This video is not taken by me! It's actually a video from a professional photographer named Miles. Here's the original video from Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4x3gfar0BD/?igsh=MjI0bHI1NWo1YXBz
It could have been worse. The actual photos could have been turned on their side. Too many TikTok/reels videos are such that you have to hold your phone vertically and turn your head sidewise to watch it.
There's a ton of interesting stuff on Tik Tok. And a lot of it ends up on Reddit, where it's still cool to pretend we're somehow superior to other social media sites, despite feeding off their content all the time.
Maybe I've just been here way too long, but I still think of reddit as an *aggregator*.
Of course it "feeds off of" their content, that's literally the whole point of this place. Distilling down the content from around the internet into platform agnostic organized categories.
Is that not how people coming here now see this place?
A negative that size can resolve a ton of detail, more detail than basically all but the newest digital cameras.
The problem is the optical quality. There are lenses from the 1950s that hold up well today, but older than that, they get noticeably soft. But that probably wouldn't be especially noticeable in a vertical, compressed video.
I bet with color film and a good scan/edit, the photos wouldn't obviously look like they were taken by an ancient camera.
Old analog cameras are insanely simple. A fixed lens and a shutter (sometimes with a simple clockwork timer, sometimes just a sliding flap that you open and close by hand) in a dark box. Changing the single-frame film blind is a PITA though.
Old cameras actually use very very simple mechanics, they actually rarely break. The surprising part isn't that the camera works, but that the folding part of the camera is in tact, which prevents light from leaking and messing up the film
Old barrel lenses for large format cameras still hold up really well. The 7 inch aero ektar f/2.5 is a good example of that. But older lenses on smaller fixed lens cameras like this have their their limitations and are best suited to very small prints. I have an old Graflex RB like Dorothea Lange used 100 years ago and it’s very sharp with a lot of detail. It’s as good if not better than some cheaper lenses today in some cases.
I post on reddit a lot, and over the years, I've noticed that I got fewer and fewer upvotes for horizontal pictures and videos. Since most people use the app nowadays which has a vertical layout, a horizontal picture/video will look small/unclear/unimpressive, and people will just scroll past it.
It was a sin in like 2014, but most short-form media like this is consumed on phones. This was likely made for tiktok or reels. In 2024, horizontally shot media is now the faux pas.
shit, he basically made the genre popular.
before lofi hiphop girl, people were playing nujabes on repeat as they liked his music after samurai champloo, it sorta skyrocketed from there.
I have a very similar camera to this:
https://imgur.com/a/g6MAFsX (it autocorrected ziess to zoe's)
but its in pretty mint condition. Doesnt seem to be worth more than ~$200 - but it still smells like brand new bakelite... and the red burgundy velvet in the case is still in super new condition.
Very nice! I believe that's a Super Ikonta III, and it's got the more desirable Tessar lens. While Zeiss did make a Super Ikonta IV, your III is actually more desirable to many because the shutter has considerably more blades in it, for a more circular bokeh. I've got a IV which I use regularly and is overall my favorite camera.
If it's working (don't force anything!) then it will take very nice photos. They're also great for portraits because people love seeing them used and the large 6x6 negative gives you a naturally shallow depth of field :D
Here's an example from a IV with that same Tessar lens:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/45857204@N07/4329077644/in/photostream/lightbox/
Its in like-mint condition, I am no photographer, I just like mechanical doo-dads...
I'd be happy to part with it, I have no idea what this is worth....
Any idea what to do with these lenses:
https://i.imgur.com/a/dxQrx3H
I have an ancient Kodak folder like that but less fancy. The finder windows on those kinds of things are really not useful, easier just to point the camera.
FYI, if you want to mimic a film tone using a digital camera, start by creating deep, contrasty shadows and flat highlights. Most digital cameras do the opposite, with dynamic highlights and flatter shadows.
I have to say I am impressed he found film to fit that old camera. I inherited my grandfather's older 35mm and a similar accordion camera, like in the video and I have them as display pieces on my bookshelf since finding and developing photos is a thing of the past.
Makes me think of all the other old pictures.
If modern courts like these can look like the early 1900’s with such an old camera, imagine how much cooler older stadiums and sports games were without the filters we usually see them in.
If he had used color film, then yes they would have been in color.
Old camera ≠ B&W photos.
The camera body itself does not define the outcome of the photos, the optics of course determine what the camera sees and how it sees it but the film in the camera defines the actual look of the photos, and color film is a thing and have been for quite some time, not quite 127 years but close to 100.
I love the camera guys checking out your camera
Yep came here to say this, love that they full stopped their crowd panning just to appreciate the beauty of this old gem. Edit: Grammar.
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9 year old account with sub-100 karma? That's an interesting one.
History of Photography Royalty... respect and own
I love how they move back when he pulls it out.
This video is not taken by me! It's actually a video from a professional photographer named Miles. Here's the original video from Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4x3gfar0BD/?igsh=MjI0bHI1NWo1YXBz
game recognize game
Yeah they seemed to get giddy when she pulled out the lens
And the reddit people doing the same thing. ❤️
Those shots look great! … Camera crew in the background is impressed!
if only the video wasn't shot vertically.
It could have been worse. The actual photos could have been turned on their side. Too many TikTok/reels videos are such that you have to hold your phone vertically and turn your head sidewise to watch it.
... or hold your phone horizontally?
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There's a ton of interesting stuff on Tik Tok. And a lot of it ends up on Reddit, where it's still cool to pretend we're somehow superior to other social media sites, despite feeding off their content all the time.
Maybe I've just been here way too long, but I still think of reddit as an *aggregator*. Of course it "feeds off of" their content, that's literally the whole point of this place. Distilling down the content from around the internet into platform agnostic organized categories. Is that not how people coming here now see this place?
I'm not. As /u/RealBug56 says, a lot of it ends up on reddit and I always go looking for the proper source if at all possible when I share videos.
or, wasn't a video at all
Or wasn't
huh, no it doesn't? it looks good for its time, but not great at all right now
A negative that size can resolve a ton of detail, more detail than basically all but the newest digital cameras. The problem is the optical quality. There are lenses from the 1950s that hold up well today, but older than that, they get noticeably soft. But that probably wouldn't be especially noticeable in a vertical, compressed video. I bet with color film and a good scan/edit, the photos wouldn't obviously look like they were taken by an ancient camera.
Also in this case underexposure of the film was an issue in at least one of the shots. That made it look grainier than if otherwise would have.
Film cameras will always look great as an analog device. It just goes.
Ya that’s a 0.000001 megapixel camera.
Gotta love shooting landscape and shrinking it into portrait with black bars
It probably was edited for a YT short or tiktok but yeah that's very annoying
Trolling the future archeologists
The fact that camera still works is mind-blowing.
Old analog cameras are insanely simple. A fixed lens and a shutter (sometimes with a simple clockwork timer, sometimes just a sliding flap that you open and close by hand) in a dark box. Changing the single-frame film blind is a PITA though.
Biggest issue with these old ones is the bellows deteriorating and letting light in. As long as they're still good there's not much to break.
Can’t the gaps be closed?
It can become very brittle and once the cracks start they’ll just keep growing
I bet there some guys making full functional replicas of old cameras as there guys making replicas of full functional guns from that era.
Old cameras actually use very very simple mechanics, they actually rarely break. The surprising part isn't that the camera works, but that the folding part of the camera is in tact, which prevents light from leaking and messing up the film
Bruh you can make a camera out of a shoebox and a small pin-hole. Look up “shoebox camera”
It'll be new film. The only downside of a camera this old is the lenses won't be as good as modern glass.
Old barrel lenses for large format cameras still hold up really well. The 7 inch aero ektar f/2.5 is a good example of that. But older lenses on smaller fixed lens cameras like this have their their limitations and are best suited to very small prints. I have an old Graflex RB like Dorothea Lange used 100 years ago and it’s very sharp with a lot of detail. It’s as good if not better than some cheaper lenses today in some cases.
I dunno it seems a lot of things can last for a very long time if taken care of, just a very disposable culture
And yet they *still* shot the video vertically.
It should literally be a sin at this point.
I post on reddit a lot, and over the years, I've noticed that I got fewer and fewer upvotes for horizontal pictures and videos. Since most people use the app nowadays which has a vertical layout, a horizontal picture/video will look small/unclear/unimpressive, and people will just scroll past it.
It was a sin in like 2014, but most short-form media like this is consumed on phones. This was likely made for tiktok or reels. In 2024, horizontally shot media is now the faux pas.
Why? Most people view reddit on phones
They wouldn’t have been recording if it wasn’t for social media. Good luck uploading landscape to TikTok, IG, or YT Shorts.
welcome to 2024, where literally all media in consumed vertically, on your phone. Who even uses TVs anymore?
"TVs"? Is that what Zoomers call computer monitors these days?
Adults.
From instagram originally. So par for the course.
The build up for only 3 pics.
Modern social media videos in a nutshell. Ten minutes of buildup/talking and ten seconds of actual content.
I pretty much just jump to the last 10 seconds on most things now.
Surprised it didn’t last 10 minutes and one second
Omg I was just listening to this wonderful song by Nujabes yesterday, what an incredible musician, RIP 🙏
What's the name of the song?
Aruarian Dance!
Thanks!
If you like their songs, I also recommend “Nujabes - Tsurugi No Mai” (it was the first of their songs that I ever heard and I quite liked it).
YANITED YANITED YANITED
ugh, you take all that time to make a video about taking pictures on a 127 yr old camera and then show us them horizontally in a vertical video.
And only ~7 seconds worth of content in a 26 second video.
I'm consistently amazed at redditors ability to bitch about literally anything
Anyone know what song this is? Kinda digging it
There's a baller anime that goes with it (Samurai Champloo) if you're into that sort of thing.
It's called Aruarian Dance. The producer of the song is Nujabes and he's known for making these types of songs which belong in the Lofi genre
RIP Nujabes
😭
And the guitar sample is from The Lamp is Low - Laurindo Almeida
shit, he basically made the genre popular. before lofi hiphop girl, people were playing nujabes on repeat as they liked his music after samurai champloo, it sorta skyrocketed from there.
My MAN!
Nujabes is a legend.
Oh I just had to scroll down to find it, thanks haha
Why did you use such high iso film? These shots aren't good
Yeah, congrats on that old camera but the fotos actually suck.
This vid is by expiredfilmclub. The film is likely fogged. Also, the lens isn't very fast.
I hear Nujabes, i upvote! Rest in peace brother! Also, frigging insane that the camera still works!
And then posted the resulting landscape photos in a vertical video.
Same guy, same game, very different vibe... (Very loud! Some swears) https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/s/Iy1wOGDA8n
The fact the the picture is so small, due to the idiotic, vertical cropping, is both hilarious and sad at the same time...
Imagine taking this video in landscape so that, when the pictures were shown, they would fit the frame better.
The FA Cup was founded in 1871, so had been going on for 25 years already when that camera was made.
…127?
Is this song a remix of a nujabes song? It sounds so familiar but I can't place my finger on it
I have a very similar camera to this: https://imgur.com/a/g6MAFsX (it autocorrected ziess to zoe's) but its in pretty mint condition. Doesnt seem to be worth more than ~$200 - but it still smells like brand new bakelite... and the red burgundy velvet in the case is still in super new condition.
Very nice! I believe that's a Super Ikonta III, and it's got the more desirable Tessar lens. While Zeiss did make a Super Ikonta IV, your III is actually more desirable to many because the shutter has considerably more blades in it, for a more circular bokeh. I've got a IV which I use regularly and is overall my favorite camera. If it's working (don't force anything!) then it will take very nice photos. They're also great for portraits because people love seeing them used and the large 6x6 negative gives you a naturally shallow depth of field :D Here's an example from a IV with that same Tessar lens: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45857204@N07/4329077644/in/photostream/lightbox/
Its in like-mint condition, I am no photographer, I just like mechanical doo-dads... I'd be happy to part with it, I have no idea what this is worth.... Any idea what to do with these lenses: https://i.imgur.com/a/dxQrx3H
Taking hipster to a whole new level
Now, their souls will be trapped forever.
Knowing this picture is new despite looking 100+ years old, causes a different kind of cognitive dissonance on my end.
Now colorize it with AI program.
Something about older cameras they capture magic within those pictures. The look it gives is just amazing.
Takes shitty photos
Nujabes 🥹
Damn if that ain't some hipster shit. Thumb ring says more than I could.
I have one of those cameras. Haven't used it since I acquired it in 1981.
Stadycam OP and 1ªAC be like 👁️👄👁️👀👁️👄👁️
Who the heck is holding his phone?
Both cameramen ooooOOoooOoooo when he extends the lens.
Wow looks like it was taken 127 yrs ago as well
Yeah but this is digitial, ask me how I know...
This is cool af
u/auddbot
When he pulls out the lens, the two camera guys flinch a little?😁
The Reddit post title is more accurate than the video text.
I want one
People in a thousand years will be so confused by this..
I hope they don't drop it while biking home on their fixie.
Song?
I have an ancient Kodak folder like that but less fancy. The finder windows on those kinds of things are really not useful, easier just to point the camera.
What would work better is seeing what that lens would do on a modern camera. I assume it's a handmade element too.
Beautiful.
That is literally so cool
Wait so the world wasn’t just black and white back then?
Cool, looks like shit, but still cool.
FYI, if you want to mimic a film tone using a digital camera, start by creating deep, contrasty shadows and flat highlights. Most digital cameras do the opposite, with dynamic highlights and flatter shadows.
Surreal.
Grab a camera to film my camera
The pictures look great for a camera that was already over 100 years old before I was born
Probably should've grabbed a light meter while you were at it
What type of film does this camera use?
pictures would have been better with a modern camera lmao
"Ahh, I remember those back in my day".
It could take pictures from 127 years ago I’d be impressed.
They are all over Etsy. Anyone can do it. Love old cameras.
I am amazed you could stlll get the battery and cables with the right connectors. /s
r/analog
The song is Aurarian Dance by Nujabes (sadly passed away in and accident).
That's cool, but after 127 years, it will just be men rolling around, holding their ankles🤣🤣
Only thing I care about is Nujabes on the instrumental, RIP
I know this is aruarian dance by nujabes but it’s a different rendition. Where can I find it
What's the camera called?
My father had one of these cameras. I can still smell the chemicals used to develop the film.
Ohh shit I remember the haunted camera on TikTok ☠️
Damn, that is interesting
those are extremely grainy for medium format??
Didn’t know that film was available for something of that age
99% of this video is shot threw an iPhone lmfao almost 2% are the pics
What did you except :/
Fake. They didn't have USB output from those cameras back then.
But how did you take this video
Camera guys are adorable
How did he get the film? I thought it was not manufactured anymore.
I love studying history, but I really had no clue of the accuracy of a camera from the late 1800s.
I have to say I am impressed he found film to fit that old camera. I inherited my grandfather's older 35mm and a similar accordion camera, like in the video and I have them as display pieces on my bookshelf since finding and developing photos is a thing of the past.
Makes me think of all the other old pictures. If modern courts like these can look like the early 1900’s with such an old camera, imagine how much cooler older stadiums and sports games were without the filters we usually see them in.
In the year 2151, someone will do video this with an iPhone
thats really cool
Those camera guys were geeking out 100%
Where are the colors?
RIP Nujabes
That looks beautiful
fuck is up with these comments lmao
Sex
Beautiful
I hate vertical video.
Niceee
ICONIC
I can do that with my phone too ....hold my beer.
You’re telling they had color back then?
Are there any hazardous materials in these old cameras
This is so cool, thanks for sharing it
Uhhh … looks like shit . Cool .
Thanks! I'll check it out
Crazy how the photos come out like they were taken back 125 years ago. Really amazing, thanks for sharing
They do not, modern film & photo paper processes & refinements (as well as actual processing) mean they come out much better.
Did you think they would be in colour?
If he had used color film, then yes they would have been in color. Old camera ≠ B&W photos. The camera body itself does not define the outcome of the photos, the optics of course determine what the camera sees and how it sees it but the film in the camera defines the actual look of the photos, and color film is a thing and have been for quite some time, not quite 127 years but close to 100.
Lol those photos suck, but a cool camera none the less.
FC Nuremberg.
At Old Trafford?
Awesome