 What's up guys welcome to another episode. I'm here with Barbara Barbara you want to introduce yourself This is a Rico TLS 401 Cool thing about this camera is you can actually use a top-down viewfinder or your standard viewfinder in the back So I'm gonna find out is this a gimmick or is it actually useful? We'll see I think it's actually bullshit, but I've never shot with this camera, so we're gonna find out Okay So the viewfinder on this camera isn't especially bright, so when I'm stopping down to f16 It gets really really hard to see so I'm having to use the rear viewfinder instead Which kind of defeats the purpose of the top-down one, so I'm gonna test it out a little bit more I'm gonna test out shooting maybe at a Lower aperture and then seeing if I can see more seeing if I find it more useful in that situation That's good, right? That's fine. Oh, yeah, I don't really trust it It actually has a pretty good light meter because we can just spot or average But I'm actually just going off the sunny 16 to double check it. It's kind of funny But I trust myself more Thoughts on the top-down feature so far I guess it does come in handy for like situations like this you can technically get lower Than you would if you were using the eye level viewfinder So I think I'm already starting to change my mind. It's kind of fun to use the top-down I think that's because I'm a process photographer. I really love the process of taking photographs I'm not as concerned of course. I'm concerned with the results, but I enjoy that experience and because it's a novel one It's a lot of fun Look Timers on hang on Except for this cow it's pretty boring here because people are boring here This is the bougie part of Venice, which didn't exist a few years ago So I'm not getting that many shots Court house coffee Or anything tell everyone please don't take boring photographs, but when you're trying to finish a role for the sake of a video You've got to start doing it. It's not that this is boring. It's actually really interesting beautiful And you can create some abstract work. However, there's no life to it There's no meaning behind it. That's why I like to photograph people, but whatever Oh, my hat was in the lens Good job No, I wanted the green actually it's kind of better that way There's like are you gonna take pictures? Oh Very iconic palm tree reflection in the back Okay, so you guys may have noticed that a few of my shots have this black bar across the top That's because the next day I planned on selling this camera and when I opened up the back I realized I forgot to wind the film. I quickly closed the door wound it up Hope to came out, but I didn't know if it really would I just had too much going on that week I shot a lot of rolls of film and I just completely forgot about that role So I decided I'd go out and just shoot around Silver Lake and Los Feliz before I taught and Then I made another mistake. I had my hair in the way of the lens for a few shots So that's what that like curly frizzy Garbage is that's my hair. I photographed a few of my students and then popped it into the developer right away Processed the roll as you guys can see the images came out pretty sharp. That's mostly because of the yashica lens It's the yashica 50 mil 1.7 I think yashica is a very underrated brand and I would really look into them But if anything, it almost feels too sharp at times if you do any sharpening Especially in post which I try not to do and I still ended up with very sharp images All right guys, that's it. I hope you enjoyed it Like and subscribe I've got more coming up and see you at the next one