Alright. Photography. Let's go!
Added 2021-10-21 02:10:26 +0000 UTCHi! The first in a series of who-knows-how-many videos is complete. And it's uploaded to YouTube. And there's a link to it. And the link looks like this:
I sort of feel like this video has a slow start. But I wanted to explain the camera obscura, and as luck would have it the demo I showed at the end managed to work. I wasn't expecting it to at all because of how little light there is but... cool!
By far my favorite discovery with this video is what daguerreotypes actually look like. I hope I did a decent job of conveying this, as it's really quite something. Definitely not anything that can be described adequately with text, I'm afraid.
As far as future plans? Well, you'll notice that November is coming up and you know what that means! And so, I'm gonna pull a fast one and have the first video in No Effort November be developing this roll of film. The first time a NEN video is a part of an ongoing series! Ha!
Well. Hope you enjoy it! Proper captions will come tomorrow; I'm a little wiped out tonight. However, what I'll do tonight is paste the script in. I've found that this forces YouTube to apply auto-captions and sync them, so within a couple of hours there should be *some* captions. They'll just have weird errors both timing and otherwise 'til I clean 'em up.
Toodles!
Comments
Okay, spill, what’s this film you hate?
Keisi
2021-10-25 04:25:14 +0000 UTCLoved the video. When I saw 37m I thought whoooaaa… but by the end I wanted more. Please tell me your photography series will include the technology and processes for Autochrome photography 🙏 BabelColour shows us the what & when of these amazing colour images from 100+ years ago. But the people need to know the HOW.
Tim Johns
2021-10-24 23:08:26 +0000 UTCAh, but the box shape camera is back in cinema form. Look up Panasonic Lumix BS1H for example. On a separate note: the F value does not exactly tell you how much light goes through: that is what T value is for ;). T there is for transmission I gather.
Juhani Saarinen
2021-10-24 19:14:51 +0000 UTCOooh, some instamatic fun! 126 is a real hoot, glad they've got adapters for standard 35mm so those cameras can still be used
Dylan Packard
2021-10-23 20:44:18 +0000 UTCSpeaking of cameras, I thought the movie Tim's Vermeer was very interesting. They hypothesize how Vermeer might have used something like a camera obscura to paint his pictures. Have you seen it by any chance?
2021-10-23 20:43:42 +0000 UTChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Picture
Quixylvre
2021-10-23 15:19:08 +0000 UTCOne of your best in recent memory!! Truly amazing overview, I learned a ton
Stavro
2021-10-23 05:22:11 +0000 UTCDumb question - what happens with 2 holes in the box? Does a diffraction pattern occur on the film?
Stephen Gillie
2021-10-22 15:51:48 +0000 UTCThis video reminds me of the time I made a pin hole camera in middle school and it actually worked.
Brett Walton
2021-10-22 03:54:20 +0000 UTCquestion. how do I get my name on that list at the end?
2021-10-22 03:51:04 +0000 UTCHoly Moses, I haven't seen 120 film since the early 1980s, before I got my Kodak Disc Camera (no, not floppy disc, film disc). EDIT - sorry, I think I was using 126 film in the early 80s, not 120.
Don Eitner
2021-10-22 03:01:08 +0000 UTCIf I say that "I don't know" what the Nick Collodian Process is, will I get green slime poured on me? By the way, fascinating subject. I knew of daguerreotypes but not how they reflected.
Don Eitner
2021-10-22 02:53:14 +0000 UTCI'm very hype for this series, your film development video on Patreon a bit ago is what finally got me to get all of the stuff to shoot and develop B&W film at home. I successfully developed my first roll the day you released this video! Looking forward to the rest.
2021-10-22 02:43:06 +0000 UTC150 years later and her freckles are still clear. She's really pretty yet the whole image is a little spooky.
Lumo
2021-10-21 20:18:05 +0000 UTCI must say it was a bit confusing that you kept talking about peepholes on the left and right of the camera while holding the film in such a position that the peepholes would have been bottom/top. I think it would clarify a lot if you showed the orientation of the numbered back of the film in relation to the camera before explaining this part.
Mark Arts
2021-10-21 19:25:59 +0000 UTCFantastic explanation! I should also once try out my Brownie, it's a bit more modern though. I once shoot a roll of 120 film in a double-eye camera, a bit rusty. Cost a me a fortune to develop those 12 pictures, but they were extremely sharp! I'm looking forward to seeing your results.
MrHammond
2021-10-21 17:08:26 +0000 UTCWhat is that terrible film that you seem to not like?
John McFerren
2021-10-21 11:32:58 +0000 UTCI've always wanted to know how to use these old cameras!
2021-10-21 08:56:58 +0000 UTCVery much looking forward to part 2 of this 20 part series :-) The part on daguerreotypes was fascinating: I hadn’t previously appreciated they were a mirror and a surface layer interrupting the mirror holding the image. Thanks for the demonstration of that! Ewen
Ewen McNeill
2021-10-21 08:50:27 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed this video!
Brian Zimmerman
2021-10-21 05:46:50 +0000 UTCWatching your explanation of how a camera obscura works reminded me of your demonstration of how color tv works using a Nintendo “electron gun” firing rays of colored yarn through the shadow mask onto the screen.
Mark Hesse
2021-10-21 04:26:58 +0000 UTCyayyyyyyyyyy i dig it.
evistre
2021-10-21 04:15:02 +0000 UTCI’ve seen lots of images of daguerreotypes in books and magazines over the years, but seeing the one that you’ve shown here in an HD format albeit on an IPad via YouTube is as close as I’ve ever been to seeing one IRL and it was a beautiful thing to behold.
Mark Hesse
2021-10-21 04:06:18 +0000 UTCI've been collecting antique photographs and cameras since I was about 15. Absolutely love anything having to do with the history of photography. And now I want to find my old brownie box and start taking pictures with it.
2021-10-21 03:55:08 +0000 UTCI'm sure I'm not the first one to say this but you should check out Smarter Every Day's video on film cameras! He goes down the rabbit hole with a lab that has an old school Refrema machine. Pretty awesome...
2021-10-21 03:30:54 +0000 UTCOkay, "latent image of vaporization" cracked me up though :P
Phia Westfall
2021-10-21 03:29:02 +0000 UTCIf you're willing to do your own development, it's not that bad! Color gets pricey and harder but B&W is easy as pie, and pretty cheap, too!
Technology Connections
2021-10-21 02:25:56 +0000 UTCReally not helping me resist buying a film camera, Alec.
2021-10-21 02:19:37 +0000 UTCI love old photography, I was hoping you would do a exploration of the history of photography kinda like you did for artificial sound for a long time. Super excited!
2021-10-21 02:17:49 +0000 UTC"Alright, it's 4AM, time to sl--- whelp, never mind"
SkaveRat
2021-10-21 02:11:57 +0000 UTC
