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It was a very solid camera. I shot hundreds of rolls of film. Always dependable.

Canon A-1 is my favorite film camera. Still have mine!

I learned to carry an extra LR44 battery years ago with a Canon AE-1 P. Now, I keep a spare for the AE-1 and my A1.

My wife is from Wuxi China and my first time visiting her hometown, we visited her old home which was also being torn down for a high rise. We were young and I never noticed that the photos I took at the time were very different from what I take now. I missed a lot of moments, such as her visiting her old home, but I am grateful I can go back, look at my photos from that trip and mentally recall these scenes. I can remember the way she felt that day, the food we ate, and our lives at the time. Great video, and great work!

Sounds like you like color. No need to shoot B&W. I like both but feel it is easier to develop and scan B&W than color.

I like trying out different cameras but prices being what they are I'm in the camp of match good optics with your film. I love my Holgas but film is too expensive to experiment. If you like the TLR experience then it is worth lookingat the Rolliflex.

Hi lovely lady, the FM 2 you got look so new, is it a new one ?

I’m glad there is someone else out there who forgot how shallow the hasselblad’s DOF can be when it’s stopped down and indoors

Beautiful story telling in this video Sam, thanks for sharing a bit about your background as well.

@02:00 you say the Profoto flash needs to be brand specific for the trigger. This is ONLY true for the TTL remote but that is because the pin connectors are different for sony, nikon, canon etc (hardly protofoto fault). If you buy the plain Profoto Air Remote it is universal (works with all brands) and has PC sync cord. No one uses TTL at this level anyway... I use the profoto remote for Mamiya, hasselblad, leica etc and it is wireless because the remote attaches to the camera and the hot/cold shoe which triggers strobe. RZ67 & hasselblad have pc sync port and you plug a small cord into the Air Remote (has a pc sync port). You need the right attachments for Leica film cameras and Mr Leica on his youtube channel explains it, but any Impact cold shoe adapter with pc cable works (b&h). Sam, you bought the right profoto strobe but wrong remote trigger.

Look at yourself in your bw video! The contrast between your dark hair and pale smooth skin attracts my view and also the eyes and the lips gain attention. I think in color it would look more “average”. ❤🎉 Great video. 👏

Love 😎

This is an awesome review and education. Thank you 🙏

I'm INFP, too, and dread photowalks, but your walk looked fun. Thanks for sharing.

My Minolta x700 was a $20 flea market find! It was in new condition and only needed a battery change! I recently got the scans back from my first roll of film. The pictures it produced were amazing! I used a Minolta 50mm 1.4 lens. My first roll of film was Kodak pro image 100.

Hi from Ireland , you are really comparing apples to oranges - holiday photos and you went with a plan to the book fair was it . Anyway the camera can make a difference too even to people posing they see a big old medium format or a canon 1v they feel important , and take you seriously . You slow down with the larger format and it costs more so maybe more considered . I think going with a plan even if it its to have no plan is important , the latter is prescribed when you are taking your work too seriously . Holiday snaps are just memories just because you are a photographer you are expecting magic too .

I understand you. I upgraded my 35mm cameras by getting APO lenses for them. Zeiss Otus 55 and 100. Then I also got apo lenses for my Leica. After that, I gave up medium format cuz those lenses are just so great. I sold all my medium format cameras 3 years ago. I only shoot film, no digital.

Sam, is the "Negative Lab Pro" a separate add on, that comes with photoshop, or do you have to purchase/license it separately.

Keep it up. monochrome takes time to learn. Keep at it you will appreciate it over time. It took me a while. For your next challenge, try shooting slide film. Do NOT overexpose. For more saturation 1/3 underexposure at best. Over exposure flattens it out and makes it look bland. Your exposure has to be dead on. Good luck and keep up the good work. BTW congradulations on the 67II. I bought one brand new years ago. Great camera.

8:12 you can spill this lighting?

I enjoy seeing your pictures made in China. They give us Americans a realistic view of life in China that is unavailable through mainstream media. Thank you.

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I think that you are correct that the film images we grew up have a deep psychological connection to our past. Thank you for creating and sharing about your childhood and birthplace in China. If you haven’t seen the film Fiddler on the Roof, you might like to watch it. It’s about generational change and cultural traditions. There is another great Swedish pair of films called The Emigrants and The New Land you might appreciate. Also check out the photographs by Zaharia Cusnir recently found in Moldova. He worked with an old Russian medium format the camera.

Strap position is great, rotate the camera 90 degrees with the handle facing down and resting on your palm ✋

Fuji just announced they are bringing back two film stocks! Made in china

Check out; “What Shape Frame Dartmouth Math”. It’s a page on the Dartmouth College Mathematics Department site about picture composition and the format of images. Using Black and White vs Color is interesting. With all if the geometry in the environment humans inhabit; it helps to think about color, form and space when making pictures. Great video. Thank you for creating and posting this.

black and white is art, color is a memory

Ive been shooting color only this year and im not having as much fun shooting and developing compared to b+w

hi, I really did not understood, why you adjusted the aperture of the Hasselblad back and forth in order to have a brighter image on the viewfinder? You can set it slower but you will still see the fmax on your viewfinder. Am i missing something? Nice shooting by the way and for the HP500 is that much overexposing not a problem.

Loved the comparison, SO helpful. Frontier was my favorite.

Hi Sam. I usually carry two bodies that share lenses (a Nikon FE2 and F 100 or a Flex and a Cord in my case). One for color and the other for B&W. It was confusing at first but I found that looking for colors OR lines and curves sorted out which to shoot. Something else that helped me was to have a cheat sheet on what I want to find during the day. I call it Abstract Editorial (la-de-da right?) and give myself bonus points if someone else can work out what I was trying to capture. Buying bulk 35mm B&W film so that you can tailor how many shots to a roll also helps to keep you from spreading a roll over two or six outings. Thanks for your work- a random mike

I actually mainly shoot black and white film. Everything we see is already in color. Black and white makes some images look like a dream. Your pictures are always incredible. Your portraits are my favorite of your pictures. 😊

Bnw for film is my favorite and just color on digital. However I’ve been eyeing a bnw sensor camera

I have been shooting since 1970 and have always shot a mix of B/W, C-41 and slide film. Color calls attention to itself becasue of the color while B/W is more about contrast and shapes. There are images that work in either but there are just as many that are either B/W or color but not both. That is why I like my Hasselblad 500 series cameras and my Mamiya RB67, they have interchangeable backs. That way I always the right film with me for the image I'm shooting. One back with color and one back with B/W.

Your BW came out absolutely FANTASTIC! What BW 120 film were you using? What is he scanning set up? Thank you.

Lots of trash and irrelevant elements or components that distract or subtract attention from your photography. You might review your composition skills. There is no vision, neither in color nor in light control… It is very difficult to discern what purpose, the center of attention or main character is. Tips: If you sing, try singing or flip burgers. You can not encourage others if you do not have confidence in yourself and no gray matter in your brain. You, like many other millennials and UA-camrs, hold a camera to look cool, want viewers and likes for their Instagram and social platform posts… After reviewing these images and listening to your words, it is clear you do not have an eye for photography. Try other endeavors and good luck!

AN important tip at 10:22 DONT get blasé YET, you can still fog the film, you must roll it tight, and lick/stick the holding tab, THEN it's safe.

at 8:45 you just wasted 4 shots 😞 if you want to 'play' with it, or (for us in the know, practice using it, to know it better) take the back OFF first, or fit one without any film.

Sam there is prisms for it, and also importantly a grip, at the bottom, with a prism attached this grip makes the 500 look like an old school policemen's' radar gun, or a Bolex 8mm movie camera .

I find myself shooting more B&W these days. I used to only use it to test cameras / lenses as it is easier and faster to develop (I use a monobath for B&W.) It seems the reason why I am shooting more of it now is because I feel more accomplished if I have a couple good shots per roll. With color film I easily get a lot of "keepers" whereas with B&W I do not, so when I actually take a B&W pic that doesn't suck - it feels more special. Lol.

That image of the older couple is award winning Sam. Seriously! To your point whether you should shoot black and white vs. color, you do great with both. Color presents possibilities, but color is only hues. Without the value scale you'd have nothing but flat images. You rocked this. Great images and great lessons here.

After watching this video, I think I'm gonna try my first ever Cinestill 800T film in direct sunlight without any filter and see how the result would look like. There seems to be difference between 800T and original Kodak 500T besides the extra layer.

at 13:50 what is happening is you are what Ansel Adams called "pre-visualising", seeing what you want in the print, and being B&W adapted this 'sight' sees how you want to view the scene in mono, so you know intuitively what will work.

also the cloudy day allows one to utilise the shallow dof the mf lens and format provides, so you can open up, and use the f 3.5 or f 2.8 on them, so adding extra subject separation, bokeh, etc. which a hard light of EV 15+ wouldn't allow.

one other tip Sam, cloudy days are your FRIEND in MF in this format all lenses are telephoto as compare the 35mm format cousins, and as such are Way more sensitive to glare, flare and motion blur, so cloudy days are natures natural softbox , diffusing the light and reducing contrast, keeping highlight tones in zone 9 where we can see them, and not blow out.

hey Sam, one solution, if you shoot with a hasselblad, bronica, or Mamiya RB\RZ camera you can change the film Magasine, so you can shoot BOTH and switch between colour & B&W stocks MID shoot!! how cool ! your Pentax is a 135 format style slr so once you load up, you Must finish before you change, this is one disadvantage of this style of camera.

Black and white is cheaper, so I never had to decide lol

I liked the black and white pizza box photo! And I enjoy the mellow backing music you pick. So nice.

I've been shooting B/W since the late 80's, and still continue today as it's become my preference. And you're right, some images work better in colour than B/W. Keep challenging yourself Sam.

Sometimes when I look at black and white images my mind fills it in with color. It gets kind of trippy.