Beautiful and honest and true. Thank you and I’m proud of this creation. Happy to have stumbled upon it while I ironically wait for my laptop to restart after dying on me last night. Nature truly is our savior- and since we are Nature, the solution is to come home to ourselves every time. 🤎

Thank you for teaching the zoning method to metering. Green grass also reflects about the same light as middle grey.

Love your work brother!

Love it!

Excellent explanation

I have had my Mamiya 7ii for a few years now. I have the 150mm, 80mm and the 50mm. I would not trade it for anything in the world. It is too good. I also have an Leica M7 with a 50mm Lux. That is my daily camera. But if I know I am going to be doing something epic... I am carrying the Mamiya instead.

I think it clicked for me in the last image. So are you taking the darkest part of the image and the lightest part of the image then shooting at what ever stop would be in the middle of the two readings?

Been shooting with a rebel g body. Buying an EOS 3 tomorrow!

I’m glad I came across this video but now I’m also scared out of my mind 😂 Bought a oldie(Kodak Retina reflex iii) at a flea market a couple weeks ago and I thought it was a simple place the film in and take it out once you take enough photos. I really want to see the photos I’ve taken on it but now I’m scared because I underestimated the learning curve and preparations. I probably messed up big time. Probably.

"To photograph is to capture varying degrees of light." That's fireeeeeee, put it on a t-shirt haha 🔥🔥

@Codacolor what's the song you used in the outro? Searched everywhere for it but all I found was "33rd" by Ruslan which didn't have that beat switch even in the instrumental version.

This is really useful. Thanks

Why does every photography review have this Muzak that sounds like electronica they play in the elevator of the W Hotel? They ALL have it. Can’t somebody break away from this groupthink?

Thank you, so clear!

Great vídeo and reflections

Relating very hard with every word in the video. I am at a weird time in my life with little to no work, and I need to accept the stillness rather than chasing busyness.

Make a new video, Cody. We're still waiting!

Cody: "Did not look cool." Me: How do I get this amazing look? 😂

to shoot film was a first mistake?

Well explained. Tx

If you're a photo journalist then by all means, don't edit your photos because they're supposed to show the scene exactly as it is. Otherwise it's up to the individual artist to edit their images the way they like them. Exactly as you said, there probably isn't a photo publicly displayed somewhere that hasn't had some type of editing done to it. Even the purists that have to get everything right in camera and don't do any post processing editing display a processed image if they shot it in jpeg. Whether they want to admit it or not, their camera edited the photo to add sharpening, contrast, noise reduction, etc. So even their "right out of the camera" shot has been edited. Anymore I've gotten to the point where I don't care if someone says my image was edited. In fact I tell them yes it was because that's the way I saw the image and how I wanted it to look. I'm not a photo journalist, I'm a digital artist that happens to use a camera as a tool.

So good colors

Of course it's Nikon, what else should you buy??

Less than 6 minutes in and I already learned super value information. You explained that very well - thank you!

I've been doing photography since the '80s and this is one of the best explanations of how to choose your settings based on what the light is doing in your intended image that I have ever seen.

I can’t believe this is (one) of your first videos. Look so professional from the beginning! Love the channel.

I’m picking up a black a gray and a lens on Friday for 150 bucks

It's because people don't are too lazy to take up real photography and buy a 35 mm camera , I live in Canada and I bought a Nikon F4 in excellent working condition for $217.00 .. when I came out in 88 , the Nikon F 4 , was going for $4500 lol

Use ai to upscale those lo res images. Thanks for the pointers!

Hey! Even though this video is a bit old, I still had this question. What film did you use in your Nikon Camera?

I had the same feelings about Fuji

Great video! Love Ansel Adams. My favorite color film is slide film though, so a video dedicated to this would be fantastic.

This is simply a wonderful explanation of the joys of metering. You have real skills sir!

After having owned an RZ67 Pro II and a bunch of lenses (50mm ULD, 110mm, 127mm, 140mm macro (plus tubes), 180mm), 3 backs, AE prism, and so on, my back is going to thank me this Saturday when I go to pick up champagne/gold Mamiya 7II from interstate. :) Can I ask what those little tags are you have hanging off the strap lugs? Cheers!

The mu takes a lot better pictures than the disposable, but it doesn't seem to have the magic that disposable has. I don't know what it is, but i think it isn't really the resolution, seems to be more of the lense flare, the colors, and the contrast. Maybe a different film with higher iso would fix that though. Also, on some shots the mu had even more of that magic than the disposable. I don't get it.

I bought a Nikon FE in 1979, later I bought a Nikon MD12 motor drive for it, I still have both they work and look like new.

Ah yes, I know the feeling, and I'm not even a good photographer...but the comment about gear kills me. It's like saying "Wow, your mom has a nice stove, she must be a great cook!!! "

Great video, question, if you take a reflective meter of the blackest point and the brightest point, couldn't you just average the reading?

Bro did we used too kick it ?? U are listing all of my favorite spots ! I didn’t know people knew about deer creek !

Do you have something that helps keep track of the readings in certain zones?

Hey I have one of these! Or rather, my wife Sarah has one. She just uploaded a video to my channel showing it off. Please ignore her when she says stuff about me kidnapping her and locking her in my film cooler. All lies!

Awesome video. Super helpful explanation and demo. 👍🏻

The biggest mistake i made when i started was to try to shoot film as if it were digital. You have to unlearn everything you learned in 4k, autofocus, auto-adjust, phone, etc photography, and that's great because you're entering a world where nothing is a true mistake, it all has a meaning; you simply might need to figure out what it was.

man I love your videos so helpful and also very artistic and enjoyable to watch 🙏🏼❤

Watching these videos is like experiencing a truly unique movie.

Such a good video!

I wish more places developed 110 film. I love 110 as an easy alternative to disposable cameras since i don't need to worry about screwing up winding film. But alas, my favorite mail in service is 35 only

Just loaded my first roll of film ever. Been shooting digital for 2 years now, I’ve literally never been more terrified because I have no idea if these are going to come back useable 😭

Can you fix the white balance of your room pics if you scan the negatives yourself?