Ted, I love your show and look forward to the inspiration I get from your programs. I'm 73 and I've been taking and developing my my own film since learning how to do it in my early 20's. I've been shooting digitally for the last seven years and turning back to film and I find your shows great memory refreshers, remember I'm 73. I have all of the books you referred to and it brings a smile to my face. I have to dig them out of storage. I'm a retired engineer from Eastman Kodak, I worked for them for 23 years. Having said that I want to emphasise I learn a great deal from your shows. Keep doing what you are doing.

Watching this 13 years later but very thankful I came across this video.

9 years later, I get into film photography and find this video very useful! Thank you Ted for making timeless videos.

Film cameras are cheap, and film photography requires more attention to the composition, because each shot costs money. I personally carry my cheap film camera around and observe a lot, but I do not shoot hundreds of photos (I do the same with my very old DSLR). I print may be around 2 to 5 photos per year (few roles). But the process of looking carefully for a landscape (+light, contrasts etc) is immensely fun to me. My father was a pro, and I used to help him with photography and printing (black & white, but I can also print colour at a rental darkroom, which I have not done for awhile). I am obviously not a pro. I photography purely for the joy of it. Photography is not new to me in any way. lets enjoy this beautiful art.

Ted, thanks so much!! I recently re-acquired a Canon FT-b together with my Ricoh and Konica 35mm cameras and my Pentax 645. Your film perspective & information is invaluable. I will proceed to binge-watch your other videos. Thanks so much!

Thank you dear Master :-)!!! I LOVE your lessons, Ted! Just started shooting (66 years) with my dad's old F3 and since September I watch your video every day! some 3 times, just because it is so much and I do want to learn from you. You have a very nice and easy to follow way of explaining and I do not mind if I do not follow you immediately. Just watch it over and over... I do take classes too, but I like to follow your tutorials. I have shot 6 rolls, 3 Kodak Tri-x and 3 400Tmax, like you advised. And I am learning to develop the films myself. So MUCH FUN! PLEASE keep telling us about filming, I will follow you :-) anywhere ;-]

Top stuff Ted. Thank you, from an old hand. It's good to hear new voices offering fresh overviews. I've studied with the help of A.Adams' Books 1, 2 and 3 since the 70s, and will look for the other books you mention.

I am about to start shooting film camera and staring black and white. This video helps me to understand more about b&w. Thank you!

Thanks TED ! Your videos are always first class and yes I love my Acros 100 too.... Semi-Stand developed always. love it.

Ted, enjoyed this discussion about B&W film and some reading ideas. Partly due to your videos on various medium format cameras, my interest in film photography as a hobby has been rekindled and I’ve already acquired a number of vintage cameras to start a collection and experience shooting film again. Keep sharing such great content! Would love to see a piece on your personal film camera collection and how you came to acquiring all of them.

Sir, my native language is not English, and yet you were able to pour so much information in my head for those 13 minutes, that my skull is about to explode. And I mean it in the very best way :-) Thank you for your time and effort to put such an informative video :-) Regards Vesko

This broadcast is most useful ! Thank you Ted!

Great F3 video. I have F, FM FM2 and F3,all work great. Thanks for your Art of Photography,very inspiring.Don Vickery

Hello Ted, I've watched this video previously, and it's only now that I've come to understand metering for light. As a recap, for me, I've been back into photography digitally for about 1.5 years, getting past programme modes into manual has exposed (yes, that's a pun) me to consider more than composition, it's made me work at understanding light or even just consider what light is doing and what I want the light to do for my shot. So long story short, I'm now looking at light meters, I will purchase a sekonic budget version and take it from there. Cheers, Linda.

thank you very much for this extraordinary video! I've been shooting with the sony a6000 and A7rii but,recently, I'm returning to the spotmatic and pentax 645...your videos are a great inspiration.

Great information on film type thank you very much. Thanks for covering few things that still couldn't understand about the Meter reader.

Arista EDU is re-branded Fomapan. The 100 speed is my favorite film for medium format.

You don’t need a hand held light meter, I’ve gone my whole career without one. Negative film has so much latitude and room for error, everything can be fixed. The ones you can get for your phone work just fine. The most accurate I’ve found is “Photo Light and Exposure Meter” by Pavel Bukhonov

I've gone back to BW using Ilford 400 and my Bronica S 6X6 my father bought new in Tokyo in 1963. So much great glass available on Ebay. Still have a Sekonic incident light meter: no batteries just a selenium cell. That and a Leica IIIf gets interesting comments from folks who have never seen a film camera except in books.

i loved using my ilford 100 iso and 400 iso on my olympus during college when i used to shoot street and landscapes !

Love the video, I would recomend Foma and there Fomapan B&W film, good qualety and non expensive.

Yeah my rollieflex 3.5A and it works great with the Ilford film

Superb presentation, AS USUAL!

Would love to hear an updated view about app based light meters eight years later. For a while now I've been exclusively using an Android light meter app, (via Google Pixel 2XL) + the built in meter on my camera; the measurements the app gives me are close enough to my "real" meter that I don't even bother with the meter anymore, it just sits in my bag forgotten.

Thanks for all the quality videos in your channel !! =)

All great films here Ted. Any chance of more film photography videos seeing as film photography has come back in a big way the last 3-4 years?

Great information! You have a wealth of knowledge about film and I watch a lot of your videos. There is one thing that bugs me though, when you reference topics you have in other videos, I have no easy way to find it. With such a vast body of information, it is a little hard to dig into it and find the things I'm looking for. Could you include links to the videos you refer to in your show notes or an on-screen link box? Thanks for the videos!

great piece

What a young man. I'm just teasing. Wonderful, as you've always been.

I just discovered your feed. I'm shooting B&W film exclusively for 2012. You mentioned a John P Schaefer book. I glanced down and I have his Zone System for Fine B&W Photography by HPBooks.

Very informative, Thanks

I've read about buying a light meter before, but I guess my problem with choosing to buy one is that I enjoy street photography. I can't ever see myself whipping out a light meter in the heat of the moment to take a reading and possibly missing a good shot.

I really love your series. But I kinda wish you would slow down. You seen a bit exasperated in these.

Just bought a light meter after everyone saying I needed on for film and flash photography... It meters to exactly the same F-number that my phone app does, and for flash I just use my cheap mirrorless camera to get the exposure right, takes 30 seconds. I will be returning the £300 light meter.

Hi Ted, can you please revisit this as well? As in not just the tools. More in terms of approach, thought process, etc. Thank you. :)

I believe Kodak Plus-X was discontinued. FP-4 is Ilford's 125 speed b$w. The Freestyle Arista brand is very good...

Hi! very nice episodes you have here .. love your style of explaining.. i just wanted to ask you if you know some other films that have a similar style (grain and contrast) as Delta 400 PRO does.. i like the delta 400 very much but i primarily use Delta 100 or T-MAX 100 at 50 ISO because of my style of shooting (big aperture and / or long exposures) and on medium format i am often limited at 1/400 s. because of my camera and can't use such high speed film often in my projects.

I just love your videos! I am doing astrophotography and kind of educational outreach photography for my university as my Masters' Project using couple of 1960s Edixa cameras. First time with films! Your shows are helping a lot with black n white photography which I love the most.. hope to be in touch with you!

amazing thank you

The Sekonic incident & 1-degree spot, continuous and flash meter cost $600 in 2018. But it's worth it. * Ansel Adams's 3 books on the zone system can be adapted to digital shooting even though they were written for film shooting. * Is Plus X still being made? I transferred from Plus X to T Max 100, and once I got used to it I liked T Max better. I only shoot digital now, mostly because I don't have the room for a dark room.

Very useful... ty

thank you

great!

I think my light meter was built in the 1950s, it does do incident light but I'd need to upgrade to meter strobes.

Hey thank you so much for your videos. I just discovered them. I had a few questions about colored filters for black and white film photography. Can you please do a video or a response on Filter Factors? And also if my camera is a newer film camera (Canon Elan ii) And does its light metering TTL will it automatically meter for the Filter Factor or do I need to use exposure compensation or possibly +3 stops (if using a red filter). Ahhhh so many questions and it's hard to find answers! Thank you

Ted you are awesome -- you are my go-tp

Your videos are awesome, professionally made and very educational. A couple questions though, when you use the white dome on the meter aren't you measuring incident light? You said reflected, when you look through the eyepiece that measures reflected light, doesn't it?

@photographyisfun absolutely agree

thanks for sharing this info... will try to apply some of your tips... thanks again !

which actual cameras do you reccomend to buy for beginners ?

Should you still use a white balance card with black and white ? On a full frame digital camera

Have you had any experience with Kentmere film? I know its owned by Ilford, but its meant to be different emulsion.

hi I just got this yashica 10 I believe the camera is vintage one of it is I'm still learning on how to use it but I'm still wondering how can I take black and grey pictures with it without getting the other equipment and all

I must be missing something... Which light meter is that?

Thanks for your kNowledge!

if u have any ideas for me on how to use the camera for someone who is a beginner like myself please let me know

Again!!! Just brilliant information!! Thanks :-)

I really enjoy your show. Being a newbie and hearing you talking about light meters and the importance of these while hearing Danial Milnor saying that we do not need them, I am puzzled.

Should you use that to shootva subject in city street ?

How can i find the follow up videos to this series?

God ! The moment of truth has arrived... Enlarger and all other equipment standing by...Black and white film... Paper.. lots of wonderful 35mm cameras... filters, polarisers, vintage lenses and adapters.. thanks to all who sell them on E Bay.. and I don't know which camera to use first !

I would like to experiment with Kodak Technical Pan, but it's gone :(

Hi sir, all the information you present in your videos are just pure gold! I love the way you ramble on and on and go from one topic to another - there is so much that I can learn. Have you written a book? I'm interested if you have one.

11 years old and interested if you still use the same light-Meter ?

this guy deserves a medal for these videos! so informative!

I have that book.

Good morning, Sir. I take my photos in black and white. When I put them in Bridge for culling they are colored. How can I turn the whole batch to black and white previous to culling?

FP4 is the iso125 PanF is the iso50

Is there a list of the books he mentioned?

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You need to have basic skills to benefit from a lightmeter, but then you can benefit alot from it

That John Blakemore book is so expensive! What the.

are you in a hurry ? too much coffee may be ?

Hey film !

one of the most important darkroom tools = canned air. A single speck of dust ruins a whole print. I hate it

the hardcover is really expensive, but the softcover version is pretty cheap

Hmmm, this makes me wonder… where the hell did I put my light meter?

Thanks for the job you do with yours videos, but please speak slowly and if you can structure better your speech

It is late, I am tired, you talk fast.… but for some reason I can follow you, I am equally excited, Let's got shoot some film!

? why is it that we talk so much in contrast is it possible that the photo that is taken from the area that the contrast is right from the stand & we the photographer has placed his image , are we all some what artist in our own mind, I trust each image that is taken may result in some different prospective to us all.

Breathe

I really love your series, but why do you talk so fast. Relax and take your time :-)

You think he isn't?

I wish I could listen as fast as you can talk. 🤔

Ted please slow down!

90% of my spot meter measurements are done with my legs.

press 5 then 7. lmao

could you slow down your commentary around the important technical aspects..please

more talk.little screen...

Hey Ted, I'm not convinced. You don't come across as someone who really knows what they are talking about. Your videos seem as if you learnt some information, "parrot fashion", then spewed it out, trying to convince us that you know your photography. This is just my opinion, and I feel that I will give real feedback, rather than just "kiss ass" comments. You always have the best equipment, is this because you are "loaded"? Well with a name like "Forbes", I suppose that last question was a silly question.