Hey, hello oh right so we are gonna talk about camera gear
something that everybody loves right? well first of all i apologize for the lightning here
This is the best i can do i don't have a studio or anything actually
you wouldn't wanna see the rest of the apartment right now
it's quite a mess but i i found this little corner here that is kind of
okay yeah second i'm wearing this hat because my hair is kinda crazy not because i usually
wear winter hats at home because i don't do that
and third the dog is just walking around so hopefully
she doesn't make too much noise but anyway i've been shooting medium format film with the bronica, for the last
five months and i've gone to i would say very different places i've shot in
very different conditions and i've been adding more and more stuff to my
kit and i think that right now i can say with some confidence that i'm pretty happy with the gear I have
so i thought that it would be useful or it could be useful for
someone else out there to see what i use and maybe i have something
that helps me and you didn't even know that was a thing
And the same way i would ask you to tell me if you have something in your kit that i should definitely add to mine
Because i'm always open to buy more stuff that's for sure
So of course the first thing to talk about it's about the camera bag
this is this little guy here was my first
dedicated camera bag before this i was using just backpacks or i would just throw in the camera
i'm talking about the digital camera of course
anywhere i could
when I bought the a6000 it was my first
interchangeable lens camera i needed a bag for all those lenses and for the camera so i bought this one it's a lowepro
i loved, i absolutely loved using this thing
but of course this is not big enough not at all for the
Bronica so we are gonna have to move to the floor to show you
So this is the
bigger guy here as i said i love the other bag so much that i went with a
lowepro again, this is the lowepro pro tactic
450w or something like that i'll leave links
In the description to everything here
it's pretty solid it's a little bit dirty from
these past two days trip to central oregon but yeah like the small one it has a raincoat here
that you can put on
over the backpack. i usually attach my tripod here. i have on these side pockets something
right, now but i usually have like cloths like this to clean stuff but yeah they are pretty small
One cool feature is like you can access the inside of the bag from the sides i don't usually use
I don't use it that way i just take it off my back and put it on the ground
access everything inside
From here because it opens from the back and that is very nice i really like that let's get into the main section or main
part of this bag
so this that you are seeing right now it would be like my typical set up for a trip in these little pockets i have
A lot of
tiny stuff like external batteries like this one from amazon i have batteries for the
digital camera
here i have cleaning stuff like the cleaning wipes and some microfiber
cloths. I don't usually use them, I just use my t-shirt
Maybe i should use them more often but map of oregon and washington a pencil to take notes this is very important
because you never think of this when you're shooting a film camera but i have
Spare batteries for the bronica they last forever i've been using the camera for
as i said five months and i'm still using the original batteries but someday you will need them
You better have them with you if you are out in the middle of nowhere so i have them with me
There is room here for a laptop but i don't usually bring it here i have a separate backpack for that
Because i have the charger plus hard drives i can't fit everything here let's start with this
two little guys here. this is the holga as you know i use a holga too
i shoot it every once in a while just for those special shots
And yeah it doesn't require anything like batteries or more lenses or anything it's just
The camera itself i'll be talking more about the holga soon i want to do like a proper review
what i think about it
I have this other camera here this is a
slr is a minolta xgm i don't usually shoot 35 but
a russian company... a russian film company sent me
Some film to test so i've been using it i'll be talking about that film soon too - but yeah for now
I'll just put it aside
So now getting to the bronica stuff
first that you can see I have a cable release here kind of important for long exposures and
some low-light shots but it's broken as you can see this is the second one that i break i
I've already tried two different brands, so if you know a good cable release that is going to last is not
$200 please let me know because i don't know what to do yeah
okay i have this little rocket
air blowing thing i use it mostly to clean the sensor of the video camera when you change
lenses on these mirrorless cameras they get pretty dusty pretty easy
This bag came with the backpack and i'm using it to store my film here i use it to store
the exposed film too like this one that i took yesterday i have a spare spools too
you never know when they're gonna break and i don't want to waste one roll of film on the field just to keep shooting here i
Have my
color
black and white filters this box it's kind of breaking falling apart
And yeah i'm gonna be talking about these filters more - in the future because i really have some things to say about them
they are red orange yellow and blue
and i've used them quite a lot lately yeah i'll be talking about that soon
so more about filters this is the pouch that came with the
holder, the Lee filters holder. so this is adaptor you screw this on the lens
mount the holder
Something like that and you put the nd filters here. for the nd filters themselves i started with one
i ended up getting all of them
It started with the super stopper that is 15
stop nd filter
I use this a lot during the day
daylight because is to take long exposures when it's pretty bright outside. then i started taking long exposures at sunrise and
Sunset so i was in need of
something that it was not 15 but something like this one, the big stopper
that is only, "only" just a 10 stop ND filter. but then
i shot that long exposure of the moon and i used this big stopper but i realized that it was too much for those situations -
So i got the little stopper that is
six stop nd filter so i have them all now. i used them all, i used the little stopper this weekend - or this
past two days sorry so this is my
set of nd filters they are here in their original boxes i believe that they are very well protected here so
Okay had to change the battery of the video camera
alright so now for
the bronica equipment itself first of all i think i'm gonna start with this i have a
Extra or spare film back. why do i have to film backs? that's a good question
There are many reasons one of them is that allows me to have different speeds like i might be shooting
Hp-5 here at 1600, and i might have been shooting hp-5 at 400 on the other back
At the end of the day i should mostly at
800 all the time no matter if i'm shooting tri-x or hp-5. i like the look, it gives me enough speed for
even low-light situations. having to film backs allows me to
shoot at different speeds or even have color film in one of them and black and white
In the other one. i don't shoot any color so it's not something that I do but I could if i wanted to
another reason to have to film backs, and this one is actually a good reason for me to have two is that i have a
film loaded in one of them so it's here when i'm done with this one i can quickly load this other back and
keep shooting it's not about shooting a lot of
pictures in a row or that my shots are pretty critical
Time wise but it's more about it might be raining outside it might be pretty windy i might be on the beach i don't want
to be messing with opening the film back and loading film, taking the exposed film and putting it in the backpack so
What i do is i finish this one i take it off here put it here
load the new one and keep shooting. and then once i'm back in the car or in better conditions i just
Take the exposed film from here, load new film so it's always ready there to go
Now, for the camera and the lenses the camera came with another finder actually let me show you
See it came with this one it's a prism finder it's like more like a regular traditional
slr or regular camera so the main problem for me with this like it makes the camera much bigger and i actually
really enjoy using the waist-level finder a lot
absolutely recommend getting one of these as you can see the camera is much much smaller
so this is my other film back, of course nothing, to say here
i have this
quick release plate
For the tripod so it's always there right now i have this lens attached this is one of my
Favorite lenses for the bronica is the 150 millimeter is actually the most common
One so it's pretty cheap and easy to find i think i got it for a hundred bucks i don't remember
but yeah it's one of my favorite lenses by far
It's pretty sharp and it goes all the way from f/4 to f/32 so it's not a fast lens
But it's fast enough for me so yeah this is the lens that lives in this camera
I'll say 60 70 percent of the time. moving on to more lenses i have this
Wide-angle lens this is a 28 no sorry 50 millimeter by its 28 equivalent in 35
So this is the lens that i dropped the other day at mount st. Helens and as you can see is
it's
perfectly fine it doesn't have a scratch
they are built like tanks that's for sure. so this one goes from
f3.5, so it's a little bit faster than the other one but not by much is like a third of a stop or something
to f22 i like this lens, it's sharp too but it's really really wide for this camera to the point where it already
distorts a little bit i think
it's my second
most-used lens after the 150. the next one is a recent acquisition of mine's the
80 millimeter. this is what it's called a normal lens or a normal
focal length
Because it's a 40-45 millimeter equivalent in 35. this one goes from 2.8, so it's
one stop faster than the 150 and
2/3 of a stop faster than the 50, and it goes to
f22. i just used it these past two days for the first time so i still have to see a
photos from these lines but yeah looks pretty sharp too
The good thing about this lens is really really small compared to the other ones and it's really light
So my initial idea with
these three lenses was to have a range that i
was used to in 35 i
used to have 24 to 70 lens on my sony camera so this way i have 28 a
42, 80 they are the more or less the most common
Focal lengths, and i think this is a pretty common setup for the bronica sqi
as well the last lens this
big guy right here if you follow my photography you know i like to take
close-ups of mountains and far away landscapes and whatnot
So i wanted something
To have a further reach than the 150 so i got this 250 millimeter lens this is
one hundred
thirty
millimeter equivalent and these goes from
f5.6, it's much lower than the other
lenses to all the way to f45
i don't use this lens too often but when i do i actually like the results of it a lot
That's all i had to show you i believe this is all my film
gear that i bring with me all the time
so i'm planning on making a lot more videos about film photography about the bronica and about
my experience and my journey with this camera, about all i've learned
Yeah, things that i would have loved to know when i started using this camera. i already have a few ideas about what to talk
next but if you guys have any questions ideas
suggestions
special requests or anything please let me know please leave a comment below and
I'll get back to you for sure and that's all for today i thank you so much again and see you the next one