 Hello everyone, and welcome to the first Ethan's Journal podcast. My name is Ethan Reiman, and in today's podcast we're gonna be talking about my thoughts on film cameras. So let's, without further ado, let's get right into the video. I don't have an intro prepared yet. I'm working on that very soon. And again, because this is my first episode with a face cam on it, I want to try to get used to this. I have a microphone set up here along with that, and I got this webcam. It's not the greatest one. It's only 720p, but eventually I plan to have better equipment to be able to record these videos a lot better. But yeah, let's get into the video. So my thoughts on film cameras. Well, I did not grow up in a time when film cameras were all the rage. I mean, I had a digital camera. I think it was like a Sony Handycam or something like that. I don't, I don't know if I even have it anymore. Maybe I do. But yeah, I had a Sony Handycam. Let's just say I had a Sony Handycam. And it was a digital one it recorded to, I believe, it was either an SD card or it recorded right to internal flash memory. You need to plug it into your computer for me. It was iMac G5. As I've always been an Apple user and I still am. So film cameras, once I learned what they were, once I was old enough to realize what they were, my parents still had quite a few of them. And just recently we were able to find a few of them. So we had, we found this one here, which is an Instax Mini8, I guess it's called. And we just recently bought film for it as we're going to be going on a trip very soon. As well as an old Polaroid. Now we actually have five Polaroids, but this pink one is actually, coincidentally, the only one that still works. And we also, again, just bought film for this one. And, well, what do I think of these? Well, the quality I noticed is definitely a lot better than you would normally see on a digital camera from the time that they came out. And I'm pretty sure that's where they, that's where their strong suit was when they were the better equivalent of a digital camera today. But, I mean, if you think about it, everyone carries around a super fast, I mean, for me, I have an iPhone SE's Gen 2. I mean, we all carry around a camera that can shoot 4K video when these things barely shoot a few megapixels as far as I know. And I don't even know if you can measure that, probably something that you could look up. But, I mean, if you think about it, I think the quality of film is pretty good. I mean, it's pretty decent looking at it. And, I mean, of course, these ones just printed out onto, I guess you could call it a film. And I don't even know if these are qualified as film cameras. I just call them film like that. But there are other film cameras that I've seen of, like the ones that had the role of film and all of those things. And that would be more what if I would qualify as film. And looking at those, we actually have one of those cameras. I can't find it right now when I was going to record the video. But I was taking a few photos with one of those. And after you take the photo, you can't see it until you get developed, at least on the camera that we had. And where we live, there are really no places that develop film in a very short amount of time. So I just never bothered getting it developed. But I assume back then, developing film would have been a really big day because you get to see all those photos you've taken. And you probably put more thought into what you would take those photos about. Because I mean, you only had on this one, you only get 10 shots, and then you got to buy another pack of little film, I guess you could call it. And if you run out, well, you run out, there's no more to get. And you have to run to the store. Whereas on this one, every few minutes, it's automatically backed up to iCloud. And I can take another 15,000 photos. I don't know, I've never reached my limit on there. And it's crazy. And the fact that we're able to do this is just astonishing to see we went from something like this. And even the first film cameras were as big as a computer from the 60s, like that big. And these cameras, they took pretty good quality. And I think film, because it's all analog, it has the ability to take that. And I planned to do a future episode actually talking about, once I get my hands on a few film cameras, I can test those things out. Otherwise, I would recommend an episode from Smarter Every Day on YouTube. I'll probably have it linked above right now. He went over and showed how film was developed. And I thought that was a really cool video, kind of showed you what the process was. There's more of a process put in taken when you get a film developed, whereas you take a photo on your phone or on your Sony, a new point, handy cam, like a newer one or whatever, whatever professional DSLR camera you have. And it's developed right there. It's not even developed. It's already there. You get to see a live preview of it while you're taking it. It's all of that. And it's just, it's just crazy how we're able to get that far. And I just find it super cool like that. Yeah. And I guess to wrap it up, this is going to be a very short podcast video. This is not even going to be a podcast. It's more like a my thoughts video. But yeah. And my thoughts, would I take a film camera today? Taking photos? Of course you really can't. And my answer is no, I would because of the quality. But again, no, because I do like to take professional video and photo. And I really am working hard on getting better at that. And if it's actually there, it's actually going to be a playlist on my channel that has some stock footage that I've taken and a bunch of that and photos too. And I want to be able to share these with the world. And I mean, you really can't do that with film as far as I've learned. Now there are ways to import things from actual film cameras with rolls of film. You can import that into a computer and the quality will look good. But still the way you can manipulate photos in modern day video, photo editing software for me, I'm on a Mac. I use Pixelmator Pro. I'm able to manipulate the photos that I take on my phone because I do take all the video and photos on my phone because I just don't have the budget to be able to buy an expensive camera. But in the most part, I mean, if I had to take one of these and I found if this was my only way, if I had no phone and I had a computer, I just needed a way to get this over to the computer, I would do it. But again, I have these other options. I have a phone I can use. I have all of this. And I think that I would definitely just go with the easier route, manipulate the photo to make it look good upscale using Pixelmator's machine learning feature. And I just upload it and let people see it. And I think that would be the better option for me. Now, let me know in the comments down below what you guys would think. And I plan to do more videos about this soon. And if you grew up in the time when film cameras or everything, and you guys, if you had used one, that'd be fun to hear your stories about that as I have no idea what it was like using those. I grew up in a few years right after all that happened. But yeah, I thought that would be, I thought this was pretty fun videos. Check out for more videos coming from me very soon. I am going to be coming back at YouTube very shortly as I just got out of summer school from my school district. So I have more time to edit videos. And I'm actually going on a trip to South Dakota next week, which means I'm going to have lots of more stock footage I'm going to be adding to that playlist. But yeah, I'll have all those things linked in the description. And I guess another thing I was going to talk about was if you want to be able to license some of the footage that I'm taking, it's not available right now, but I will very soon be able to have an option for you to license the videos and photos that I take and use because I want to be able to let you guys use it. There's currently no way of doing that, but I want to be able to get this checked back in a few weeks. I will have an update video on how to license those photos and videos. But as of right now, if you do end up using them, please credit me. I'll have that on those videos as well. So yeah, thank you guys for watching this video. If you guys enjoy it, I have more content coming soon with things like this. More in-depth videos about technology and thought my thoughts videos. All that is coming very soon. Be sure to subscribe with that bell notification button so you get all you get notified every time I upload a new video. Give this video a like if you liked it. 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