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Film tutorials. Yes please. Love this.

My father gave me a Nikon FM for Christmas nearly thirty years ago and I learned enough to test models for a local Agency. It quickly turned into a business and my first MF kits were the Mamiya 645Pro which I sold and bought a Pentax67II then a RZProII. Digital became the rage and I went to a Canon 1D, 1DII, 1Ds...and currently a couple 5DIV's. I miss the days when you owned a kit for years and simply made it work which explains why I still own my Profoto Acute2 kit.

I'd definitely love to see more of your personal work through this format. I just hope that making the commitment to start sharing it on youtube doesn't add to the stress and effort of doing something that's otherwise supposed to be enjoyable and fun.

One of my favorite cameras (ETRS) My first camera was a Petri Racer 35mm a birthday gift from my mom in 1975

I’m always up for film content!

The camera I apprenticed on in the late 1960s was a Sinar Norma (5x4" view camera), but when I started my own studio in 1971, I couldn’t afford Sinar, so bought an Arca Swiss Basic - not only because it was half the cost but also because it was half the weight, and I wanted a view camera I could take on location (and boy, did I). For medium format, money was also an issue, so I bought a Kowa Six outfit with 50-80-150 lenses. Until one day on assignment (in bleak northern Finland) the lens got stuck on the body and I had to do the rest of the job with one lens. Luckily the 50, so I got away with it, but returning home I had no trouble convincing myself (and my bank manager) that I could no longer afford NOT to have a Hasselblad. Those two cameras - the Arca and the Hassie - saw me through a 10 year career and somewhere in the region of 150,000 pictures. I know, some people do that in a month today, but this was before spray and pray, and the cost of pressing the shutter was several pounds in film, processing etc. in today’s money. Doing a whole career with two cameras (and a total of 9 lenses - 4 for the Arca and 5 for the Hassie) does make me giggle when I hear how many backups people need to be sure today's electronic wonders will see them through a job. After replacing the Kowa I never had another failure - not of cameras, at least ;-)

My first camera was a Polaroid Swinger that I won in a painting competition when I was 11. That’s what got me hooked on photography for the rest of my life. My parents later bought me an Instamatic. The first SLR I bought for myself was a Praktica L then a Topcon before settling on Olympus OM1, which I still use today. I only got a 120 camera a few years back, when I had some spare cash and wanted a big change from digital. It was just before they became fashionable and prices shot up. I got a Mamiya 645 Super and a Bronica SQ-B 6x6 plus lenses, backs, winders etc. For three bodies, five backs and five lenses it cost me around £700. It’s more gear than I need, but it’ll see me to my grave.

Hi Scott, would love you to go back and do more content on this camera. Hope you’ve been shooting lots on it since!

It definitely would be very interesting to see more film and more personal projects

My first Camera was the Canon A1 with the 50mm 1,8. Soon i bought the 70-210 mm 4,0 und than the 28 -55 mm 3,5 -4,5. This Set is today my best film camera set (with some more primes ;) ). Never loved a camera more than this.

First camera a practica 35 mma.. and worked with a pentax in my assisting days..great memories developing and printing black and white film.. dont miss the smell of fixer on your hands though..well before health and safety..happy days

A Zenit B! I was fifteen and had just gained access to the partitioned-off corner of a friend's garage which became our darkroom. That camera was SO manual you had to focus with the lens wide open and manually stop it down when you were ready to shoot.

It would be great to see you analogue workflow and thoughts! :) Have a good week!

Absolutely make this part of your channel

I'd love to hear about your process metering and setting up strobes for film! I shoot primarily film (all for fun) and have been learning how to use strobes recently.

Nice! My first 120 camera is a Bronica SQ-A, with a 645 back, and the 105mm f3.5 lens. My first camera is/was a canon t6i, because the guy at the camera store a decade ago recommended it.

With you all the way Scott. First camera was a Zenit E with a 50mm Helios f2 lens when I was 15. Bought a bulk film loader & bulk spools of Kodak Tri-x & spent a whole summer around Leicester City Centre shooting anything from ‘Rum Weather’ the vagrant who used to live in Lewis’s shop doorway to Market Traders setting up at 6.00am. Absolutely loved film & still do. Have a very old Bronica ETR & 75mm with 3 backs & enjoy every minute of using it. Process & print mono medium format in my home darkroom & process & scan colour negs. Get so much more enjoyment out of shooting film than I ever do using my ridiculously expensive digital cameras. Must come down to Leicester Lo Fi one Wednesday. Met you a couple of times when I used to work for Apple in the Highcross & always love your KZfaq videos.

Nikon FM (fully manual because that’s what I heard was the only way) 1982, had no idea what I was doing. It’s been a very strange trip. I’ve made a total of 50.00 dollars from photography. Professionally I’ve always been graphic which is why the pictures have always been my aim.

Pentax K1000, bought new in 1978…still got it…still works….

First "real" camera was my Mamiya RB67 with 3 lenses and two backs. Then my Nikon F3 with 5 lenses. I've also shot on an Arca-Swiss Basic 4x5. All of this for about 20 years before moving into digital. I still have the Nikon and a Mamiya 220 TLR and a German folder 6x4.5 . Shooting film is an entirely different life as a photographer.

This is not a poor mans Hasselblad ! Like most things the Japanese take and develop it is a better camera functionally than the Hassy system ( no worries about lens removal uncocked , cocked , film back to body sync leading to wasted shots etc ) . Just doesn't have the name and maybe, maybe the lenses are not up to the Zeiss ?? I have both and I cannot understand why people turn up their noses at the ETRSi . Thanks for the video , good to see others who appreciate the Zenza . Cheers

My first camera(s) are GoPro(s) Hero7 and hero8

1st camera I made money with was a Canon T90 shooting events that camera paid for itself so many times over I lost count. In a similar note to your video though shooting sports for personal fun I've gone back to shooting a Canon FD 300 mm f2.8 all manual on the front of my Panasonic GH5 best piece of glass I own and I enjoy the manual focus aspect of getting the shot.

Brings back fond memories of my Bronica SQai. Lovely cameras. First proper camera was a Mamiya ZEX 35mm SLR. First proper money making camera, Mamiya C220, followed by the Bronica. Favourite film, Fuji Velvia. First digital camera, 5D Mk1

Noice! Thanks for sharing! A couple of years into shooting professionally, I found film photography and as photography became a full time job, I've found it to be what keeps my photography passion/career in sync and balance. Digital is work, analog is for me. There's a wonderful analog world out there, says me who came up with digital. Please keep on sharing your journey, I'll appreciate it. Oh, and definitely inn for that lighting scale. Never done strobes with film - yet! Cheers

Bring it!

I started with a Pentax ME with a 50mm f/1.7 lens. I still have and use it. I’ve only used medium format on a few occasions and have been very tempted to pick up one lately. Thank you for sharing this.

Yes, I would love some info on doing flash with this camera. I have been given an ETRS and a Vivitar flash. Now I need to figure out how to use it. Thanks!

Since you asked….my first “real” camera was, and still is, a Nikon EL2. I still own and and shoot it often. Although I own numerous SLR, rangefinder, and mirrorless cameras, the EL2 is the one I will always hang on to. It’s a tank! It just feels right in my hands and never fails me……

By all means, show what you're shooting for fun! i can't remember my first camera, but I do remember it had a built-in flash reflector for flashbulbs, and I used a variety of point-and-shoot hand-me-downs for years. My first 'serious' camera was a Canon FTb which I bought when I was in high school (around 15 years old), and it made me money through high school and college. I still have that one, though I've long since sold my other film gear.

yes please i have an etrs and i love it but would love to learn more.. I'm about to try a tele converter for the first time

Thank you for this. Please do followup videos about your personal work and how you develop and scan the negatives.

Thanks for reminding me I have a Bronica Stri round here somewhere, must dig it out. 1st camera I bought was a Sony G10 (slightly above a point & shoot) & the 1st one I made money with was the FujiFilm X-Pro 2.

My 1st camera was Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-P73, a birthday gift, and it still makes money :) Also, have a FED 5 new with an electric power flash from my father trip to Rusia a long time ago but I can't find the right place to develop the film here :(

Thanks for sharing this!!! Pentax H1a for my first money making camera. Love to see your for fun work.

Hey. Thanks for sharing. Loved it and would love to see and hear more of these. To be honest I cant remember my first camera. I got it when i was about 12 years old (which was a thousand years ago). It was one of those rectangular film cameras with a built-in flash. My current and only camera is a Sony a6000.

I have the same camera and lens, but your lens appears to have an extension tube or teleconverter as well. Is this for close up and macro work? First Camera: Minolta Alpha 303si Super 35mm film (135 cartridge) camera. (Maxxum in some regions) Why? I was in the shop with the Nikon F75 and a credit card receipt in my hand ... then I happened to look down the viewfinder of the Minolta and it was so much brighter and clearer than the Nikon ... I had the shop keeper tear up the paperwork and I bought the Minolta on the spot. Loved the Minolta as a camera, but Minolta was slow to go digital ... so I grabbed the Nikon D70 a little while before Minolta sold their digital camera business to Sony (that's where teh Sony Alpha name came from) Kept with Nikon for Digital, but was lucky enough to pick up an ERTS with a 150mm lens at Police Unclaimed Stolen Property auction for AUD 100, then picked up a an EII 75mm lens for another AUD 50 (total is about GBP 75) - literally a steal! Now shooting with a Nikon D850, but your video makes me want to dig out my ETRS for exactly what you say - it slows you down and makes you stop and think about each shot. It's enjoying shooting a different pace.

Love ya scottie

My first was a Canon t7i

Can't believe you shot mcfly!?