Man, it's good to be back to all this traffic
It really is good to be back
I mean, look at that!
It's foggy, it's always foggy here
Listen to this
If you thought that I wasn't shooting film during my recent road trip
Well, you were wrong!
This has been my little secret, and I really mean very little because I didn't use it much
only 24 frames in a month and a half
I'm going to be finishing this roll today, going to be shooting another one
and I'll be talking about this camera, what it is and where it came from
I don't think there's much to say about this camera it's a compact 35mm camera
There is no control whatsoever, you cannot control shutter speed, aperture, anything
I do not know the specifications of this camera
I'm going to do some research online to see if I find something
Also, my dad had 3 or 4 of these around the house, I don't know why, I'll ask him just in case he knows
just in case he knows more about them than me, I don't he will but
The only thing you can do is open and close the lens here
it has a panorama switch, it moves a plastic mask in the finder
and here on the film itself, which is disappointing
because at first I thought that the panorama switch would take a longer strip of the film
but no, all it does is it crops a regular 35mm frame into something smaller
so it just crops the top and the bottom, so you're not getting more resolution
so the panorama is going to be lower resolution than what you would get if could use a longer piece of film
but whatever, so yeah, let's go out and keep shooting it
I think you want the other... you want to be over here
let's sit down
Xesta, sit down
good girl!
Stay
I'm going to be like strangling her
And now what? I need to figure this out
I guess you press here, right?
Well, I hope it's okay, you can tell that this camera is just a piece of plastic
and a piece of something else too
ssssh, there are kids watching this
I really hope so
Sop this was a roll of T-max 100, it expired some 15 years ago
someone sent it to me, someone from Instagram
I do not remember their name right now, I'm sorry, I'll look for it later and going to mention them here
their username, I really appreciate that
they also sent me
I hope I brought it, yeah, another roll here
It's a roll of FP4, this is ISO 125, so both of them are pretty slow films
I don't know how that's going to work out with this camera
which probably has a very small aperture anyway
it's another 36 exposures, let's load it
that's pretty cool
All right, so it's been a while since I developed 35mm
To open the cartridges, I had a very useful tool in the US that I don't have here with me unfortunately
so I'm going to be trying different tools
and if everything else fails...
Let's do this, this is probably not going to be pretty and it's going to take me a while
Remember, if you use devices like an Apple Watch or a Fitbit, to take it off
before getting your hands inside the changing bag because they emit light, and you don't want that
This should be done, at this point you've seen the images and I haven't
I hope they worked
Luckily for me, both films, FP4 and T-Max 100 had the same developing times when pushing them to 200
I was mostly guessing the developing times
because I could only find values to push them to 200 but not beyond that
since these are very slow films and I'm afraid that the camera is something like f/8 or f/11
I wanted to push them at least to 400 or something like that
otherwise, I would get very dark images
so what I did, I just took the times for ISO 200 and I increased the time and the temperature a little bit
From 5 minutes at 20 degrees C, to 7 minutes and 21 degrees C
I'm hoping that the expired film wasn't that expired and still worked fine
but yeah, I don't know, it was just a guessing game here and we'll see if it paid off
I don't know what happened here
I guess those are the panoramas
There is something wrong here
This didn't work at all
Completely overexposed
It has only a few frames I'm going to be able to save
The panorama frames didn't work at all, they're completely overexposed
I see myself there, a selfie
Some frames overlap... 4-5 frames on the roll that I might be able to use, which is not great
Let's see if we have more luck with this other one
I don't know if it was the developing, maybe I overdeveloped these
These seem overexposed as well
Well, there is one frame there
Some of them are like double and triple exposures
Ok, well, so I don't think I'm going to be using this camera anytime soon again
Let's wait until they're dry and let's try to scan them, maybe I can get something from them
but it doesn't look good
So this experiment didn't work out as I thought it would, for many reasons
For starters, I messed up the development
I don't think these two film stocks, T-Max and FP4 are good film stocks for pushing anyway
but I think I did it way too much, I was guesstimating as I said, and I just overdeveloped them
also because this camera is a little bit, let's say worse, than I thought it was
Not that I thought it was very reliable, but it feels like every time you press the shutter
it does something different, sometimes it feels like it's stuck, sometimes it feels like it's fast
so I don't really know what it's doing
There is some overlapping between the frames too, so the winding mechanism doesn't seem to be working well either
Way too many things for this experiment to really work out
It's not a big deal, because this was not my main camera during the road trip
or that I was taking important pictures with it
but it's disappointing, I was very excited about the panorama feature
Lately I've been experimenting with more aspect ratios and formats
I really like the extremes, square and very, very panoramic
and I thought that this could do the trick
it was disappointing to see that it was actually cropping the frame
I think I would rather have it crop in the viewfinder, so you still see the framing
Even if it's not accurate, you more or less could see what you were going to get
but I would rather have the whole frame so I could do the cropping afterwards
That's what I do with my digital camera, I take the whole frame and then crop the top and the bottom
to make the panorama
another thing that was disappointing about this camera is that I asked my dad where these cameras came from
As I said, there were 3 or 4 around the house
and it turns out this is a... I knew it was familiar, this is a contact lens liquid company
and they were giving them away with the liquid, when you bought it
so there is not even a cool story behind these cameras
I don't think I'm going to be shooting them again any time soon, but it was still fun
Photography is all about experimentation, this time didn't really work but it could have!
There's more film coming to this channel very, very soon, as soon as the next video
with a much better camera and hopefully with much better results
so stay tuned for that, until then I can only thank you again for watching
see you in the next one!