Really enjoyed seeing your equipment. I have a camera digital system but like you, I enjoy film. I thought the Kodak Master 8x10 was really a cool camera. Nowadays we under rate Kodak professional products and I am glad you are a champion for Kodak collecting. If I ever do 8x10, that is the camera I would try to find. Last year I got into 4x5 with a Busch Pressman Model D. For me it is a perfect camera. It is all metal like a Linhof Technika but a fraction of the cost (hey I am retired) and weight. It also has more movements than a Graphic AND it has a revolving back. I find that I really like using it in its press camera mode with its built-in rangefinder. It is light enough to hand hold and I find that many shots that I like taking simply do not need to have ground glass focusing with a tripod set up. Back in the 70s, I bought a Mamiya C220 instead of the RB67 that I really wanted back then (much cheaper when you are a student) and found through the years that I really like the C220 more and more because of its light weight and size. I have the 55mm, 80mm and 150mm lenses, which makes it a pretty versatile medium format system.
Awesome! And thank you for producing these videos. Very helpful. I'm just getting back into analog photography after a 40 year hiatus. Many of your video subjects have saved me time and money. Slowly building up equipment with an eye on landscape and alternative process photography. Just restored a No. 1A Hawk-Eye Model 1 camera and shot my first roll. Still needs work.
It was fun to see your user cameras. Thanks for sharing. Your using those early AF cameras is interesting. I had a Pentax SF back in the 80s and can’t imagine using it now. The Sinar is just so beautifully made.
I have 3 of the 21 in.Eastmans and they are incredibly sharp. Worth putting in a shutter, by all means. I had to build an extended lens board for the Former & Schwing 7 X17 as the bellows only extend to 19 in.
@@TheNakedPhotographer Got me! As I shoot at f64+, my exposures run from 4 to 32 sec. I use a loose fitting tin can painted black or a Goertz lens cap.
That 8x10" Kodak master is so nice. I was really into american LF gear when i started shooting LF. Drooled over the magnesium Kodak Commercial View 8x10". And still want to get that Beseler C-6. Im mostly into handheld 4x5" stuff, so the press stuff was my main interest. And Weegee my hero :)
Thanks! Nice to see what a working photographer uses when they have to get results. I’ve pared down to an F3HP, ETRSi (blown away by Bronica quality) and a Graflex Graphic View that I will get a lens for “real soon now”. I was under the impression that the a9 would not work with SSM lenses, unless it’s one of the rare factory upgraded bodies, or a titanium edition. I loved my 7D and still think about getting a 9 to use the two AF lenses I held on to. Thanks again.
Beautiful! I just got done shrinking my main list of cameras with similar results - Canon EOS 3, Canon New F1, Bronica ETRSI, and an EOS R for digital which can use all the lenses. I have a 4x5 pinhole inbound from David Hancock's Kickstarter. Good bet I end up with a 4x5 for xmas:) Man, that 8x10 is crazy!
Nice to see another Kodak Master user 🙂. The lensboards are unique, and like you, I use a (self made) lensboard adapter to use Technika lensboards on my Kodak Master. The hardest part for me with the KMV is finding a 5x7 factory reducing back. If anyone knows of one for sale, I'm in the market. The RB67 is a great system, albeit bulky. That larger 6x7 negative is very nice to print from as well. I'm envious of your Devere 5108 enrlarger though, my 504 is great for enlarging 4x5 or medium format negatives, but my 5x7 and 8x10 negatives would like to have the option of being bigger than contact prints in the future(without scanning and digital printing).
When I lived in Miami I happened on a great deal and got the DeVere for $400. I just had to drive to Orlando to get it. An 8 hour round trip, but worth it.
Nice collection! For small format, I’m pretty much standardized on Canon EF mount, and have a whole collection of stuff. For medium format, I currently have yashica 124G TLR and a Fujica 690. For large format, currently only one camera, Intrepid 8x10 with a 4x5 reducing back along with 150mm and 300mm Fuji lenses, and a 6x7 roll film adapter. For digital, I’m thoroughly modern. Canon RF mount, and the Canon RP, R5, and R6. The RP with the RF 50 1.8 is my little “everyday” camera, and the R5 is my main camera and the R6 is the backup camera, and I have RF lenses appropriate for my most common paid work. I also have the RF to EF adapter, so I can use all my EF lenses if I want to.
Thank you for being a UA-camr that states that it is fine to use a 10 year old digital camera „until it dies“ because it makes economic sense! Finally!
@@TheNakedPhotographer well there is an aweful lot of people testing the newest gear and treating it as the thing that finally makes you take photographs, isn’t there?
I sold my Sinar Norma after many years of professional use, it was pretty knackered. The lenses are all Schneider : - 90mm Super Angulon f8, 150mm symmar S, and 210mm symmar S, and they are now used on my Wista DX. In the studio my Symmar lenses were nearly always stopped down to at least f45 out of necessity, with no noticeable loss of resolution. I can’t imagine how much better the apo lenses are ?
Fun stuff! For 35mm I'm in the Canon world mostly, to share the lenses. MF my goto is my Bronica GS1, a few pounds lighter than the RB67 I think, and for fun a Yashica D. LF is a Wista 45DX, my favorite lens, though not at all the most useful, is a Heliar 210mm f/3.5 fitted on an air piston shutter!
Wow, nice cameras. Would love to get more into MF and LF. It’s possible that my great-grandfathers LF camera might be somewhere in my grandma’s house, but I’m not sure what kind of camera that might be, or if it is oven compatible with modern film, but we’ll see. As for MF, the cameras are unbelievably expensive, and the prices just keep going up! I saw a P67 at a camera store in ABQ for $350, and it looked like Frankenstein’s monster, but supposedly it worked well. Boy if I had known what a deal that was, I would have told my family that I didn’t care if that was my only BDay gift, that is what I wanted. For now though, my only MF camera is a Kodak Duaflex 620 camera that has 2 settings: instant shutter (1/25 sec) and bulb. Not entirely sure how the pictures I’m talking on there will turn out. My main 35mm camera is quite a good camera, a Cannon AT-1. Basically an AE-1 but without autoexposure. Full manual, and the only complaint I have is that my family is impatient. Got 2 lenses for it, the Nifty-Fifty F1.8 it came with, and a 100-300mm F5.6 beast of a lens that I really need a separate bag for lol. For now though, I am focusing on getting a darkroom set up. Got a nice enlarger, hopefully I get some money for Xmas so I can get the rest. Really wish I had gotten into analog earlier, as just 2-3 years ago people were basically liquidating this stuff! But alas, I am here now, at least I didn’t need to pay $150 for the 35mm camera and $50 for the lens I have now.
I have watched your videos about the sensitometry test and it's really exciting and very helpful but until now I don't know what does the step wedge do?
It provides a calibrated and standardized set of densities when you expose it on your film to allow you to create your graphs. The graphs tell you if you are exposing and developing your film correctly.
I love my Mamiya RB67 ProSD, especially with the Mamiya K/L 65mm Lens and 6x8 film backs
Really enjoyed seeing your equipment. I have a camera digital system but like you, I enjoy film. I thought the Kodak Master 8x10 was really a cool camera. Nowadays we under rate Kodak professional products and I am glad you are a champion for Kodak collecting. If I ever do 8x10, that is the camera I would try to find. Last year I got into 4x5 with a Busch Pressman Model D. For me it is a perfect camera. It is all metal like a Linhof Technika but a fraction of the cost (hey I am retired) and weight. It also has more movements than a Graphic AND it has a revolving back. I find that I really like using it in its press camera mode with its built-in rangefinder. It is light enough to hand hold and I find that many shots that I like taking simply do not need to have ground glass focusing with a tripod set up. Back in the 70s, I bought a Mamiya C220 instead of the RB67 that I really wanted back then (much cheaper when you are a student) and found through the years that I really like the C220 more and more because of its light weight and size. I have the 55mm, 80mm and 150mm lenses, which makes it a pretty versatile medium format system.
Awesome!
And thank you for producing these videos. Very helpful.
I'm just getting back into analog photography after a 40 year hiatus. Many of your video subjects have saved me time and money. Slowly building up equipment with an eye on landscape and alternative process photography. Just restored a No. 1A Hawk-Eye Model 1 camera and shot my first roll. Still needs work.
It was fun to see your user cameras. Thanks for sharing. Your using those early AF cameras is interesting. I had a Pentax SF back in the 80s and can’t imagine using it now. The Sinar is just so beautifully made.
I have 3 of the 21 in.Eastmans and they are incredibly sharp. Worth putting in a shutter, by all means. I had to build an extended lens board for the Former & Schwing 7 X17 as the bellows only extend to 19 in.
What shutters do you have them in? It doesn’t look like it will fit a Copal 3 or Ilex 4.
@@TheNakedPhotographer Got me! As I shoot at f64+, my exposures run from 4 to 32 sec. I use a loose fitting tin can painted black or a Goertz lens cap.
Nicely done. Cameras are beautiful...every single one. Miracles.📷🌟🌟🌟🌟
That 8x10" Kodak master is so nice. I was really into american LF gear when i started shooting LF. Drooled over the magnesium Kodak Commercial View 8x10". And still want to get that Beseler C-6. Im mostly into handheld 4x5" stuff, so the press stuff was my main interest. And Weegee my hero :)
Thanks! Nice to see what a working photographer uses when they have to get results.
I’ve pared down to an F3HP, ETRSi (blown away by Bronica quality) and a Graflex Graphic View that I will get a lens for “real soon now”.
I was under the impression that the a9 would not work with SSM lenses, unless it’s one of the rare factory upgraded bodies, or a titanium edition.
I loved my 7D and still think about getting a 9 to use the two AF lenses I held on to.
Thanks again.
Beautiful! I just got done shrinking my main list of cameras with similar results - Canon EOS 3, Canon New F1, Bronica ETRSI, and an EOS R for digital which can use all the lenses. I have a 4x5 pinhole inbound from David Hancock's Kickstarter. Good bet I end up with a 4x5 for xmas:) Man, that 8x10 is crazy!
Nice to see another Kodak Master user 🙂. The lensboards are unique, and like you, I use a (self made) lensboard adapter to use Technika lensboards on my Kodak Master. The hardest part for me with the KMV is finding a 5x7 factory reducing back. If anyone knows of one for sale, I'm in the market. The RB67 is a great system, albeit bulky. That larger 6x7 negative is very nice to print from as well. I'm envious of your Devere 5108 enrlarger though, my 504 is great for enlarging 4x5 or medium format negatives, but my 5x7 and 8x10 negatives would like to have the option of being bigger than contact prints in the future(without scanning and digital printing).
When I lived in Miami I happened on a great deal and got the DeVere for $400. I just had to drive to Orlando to get it. An 8 hour round trip, but worth it.
Thought of your search. There is a 5x7 back on the bay now
Nice collection! For small format, I’m pretty much standardized on Canon EF mount, and have a whole collection of stuff. For medium format, I currently have yashica 124G TLR and a Fujica 690. For large format, currently only one camera, Intrepid 8x10 with a 4x5 reducing back along with 150mm and 300mm Fuji lenses, and a 6x7 roll film adapter. For digital, I’m thoroughly modern. Canon RF mount, and the Canon RP, R5, and R6. The RP with the RF 50 1.8 is my little “everyday” camera, and the R5 is my main camera and the R6 is the backup camera, and I have RF lenses appropriate for my most common paid work. I also have the RF to EF adapter, so I can use all my EF lenses if I want to.
Thank you for being a UA-camr that states that it is fine to use a 10 year old digital camera „until it dies“ because it makes economic sense! Finally!
I didn’t realize it was a problem!
@@TheNakedPhotographer well there is an aweful lot of people testing the newest gear and treating it as the thing that finally makes you take photographs, isn’t there?
I sold my Sinar Norma after many years of professional use, it was pretty knackered. The lenses are all Schneider : - 90mm Super Angulon f8, 150mm symmar S, and 210mm symmar S, and they are now used on my Wista DX. In the studio my Symmar lenses were nearly always stopped down to at least f45 out of necessity, with no noticeable loss of resolution. I can’t imagine how much better the apo lenses are ?
Fun stuff! For 35mm I'm in the Canon world mostly, to share the lenses. MF my goto is my Bronica GS1, a few pounds lighter than the RB67 I think, and for fun a Yashica D. LF is a Wista 45DX, my favorite lens, though not at all the most useful, is a Heliar 210mm f/3.5 fitted on an air piston shutter!
I really enjoyed this video! Thank you.
I have the same Minolta 50mm macro and use it all the time. The A-Mount lenses can be great value for money these days.
Have you used or currently use borderless easels? Do you or know where I can go to read/watch how to use them? Thank you. Love your channel.
Wow, nice cameras. Would love to get more into MF and LF.
It’s possible that my great-grandfathers LF camera might be somewhere in my grandma’s house, but I’m not sure what kind of camera that might be, or if it is oven compatible with modern film, but we’ll see.
As for MF, the cameras are unbelievably expensive, and the prices just keep going up! I saw a P67 at a camera store in ABQ for $350, and it looked like Frankenstein’s monster, but supposedly it worked well. Boy if I had known what a deal that was, I would have told my family that I didn’t care if that was my only BDay gift, that is what I wanted.
For now though, my only MF camera is a Kodak Duaflex 620 camera that has 2 settings: instant shutter (1/25 sec) and bulb. Not entirely sure how the pictures I’m talking on there will turn out.
My main 35mm camera is quite a good camera, a Cannon AT-1. Basically an AE-1 but without autoexposure. Full manual, and the only complaint I have is that my family is impatient. Got 2 lenses for it, the Nifty-Fifty F1.8 it came with, and a 100-300mm F5.6 beast of a lens that I really need a separate bag for lol.
For now though, I am focusing on getting a darkroom set up. Got a nice enlarger, hopefully I get some money for Xmas so I can get the rest.
Really wish I had gotten into analog earlier, as just 2-3 years ago people were basically liquidating this stuff! But alas, I am here now, at least I didn’t need to pay $150 for the 35mm camera and $50 for the lens I have now.
I have watched your videos about the sensitometry test and it's really exciting and very helpful but until now I don't know what does the step wedge do?
can you explain that in a comment please 😃
It provides a calibrated and standardized set of densities when you expose it on your film to allow you to create your graphs. The graphs tell you if you are exposing and developing your film correctly.
Where I can see your photos?
My personal website is www.gregorytdavis.com