How To Find The BEST Film Camera For You
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- There are many options to choose from when searching for a 35mm film camera. 35mm film cameras are a popular choice among photographers due to their compact size and diverse range of features. In this video you will get a breakdown of some of the options in the film camera world. No matter what you are looking for, there is an option for everyone.
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Good job Tilly!
Wow haven't seen that Olympus point and shoot camera in years! It was our family camera growing up.
What I'd like to see more 🤔 well comparisons, photography journeys and projects :)
I grew up in the 70's, so film cameras were all we had when I was growing up. My first camera was a 35mm, Yashica TL Electox. I eventually went digital, like most people did, but my 19 year old son, who has been shooting film for about three years now, got me back into film. Now I grab my 75 year old, Fed 1, Soviet, Leica copy when I go out to shoot film. The great thing about these cameras is that, it won't do anything you don't tell it to. Great way to learn the absolute basics of photography.
My son also learned that when you ask your 55 year old father if his 75 year old camera was new when he bought it, you get a fist in your aperture.
Great video. Just found your channel. I have been doing this for quite awhile and I can recommend as a good starter camera is something like a Voightlander Vito or for Medium format you can get a decent TLR for pretty cheap too. The voightlanders are pretty well built, all manual so you can learn your exposure settings and the fixed lenses are also pretty good quality. Also if you want to get into an SLR system minoltas are still pretty affordable. Minolta and Yashica also make some great starter rangefinder cameras. I used to recommend the Pentax K1000 but the prices have gone up alot. The old soviet variants of the screw mount Leica and the Contax are also pretty well made and reasonably still affordable. I have both a Zorki 4 K and a FED 4 and very happy with both. They also managed to put both the fast and slow speeds on one dial and got rid of the goofy bottom loading nonsense Leica insists on. lol
The F3 is my absolute favorite 35mm. These days, when I'm headed out, I either grab the F3, the Nikon FE, or the Yashica-D if I'm feeling like medium format.
Thank you for the sharing
Loved the video Tilly. What does SLR mean? I know I have a DSLR and the D is digital. But I don’t know what SLR stands for.
SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex, DSLR refers to Digital Single Lens Reflex.
I have so many issues with exposure with a regular DSLR, cant imagine how many shots i would miss with film lol😂
Best way to improve is to get those reps in. 🤘🏼
Good job today. -- BAK --
Although there is no mirror in a Leica M-6, it is not called a mirrorrless camera. It's called a rangefinder camera, because of the little windows you use to set the camera to focus on the correct distance. --BAK--
you should try an F1, the most basic, but also best camera ever made! I owned 4 of them.
Been trying to track down my father's old Pentax 35 mm but I learned today he gave it away. Going to hit some pawn shops and camera shops to look for a used 35 mm. I want to try playing with the settings I learned about in your first video.
Let me know what you find!
@Tilly Shull Is a Nikon FT 2 a reasonable starting place? Found a used one close by.
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"35mm film cameras are a popular choice among photographers due to their compact size and diverse range of features." Take out the word "film" and I will agree wholeheartedly with this. FILM SLR's are very much in the minority these days, and my advice to anyone starting with 35mm and wanting to learn would be much better served by starting with a digital camera. All the same dials, bells and whistles, just no film to pay for, no developing to pay for, no angst in throwing away 90% of your first several hundred pictures. I teach photography to young people, and I tell them they need to shoot hundreds of pictures, evaluate them critically, and get experienced photographers to critique their work. There is so much to learn about composition, lighting, motion, people vs. scenery, black&white vs. color, etc. Learn it WITH instant feedback from a digital download and WITHOUT the terrible (and disheartening) expense of film.
I dont know how much more it really is if you're starting totally from scratch. I mean you could buy and Canon Rebel 2000 for 30 bucks, and a ten pack of kentmere 400 for $55 developing and scanning at Dwaynes is 10 bucks a roll. So for all that call it 200 bucks, which really isn't that much different than what you might pay for a decent digital SLR and lightroom, assuming you have a computer. I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just telling you my personal experience where I bought a Nikon N80 and a brick of fillm (this was 2016 so it was even cheaper then) and was really only able to do that because the camera was 50 bucks and Fuji c200 was $25USD for a brick of 10. I also feel like I learn more when I did get a manual SLR because I realized I was leaving my camera in program with AF too much, which I think is an issue when people buy DSLRs and they're overwhelmed by all the features it can be intimidating.
When it becomes stupid expensive is when you demand to shoot a Lecia M6 with portra 400 or slide film or something all the time. That's my two cents.
@@johnkaplun9619 It's a razors-and-blades situation. Not that I advocate going super cheap on any SLR camera, but just on film you spent 37 cents per picture - good or bad - and had to wait to get the results back. What are the next 360 shots going to cost you? The same. And forever. Add to that the limitations of being locked into a smaller ISO range, and the differences in film color response, and and and...
In my classes we would shoot pretty much non-stop and do instant evaluations. It's all basic stuff - rule of thirds, natural light vs. flash, depth of field, stop-motion. All stuff you really have to learn at the outset to take good pictures. And all of it with immediate feedback and the opportunity to "try it again" to get a better result. You Just Can't Do That With Film.
Incidentally, it's stuff you can still mostly teach with digital box cameras if they have decent lenses and the ability to get into manual modes. But you can get a good Canon Rebel DSLR for under $400 and anyone who wants to learn photography should be thinking in those terms. Not that I'm giving up my 60D anytime soon.
@@gdavidfrye I mean as I made clear, I'm just telling you my experience as a hobby photographer which 99.9% of people picking up a camera are and will ever be. Clearly you're convinced you're completey right, but I do get frustrated by people telling others how they must go about their photography. Quite frankly I know for a fact that many many younger people are interested specifically in film because its something different than they are used to. You might think that's asinine, but if your response to what makes some want to pick up a camera is strictly "thats a stupid way to do it," and I know you have many friends in that camp, then please don't fool yourself into thing youre doing anyone's interest in photography any favors.
Additionally, I feel I need to add that a Nikon N80 is not some cheap crap SLR, it's a very, very good camera with a huge selection of fabulous lenses. Telling someone to get a cheap DSLR, which frankly may not even have interchangeable lenses or as you mention a full manual mode is not going to help them learn a thing, and frankly they will fight it because it's an inferior tool. If some how they do get into it anyway then they'll be blowing MUCH more on the next model up in short order when they realize they need something better. The N80 is realistically all you will ever need as a casual shooter.
@@gdavidfrye also is 360 images supposed to be some pathetic amount of photos or something? Obviously you have to take your time and be more selective with your shots on film (which I would argue makes you focus more and learn faster, but whatever), but if you take 360 photos in a month you're just spraying and praying anyway.
Thanks
A different camera for the kind of shoot, like you said. So there is never one camera or lens or setup for everything.
At the risk of being branded as a heretic, I will recommend a different approach to getting into film photography.
1. Skip the disposables and the cheap crap point-n-shots like the Olympus Stylus or Mju. They are now hyped up to $200+ used, and they take terrible photos on their best day. They have no user controls, so you learn nothing about user control over the photo process. All you learn is how to compose photos. So, get a cheap pocket digital camera from 10+ years ago, for $20 - 50, and learn composition and general picture taking on that. You can take all the photos you want for no extra cost, as contrasted with $30 a roll to buy, process and scan to the same digital images. If you find that still photography is not all you thought it would be, then you can gift or bin the digital camera at practically no loss.
2. If you like your photographic output, and want to move on to film, accepting the significant costs locked to that choice, then move on to a quality but inexpensive camera and lens. Example: a Nikon FG plus small zoom lens of (28-35mm) to (70 - 85mm) There are dozens of such cameras and lenses of this type to choose from. My Nikon example can easily be had for less than $125. These will have both manual and auto exposure controls, with manual focus.
3. When your needs, real or perceived, begin to exceed your first film camera/lens, then buy additional or replacement gear. Note that higher reputation or cost does not always mean more useful. For example, I own both the Nikon FG I mention and the Nikon F3 she shows in the video. The F3 is a technically better camera, far more durable, has lots of accessories to modify its functions, etc., but the little FG is actually more convenient at a practical use level, and it costs about 20% of an F3.
Tip: When you get to a serious film camera which costs more than $200, pay another $100 to have it serviced (a CLA in the business). There are dozens of YT videos where some cluck tried to do a "review" of some newly acquired camera, only to bad-mouth it because it didn't work as expected. That is usually because it hasn't been serviced in 50 years, and something needs to be cleaned or adjusted.