Photos from my first roll of film. Ilford 3200 & Nikon F100
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- I show you my first roll of film that I ever shot! We were in Paris, and it our honeymoon. I got the Nikon F100 film photography body, and shot with Ilford 3200. If you are thinking about shooting in film for the first time, and your just a beginner, hopefully this video you help you launch into film photography. Enjoy!
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Awesome video. Your excitement is contagious too! And that is why we take photos, not for the perfect shot, but for the memories. Film lets us remember both the subject and the feeling we have as a photographer when we took the shot. I have an F100 and a D750 too and am just as excited as you each time I shoot!!! Enjoy and I’ll definitely watch more of your videos!
I love your enthusiasm and excitement. It's how I feel every single time I shoot a roll of film :). Loading, removal, processing, holding the negatives, so on, so exciting and every time I get the rolls back from the lab or pulling it out of the processing tank is like a birthday or Christmas present. I love never knowing what I will get, good, bad, okay, or where I took the shot. I also never worry about about the number of shots, if I like what I see in the viewfinder, I click the shutter and move on. Love film!
Thanks!! Ahh yea it’s the best process. Film is the best!
I shot a lot of film 1999-2006. It just made sense and wasn't too expensive if you developed your own film. You could push your film an extra stop just by leaving it in the chemicals longer. Everyone shot weddings with film .Digital was too expensive back in the day with memory cards and hard drives for backups etc. The D1 was so easy to overexpose whites/highlights. Finally went digital when the D80 launched. Still sometimes use my D80 & D90. I wouldn't switch back as film prices are crazy these days. Kinda funny how when film was $3.99 a roll everyone was complaining they didn't have a digital slr. And now that digital is cheap and film cost $10 everyone wants a film camera lol
I really appreciate your excitement for your film images because I understand just how you feel, they are great! Film just makes you feel warm and nostalgic! Digital just doesn't speak to you like this!
Totally!! Thanks Ben!
Yup, it’s magical.
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Love this video. I'd love a quick video on your settings for the F100 specifically
I had 4 Nikon F100’s and carried them with me all the time with different film in everyone of them. I love that camera.
I really like that idea.
Luke you will love shooting film. I too use a Nikon F100 and F5 and F6. I have been shooting for over 50 years. Just stay with it and keep up the good work. Get yourself a good light meter and use it more than the camera's internal meter.
Thanks Greg! Wow amazing, you must have some serious knowledge after shooting for 50 years - thats amazing!
Ah good advice about the might meter, that's what I've been doing and it has seemed to work really well. Thanks for that!
Great video definitely makes me wanna get this camera 👽📸 thanks just Subscribed to stay tuned i love the passion you have for this it motivated me to learn film photography
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. It definitely is a great camera, and definitely more affordable. So great to hear! Thanks!
Your film photographer friend gave you some good advice. I own many Nikon film cameras that I shoot for time to time and my F100 is as close to a DSLR as any camera gets. I use my trinity of Tamron G2 lenses to get full auto focus and exposure OR fully manual if I like. I also have the Nikon F4S but much prefer the F100. What made you select the Ilford 3200 film stock as your first roll and at what ISO did you shoot it? Did you get the camera repaired or just buy another one because they are reasonably priced?
How would you say the level of grain on the ISO 3200 film compares to ISO 3200 on a digital camera? Did it end up being too grainy at times that you felt perhaps a lesser ISO film might have worked better? Lovely pictures! I’m scouring eBay for an F100 😉
Another great video! I'm a student and I've been trying out film but it's a little expensive to do it all the time. This has me wanting to give it another shot!
Thanks! Yes, that's true, hope you do! Let me know how it goes!
Your website is lovely! Are you now shooting weddings in film? Such timeless work.
Thanks! Yes I shoot weddings with digital and film.
Beautiful photos!
Thank you!!
I just happened to find your channel because it was looking for F100 videos. Love your enthusiasm and passion. It's everything i felt when returning to film 7 or 8 years ago.
I've only put 3 or 4 films through my F100, so was looking to see what others think of it. I'm still not convinced i want to keep it. I love my Canon AE-1, but y'know, too many cameras :)
I started my film journey with a point and shoot camera, then gotten into rangefinders. But the mental process is very much the same. Film is a medium that resonate so well with me. It evoked a part of me that I know has always been there somewhere.
I love that SO much! Yes definitely, it brings another part of your creative brain out! What kind of point and shoot do you have? I’m interested in learning more about them!
@@lukewtcleland My first film camera is a Konica Big mini. Fun little thing to use, but it has its limitations. Then I got a Minolta Hi-matic S, which is a zone focus, auto aperture and shutter camera with a manual advance leaver. The 38mm f2.8 lens on it is SHARP. And the flash works wonders. It has less electronic parts, thus would last longer. If you are interested in getting a point and shoot, I would recommend looking into this direction instead.
@@vicktoriousng7948 great thoughts!
Hi Luke :) Just stumbled across your channel by chance looking through some reviews of one of my old favorite film cameras, the F100. First of all love your enthusiasm about film, and that you got excited after your first roll and want to shoot more :) Also some nice romantic photos in there, ad i can really share in your passion for shooting there photos on film and in Paris of all places with your significant other.
My connection to film and F100 is a long story. But i started on film ( since im an old fart by now! ) in the 80s, had my first few film cameras around the age of 6-7 and always loved taking photos. Mostly old point and shoots around that time until the age of 20 were i started to be more serious about maybe getting an SLR or something to change lenses etc.
Studied film photography in school and brought my first "proper SLR" in the form of a Minolta Dynax 505 Si i believe.
At that school i was really smitten and i saw so many nice cameras being used by other students, my dream was to have a Canon EOS 1 or a Nikon F4 or such. Poor student at the time i got help from my mother buying a used EOS 1, a tank of a camera. Loved it and used it for a couple of years, A friend of mine shot Martial arts competition with his F5 i believe, and i got to try that out.
Was in awe by it and said to myself i wanted one of those one day and really liked the look of the Nikon cameras. They just oozed pro hehe.
After that i worked as an assistant to a photographer here in Stockholm and he used a Nikon F100, was the first time seeing one. At that time it was quite an advanced machine, and being the baby brother to the F5 it was held in high regard and something you used when you wanted to shoot something fast moving but wanted a smaller camera body than the F5 to run and gun :)
Using one with him realizing its potential i saved up to a used one a few years later, and it was my dream camera at the time.
I took that on my travels, and shot many of my favorite shots from that time with it. That continued on after digital came around , changing film photography and photography in general forever.
I was very late "giving " up on film, and had a hard time letting go. The last film camera i had was the F100, i then got into digital on a Canon Eos 30D and later on the D700 which was the first digital camera i felt made it worth shooting digital instead of film.
I let my F100 go then, and then i took many years, right up until a year before the Pandemic hit when i suddenly just knew i had to start shooting film again. Little did i realize many had the same thought! And also that film was on the rise again hehe. So happy to see that :) Do you know which was one of the two film cameras i had to get that first phase starting it again.......yes, the Nikon F100 :)
I got myself that and and Nikon FE2. And it felt like coming home again :) After that i got lost in the tornado of film photography again, trying out many older cameras, shooting medium format, lusting after some cameras i never had the chance to try as a poor student :)
Its been a wonderful journey, and im SO happy im shooting film again.
Im also SO much better than when is started shooting film, and digital have helped me so much in learning to see the light, how to use flashes etc. Things that would have taken so much longer on film.
Like you say though, film IS very forgiving, but the F100 is probably one of the "safer" cameras to get into film with. Even so id say starting to shoot with flashes, and master film especially when shooting portraiture getting the proper light shooting backlit or other tricky lighting situations and no getting faces etc under exposed or the opposite shooting payed work is not always a fun time hehe. And not mentioning shooting older manual cameras with older vintage lenses...but that is what i LOVE about shooting film in comparison to digital, that unpredictability :)
I usually love the photos coming out with some wild results even more because of it, especially if it was not expected.
Funny thing, i actually sold that other F100 a while back, not because i did not want it but needed money to try another camera related thing out, then immediately regretted it.
This week i got myself another one in great condition, and going to hold on to that one along time now. Such a great camera :)
Have you ventured further into film after your F100, another favorite camera or film to shoot with?
Now, enough with the ranting...😅
/regards Martin.
Wow, amazing history you have with film! Thanks for watching and for telling me all about your journey! I would love to get the Nikon FE2 as well! I love that manual advance. Glad you're finally back with an F100 after have a few of them. They are great cameras, I just need the get my back door fixed. I currently have it kept close with tape.
I have! I have a medium format camera Contax 645. I use that for my wedding photography business. And a few other rangefinder point and shoots, like the Nikon 28Ti. But i'm looking forward to trying out more cameras, just need a bit of a budget for it!
Thanks for watching Martin, looking forward to hearing more about your film adventures!
Interesting listen, thanks for sharing. I’m in my first roll of film in 18years on an F100 I just picked up. Doing my best to not shoot anything precious (like a trip to Paris 😂), don’t want the pressure just a baseline experience.
Wow! That’s exciting! Haha that’s probably a good idea 😂😂
Just sold my digital for three film cameras, Minolta a9, Rollei 35te, and Pentax 645n
Wow what a kit!! That’s amazing.
Excellent content my dear friend :) So good and so wonderful :)
thanks!
Gorgeous photos!
Thank you!!
Awesome video Luke, great shots, some lovely mood in there. Back in the 80s and 90s I shot sports in the worst of Northern English winters by kick off time at 2pm I had to shoot Iford 3200, at Half time I had to push the next roll to 6400 I was still only getting 1/125th at 2.8. The grain from those shots was like golf balls. Now I shoot sports at night iso 5000 2.8 very little noise it's almost too easy, these days zI miss those golf balls. I love mixing it up now digital or film depends on what mood I'm in.
Thanks Paul! Wow that’s such a wild experience! Sports on film must be something else! Golf balls 😂😂
It’s true! Low light on digital is crazy!
Negative film is forgiving, depending on the type of film you shoot. Slide film however, isn't as forgiving and you need to be a lot more careful/precise when exposing for a scene. Your photos of Paris turned out lovely :)
Yes! I've heard that, I've never shot on slide film before, but that is an excellent point. Thanks so much!
Congratulations, you married a very patient and supportive woman. 😂😂😂
The best parts of film photography, in the 2020s, is getting away from the mindset of instant gratification while emphasizing intentional actions.
The Nikon F100 works with F-mount lenses through the G-type. It cannot use E-type lenses like the 105mm f/1.4E, 28mm f/1.8E, or any of the FL/PF lenses.
haha I did. She's the ebst.
First, test a camera BEFORE going on a critical shoot. Have a second body loaded say with color film as a back up. 3200 at 1.8 in full sun could require faster than the 1/8000 shutter speed. Film is forgiving? Kyle Macdougall on YT tested HP5 with proper exposure then one stop down to 2 under then shots to 6 stops over. Take a photo on digital 5 stops over and you get a white rectangle. With film... a perfect exposure. The F100 can shoot auto exposure with dead on matrix metering... just do it... auto focus using back button focusing., power advance and 1/8000 shutter speed. I handed mine to a friend, a nikon guy, and asked him to take my photo. He told the shot like he had used it forever because it is his d850 with film instead of a sensor. I asked him how he liked shooting film and he said he hadn't in years. i told him he just did. He was shocked. You can shoot it fully manual but will have power film advance. But for run and gun, it's fantastic. Just back from a shoot with it and an f5. F5 hp5 at 1600, f100 portra 400.
The photos are outstanding. Just beautiful. Keep in mind that the whole world shot film, and only film, for many decades if not a century or more (it was all we had). To me, it’s just another medium for photography. Again, wonderful photos. (Did you fix or replace the F100?)
Thanks so much! That's a good point!
No, I haven't fixed it yet. But it's on the list to get fixed! Just had to do some other things first. Thanks for watching!
Hi Luke! I am a digital wedding photographer and recently I got into film and -like you- I love it. I just have a small mamiya sekor 500ttl and I photograph my family just for creativity, fun, and to document our memories. But I have a dumb question and maybe I should know this since I've used digital photography for so long 😂. But with film- if you buy a 400 ISO, do you need to manually change your ISO on your camera or will it just shoot at 400 ISO because that's what it's made for? I've been changing it for the light (just like I've always done with digital) but this video (and others) made me wonder if I am doing it wrong. 😂
Hey Hannah!
That's awesome! No dumb questions here - to make you feel better the same thing crossed my mind when I first started shooting film. So on a film camera, when you set the ISO, it will be telling the internal meter what the ISO is. I wouldn't recommend changing it mid roll. But I suppose you could set it to say 320 if you want to overexpose your roll, and not shoot at box speed ( box speed is the ISO that the film is listed at, say 400). I don't set the ISO on my camera because I always use a hand held light meter, so I only set my aperture and shutter speed, and I input my ISO that I want to meter for into my meter. Hope that helps!
@@lukewtcleland Yes it does! Thanks so much.
Lovely images! What lens did you use ?
Thank you! 50mm 1.8. The cheap little Nikon nifty 50.
I might have missed it, but what lens did you use on this trip?
50mm 1.8
Hey dude. I love how you tell not only about the photography self rather the art behind everything from loading to waiting for the perfect shot and not only shot 5 images and choose the best one.
One question about the images... Did you add contrast afterwards? I shoot Ilford 3200 a few times and it never was so "contrasty".
Thanks man!! So great to hear - thanks for that feedback!
OKAY! Great question. So no, I didn't edit them at all. So I had no idea what I was doing on this first roll. So I'm not exactly sure what I did. But I'm pretty sure I remember metering at 3200 ISO, which would explain that higher contrast (I'm guessing my lab pushed the film but I don't really remember anything about that). I just did another video where I metered at 8000 ISO and it has that same contrasty feeling. But yeah, I love that rich contrasty look. Hope that helps!
Did you shoot it at 1000 ASA or did you take it out 3200??
I’m not exactly sure. Haha it was my first one and I had no idea what I was doing. I think I shot it at box speed so 3200, because I didn’t realize I could shoot it at 1000
What lab did you use to develop and scan?
For this one I used a local lab to Toronto, called Downtown Camera. But I usually use Canadian Film Lab (based in B.C.)
Great shots in Paris. So nice. Can I ask you shot 3200 at golden hour. What did you set the ISO to? I usually use hp5 400 but I liked the ways these looked 😊
Thanks very much! Ha good question. So I THINK I set it to 3200. But to be honest, I'm not entirely sure, it was my first time using that camera ( it was 2018), so I really was just guessing a lot of things back then. I'm thinking about doing another video on Delta 3200, because I've been learning a lot about it recently that is really interesting, and I'd love to share them!
@@lukewtcleland well first times a charm. Those photos were super
@@sols9449 thanks so much!
F100 or Eos 3? 😢
F100!
@@lukewtcleland thanks a lot
Hahahaha yeah you’ve gotta be really careful with the back door on the camera, the hinges are stupidly made of plastic. Wonderful camera aside from that
Ah, so I learned the hard way. ha. You're right, great camera though.
@@lukewtcleland just one more thing to be wary of, the rubber coating on the camera’s leather degrades over time until it becomes this weird sticky texture to the touch. If / when that happens, all you’ll need is some cloth and rubbing alcohol to take it off :D
@@Lay_rue442 oh thanks for letting me know! Actually mine has started to do that a little, so I'll have to try that out. Thanks!
you went for a film shoot and didn't know how to use a light meter and you actually brag about it? Then again you said you were a digital photographer and had no idea how to shoot film? There are many similarities in setting digital and analogue cameras in that it sounds like you are just making it up. nah man, don't do it you diminish yourself smiling at the same time. I understand you are trying to be bubbly and funny in the video but keep it real my man. Other than that the photos turned out great which tells me that you know how to use camera pretty well.
Cool 😎
It’s 2022 Congratulations I guess
thanks!
Wait you have videos from 2 years ago using film!!!
Yep! This video is about my first roll in 2018