What a wonderful love letter! I agree on every point you're making. Especially the prolonged gratification. Had a bit of the same feeling when during the pandemic I went through my old photos. Among all the photos I found some photos that really spoke to me now, when they were detached from the moment when they were captured. But the satisfaction when you get that photo back that really resonates with you is such a hard feeling to beat. Glad to hear that you found so much joy with this experience and that we share the same vision on this. /Robert
Way way back when there was only film…..I set myself a personal assignment on a day care. The shots I got then were certainly most memorable even several decades later. Spent many hours printing them, lots of fun.
Thank you for your thoughtful and well done review. I came for the Klasse W review, but then really enjoyed your photos and your thoughts on shooting with film. I grew up with film and all its frustrations, and in particular, it's cost which really stifled my shooting as I was pretty broke as a kid. So for me, digital is something of a god-send -- shoot as much as I want and the only cost is my time -- but largely because of my love of film cameras, am thinking of wading back into film. I agree with you regarding the pleasure of surprise, and in fact, consistently have found, as I still do with digitial, that many of my favorite photos are the ones I don't remember shooting at all.
Love your thoughts expressed in this video. Makes me really regret not knowing about the Fujifilm Klasse W. earlier. What I personally also love about shooting film is looking at them in 4x6 prints in a photo album rather than a computer screen. Film can give that awesome experience from the pressure of taking one shot of a scene at a time through enjoying what you got after you print them.
Recommend you take a look at the Olympus 35 SP if you're a fan of the x100v! The x100 series definitely owes a lot of it's styling to this camera and it's a great fixed lens rangefinder with a full manual mode
🙌🏼👉🏼🎞 love the colors, your images are wonderful Reggie! yup! 1 thing for sure for those of us that shot film back in the day or even now, nobody ever held up a print or photo album 6” from their face to see how the corner sharpness was …😂😂 we all just actually viewed the images & enjoyed the memory of the moment it was clicked! also generally waiting awhile to see / re visit those photos after they were processed as you mention. Nicely done 👌🏼👍🏼
Always nice to remind people with such nice shots that the great Fuji lenses existed way before the digital era. I am pretty sure people , who have searched about P&S cameras, heard of the Klasse series as their prices can testify 🙂
i used a variety of films. portra 400, lomography 400, lomography 800, FujiFilm superia 1600, ilford hp5 400, and kodak trix 400. I edit the shots a bit for contrast and to get the black point right if the scan came out super faded. but it's like a 10-20 second edit at most.
I can understand your interest in film cameras, but I don’t have the patience to go through the waiting and processing and the biggest problem I have with it.👇🏼 The very opposite of what you stated, is one shot per scene, I need multiple shots per scene because my creative juices get going. If you’ve been a photographer for a long time, you realize some of the best shots can be taken from multiple angles and by experimentation. It’s made me a much better photographer. Right now my favorite camera is the XT4, probably because it’s the only pro camera I have right now. Even though it’s lacking in the best auto focus and the build quality isn’t that good. At least for me since I’ve had to take it back twice to get fixed. I had to get the back screen that failed fixed, then the shutter button froze, and I had to send it back for a costly repair. But these cameras are made in China! 😏 Great shots by the way! 🤙
Hence why I said one of the key lessons for every photographer to learn is the patience of seeing the photo. You can still experiment without seeing the results. Thru the patience you build trust in your eye rather than trust in the back of the camera.
@@Reggiebphoto It all depends on what style of street photography you’re doing. My style is hit and run and I need the fastest auto focus and the right lens. When I’m lucky enough, I can get multiple shots. I’m now 65 and I used to shoot film a lot of that time. I bought my first digital camera in 2000, the Canon, pro one, only eight megapixels. Never looked back. And with Fuji’s simulations, there’s no need too! At least for me. Indeed, I understand your point of view, it’s just I don’t care to go that route. Your best shots are with your family. 🖖
@@Reggiebphoto Pentax ME Super. Olympus OM-1 50mm f1.4. Next is a Nikon FM with 50mm f1.4. These are some of the cameras I started my photography career in the late 80’s. Can’t afford to get my Hassy’s back.
@@Reggiebphotowith digital I'm well served with the X-T4, probably won't upgrade until Fuji gets global shutter out or completely nails its AF. Now on film I'm experimenting, so far I enjoy the Fujica ST801, but I'm trying to get my first film camera from my childhood, not my dad's or my grandpa's, but my very first film camera. It's an obscure point and shoot Fujifilm big view-finder 50AF. Zero controls, 100% nostalgia. I'm going down the rabbit hole of revisiting film photography, as I'm aging I'm getting tired of having 1000+ shots to cull through, edit and end up barely ever posting. The fact the every frame matters and you only get 36 of them really makes you think twice before pressing that shutter release and I totally agree that it sharpens your photographic eye. Least to say that we gotta enjoy while it lasts since more and more film stocks are leaving to never come back, the film hobby is getting thinner by the day and we find people trying to sell experoed stock still in production for 5x higher than new, film might collapse in the next generation if we're lucky 2 generations. And it's very interesting because we see old folks who walked away from film into digital and never go back, my dad included, and younger dudes like us appreciating the ingenuity of the past when things were complex yet simpler. People no longer appreciate that a child with basic soldering skills and a service manual can kick a film camera back into life, while our modern electronic with nano architecture takes much more than micro-soldering skills and a whole shabang of know-how to even not mess it up. When a typewriter was passed down generations and all it took was good care and some lubrication, there is a beauty from the earlier days that this young generation simply can't appreciate because they're hooked to instant gratification from the moment they're in the womb of their mothers. Next Gen will be born holding a VR headset 😅😅 Anyways, thanks for the video Reggie 😎👍👍
@Reggie Ballesteros Oh I bulk load HP5, self develop semi stand DDX 1:9. Also, I am a film camera hoarder / recycler, and I just sold my X100V for a Z6 (to shoot my Pentax vintage glass).
Congrats Reggie - Just a beautiful family, camera, imagery and overall video. Thanks!!
Thanks for watching
What a wonderful love letter! I agree on every point you're making. Especially the prolonged gratification. Had a bit of the same feeling when during the pandemic I went through my old photos. Among all the photos I found some photos that really spoke to me now, when they were detached from the moment when they were captured. But the satisfaction when you get that photo back that really resonates with you is such a hard feeling to beat.
Glad to hear that you found so much joy with this experience and that we share the same vision on this.
/Robert
Thanks for watching, and thanks for sharing Robert!
- Reggie
Great photos and observations, thanks for being so candid to share what’s close to your heart
Thanks for watching!
Beautifully said my friend. Happy new year to you and your family. Thank you for sharing
thanks for watching!
Way way back when there was only film…..I set myself a personal assignment on a day care. The shots I got then were certainly most memorable even several decades later. Spent many hours printing them, lots of fun.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏽
Thank you for your thoughtful and well done review. I came for the Klasse W review, but then really enjoyed your photos and your thoughts on shooting with film. I grew up with film and all its frustrations, and in particular, it's cost which really stifled my shooting as I was pretty broke as a kid. So for me, digital is something of a god-send -- shoot as much as I want and the only cost is my time -- but largely because of my love of film cameras, am thinking of wading back into film. I agree with you regarding the pleasure of surprise, and in fact, consistently have found, as I still do with digitial, that many of my favorite photos are the ones I don't remember shooting at all.
Love your thoughts expressed in this video. Makes me really regret not knowing about the Fujifilm Klasse W. earlier. What I personally also love about shooting film is looking at them in 4x6 prints in a photo album rather than a computer screen. Film can give that awesome experience from the pressure of taking one shot of a scene at a time through enjoying what you got after you print them.
100%. I've got to get some prints for sure
Love this approach to the video and this is one of the film cameras on my must try list. 🤘🏼 lovely images as always.
Thank you! What about this video approach stood out to you? Trying a few things different for this one.
best point and shoot of all time!
Always thoughtful videos. Nice shots of your beautiful kids and oh yeah a cool camera.
thanks
Recommend you take a look at the Olympus 35 SP if you're a fan of the x100v! The x100 series definitely owes a lot of it's styling to this camera and it's a great fixed lens rangefinder with a full manual mode
Thanks for the suggestion!
The greatest Point and Shoot! great video
polished & clean my dude. very cool
Thanks Mike 🙏🏽
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Nice! I like the look it renders.
Yes! Very cool rendering indeed. Which image was your favorite?
@@Reggiebphoto the images at 01:40 and 06:24 are competing for the top spot. :D
Good stuff Reggie. I have a GA645 which is absolutely crazy. Btw good title on this video. Hope it does well for you.
Fingers crossed! It IS true despite being clickbait lol
🙌🏼👉🏼🎞 love the colors, your images are wonderful Reggie! yup! 1 thing for sure for those of us that shot film back in the day or even now, nobody ever held up a print or photo album 6” from their face to see how the corner sharpness was …😂😂 we all just actually viewed the images & enjoyed the memory of the moment it was clicked! also generally waiting awhile to see / re visit those photos after they were processed as you mention. Nicely done 👌🏼👍🏼
100%
Always nice to remind people with such nice shots that the great Fuji lenses existed way before the digital era. I am pretty sure people , who have searched about P&S cameras, heard of the Klasse series as their prices can testify 🙂
Yup. But most of my audience always asks what camera this is. So there's a big portion who don't know what it is.
Ang cute ng anak mo! 🥰🤣 Haha! Ganda ng photography haha
what film stocks were you using, and do you edit them after the scan? shots look so amazing, they look more like film simulations than film shots
i used a variety of films. portra 400, lomography 400, lomography 800, FujiFilm superia 1600, ilford hp5 400, and kodak trix 400. I edit the shots a bit for contrast and to get the black point right if the scan came out super faded. but it's like a 10-20 second edit at most.
@@Reggiebphoto thank you! they look amazing
I can understand your interest in film cameras, but I don’t have the patience to go through the waiting and processing and the biggest problem I have with it.👇🏼
The very opposite of what you stated, is one shot per scene, I need multiple shots per scene because my creative juices get going. If you’ve been a photographer for a long time, you realize some of the best shots can be taken from multiple angles and by experimentation.
It’s made me a much better photographer.
Right now my favorite camera is the XT4, probably because it’s the only pro camera I have right now. Even though it’s lacking in the best auto focus and the build quality isn’t that good. At least for me since I’ve had to take it back twice to get fixed. I had to get the back screen that failed fixed, then the shutter button froze, and I had to send it back for a costly repair. But these cameras are made in China! 😏
Great shots by the way! 🤙
Hence why I said one of the key lessons for every photographer to learn is the patience of seeing the photo. You can still experiment without seeing the results. Thru the patience you build trust in your eye rather than trust in the back of the camera.
@@Reggiebphoto
It all depends on what style of street photography you’re doing. My style is hit and run and I need the fastest auto focus and the right lens. When I’m lucky enough, I can get multiple shots.
I’m now 65 and I used to shoot film a lot of that time. I bought my first digital camera in 2000, the Canon, pro one, only eight megapixels. Never looked back. And with Fuji’s simulations, there’s no need too! At least for me.
Indeed, I understand your point of view, it’s just I don’t care to go that route. Your best shots are with your family. 🖖
@@simon359 Thanks for sharing!
About a month ago I started buying the first cameras I ever owned. Got 2 one more to go.
Awesome what cameras?
@@Reggiebphoto Pentax ME Super. Olympus OM-1 50mm f1.4. Next is a Nikon FM with 50mm f1.4. These are some of the cameras I started my photography career in the late 80’s. Can’t afford to get my Hassy’s back.
Should’ve requested the film wedding package back in Sept ‘21… 😔
LOL. I didn't start shooting film until 2022. Sorry, haha. We can always schedule another shoot :)
What is your favorite Fujifilm camera and why?
The Fuji X100V is a modern classic, but I also like my GS645 Professional. It's hard to pick with Fuji.
@@punkrachmaninoff I have yet to try the GS645, but need to!
@Reggie Ballesteros If I come down to California to pitch this year maybe we can trade for a roll. Haha
@@Reggiebphotowith digital I'm well served with the X-T4, probably won't upgrade until Fuji gets global shutter out or completely nails its AF.
Now on film I'm experimenting, so far I enjoy the Fujica ST801, but I'm trying to get my first film camera from my childhood, not my dad's or my grandpa's, but my very first film camera. It's an obscure point and shoot Fujifilm big view-finder 50AF. Zero controls, 100% nostalgia.
I'm going down the rabbit hole of revisiting film photography, as I'm aging I'm getting tired of having 1000+ shots to cull through, edit and end up barely ever posting. The fact the every frame matters and you only get 36 of them really makes you think twice before pressing that shutter release and I totally agree that it sharpens your photographic eye.
Least to say that we gotta enjoy while it lasts since more and more film stocks are leaving to never come back, the film hobby is getting thinner by the day and we find people trying to sell experoed stock still in production for 5x higher than new, film might collapse in the next generation if we're lucky 2 generations.
And it's very interesting because we see old folks who walked away from film into digital and never go back, my dad included, and younger dudes like us appreciating the ingenuity of the past when things were complex yet simpler.
People no longer appreciate that a child with basic soldering skills and a service manual can kick a film camera back into life, while our modern electronic with nano architecture takes much more than micro-soldering skills and a whole shabang of know-how to even not mess it up. When a typewriter was passed down generations and all it took was good care and some lubrication, there is a beauty from the earlier days that this young generation simply can't appreciate because they're hooked to instant gratification from the moment they're in the womb of their mothers. Next Gen will be born holding a VR headset 😅😅
Anyways, thanks for the video Reggie 😎👍👍
Dang!
Is that a good “dang” haha?
@@Reggiebphoto 🤣 let's just say when everybody wants to be like Mike, I want to be like Reggie
VERY JELLY.
Haha, it’s a fun camera. Do you dabble in film?
@Reggie Ballesteros Oh I bulk load HP5, self develop semi stand DDX 1:9. Also, I am a film camera hoarder / recycler, and I just sold my X100V for a Z6 (to shoot my Pentax vintage glass).
Looks cool but no, no film for me.
Understandable haha
my wife asked me to stop watching your videos because of the way it has shaped my purchasing decisions. she will be emailing your wife to complain.
lol 😂