Nikon F4 & F5 with Hans de Graaf (Harman Phoenix & Ilford HP5)

Рет қаралды 2,368

4 ай бұрын

5 friends (photography nerds) get together at Radio Kootwijk to talk about the Nikon F4 & F5. We shot with the Harman Phoenix and Ilford HP5. Despite its' limitations, we all are pleasantly suprised by the results achieved with the Harman Phoenix color film!

Пікірлер: 27

@rickyzagalo 4 ай бұрын

Nice bunch of guys, wonderful cameras, and very good pictures. For sure, it was a lovely day for you guys and a lovely video for us to watch. Thanks

@GonzoTheRosarian Ай бұрын

My favorite, and I still mourn losing it, is the F, purely mechanical, tough as nails and reliable.

@GonzoTheRosarian Ай бұрын

That Hartman Phoenix is an interesting film.

@Narsuitus 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I have owned and used Nikon F, F2, F3, and F4. All are great cameras. I have never owned or used the F5 or F6.

@wilf9356 3 ай бұрын

Nice video, more videos in this format please, perfect! (more Nikon as well)

@marcp.1752 4 ай бұрын

Lovely ! Always wanted to see more samples from the new Harman Phoenix film. Many ppl gossip about the slow AF speed of the F4, but i do think it's really fast enough. Younger ppl always chitchat nowadays about more MP, more AF speed, more video features...etc...when i see this craze, it's really refreshing to shoot Film. Not, that i don't own digital gear - i do have some...DX & also a few FF setups, but i love and appreciate film way more. Film is being different, a haptic medium...it does slow you down, it makes you think way more, into the term about your composition...about the light situation, the angle, etc. and one would think about at least some 8-12x before hitting the shutter. With digital, one would have (just) a boring RAW file onto your memory card...no comparsion.

@fretlessfender 4 ай бұрын

That Harman surprise is by A LOT! Mainly due to the grey weather we were confronted with there were not a lot of stops to be dealt with. Mind ypu Phoenix only has 4 dynamic range! Nice example is my silhouette shot of the Cathedral... that was not supposed to come out like that, bit mynthumb slipped off the AEL button of the F5! So at last split second it took a measure of the sky... and this was the result! It was a happy accident, but an accident nonetheless! The Phoenix renders different than any colorfilm I know but I think it os a surprise party in a box!

@TheFribos 4 ай бұрын

Great video guys!

@ThePwig 3 ай бұрын

F5 is my favorite camera. I take it with me everywhere. It’s huge and heavy but bulletproof and so many lenses work perfect with it. And it takes regular AA batteries.

@Pepijn.media04 3 ай бұрын

Always great to see you both in the shop as well as now online. I know the pain of a nikon f4 dying in your hands a bit too well😢.

@markteague8889 18 күн бұрын

2:00 Technically speaking, there were variants of the F3 that employed an autofocus mechanism ... the F3/AF. So the F4 was a 2nd generation Nikon autofocus product.

@jeronymusv4558 3 ай бұрын

Great watch! Always fun and educational to follow you guys shooting photos. I cannot wait visiting and photographing this radio station myself. I am especially curious what my 200m Nikkor lens will deliver here. Reasonable sharp that one, with a great bokeh.

@ThePhotographyMinimalist 3 ай бұрын

We would really like to see the results!

@jeronymusv4558 3 ай бұрын

@@ThePhotographyMinimalistHans will let you know, of course. ;=)

@jeronymusv4558 11 күн бұрын

Hi Henk, Hans has just developed some films (6x6 120 film, 35mm) and scanned the negatives. He could inform you more. ;=)

@joerg_koeln 4 ай бұрын

The F4 can do 4 fps with the standard battery grip, 5.7 fps with the larger ones 😉

@fretlessfender 4 ай бұрын

This was one hell of a shoot, and I was taken of guard more than once! Almost everytime I picked a focal length, I tirned out to be wrong. And that's not me! Usually I know what to grab of I am in front of a subject but this time... not so much... I still don't know ehat made me reach for the wrong lens, but I think I never changed lenses as much as this day... Still looking for the caps...

@W00dy_NL 4 ай бұрын

We had fun! Even though I was forced to shoot Nikon 😅

@mmomen3544 Ай бұрын

F4 introduced in 1988

@carlitosodell 4 ай бұрын

No F6?!

@ThePhotographyMinimalist 4 ай бұрын

Ahhh... good question. To be honest, I know some of us deem the F6 not to be a true Nikon professional camera in comparison to the other previous single digit Nikons.

@W00dy_NL 4 ай бұрын

You don't need an F6 when you've got an F5 😊

@carlitosodell 4 ай бұрын

@@ThePhotographyMinimalist The F6 not a professional camera? How is that?

@ThePhotographyMinimalist 4 ай бұрын

@@carlitosodell I guess it's a matter of personal preferance as for example the other Nikon F-series single digit cameras have interchangeable viewfinders amongst other interchangeable features.

@fretlessfender 4 ай бұрын

@@ThePhotographyMinimalist The F6 is more or less an inflated Nikon F100... It is a really good camera, but it breaks with the tradition of everything exchangeable... In it self it doesn't matter except for the fact that it has been that way for all those years... Let me put it this way... When the F6 arrived al the professionals already switched to digital... Few people were working on films in these days... So the F6 was more or less a last hurrah to the film based F series... Don't get me wrong, it is a really good camera, but is does not fit in the single digit F series... A good camera nevertheless...