All right, hello everyone
First of all for everyone in the US, this weekend is the 4th of July weekend, so happy holidays
I hope you enjoy your time and just be careful out there
So as I said in a previous video, we are back in Indiana. We are gonna be here for the next 2 months
That's pretty much the whole summer, and being back here means that I got to be reunited
with some old friends that you are seeing here. The first one is the Bronica
This is the original Bronica as I mentioned in a video
a few weeks ago. It's the one that I took with me on the American Road Trip almost a couple years ago
I'm gonna put the playlist here because I have some 35 videos from all over the place from the west and the southwest
where I was shooting exclusively with this camera, with this Bronica
The one that I have in Spain is Rachel's camera, but now it's mine
So I have one Bronica in each continent so I don't have to move them around
the only thing is that here I only have one
film back, this one. I only have this viewfinder, the waist level finder -that's my favorite
I like to use it a lot. This adds a lot of
size and bulk, it makes the camera even heavier than what it is
The waist level finder makes the camera much, much smaller, but it is what it is
They are really expensive nowadays, and I don't want to spend money on that
I only have 2 lenses here, the 80mm f/2.8
and this huge lens right here, it is the
250mm f/5.6
This is a 44mm equivalent in 35
and this is 130-135mm
Something like that. I don't have here my favorite lens, the 150mm, that's in Spain as well
But I'm going to be shooting this camera around here this summer. I have a couple of trips planned
I'm gonna be moving around town and northern Indiana
We're gonna go to Chicago, we're gonna go to Indianapolis. So yeah
Hey, I'm gonna be using this camera quite a little bit
But I have a few more that I wanna show you some of them I've never showed them to you
The first one is the Holga, you've seen this one before
actually, I have a roll of filming in here. I shot three
frames in here. I have no idea what kind of film this is
I don't know the the box speed or anything like that, but I'm gonna shoot it
I'm gonna develop it and we'll see what I can get from here
I don't know if I'm gonna use it a lot. As I said
before I like the Holga
I like the look of the images, when it works. It's very hard to make it work
I don't want to say random because it's not, but my eye is not used to this camera just yet. And it can get really expensive
To get good with this camera, to master this camera, because it's medium format
It has only 12 shots
So yeah, I don't know how much I'm gonna be using this one, but probably just for fun a couple of times
Another camera that I have here is this Minolta. This is a 35mmcamera. It's a XG-M
I don't even have lenses for this camera here. I only have 1
it's a 58mm f/1.4, I believe, and that one is in Spain as well because I use it with my
With my a6000 sometimes, with an adaptor
So yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be using this camera because I don't have any lenses for it
The other one that you've seen before is this one, the Rolleiflex. This is the
f/3.5... yeah, f/3.5 version
the lens is a 75mm. So it's more or less like 35-40mm
in 35. As you can see I have this lens hood here. And the reason for that is because this
The taking lens. So this is a TLR camera when you compose you compose your image by looking through here and
You can see the image through this lens, the one on top
But this one is the one that actually takes the photo. So that's kind of a weird concept
It's kind of hard to use these cameras
If you are taking on a subject very close because what you see here is not what you are taking
But when the subject is further away, or landscapes, it's not a big deal
And this is actually a kind of cool camera. I like the finder as you can imagine
But this lens, the taking lens, as I was saying, is pretty scratched, a lot. I don't dislike the results
I think they are different but sometimes when it's sunny outside
those scratches reflect the sunlight in very bad ways
So I use this a lens hood to avoid that as much as I can
I don't know if I'm gonna use this camera at all. I don't think it has any film
Well, it does have a roll
it says number 7 here so I might as well just finish that roll as well. As you can see I left
these 2 cameras with rolls inside. And let me check the last one because I might have more film here as well
Of course, I do. It says, I don't know if it's a 6 or an 8 right there
But what happens with the Holga, I don't know the kind of film or the box speed or whatever
The same goes for these two cameras. I don't know what kind of film I have inside
Oh, look at that! HP5 1600
This one has nothing. Well at least I know what is in here, I know what
speed I was shooting at. So anyway, this is the Mamiya C330
this is a very nice camera, it's the same concept as the
Rolleiflex, but bigger and heavier, and the cool thing about this camera is that... it's a TLR, of course as you can see
The cool thing about this camera is that you can change the lenses. This lens in the Rolleiflex is fixed
You can't change it, but you can change this, and I actually have another 2 lenses for this camera
This is the 55mm lens. This is a 6x6 negative too
So that's 28-30mm equivalent
Then I have this other one, that is an 80mm lens
f/2.8 as well. So this is like the lens that I have for the Bronica, a 45mm equivalent
at f/2.8. And the last lens that I have here is the
180 millimeters f/4.5
So this would be more like
a 95-100mm, something like that. I think that this is
a macro one
But I'm not really sure, I haven't used this camera or these lenses too much
But I am planning on at least finishing the rolls in these 3 cameras
And then we'll see if I want to keep shooting with them
I might use the Mamiya since I have the 3 lenses and that's something that I really like
So I'm gonna be using the Bronica quite a bit this summer. I'm gonna try to bring it with me
to almost everywhere, even though I'm lacking a lot of equipment here. As I said, I only have 2 lenses
Another thing I don't have it's an orange filter
I don't know if I wanna buy just another orange filter
I have one in Spain, so it would be just for 2 months. I completely forgot
I meant to bring it with me on this trip, but I forgot
Another thing I don't have
it's the shutter release cable
But that should be okay too, because I can use the T-mode for long exposures
and the only thing is if the shutter speed is really slow like maybe
1/10 or something like that, half a second
I have to use the button and then I might introduce some vibrations in the camera
But once again, I'm not gonna a buy another cable just for a couple of months
I have a few in Spain, I forgot as well to bring some. So yeah, I just wanted to show you
These old friends of mine, I just got reunited with them. I don't know what kind of
relationship we are gonna have this summer. But as I said, I'm gonna be using some of them and hopefully I can show you
how they work and how they perform in new videos, but that's it for today
It's a holiday weekend. As I said, I hope you enjoy your time
Thank you so much for watching and see you in the next one