A New Camera and a New Season of Film Photography | RTE S2Ep1
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- In season 2, episode 1 of Riding The Edge, I take out a new film camera for the first time. The camera, a Nikon F4 is loaded with a roll of Ilford Delta 100 35mm black and white film, and I'm looking for some black and white nature photos as autumn begins to fade away.
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Black and white film photography done right! Lovely shots. I think manual focus SLR cameras from mid 70s to late 80s are as good as a camera can get. I am looking forward to following your film journey this year.
Thank you so much! I’m looking forward to a year of discovery and I hope to see you back here!
Lens compatability is great with the F4. Like the sound of the shutter.
Thanks David, for another inspirational video. I always get an idea, after watching. Thanks. KB
Thank you for the kind words Ken
Good start with the F4. Looking forward to more.
Thanks Bill
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Great images with the new camera - I think you two are going to get along nicely!
Thank you Robert, digital cameras don't excite me that much but put a 30 year old film camera in my hand and I'm absolutely giddy 😂
@@DavidPattonPhotography I know the feeling!!! And as always, Nori was adorable!
Nice!
Excellent video the F4 doesn’t look as big as I’d imagined.
Thanks Paul, the vertical grip version is fairly large, without the grip it's not very tall, which makes it fit in my camera bag easier but it is pretty thick for a film camera and the weight is similar to the larger F5 so it no light weight Lol
Nice work David. You seem to master any camera. You have the eye and knowledge to create good shots.
Thank you so much Louise, it's good to play with your photography 😁
I forgot to add, that Sony A7RII you gave me may not be seen on camera in this video but it's presence is all over the video, by adding video clips and more importantly to me is the wonderful scans of my negatives I'm getting, the best film scans I've ever obtained are with the camera you gave me, much of what I'm doing would not be possible without the use of such a capable camera!
Hi, Dave.
Every time I look at your work I become, positively, jealous.
What you can do with black and white is amazing, man.
The contrast in your work is in balance with the rest of the photo.
They sometimes say "Once a film photographer, always a film photographer".
And I mean a real film photographer, not someone who used to shoot a roll a year on vacation.
I know that old Nikons were built like a tank, so a press photographer could easily enter a war zone with them.
Have you ever thought about transferring your knowledge to others?
I mean this, give a photography workshop, or film photography.
I think you would be very good at that.
And don't be too modest, friend, you're a damn good photographer.
Antoine.
Thank you for your kind words Antoine, yes, I’ve given some thought to doing a black and white film photography workshop, if I can figure out the logistics I may give it a try someday.
Great comments Antoine, and dead-on. This describes David perfectly!
Enjoy your new camera! Nikon is a camera brand I have never shot with. Not due to quality concerns but simply because I inherited as youngster Canon-based cameras which I used for many years with FD and later EF lenses. I especially like that many Nikon cameras are backwards compatible with Nikkor lenses. Other than Nikon, only Leica to this day allows to do this with lenses directly mounted on cameras without adapters. Congrats to the first film in the F4 - seems it was a success!
Thanks Martin, I'm not really that into camera brands, I started using Nikon cameras when I went into journalism many years ago, they provided my cameras so that's what I got use to, I actually started my photography with a Canon AE1, then upgraded to the Canon T90, I loved that camera, after using Nikon for so many years it's just what feels natural to me now and luckily for me there is a lot of very good and affordable Nikon camera gear on the used market :)
@@DavidPattonPhotography I went with Canon FTb as first Canon SLR, followed by the EOS 500 (Rebel series). In 2005 the Rebel XT digital APS-C camera later upgraded in 2009 to 5D MkII which I still own. My father is still using sometimes his T70.
Thanks, Martin. I am very pleased that I found him.
I have the F4 also with the MB-21 Battery Grip. It is indeed a large camera with the 50,000 AA batteries it takes. I love it. I use it mostly in the aperture priority mode and on a tripod most of the time. The LCD screen has some bleeding so reading the shutter speeds in manual is hard at best. Still the meter in aperture priority has yet to really let me down and if I really need to set it all manually I just use my handheld light meter. The interesting thing is that it is the granddaddy of all the DSLR's that followed it in shape and form but it is also the last of the completely analogue cameras with all settings either a button or switch. It is a very neat camera.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the F4, it is truly a unique camera, I new the F4 can have leaking LCD screens, I picked mine up at KEH so I new it was going to be clear, it's crazy how affordable these cameras are nowadays considering it was probably around $2000 new Lol
Love my F4. Single point AF with Nikon's AF-D lenses is brilliant. I have the vertical grip version. The extra batteries add the heft which I like on this camera along with it's beautifully damped shutter mechanism. My G lenses also AF on this camera which is amazing. But not the E lenses which use electronic shutters. And it matrix meters all manual focus Ai and AiS lenses which is brilliant. The F5 cant do that. It also takes Pre-Ai lenses. Enjoy!
Thanks for sharing your experience with the F4, it's such a versatile camera and a pleasure to use!