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To this day I still own: From Nikon a d500, d7100, d810, d700, z6ii From Fuji XT1,XT4, XE1-full spectrum, x100s, x100v From sony an A7iii. and a leica Q. Plus a whole host of 35mm film cameras. My most used camera, which has been used to take my favourite images, and is my favourite camera to shoot with is the D500. I'd say about 50% of the time this is the camera I'm using. Given the amount of cameras I needlessly own, the D500 is very over represented. I'd never sell it. Its the only digital camera I have with a sentimental attachment.

Inventor/founder George Eastman believed ease of use was far more important than image quality. He was right. People went wild for "Kodaking."

For once, I could be one of the annoying guys going "I got it for a fraction of that price", and I'd be correct, but I know I was just darn lucky. I have had several stories similar to yours (I think the worst case was my Rolleiflex Automat, which now finally works like a dream). But for once I got lucky and it's my first F2, with the oldest type of light meter (I've been told these rarely work properly anymore, seller just told me that it does react to light). It exposed all my photos correctly, on slide film no less! Wohoo!

I’m sorry but these aren’t problems with the Z8, all these problems could be avoided if you did your research before buying the camera and it’s pretty obvious that you didn’t do your due diligence before going to your shoot 💀.. sorry mate but I think you might have to rename your video tittle

pa no es nuestro y es un tumbao de hamburguesa, ahora bien el video esta del ptssss muy full

There are many super fast medium and large format lenses even at f/1.4 for 4x5. Just not many people know them, doesn’t mean f/2 is something of this world . I own 1.6 for 6x7. Just an example. 110mm f/2 on GF is boring, I feel gfx is a camera where you should adapt medium format lenses . Also forget about FF lenses for gfx , they all have weird bokeh and bad corners/dark corners , and sharp-unsharp - sharp effect (when bokeh switches from bokeh to sharp at the corners like on voigtlander 58mm 1.4 , canon 58 1.2 , canon 50mm 1.8 /1.4..)

Thank you. For those of us on a limited budget who might want to splurge on this upgrade, it gives us addtional information we should consider.

Shouldn't be from the back as they are small felting pieces (~2mm thickness); my guess is this is a baffle off the mirror frame aka what is used to damper impact, hence vibration on the mirror stop at the ground glass , this also stops light leaks.

8 year old crop sensor DSLR, for which no new lenses will be released. Still sells for about $1000 or more used, so you know its good.

I'm planning a roadtrip to Romania with just my Rolleiflex and your video really hyped me up

My type of asmr ❤

I have two of the exact same GE made light meters .. I found one very cheap on ebay that had its original leather pouch.. I bought it because it looked in better shape and had the case.. When I got it the cell some how was putting out MORE power then it should have .. You would think over the years it would get weaker but it was pushing the needle further then it should have by quite a bit.. Thus the end readings would be underexposed .. The one I had that was beat up some was quite close and I could get used to using it without much issues.. I just swapped the top sections and as the model I have you can pull the top half off for really dark areas , Flip a door open for medium light area or close the door for bright areas all three. Well the top half was much nicer on the one I got really cheap so I ended up using it and the leather pouch lol. But I was shocked at how much different the two where from each other.

Thanks for the reminder...:)

hits and misses. The original idea of one lens, one Rolleiflex, one film was from someone else. Perhaps it should be attributed to @Peter Bongard www.youtube.com/@pbfotografiert who did it 6 years ago.

Wonderful video

Wow Great video

Great video

Great video. Good discussion. Thank you RS. Canada

Great video

Sover is a shark. He capitalizes on the sentimentalists and takes advantage wherever he can. His servicing costs are a good example of this. They aren't fixed, yet he advertises as such. Once he has your camera he continues to find "issues" and bilk until your repair bill is twice as high as expected. The F2 was made to be easily serviced by most technicians. They are not rocket science. You'd been wiser to find a cheap F2 in good condition and put a few rolls through it. In all likelihood the camera would have worked properly, as their reputation suggests, not a lot goes wrong with them. For curiosity sake, I contacted him looking for an F2. He tried to sell me a beaten up F2 / DP1 (I laughed when he rated it at a 9.5) for close to 1800CAD. He's taking people for a ride.

Why are you gay ?

I have a Brownie camera that was from an auction lot that I have never used. I just looked, for the first time to see what style camera this is and appears to be a Brownie 2A as it uses 116 film. I'm curious if I could get film for this camera and if it even works. it looks to be in good condition.

You have described wonderfully

XA is better! Class look like a DIDITAL.

Alastair, fyi, to get lightroom to see the fff or 3F file types, you do the dng conversion in Flexcolor software (free), then it's straight TIFF , tiff or Dng that most software can handle, or for modern Hassy's [X1D/X2D and H6D] you have to use phocus directly, as the f formats are legacy, but they revised the packaging so you must use phocus to decrypt it. ( from memory the Phase One, Capture One software IS also agnostic enough to take it, it can deal with most others, no matter the raw packaging type).

Good points about the number of “keepers”. I have 2 TLRs and I find that 12 shots is the perfect number. You don’t do as many grab shots as with 35. ( In fact with 35 intend to take 3 frames of each subject so that I still get a total of 12 images).

Says more about you than the camera

Its ok the mk 3 and 4 will soon bury it , disposable crap ! Keep your d850s guys

If flying : Hand Check again ; HAND CHECK in and out ....ALL FILMS.

Aastair Bird : I shoot in a 10 bladed Tessar 75mm 3.5 MX-EVS and my premium Rollei is the Wide Rollei 50mm F4 Distagon ; the Wide is incredibly sharp , and the ten blade iris on the Tessar is superb too. I love film and it's look .. Question : Can you get your film developed BEFORE leaving so it is easily transportable , in spite of the ( BS ) scanners ? Did you hand inspect flying out too ? C.

Just curious - have you had a chance to compare this 50SII with the new 100SII -- in particular the electric viewfinder (EVF)? I've been frustrated with the EVF on the 50SII when focusing manually - very difficult due to the extremely low quality EVF.

i used his camera professionally in the 80-90s. 65 and 75 lenses not really good as long as i remember .90 and longer - ok

If I remember right i was told they where equivalent to $400 today for the camera. Mainly due to it being the first somewhat portable camera.

Thanks for sharing your passion for photography. Mojo is hard to come by these days.

XA is not a POINT&SHOOT!

Wait till you try paper negatives. They are a challenge to figure out at first. Once you can get the paper, developer and split grade printing down, it’s a lot of fun. Even experienced photographers who print their own stuff, can’t tell it’s not from a film negative. I love 8x10 paper negative contact prints.

nice to see the Technikardan out again, but also a tip, if it is a while since you used it, just do some dry practice runs, and also use a LOMOGRAFLOK back, with some instax square 800 that should get things moving, and the oil warm again, so things flow better. I've just got a sinar f2 with a Fujinon SWD 90 f 5.6 and SWD 65 f5.6 and am trying it out now, with the sinar vario back 6x12 on Kodak Gold 200 (~4 shots) to test everything, AS well as my new to me hand held sekonic meter; so here is hoping all goes well, but we all have to take the plunge into the abyss sometime, and when it works out well, we all wonder what all the fuss was for.

Just had mine done by Sover Wong. About 900£ but as you conclude money well spent!

How long after cooling do you have to use the glue before it goes off , ie will it still be effective and stick if used after cooling , if so how long is the timeframe ? please advise , thanks sky

Alastair, the reason the mirror can't auto return is the baffle system is separate, and connected, for the safety of the film, you have to cock the shutter, to wind the film, and place the baffle down to remove a lens, or back {saves the lens rear element or internals getting dust or moisture in it}.

one more advantage to the battery 200 series, the DARKSLIDE also acts as a shutter lock, like the 500 series! BUT also prevents accidental metering system activation in your bag, or during transport, saving battery life.

Do you have a video showing how you edit these in Photoshop/Lightroom? I would really like to see that video. Thanks.

You are really getting roasted in these comments? I find the outspoken level of dismissiveness to be surprisingly funny because other youtubers have dogged the Z8/Z9 as well, and were not dragged this badly. Maybe it's just you, bro. What did you to the people to make them so prickly towards your video? LOL. BTW, the Z8 is quite spectacular.

I was first motivated to try large format when I was visiting a local photographer and he put an 8x10 Kodachrome transparency on the light box. OMG, it was like touching a live wire. That was 30 years or so ago and I've never gotten over it. The irony is that my preference is for black and white. I can't remember the last time I shot color film. 😊

Nice video. Thank you

what an idiot. a fool and his money are soon parted.

Great video! How much would you charge to photograph/digitize art?

I have resisted to get an 8x10 because I don't know what it should be good for. More resolution than 4x5? In my opinion not necessary, if you don't regularly print larger than 2m. You can also do the perspective correction tilt, shift and swing with the more reasonably priced and portable 4x5 camera.

Next time, buy from KEH... GRINS First off, you get a no question ask return. For a small fee one can get 2,3 or 4 year warranty. I bought a Nikon F2-as chrome with EX-plus for $275. Hasselblad gear all great prices also. Take a look and be happy..

2024, anyone fixing these?