Livestream 28Oct 2021
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and good evening my name is j photojo welcome to the photo jam for the next hour we're going to talk about photography photography things photography tips photography news uh just anything to do with photography really which is a lot of photography right now but this is also an opportunity for you to send a post question on anything relating photography because really this hour is about you so um sit back grab yourself a drink and get ready for some learning and laughs it's been a big week it has been a big week welcome everybody um waiting for people to just kind of log on at the moment um i'm just keeping an eye on uh where i need to keep an eye i need to get my dashboard up here to kind of say oh yes here we go that's how i can see to make sure that we're all okay yes so we kind of build up the we build up every week with something a little bit new whether it's a grand opening it's the grand opening the grand opening of our show um some of you might have seen yourself out there hi uncle welcome back to thursday night it is uh it's another week another week has passed us we're all kind of uh getting closer to i don't know to more reality whatever that reality is whether you go and visit bunnings a lot whether you i don't know it's just all about we're going out going out and mingling mingling is an interesting thing isn't it it's just all a little bit kind of a little bit strange but uh welcome to those who are who are joining us in the twitch world thank you for those of us who will be watching this on youtube some of you were probably going to go to my website but for some reason facebook has kind of done something so i can't embed the video into into the into the website so you have to be joining me here on facebook live where you can send me a question uh or just have a listen just kind of hang back listen to uh to what i'm gonna be talking about tonight got a few things that we um that we're going to talk about um some sony information some nikon information some vintage jam information and just general information but um you know i've started to get people been starting to get slowly questions people are sending me pictures and sending me um questions about certain things because i do i do want you to do that because well if you don't kind of send me a question i i don't know what i'm going to talk about so [Music] so i guess uh look one of the first things i will bring up today is that um just recently just recently um this company here omd or the om system has finally done all the paperwork signed it off ticked it off and they have now taken over the olympus branding of the camera so pretty much olympus doesn't exist like like they exist and they're still out there right and there's still plenty of incredibly amazing technology out there but as new tech comes out right they're going to get away from olympus thing and they're going to be rebranded as the the om system yeah so as i said there are still cameras on the market um and look pretty much what will happen is that while the changeover with a product will coexist right so you'll see olympus you'll see omd and really the the omd wording comes from their original uh film systems the om system so so the omd om um uh d for digital uh while it's still an old name um the olympus brand we will see that fade away eventually and with the new models uh we'll see the om so so olympus is bought out by uh the japanese industrial partners at the start of the year and now oversees the whole olympus system so i just wanted to know you know i mean i i just know that really even though people are always concerned oh hi dizzy uh people are always concerned about a changeover of a brand for example uh some of you might know minolta minolta got taken over or their research and development the amount of their lens was taken over by sony so we've seen that flourish even though the name itself of minolta is not there anymore sorry i'm just having a look at something there i've just thought that i got it anyway um so the olymp the technology the the r d the love that olympus has had uh from you know from all from many users um we're gonna see that brand flourish it's just it's going to be better i mean and they've got stuff happening they've got stuff happening so um it'll be interesting times to see to see what happens with uh with that world and part of i guess that i bought that up was because i got asked the question what camera do you use you know so uh well hey guess what i do use uh the olympus brand um the reason i used to use that and i'll just switch that back off it's what you kind of think you can multitask and sometimes you just gotta kind of work it right um so that was that was one of my questions that somebody said you know why do you know what what do you use and uh why do you use it so i mean my my old man kind of used olympus camera so i guess in a way that was like what was stuck in my head though my first camera really wasn't minolta because it was it was a um a duty-free purchase that somebody did for me it was a minolta xgm but um hey that wasn't around anymore but but olympus was one of the cameras i used i then ended up getting a uh you know and i was using olympus system olympus system and compact cameras were you know a bit of casio a bit of canon bits and pieces um through because i used to use them through uh through my the paxton's world but then i ended up getting a nikon d700 so that was around 2014 i think it was um and i wanted to go full frame and you know we're talking about a full-frame camera there's like a four oh it's about three and a half thousand dollars at the time for a full-frame camera which is pretty much you know what you'll pay today for what as well uh the d700 and uh i wanted to go into a full-frame camera because i know that the noise the the high isos that i was using that the the olympus system the four third system was struggling a little bit uh with digital noise so i was very impressed thanks craig if you're out there uh to have shown me the nikon system and that full frame it was a 12 megapixel camera um why is it bloody you know lights heavy right um and i'll talk a little bit about that later but the camera system itself uh you know it's heavy so going to the back to the olympus system uh it it just makes a lot more sense in terms of travel but there are times that i use the full frame it just depends on the gig that i'm that i'm doing so and i've also got a nikon d4 uh full-frame camera as well which is i think that's around 2015 2017. um a number of compact cameras a couple of fuji little fuji's uh more travel cameras more than anything um and i guess today what i also use is my phone which it has its limitations i know it has its limitations but at the end of the day hey it does the um it does a mighty good job as i'm sure that some of you have encountered with phones and um and really that's kind of brings me to my first um bit of extra news that we saw i mean the olympus thing was like you know news like in the last 24 hours but over the last week sony have released a new phone which which is which is a pretty interesting phone i've got to say now like you kind of the world out there is uh pretty much you know the samsungs and the iphones that's the two kind of areas but you know sony have been making the xperia phones for quite a while if any of you've had any of those experiences let me know i'd be kind of curious but um the xperia's um phone xperia xperia they use the android system so as far as phones go you've got the ios system which is iphone iphone iphone and then you have the android system which is everybody else samsung i think the google actually i don't think the google pixel does use android uh maybe somebody can tell me if they go to google play i'm sure it's it's android in the google pixel um there's you know the samsung's the uh the sony's the all the other brands right so sony they make a phone they make a lot of products they make televisions they make video cameras they make phones they make cameras and they've always been a company to integrate everything together and i guess when we look back to their memory stick the blue memory stick that memory stick was something that was designed to go into all their products so that they could integrate uh yeah all their cameras together or or sorry all their equipment together because you could you know you could uh you could put a a memory stick into a microwave oven right and that would transfer the information of the cooking to a microwave oven that we never saw here in australia so sony are very much into integrating all their gear together and so um you know they're a phone and a camera it's all about the connectivity so connectivity if you're like mike's my situation here um some of you might have seen my facebook story today that showed my little setup here so um i have a camera in front of me that camera is connected into a dongle which the dongle converts the uh and from sorry from the camera the hdmi output out into a dongle that dongle converts that video signal into usb that i plug into my computer and then i have a program in there that does all the fancy kind of switching of cameras but then it goes through an output to then live stream out well it's not really something that you kind of uh would be doing on the road right so for example i mean the the sony camera here the big thing about this sony camera is the fact that it actually um has a hdmi connection and that hdmi connection uh is great from the alpha camera so from their dslr cameras they can plug it into the phone right and then use the phone and i have a picture of that because i'm trying to show you a picture of it yeah just like that it has a situation where i can connect the camera to the phone and then i can use the phone as a monitor screen now not only can i use the phone as a monitor screen but i can then uh five or 5g uh live stream from the phone itself so the workflow of a live streamer who's out on the field who needs to okay i've got my slr camera the screens are a bit small so he can mount as you can see on the shot here uh the the phones mounted on top of the camera itself they can view uh the shots and then uh hit the live stream button and away it goes so the xperia pro camera this is the cool part is this whole live stream world especially for a lot of people now who are getting into this movie-making world right so the workflow it's just you know this is what one of the things about this phone especially for an alpha user so sony alpha people sony alpha camera is a full-frame mirrorless camera and again it's just all about trying to get that workflow in there together so um the xperia pro it can stream uh video content uh from a camera connected via the hdmi input now the camera itself actually has some pretty kind of uh oh that's the wrong one that's the wrong one i think it was meant to be oh no that's me gone oh it's meant to be that one that's the one uh almost there um one of the things that sony have actually um married themselves with a with a lens company so years ago they start off with zeiss now zeiss is a german company they make lenses um they don't they used to make cameras but th their specialties is lenses like leica you've got zeiss culls ice so sony uh went in and they were an electronics company and they wanted to have a you know a brand name on the front of their electronics and zeiss was something uh was someone who came on board with them so so uh the camera itself has zeiss lenses now if you've had a sony camera in your life before from compact cameras to obviously the larger um mirrorless today they use zeiss optics um now the zeiss optics on the camera itself is calibrated for the phone so this is the thing about lenses lenses are they're almost like a mass production uh world where some companies make lenses and sell them to different companies right so with zeiss what they've done for this camera is they've designed the lens specifically for the camera so it's not just a mass-produced uh i i was gonna say iphone lens that's i don't know i don't know i don't think that's iphone lenses but hey you know who who makes an iphone leads it's a very good high quality japanese product anyway so zarus optics now um if you ever look around at zeiss you'll see that zeiss have a certain branding called the t uh format which you might see on the picture up there and it the it's a coating that they have on their top end lenses okay then and as as the blurb says it's uh uh it can trip it contributes to exquisite rendering and contrast by reducing the reflections for true creative uh freedom god i remember that anyway so pretty much the thing is that lenses you know there's so much in lenses i mean like think about the movies that we watch on our big screens right or when we're at the movies the clarity the the color the the detail that's all you know it's all captured by the lens and the lens technology has really certainly changed over the years and you know for a company like zeiss to put their name onto something that is not zeiss you know they're going to be they're going to make sure that what they're matching up is right now lenses there are some unique lenses from years gone past i mean there are people out there who who use old lenses on their new cameras today because the lens had a certain feel about them uh certain uh especially the fixed lenses so not the zoom lenses as much as the the fixed lens they they have some beautiful clarity sometimes i mean actually there's a i have an app on my phone it's called focus f-o-c-u-s i think it is uh or focus os at the end and it actually has a a range of lenses in there so i take a picture with my smartphone and then i can actually it's like filters really um but i can actually uh add a certain lens feel to that shot and we're talking from zeiss lenses to uh leica lenses to olympus lenses to to quite a number of lenses throughout the uh throughout the years so so throughout the years throughout the lifetime i meant to say so you know lenses do have quite a quite a lot behind them right now the xperia pro has three lenses as you can see there's a 16 mil in in terms of normal uh you know normal 35 mil conversation in terms of wide angle full frame is what i'm trying to say so there's a 16 mil wide angle a 24 mil and the 24 mil is the uh the t lens and then a 70 mil which is just a short zoom you know nice for portraits etc but the cool thing about this as i flick over to this is that it's the first smartphone right it's the smart first smartphone that actually uses the uh one inch x more image sensor so the camera the the camera itself is actually using the sensor out of a compact camera known as the sony rx mark iv now i had the mark one and it's a compact camera it rocks it rocks that's uh the camera look like that that's the camera that's the mark iv i have the mark one which has no viewfinder i think we're about the mark seven now so the sensor in that which is a way awesome sensor way awesome sensor is now uh in the camera um the advantage of having the one-inch sensor also is that it's really good in low-light so it's low-light performance is make it cool um and also the bokeh right so you know that blurry background that you get using um you know nice uh low aperture lenses and on this uh cam on this camera the lip on the olympus on the sony it's a 2.4 uh f-stop on that middle lens so uh on a huge sensor it's you know surpri i think it's going to be a mad mad actual um phone um it's and you know that sensor has also been able to optimize for the smartphone so and yeah and again it's you know the the the lens is designed for that camera for that sensor but the electronics as well is also um uh is also tailored uh for that for that whole combination it's not just about slapping on you know a one-inch sensor and slap it on a lens and then go here we go here's two and a half thousand dollars worth of phone there's a lot more to it uh and that beyond x as you see there that's really what the the the the um the computer inside the phone itself it's like windows from windows 10 up to window oh no we are windows 10 from windows xp to windows me to all those uh updates of the computer itself so um i think this phone is going to be pretty kind of awesome actually a low light shooting it's something that i'm very excited i do love the idea of also the fact that uh it's a one-inch sensor and i actually have shot with uh a camera like that the the mark uh the mark one the uh the sony which was a shot that i ended up uh utilizing uh for the baby animals so i'm just thinking about a camera that i used in 2000 2013 i think it was bang took the shot now i could do the same with the phone right in the same in the same situation i could take the same shot i'd be very and yeah i think it almost be a slightly better shot as well because the technology is obviously has improved so so many years uh hello everybody out there we're running here 21 minutes into the show i hope you're all kind of at least getting into it getting into it um so um oh okay i was gonna go somewhere else but i'll do that so so sarah sony phone anyway interesting if anybody does actually have a sony xperia phone let me know am i saying it right am i saying it wrong i don't know let me have a quick little lubrication or drink here i haven't had my hair cut yet no i haven't had my hair cut yet oh oh oh that was something i wanted to do i'm going to i'm going to just have a little interactiveness that i was trying to do last week and i'm going to just uh set a poll up here so the poll is i'm going to activate a poll um what's going to be your next purchase uh i think i've activated it yes what's gonna be your next purchase is it's gonna be a camera and a lens uh is it just the body uh just a lens or some accessories this kind of curious just curious about the the pole with that and i'm also going to just open a question um i think i'm going to open it like that it's called what's a struggle in your photography now i'm going to assume that you can see that and you'll see that if you do answer the question that will be really good i'll then kind of know that there are people listening out there or talking oh yes so as i do that i just have to go i'm just i'm just adjusting things so i can kind of see what i might just leave i don't know i don't know hang on let me just see i guess that's what producers are all about they are the producers oh comments here we go i just want to make sure i can see everybody talking to me that's all i want to make sure and if you want to do likes and all that kind of stuff please do that too because i kind of oh hello oh i'm going to open up another question as well it's called what bugs you about technology so if you're kind of thinking about read a question i might just get you to answer that question as well questions questions questions i had a mate of mine actually send me uh through the week a lens that he thought oh i think i need to buy this lens uh it's a nikon d7200 he has and so he saw this lens and he saw oh hey joe talk to me about this nickel dx because he knew that the dx is for the smaller sensor cameras right oh so i just have to go back here against my apologies folks because i do have to make sure we're running here that's cool um what's it saying oh yes he has a 7200 and then oh yes so he sent me the details it was a nickel zdx 18 to 140 f 3.5 to 6.3 vr now he kind of went man that's a lot of numbers and that's a lot of letters but i know that if i kind of multiply 18 um by 1.6 that gives me 27 which brings it up to full frame we always talk about full frame numbers we want to always you know we want to know okay it's this wide now when you have different cameras they have different numbers and so i just want to say let's bring us all back to full prime full frame is film so if you had a film camera and you had a 50 mil lens then we're talking about that number and if it was 28 it would be wider and if it was 100 it would be closer yeah so the nickels the dx lenses they're in 18 to 140 right so that's the equivalent to like a 27 to 210 in the old talk or in the full frame talk which is great you know what a great lens to have to just um you know from wide angles from nice wide angles or streetscapes to to telephotos right and when you do the telephoto you get the really nice blurred background because you know you're gonna get that at 210. so
the um and then actually the particular lens itself this particular one even has a macro style set up so when you're at the wide angle you can get in as close as 20 centimeters which is actually pretty good and when you're at the 210 at the full end you can get as close as 40 centimeters so it's a pretty good great overall lens which was around the 600 but the thing was it didn't suit his 7200 so the key anyway oh but but what bought what and it was the zed in the lens that actually kind of made it oh hello it's not for my camera it is but this camera because nikons have a zed series now the dead series cameras are the mirrorless cameras and doesn't that look just like a old-school camera this is interesting how you know a lot of when the cameras first came out there are a bit space surge and then they started to make them slr looking but then they're starting to make them look slr old-school retro looking right so so here we have mirrorless camera looks like an slr and that was a thing i guess that was the thing about uh cameras originally is that people felt comfortable using using a an slr camera so when digital cameras came in they had to feel like the same we didn't really want to change from that it didn't really i mean and some of us still have that problem i know there's some of you out there that's probably listening and it's kind of going oh hello um i like to use just you know a street camera street camera i don't wouldn't call it a street camera but you know just like a yeah and not an slr camera right a range finder camera if that was the word i was looking for so you know but some of us wanted to have that slr feel and then you know at the end of the day we are fickle humans or us humans can be quite fickle and we don't mind the way things look and when things look old-school do i look old-school with my haircut or lack of haircut um you know when thing when you look at old school hey it looks nice you know we want to we want a camera that people kind of say hey nice camera must take cool pictures huh heard that line before um but here we have it's a mirrorless camera from nikon boy they were light in the scene right nikon and canon they are pretty light everybody else got in here way earlier and so they kind of got this 20 megapixel dx sensor right so um small sensor not the full frame sensor and if you want to put dx lenses on it you gotta kind of uh get an adapter and that's not really handy right so the this lens is made up so it just goes straight onto the camera the adapters they make the cameras a bit bulky if you if you've got i know some of you have got cameras i think if you're still there dizzy i know you've got an adapter for your full frame um for your mirrorless camera uh to make that fit on there and i know that you're putting a full frame lens on that on that sensor as well on that um on your camera as well but anyway i digress so this camera here known as the um uh what's it called it's called an fc fx if i've gone blank it's called um uh the z camera oh sorry the z50 and there's the z fc that the fc so 20 megapixel um it has yes dizzy thank you um it has the xspeed six processor now you know these they have to give their processors names xspeed one is where we use this is the computer inside it's not about how many pixels in fact it's you know it's more than that it's the computer it's the lens it's the computer that's you know it's all about that that gives you this quality that we're after it's got uhd 4k video every camera is now doing video the bloggers are going crazy out there because you get that really nice blurry background in your videos uh full hd video recording in 4k uh it can record in 30 frames a second so it's nice and smooth that's what 30 frames a second does but it also records um not in 4k but in full hd which is uh full hd you might have you're probably watching your tv on a full hd tv but it does at 120 frames a second and when you're using higher frames like 120 frames you can then create a slow motion effect so that's that's kind of cool with cameras today um for so much you know uh our smartphones are doing that uh but to do it on a camera like that really schmicky um the back of the screen these oled screens which are used on phones as well we've seen online screens on cameras for a while 2.36 million dots so that's uh you know high definition good to watch outside it's a three inch screen it's a touch screen as most cameras now sony's aren't touchscreen uh in a lot of their settings weird weird um it goes from iso 100 to 51 000 uh 51 000 is 51 200 iso at 11 frames a second so it's pretty kind of quick uh in pretty low light in uh pretty low light situations but it gets so incredibly low you can get an extension iso where it's it's kind of you know it's made up in the computer because it's big computer of 204 thousand 800 iso 204 000 iso not 3200 or 6400 204 800. uh it's called they call it extended eyes so um wild not at 11 frames a second i would assume but you know if you want to get those ghosts when you're coming to do a workshop we'll talk about that in a while um that might be the camera you'll need to have 209 points of focus um so there's you know in the old days there was one focus point then we had three focus points now we've got 209 points so whatever lands in that screen and in those 209 points that's where it will focus on including also eye eye detection too so it recognizes the eye does built-in time lapse most things do now built-in wi-fi bluetooth that's for the whole connectivity to your phone and it's also using usb type-c now so the usb type-c it is the winner a lot of the products are now it's a bit of a standardization a worldwide standardization you have the iphone uh they had this the lightning plugs and then every there was other plugs so usbc is um the one that's uh the standardized uh connection uh usbc has a lot of apart from just um uh apart from just power there's a lot of information such as sending information to your computer or back to a phone uh there's a lot of connectivity that happens with usb and it's quick so um yeah the nikon it's kind of uh the big thing that you got to get you know so hey why wouldn't you why wouldn't you need to get all this gear i mean isn't that kind of that isn't that going to make you like the super duper photographer your quality of level is going to just go through i'm going to spend my six thousand dollars and all my you know my half million dollar lens that i could have bought if i'd only just decided to go one more bit uh from a couple of weeks ago and i guess that's the thing you know we we get all this gear uh we need to get the gear right we see them oh man i need to get that piece of gear now look i used to fall for i mean i used to work in the place right so i used to kind of go oh i need that right um you know if i was getting into low light stuff if i was going to landscape stuff i just needed that gear i remember when i first bought my first uh my first 2417 uh lens for my nikon d7 um for my d700 so it's part of this holy trinity of lenses so that nikon have a 12 to 12 to 24 a 24 to 70 and a 70 to 200 so i start off with the 24 to 70 got the 70 to 200 and still kind of waiting on the 12 to 24 but you know i know i can borrow one but the thing was it's a mad lens um i paid a lot of bloody money for it right now the the lens that i replaced it with was a tamron 28 to 75 it was like a 700 lens right and i used that lens to death and i gotta say some of the shots that came out of that was awesome so can i say that you know um this this 3 000 lens made all my shots you know from seven hundred dollar lens to three thousand dollar length was it that much difference in quality um by buying that look you know the nikon lens it's an awesome lens there are some the thing about the nikon lens is that it bang it just focus bang sharp camera the tamron was a little bit slow right but the quality of the images i couldn't say that there was like you know dollars difference two and a half thousand dollars difference in there and i guess that's part of the whole thing yeah so you know it's why canon and nikon and sony and all the others you know they spend millions of dollars on gear launches you know i mean the message is clear that people love going to the shops and to the sites to get the latest and greatest bit of camera gear right kind of the only slight problem is that it's all kind of rubbish really you know i mean no piece of gear is really just going to suddenly launch you into the photographic heights of quality right but you know i mean my new lens was awesome but i can't say that the results were that hugely different financially yeah i mean sure you know there's occasionally you're going to need a piece of gear that is specifically for that outcome but you know the heavy the heavy lifter in getting you know a photograph really comes from the skill of using it yeah so learning how to use it is really going to make or break and look for years i've i've taught lots of people who you know i rock up and they've got the gear and as they say man i got the gear but i got no idea right and i guess that was all part of the you know that was part of the deal where you know people they were so caught up they had the cash but they were so caught up in what they uh were able to purchase that they just thought oh bang as soon as i just point oh hang on this camera doesn't have automatic uh i need to kind of you know know what to do with it so i guess you know it's interesting the funny things is that uh you know as you learn more right as you learn that with the gear that you've got it gives you the skill and also the understanding of what you'll actually need you know what you actually need to get and look and trust me there are times where you think you want to be getting a lot of stuff and you know you don't you don't actually really need it you just more kind of want it more than anything yeah so you know trust me it's it is about learning how to use it so if you've got tons of gear out there don't go ballistic and kind of want to go and buy more you know see what the limitations are to what you've already got all right so um let's come back after this little break here we'll continue on hey [Music] well what a great segue that was well we're doing that finally getting out on the streets out there there was one of the workshops that i've run the past and what we've got wake up way more cool we got way more coming um 21st november 21st november is uh some of my group there uh my i got my grungy graffiti walk around marrickville the grungy graffiti um it's been a popular little one this one here you know we kind of go around the streets of marekville it's got some really cool areas there all those textures and all those colors um which are just an abundance in the area and you know it's just it's americal just has so many little hidden gems to photograph and pretty much we combine the rules of the streetscape with a close-up for pretty much an easy to digest understanding of exposure basics in the one session and that's really what the you know that i try and get out of the session you know there's so much yeah we kind of always end up going over a little bit it's kind of a little bit weird um now this is on the 21st of november somebody's birthday on that day as well so if you come on this session we might have to have a little birthday cake thing going on there we'll see who that birthday could be could be somebody or maybe i don't know maybe a marie maybe um but hey you know what what what what has happened in the past there is that we've had some glorious light in that time of the afternoon um which really just enhances the visions and even if we don't get like massive sun if we get a gray day we get some awesome shots out of that as well we and you know and that's really about how my sessions work is that it it they can be organic so if it's like mega sun beautiful color then we utilize the colors but if it's a bit of a gray feature then we'll turn it into a mono type of shoot yeah so that's kind of how we run how i've run that session in the past before it's been and it's really it's been very kind of cool um we've seen some let me have a look oh that's that one there i was going to oh there we are more more pictures more graffiti pictures there um yeah and and this is the thing you know even if you've been you're going to learn more because i'm i'm taking a different route next time as well and you know there's so many things so many hidden features in your in your camera or in your phone because you know if you have a phone you can use your phone you might avoid oh excuse me you might have already come in uh with your camera but maybe you've got yourself a smart little you know new phone you know you want to learn how to use that a bit more because you're not always going to have your 100 to 400 but you might so that's something that um oh hello where someone's in bring your phone you bring your phone so anyway well that's that's what we're going to do so if you're kind of listening to this from any of my other you know youtube or on twitch uh or maybe you're watching this later because hopefully this will work on my website because i couldn't embed it live it was a bit weird uh into my website uh you can get in touch with me and if you get a ticket just get yourself a ticker uh i'll get in touch with you in 24 hours uh and contact you where we're gonna meet and what you need to bring right so that's on the 21st which is uh a sunday afternoon but but uh on the tweet on the on what day on the 14th of november on the 14th of november i got my night photography one now this one this has also been a popular one in the past before going around the rocks go to new areas new areas in the rocks not the same areas new areas dark areas who knows we might find a ghost we might not i don't know we'll just go out there and we'll just find really dark areas oh hello i'm supposed to show you a picture there we go night stuff there we go night there's people with their tripods you don't have to have a tripod do uh you know you might want to use your phone that it depends on how dark it gets depends on what kind of phone you've got you might have to use a tripod i mean look at that that was that was taken by one of my students right sue sue you oh no you're not on facebook so you wouldn't be watching this but you might watch another time um this one's taken by who was that that was jasmine jasmine's phone look at that that's cool photo yeah that's a nice little back area there just uh behind behind there we're gonna go into those little behind areas right so the aim of this workshop is to get you to understand the basics and fundamentals of just low light photography with them without a tripod that's really the key to what this session is all about and you know with that also uh you know all those hidden secrets in your camera's menu that you probably didn't even know about just to kind of get you to getting that photo quicker right because sometimes you kind of you know you want to do a certain type of shot and all of a sudden you know you're new to your camera or you you know you don't go meddling too much in your camera if you do that's awesome because if you do just make sure you know where the reset button is unless you kind of press it but just in case you press a button that really um you know not screws up your camera but just locks certain things out so um but you know i might kind of find an area that you know it'll depend as you know everybody's different everybody's learning is different so we kind of start very basic and then some of you i'll just kind of talk to you and just go hey did you know on your camera you can do that right so that's that's part of the whole thing tell your friends about it share those events for me that would be really nice and just kind of tell them how you've already been to it so in touch same again same again just buy a ticket right and i'll just get in touch with you 24 hours uh and i'll contact you with some information about what to bring or if you're not even really sure about what to bring yeah so um so that's the workshops you know there's something coming in december as well i'm just it could be a bit of a fire situation going i'm just trying to find the the place to do it at so there will be another one in december um i'm hoping that you if you're reading my if you're on my site and you've probably read a poll or a question i don't know i'm kind of hoping that that's all working let me go there's a tab here it's called in uh interacted to interactivity into interactor is no i can't even get so right that's interesting um i i have opened have i opened oh um no responses okay maybe because i'll open the cards again i don't know oh closed why is that closed it's open oh i i think i know why i think i can only run one question at a time whoopsies all right so you probably see that question coming up and if the pole is still there um what's my pole my pole is what is the oh there was um nothing there as well so i'll just reopen that pole because i just want to see if things work i'm just playing here i'm just playing i'm playing i'm happy and having a good time a little bit of a lubrication drink here i could give you a commercial breaky but i don't have one uh for this for this shot [Music] so i think it's now time for i need music for this part the vintage jam the vintage jam um every week i'll talk about something off the back shelf there off the back shelf it's something uh i might have something here around the front shelf because i've got stuff here as well that didn't fit over there but i go around and look if anybody would like to send me photos of their camera i could even or or send me send me the camera i'll put it up on the shelf and take a picture of it and you could you can you can donate it i don't know am i just being cheeky about that um i am yeah i mean probably but anyway so today's uh today's vintage camera today's vintage camera as i get ready to um to move it over is the good box brownie once again i bring to you to the table the box brownie but you know this is this is not just any box brownie this is a particular box brownie that was purchased in 1956 i know the story behind this particular between this camera here let me just have a look that i have another shot here do i have another shot there oh no not that one yet oh yes here we go uh i'll just show more pictures that's what i'm trying to do i'll start from there there we go that's the side view so this camera here actually belongs to marie chanel's dad marie chanel you know my wife top girl um she's a great model too so her dad got this for his birthday now he's 86 he's 86 right i think she's not listening that's okay um oh yes she's listening he's 86 i always get that wrong the guy's a legend right the guy's a legend so uh he says hey have this have this camera here so yeah i'm going to say the box the box cameras are probably without doubt the single longest line of a particular type of camera ever produced right they started in 1900 right and uh they went until 1962 right and this one here this is the kodak box brownie 620 model d right which is considered to be one of the more modern box cameras right so um and it's and it's really styled it's really bloody sexy actually um oh that's not the picture i should do this slightly different but i'm just going to go back to that shot that's a sexy looking camera right now uh as such as it's styled to look like you know it's so wonderful it was still aimed at the lower end of the market right so it had minimal controls but it was promised a frame size of a six by nine centimeter okay then so in terms of the the the size of the film which i'll talk a little bit more about that um what's really there's something that's really cool i mean on the side of the camera not that one there on the side of the camera if i show you the picture of the side there so you've got your little um you can see over here there's the little viewfinder so as you hold the camera in front of you you're looking down the viewfinder and that's what you see and on the side here or just there you'll see it's got close-up actually if i hold the camera here i can actually then suit myself oh it's got a b and a one and it's got close up right and so the whole idea of the the camera itself um i mean apart from the quality which is pretty kind of cool um the the the camera itself well actually look the the the 620 and the 620 funny you should we should ask this question 620 is the 620 is the film that they used to use it shoots on 620 film so 620 the model d uh these cameras were were produced from 1946 uh yes from from memory but yes but what i wanted to show you was that little button on side that says close up when i show you know i'm not showing you that one i'm just oh i've disappeared here we go that's what i want to show you that little video there so that's me just kind of pulling that lever out right and what that's doing there's um it's what they call a meniscal a lens i think it was ah what was it again um i'm just trying to remember it was called um oh bugger i've gone oh yes i'm a meniscus lens yeah i try to remember what it was called so basically the whole idea is that that lens there was for like things that were further away or closer so when you had it in the normal setting itself right uh it would be for things that were like 10 feet and above but when you had on the close-up it was things that were from about five to ten feet so a bit of a close-up uh close-up setting now the thing was um the film itself and i guess i just want to just show you on the back here and that's where that's where i'll now do this because then i can do a close-up so you can tell me if that close-up works well right so the film itself okay so this box comes out like that right and so there's a leader part of the of the film spool one of the film spools right so that kind of goes into there and then your new film will come into here and i'm just making sure you can see that it goes into here and it wraps around over and then back here okay and then when you're here when it's in the camera itself you then turn the spool and that then turns the um the film through now 620 film right um or six by uh well the the six means that the the film was actually six centimeters wide okay let's get that right six centimeters wide now there's actually a number of different types of film 120 film gives you a six by four five a six by six so if it's a six by six it's actually like a square shape this is a six by seven so it's more uh rectangular in shape you can then you uh you can do like a six bind actually sorry this is a six by nine so six this way and nine centimeters this way so a nice big wide um negative and that's the thing about big negative big senses is that you get a huge amount of detail and quality out of a big sensor i do believe i have some 620 well you still can't actually get 620 film and i'm gonna see if i can roll some up and take pictures with that because that would be really really cool so um so so then i'll just totally confuse you with that film again i'll just run through that process again so the the the the camera shoots 620 film that's what the film is called um which is a 120 a 120 medium format film it exposes six by nine centimeter pictures and you get about eight shots out of the one roll that's pretty much the the situation um there are cameras that are six four fives six by seven six by nines and a panoramic a six by 17. so the bigger the number the bigger the film same disc the same width which is six centimeters and then it's just the width obviously a 6x17 would be quite a large camera and in fact i've actually i've used i've had one of those cameras but i've never actually run a roll of film through it so um so film is still available for that and uh you know the lens i mean that's the beauty about the camera is that the lens is still incredibly clean the camera is so beautifully kept because well he kept it in the case and the whole situation oh that was another thing about this camera as well there's two points uh because with this one here you'll see there's two points there and that was for an extra flash attachment so i'm trying to find out how that connected up but there's somehow there was a connection to that and you would have to hold a flash yeah so just other things about this camera here so we've got our two um those two knobs there or they're more for your strap so you would have one strap there and uh where would the other strap the other strap oh actually i guess they would just sit like this like that let's try that yeah we have the uh the portrait viewfinder on the top there and we have the landscape portrait on there so if you're taking a shot in landscape mode and they're the lenses here right so that lens there is what's looking out of there and that lens there is what's looking out of there yeah uh on the side there as i said we've got our meniscal lens attachment and there's also the it shot at 140th of a second uh or i could have it in a b setting for to keep the camera open the shutter was down is down the bottom here so that's the shutter okay then and even though i can't put a cable release into it for the b setting it was one that actually had a tripod mount so at least you could put it onto a tripod and then actually just hold the button open for as long as you wanted to um to get your exposure the box brownie camry i've got to say you know box brownie cameras just one of those things that you kind of think you know there's so many of them that were made so many of them made uh that's a beautiful uh are beautiful oh hang on i'm just trying to still have that uh a beautiful not reproduction a version of it very clean indeed um i do i like the idea of using a camera down like this looking down when i was taking the picture as you saw a bit earlier just taking that picture actually i'll just show you that picture that i did there before which was that one there to be able to see you know that's my backyard there it was just so cool i just love the i just love the the old school of this right and you know you're holding it to your chest so you're keeping the camera steady not that it was in hugely uh an issue because the lens itself was was still kind of a uh you know probably about a 40 mil lens for so yeah it had quite quite a wide angle world to it so um what other things were there you know oh it's a little beautiful they have the front of that look at the front of that oh i need to bring my clothes up camera close-up camera number two isn't that beautiful i just i mean it's just so old-school um i just love it and it's just like a face isn't it it's just like a uh some kind of some kind of face what would you say it was a kind of face it was some kind of face so yes um old school i love the mech the mechanics the mechanics of it um you know the little red window at the back a little red window you can see the number on the back there and you just turn the dial it's just i just love that olds it reminds me when my my first camera which are my helena which i'll bring out one day again um it was just you know i don't know there's just something magical about a camera like that you know it's about that camera's about 510 grams not very not very heavy almost like a phone camera today isn't it but um yes so there we have it there we have it i have managed 57 minutes and 42 seconds of constant conversation not even knowing if people are out there anymore because my whole screen in front of me i can't tell that's where a producer would be sitting there and going like this or going like that because it might not be kind of anybody listening though but who knows who cares i'm having a lot of fun here i'd like to say thank you once again for those of you i can see that actually i can see there are some of you actually out there thanks for joining we're going to do this again next thursday send those questions in send those uh comments in send any of those things in i'm happy to to to answer any questions that you might want you do need to come to one of those workshops though just buy a ticket at dot com dot a u uh forward slash bookings and that will take you straight to oh actually you just go to smiley digital dot com don't know you it's right there on the front page you just get them straight there on the front page so um from me and have a safe weekend who knows next for next week i might get a haircut i might i was getting this little oh getting this little tail the back here i'm kind of thinking it's interesting the tail is looking interesting i don't know oh hang on maybe it's a bit hard to tell with that screen on the back there maybe like that you can see there's a bit of a tail going on but anyway i'd like to say thank you for uh for being here tonight and uh i'll see you next week eight o'clock bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] you
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