Film Photography Podcast – Episode 125 – May 15, 2015
The internet radio show for people who love to shoot film! Kodak Stereo Cameras! Weird Flickr Groups! Your film camera lenses on digital movie cameras! Special appearance by Henrique Couto
pictured above: Leslie and Mat shot on FPP RetroChrome 160 / Canon EOS 10s / Lomography Petzval Lens
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Show Notes
Film Photography Podcast – Episode 125 – May 15th, 2015
Show Notes By: Alex Luyckx
Grab a Mr. Brown Iced Coffee and settle down with Michael Raso, Mat Marrash, Leslie Lazenby, and special guest Henrique Couto! Today’s shoe topics include the Kodak Stereo Camera (With Mark Dalzell), Mounting old lenses on modern digital cameras, weird flickr groups, and much more!
New friend to the FPP, James Eakins, whom you may remember from our last shoe, has sent in two wonderful 8×10 portraits of Michael and Mat that he shot at the Walking Workshop IV! These Impossible Project PQ portraits have been transferred to beautiful wooden blocks (pictured above). The process, Mat and Leslie explain, prevents the images from continuing to be exposed to the developer. Plus it’s just a fantastic way to give creative freedom for your images!
Awesome FPP Hand-Rolled Film! You know that wonderful hand-rolled film you can get in our store, well before it heads out to you, our wonderful community, it’s tested by several members of the FPP staff, to ensure that you have all the details you need to shoot this film! One of the recent additions is the FPP EDU line of films in ASA-100, ASA-200, and ASA-400 flavours. Leslie’s shot the 400 at 1600 and the 200 at 800 and loving the results in Diafine! But the more recent film to be tested is FPP RetroChrome Slide Film ( it’s Kodak Ektachrome film), originally iso 400, Michael’s been shooting it at iso -200 and 320) There’s also RetroChrome 160 – Leslie wants to give it a go at it’s box speed. RetroChrome is available NOW!
Flickr is a great place to view and share photos and the groups allow you to interact with people who enjoy taking photos of similar things, or similar cameras, films and so on. Like our own FPP Flickr Group. But there are certainly some weirder ones out there as Leslie and Mark have discovered!
Some of the more interesting ones that Leslie shared with us are: Abandoned Leather Couches, or Mutated, Mutated, Mutations. Not your style, how about Creepy Rabbits, The Killer Cones, Cow Assassins (pictured above), Huge Piles of Bugs, maybe Super Secret Squirrels? Maybe pictures of Strange Things you’ve Sat on, or Poking Things with Sticks, or Cats Eatin’ Weird Things. You can waste hours looking for the weird and wonderful groups on Flickr, or you can always stick to the more tame side.
A couple shoes ago Leslie brought in a beautiful Stereo Realist Camera, and it inspired Mark to hit the Ebay and find one of his own. While he wasn’t able to get a Stereo Realist, he did pick up a Kodak Stereo Camera (Mark’s camera and image pictured above). The Kodak camera was produced from 1954 to 59, and like the Realist uses 35mm film, but is a zone focus camera rather than a rangefinder, which does make it a little trickier to use. But once Mark got the pair of Kodak Anaston 35mm f/3.5 lenses recalibrated he’s been loving the results out of the camera. He’s even starting to look at doing some trippy double exposure work. If you want to check out more about Stereo Photography give a listen to Episode 119!
Canon and Nikon Film lenses on video gear! Now digital isn’t something that is discussed much here on the shoe, but Henrique, a filmmaker/director/producer and overall awesome guy (with an awesome mustache) has been doing something interesting with his Sony NEX FS-100 movie camera, he’s been mounting old Canon FD lenses to make his movies! The E-Mount, which is Sony’s compact lens mount (aka NEX Mount) has a huge range of adapters available to mount almost every lens ever produced on modern digital still and movie cameras. He uses the old Canon lenses because the price is right and as he says gives the images a more organic feel. As for quality, it’s pretty much right in line with modern lenses that are designed for use with the E-Mount. Mat who works at Midwest Photo Exchange, has been working more and more with digital movie making and recommends the Metabones line or adapters, Fotodiox is another great choice. And these old lenses work great for still photography as well! Just note that many of these compact camera systems uses crop sensors, the Sony’s are in APS-C format so you’d add a 1.5x crop factor making your 28mm lens equivalent to a 42mm lens, and if you’re running an Olympus or Panasonic system that uses the Micro 4/3rds you add a 2x crop factor.
If you want to see some of Henrique’s work two of his movies, Awkward Thanksgiving and Scarewaves will be released later this year and his latest movie, a western titled Calamity Jane is already in principle filming! You can also connect with Henrique on Facebook. And stay tuned to the FPP as we explore the world of motion picture making and production!
Keeping with the theme of movies, Mat’s been working hard to update his own YouTube channel with new and updated Large Format tutorials, you can subscribe to his channel here: www.youtube.com/user/mat4226
That’s it for us, if you have any questions or just want to say Hi, shoot us an email we’re at podcast@filmphotographyproject.com or post a question to our Flickr group. Until then we leave you with another fantastic music selection, first is Henrique Couto’s Can’t Compete off his That’s Loud LP and Darren “Ballard Pop” Reily’s Heading West off his Monkey Business EP!