 Well, how did I get from this To this that's what we're gonna be talking about today before we get too far into today's video. I just want to be very clear that I'm not trying to sell you on the idea of doing film photography in fact, I I think for most people it's not really a great idea. I have my own personal reasons for Dedicating this year to doing film photography But those are my own personal reasons. I really don't care what you use for your photography As long as you're happy with what you're doing and you're getting the results you want Well, that's all that really matters as you can see We had a lot of storm damage Or a few weeks ago we had a really massive storm that brought down a lot of trees and branches It was it was pretty pretty intense for a while. I Haven't done a video for a few weeks nor have actually taken out my camera and made images for a few weeks I'm in the process of Redoing my lens line up a little bit Getting rid of some lenses that aren't working well with the photography I wanted you right now and I'm on also in the process of maybe upgrading this video camera to something a little higher resolution still small and basic, but It's time to Time to upgrade a little bit and then I'm also redoing my website. So if you notice my website's down It'll probably down for another couple weeks. I would imagine I'm working on it. And with that all said Let's get into the story of how I got from digital to film About a year ago. I was contacted by a viewer of the channel Louise and She offered me her sony a7r2 to use for my photography asked if I'd be interested Now I've been a Nikon user pretty much my whole professional career I'd use Canon early on when I was learning when I went into journalism. I just My gear was provided. It was Nikon. So I just went with that So I really had no idea What this camera was I never kept up on what what Sony was producing so I had actually look it up and I checked out the specs and once I realized that it was a basically a fairly high-resolution camera These for its time Well, it might be kind of fun. Well, sure. Why not? I'll try it out. It was it looked compact Look small. Maybe I'll use on a bike ride or something a few weeks later I was blessed to have a Sony a7r2 show up in my doorstep A very generous offering I thought But what I didn't expect was How well I would take to the camera. I fell in love with the layout of the camera The look of the files. I felt they made great black and white images the raw files were amazing Even with the kit lens it came with it worked really well So that put me in a bit of a dilemma and I had mentioned this in a video before I Wasn't sure if I should just sell on my Nikon gear by a bunch of Sony stuff. I Really didn't want to go to that extreme, but I really wanted to use this camera and some of the Viewers of this channel Suggested that I should just get an adapter and use my Nikon lenses Well, well adapters cheap well at least give it a try see what happens. So that's what I did I I Tried it out with a few my lenses and wow it worked pretty good And of course I had the manual focus it was it was just a dumb adapter nothing fancy So then I started thinking, huh, well, I wonder how some of these old manual focus Nikon lenses would work on the Sony like this Nikon 105 2.5 lens today. We've got the Nikkor 135 millimeter AI lens to my surprise these lenses were I was picking up really affordable were Really working. Well, I really liked the look and It was actually enjoying him got to a point where that's all I was using I was just taking the Sony out with some adapted prime lenses and really enjoying making images with that setup So I used to set up a lot over the year finished the zine project Really enjoyed working with it. I Really liked the simplicity of the manual focus lenses So much so that I started thinking wow, this is a lot like shooting film It felt very similar to the film photography experience So much so that I Had all these old lenses now I Thought hmm Boy, maybe I should give film photography another try. I thought I was done with film photography when I stopped using it the prior year I Thought that was it. I thought I'd done all I wanted to do with film photography but those feelings of wanting to use film photography again Came back I've been trying to fight the idea Coming up with reasons not to use film There's a lot of reasons not to use film But then I kept seeing these all these reasons to use film and so I had a role of Film on a camera that had just started to be shot a year before and I just set it aside so that well, I'll finish up that role and Just to see what I get. Maybe maybe that will bring me back to reality When I got that rollback after finish using it up. Oh, I really like the images My scans were still just not great I was having trouble getting what I wanted out of scans and I think that was one reason I stopped using film in the first place So I started using the Sony for my scans. I also went out and bought a better macro lens to attach to the Sony and BAM, my scans were really good. They're actually super good So then I didn't have an excuse not to shoot film anymore and that led me to To the point where okay, well, it's you're gonna shoot film. Let's let's just shoot film Let's not go back and forth. Let's uh, let's commit to it. Let's see if I can get better at using film Let's see if I can get better at making my images on film. I Really like having a negative. I really liked the idea that possibly Sunday having a dark room again But until then I have a really excellent method of scanning my my negatives so I I sold off my Nikon digital cameras and Right now I'm in the process of getting rid of a couple more of my Nikon lenses that don't have an aperture ring They work with the camera I'm using But I have to constantly change between settings when I use those lenses And I want all my lenses to be set up the same. It's a little bit of annoyance. It's a little thing So now I'm left with one digital camera, and that's my Sony and Film cameras, I have a couple of film cameras and that act of generosity Set this whole thing in motion that one Moment that I was given a camera that I didn't think I needed or wanted or Really cared to I wasn't looking for it That set everything in motion to get me to the point. I am now I have no idea where I'll be or what I'll be doing next year in photography. I don't want to think that far ahead But I have to say I'm I'm really enjoying My photography right now, but that's enough native legasing for me today Making videos of Film photography for me takes quite a bit longer than what I'm out using a digital camera It takes me a little quite a while to actually get through a roll of 36 exposure film So I guess that contributes to keeping the cost down. So what I'm trying to do is Keep my topics my Stuff that just I want to talk about keep that separate. I may have One of these videos are once in a while. I want to keep my videos when I'm out in the field making pictures about that experience I find the more I have to talk and think about things to say it really does intrude on the experience of Being out and connecting with nature So the less I I talk when I'm out making pictures. I think The more I enjoy the experience So if I'm going to Cover any topics and photography, you know, I don't know how much of that I will do there's plenty of that out there Don't worry. I'm not gonna be doing any pro tips or What the with the pros know that you don't or the secrets of photography videos? So I think that's a bunch of baloney Here here's the here's the secret There are no secrets Photography is hasn't changed that much. There's no magic pill. It's just getting out and practicing and Finding your voice with your camera by getting out and taking pictures. So we're gonna in today's video right here So we climb around all this debris Until next time thanks for coming along for the ride