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Billy Newman Photo Podcast Feed https://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/billynewmanphotopodcast 154 Billy Newman Photo podcast mixdown Developing film and Converting old tapes Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast for the first week of September 2020. I hope everybody's doing well. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode. I wanted to talk a little about the start of September, some of the stuff I've been up to. It's cool, and I just finished a roll of film here pretty recently. Like I think during this last week when I was out traveling around, and I haven't finished a roll of film in a while, I've been shooting mostly on the digital camera that I've got kind of moved over to canon equipment back in 2018. And I've been shooting with that for, and I guess now almost two years is what it's coming up too. And so, during that time, I picked up a Canon film camera.And I've been using the Canon lenses that I have for my digital camera. On the Eos system over on an older canon film camera from I think the late 90s is what I was able to pick up. So I went over on like kth comm. I think this was this is probably like nine months ago or so at the beginning of the year. And I picked up a really inexpensive Canon camera body was like $35, something like that, to, to pick up this camera, mostly plastic in the body, but it has a bunch of the manual controls that you would expect from the sort of mid-range SLR sort of like the five D Mark, or you know, the five D Mark, the five D line, you know, whatever when you want to pick, but it's not the full professional build model. But it's definitely not the lower-end one. So yeah, it has like kind of the same layout of buttons and stuff on it as you can get with the more modern layout of cannon buttons and stuff. So most of it's really the same as it kind of translates back from one to the other. But it's a cool, pretty simple camera, and it's got, I think, like three focus points, three autofocus points on the inside. And that works fine for the kind of simple stuff that I was trying to do. But it's cool I was a cargo by I'm out here at a wildlife refuge spot. And I was checking out sort of has changed now that it's September 1, they've cut all the grass that they grow in these fields out here, that's all been cut, bailed, driven off. And then now it's like been tilled up, and there's like dirt and rocks and like all of these big multi-acre fields that kind of a stretch on out here. So we're working with this canon film camera, this, I can't remember what the name of it is. But it's got pretty simple controls, and it's been easy to use. It has a weird battery. Maybe I have talked about that before. The kind of tricky thing about some of these late 90s SLR cameras is that they take this sort of proprietary about these almost proprietary disposable batteries. I think this one is something sort of like to sort of fat double A's that are bonded together. And then kind of wrapped in this, you know, this little casing unit and that's supposed to like fit in your camera, and then the power of the camera for a couple of rolls or something like that it works fine. But I always kind of prefer the double-A or something that's a little more standard. They understood that they needed certain batteries to deliver more power for certain mechanisms. But I think now they've got that pretty well figured out with different series or different sets of series of double A and triple A batteries that they can use. Like that, the lithium-ion double-A batteries seem to work fine. And a lot of the stuff that I've used before, even just you know, the basic Duracell stuff has always worked fine. These are, these are weird batteries. So there, you know, like really thick, kind of, like if you took a double-A battery, and it was made playdough you took a double-A just kind of squished it a centimeter smaller than it was and kind of got it fatter on the sides. That's sort of what it looks like. And like I was saying, Yeah, bound together as I set it to and then put into the camera, and I haven't had to replace it in a year, but really, I've only shot through one roll. So I think like when I shoot with the Nikon f4, I think that takes a proprietary battery, but if you have the double-A battery pack system that attaches to it, and that's what I had so that one took like, took like six double-A batteries that went into the base and into the handle of the camera. And you could get about ten rolls of film shot with just that one set of batteries. And for me that would last a really long time. But if you'd imagine, you know, 10 rolls of film is you know, Max 36 frames. So if you multiply that out, it's you know, it's not more than a day's worth of shooting if you're if you're kind of shooting an event or like a wedding Or a sporting event, or something like that, where you're going to be expected to come back with a lot of frames that you, you know, develop and produce and then pick from. But for most of this kind of like, landscape work that I'm up to, or you like, this sort of stuff, it's a lot slower, it's a lot easier in a lot of ways to put together and a little more steady way. And so yeah, 10 roles, or, you know, like, I'm not going to shoot through 10 roles in the next two years, probably. Because it's, you know, sort of novelty thing for me to shoot now, but it's cool. I got that film role finished, I think, yeah, like I was saying it was probably from January till near the end of August now. So it's really not like a fast pace, it's probably like two or three frames a month that I've been shooting, but it's at a number of the different camps and stuff that I've gone to over the last year are different like trips and stuff that I've gone through different little spots that I was at. So I hope that there's some cool stuff on there. It's kind of fun when you go back and check. And you see, like what you got. And if you haven't, like, duplicate it over, or at least if I noticed, I haven't really duplicated over the the photo sets with, you know, a bunch of digital images of the same location, and then a bunch of film photos that same location have I really like crossed over too much. It's really almost a surprise to me what I when I developed the role, and I see some frames over there, I think, oh, man, I've heard you know, I've never seen this photo before, I never got to look at the back of the screen, just have to see how this photo would come out. I didn't I didn't get to pull it up on my computer yet. So you kind of look back to this thing that happened, you know, six or seven months ago, and you go, oh, man, I remember taking a picture of it, but I had never seen it. And so it's kind of fun getting to capture some of that stuff. And get to go through and check it out. And yeah, sometimes there's a there's a cool quality to the film photos that come out. But this is the first role that I put through this camera. So we'll see if it if it comes out at all, I don't really know how to develop it now that we're in sort of the, the COVID staff that we've been going through during 2020. I know like a lot of businesses and now opened up again or you know, like back into operations. But there's also sort of some strange protocols of how different things work. So I was trying to kind of figure that out and see if there was delays or something to it. But I think that, that I'm able to take it down to a spot. And they can probably develop it in house over a couple days. But well, no, I think it's still send out. Yeah. So I think it kind of depends on like, what what the, you know, what the location in Portland is doing or something right? I'm not really sure. It's kind of interesting, I think they can do a lot of C 41 processing in house. So maybe it's easier for him than what I'm thinking. But I was looking at a couple different services. So there's always kind of the idea where, if you're in a bigger market, you probably got a couple more options than I do. But out he
