints need to be tack sharp as they counr as a premium product.

@@Classicdslr the lens you use will definitely have more impact that the amount of megapixel my 50mm is way sharper than my 28mm and close up there is a difference but i prefer my 28 as it has more character even if it less sharp not related but i have just started shooting film on a nikon f5 ... i will compare both the d700 and f5 in an upcoming video... the following is done with my 28mm its a long exposure so it not perfectly sharp but the micro contrast on this lens is huge and i simply love this lens .... ua-cam.com/users/shortsN18XPnahJ6E?feature=share

@@GilbertCarosinPhotography Thank you for you answer. I am also researching this microcontrast feature of lenses and you made me curious even more by saying the 28mm lens has it but it seems like the 50mm doesn`t but is much sharper? Have you found a way to distinguish which lens has it? Some say any lens with less than say 7 elemnts but I have seen even those with more elemnets could have such....

@@Classicdslr hoo no .. not what i meant ....both have huge amount of micro contrast the 50mm is very sharp also but i do prefer the 28mm for landscape as for the micro-contrast the king of all is the nikkor 135mm f3.5 AI which i ALWAYS use in my studio ... 180mm f2.8 ed is also very good but to long to use in studio ...but if you move to medium format you will see that all lenses are very good and have huge micro - contrast by nature... something 35mm have a hard time achieving perfectly

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hello when i am shooting with 135mm f3.5 i shoot at f5.6 and f8 and when i am using the 50mm f1.8 the best aperture to my eye is f4 so i try to stay around it depending on the session requirement

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