Get Started With Film Photography

In the second half of this episode, I talk about different methods of working with various light meter readings to achieve the final outcome you envision when you take the picture. I go a little into the zone system (though not very much at all) and a modified short-hand version called the Two Up, Two Down method.  In the second half I talk about incident light meters, including a relatively inexpensive adaptor that allows you to use your phone as an incident light meter.  https://makers4good.com/pages/luxi-for-all If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

In order to properly expose the film in your camera, you need to know how much light is falling on the scene you are trying to make a picture of. You can use your camera's built-in light meter, a hand-held dedicated meter or even your own eyes to determine that amount of light but measuring that light is only part of the story. In this episode, I discuss how to use the data from the light meter to get the right exposure settings to your camera. Most of the time, you can simply transfer the readings to the shutter speed and aperture controls but sometimes you need to adjust those readings. I will tell you how in this episode.  Toward the end of the episode I talk about a device called a gray card. Here is a link to one on B and H Photo's website:   https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1039483-REG/dgk_color_tools_dgkr27xt_dgkr27_xt_digital_grey_card.html If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

Many companies worldwide developed rangefinder cameras for holiday-goers between about 1955 and 1980. Many of these cameras are still excellent user cameras for today and for people who have not yet tried shooting film with rangefinders, these cameras represent a good entry point to the rangefinder world.  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

Many companies worldwide developed rangefinder cameras for holiday-goers between about 1955 and 1980. Many of these cameras are still excellent user cameras for today and for people who have not yet tried shooting film with rangefinders, these cameras represent a good entry point to the rangefinder world.  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

Special thanks to the listeners who contributed questions for this episode: Jessica, Ade from the Sunny 16 Podcast (http://www.sunny16podcast.com), @meg._boone, @jevharr, Neil Piper of the Soot and Whitewash Podcast (https://anchor.fm/neil-piper), and @surgeon24hrs for the questions. The 1.35v battery replacement talked about in the first question is the Wein Cell. Their website: http://www.weincell.com/ To get manuals for old cameras, http://www.butkus.org/chinon/  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

Special thanks to the listeners who contributed questions for this episode: Jessica, Ade from the Sunny 16 Podcast (http://www.sunny16podcast.com), @meg._boone, @jevharr, Neil Piper of the Soot and Whitewash Podcast (https://anchor.fm/neil-piper), and @surgeon24hrs for the questions. The 1.35v battery replacement talked about in the first question is the Wein Cell. Their website: http://www.weincell.com/ To get manuals for old cameras, http://www.butkus.org/chinon/  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for rangefinder cameras. They harken back to the early days of 35mm film cameras and for many they are the gold standard for film cameras. This is the second of two parts that deal with these professional-level cameras. After these two parts, we will have a second series on consumer-grade travel and holiday rangefinders from the 1950s and 1960s.  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for rangefinder cameras. They harken back to the early days of 35mm film cameras and for many they are the gold standard for film cameras. This is the first of two parts that deal with these professional-level cameras. After these two parts, we will have a second series on consumer-grade travel and holiday rangefinders from the 1950s and 1960s.  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

One of the best parts of shooting film in the digital age is finding film stocks that we can use that were not available to us before. This episode covers specialty films as well as expired film that is still available on the secondary market.  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed

One of the best parts of shooting film in the digital age is finding film stocks that we can use that were not available to us before. This episode covers specialty films as well as expired film that is still available on the secondary market.  If you have any questions, you can go to the GetStartedWithFilm.com website and fill out the form to submit that question for one of the monthly Q & A shows. You can also email me directly, [email protected] or you can use the Anchor app to send in a 60-second voice message. Search your app store for the Anchor app.  If you are on instagram, you can follow the feed of the show: @GetStartedWithFilm If you hashtag your posts #GetStartedWithFIlm, or #GSWFPP, I will have a pretty good chance of seeing your work and I might feature it in the show’s feed