Have you ever compared digital photography vs film photography, or vice-versa? However, does it even mater because the camera is simply a recording device in the hands of photographer with a creative eye. Over the last 12 month, I have received many questions related to my experiences with medium format film, why I started using medium format digital, what I think of the two mediums, and when will I be using film again. So I thought I would wrap all this up in one blog that touches on what I think of each camera. And, I will tell you why I think my camera is just a tool that I use for me creative project. 

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The medium format digital camera is awesome for panoramic landscape photography.  The medium format digital camera is awesome for panoramic landscape photography. In todays video, I share with you my landscape photos from my fifth day on New Zealand's South Island. This is part of a series of videos that take me on a multi day journey with the Fujifilm GFX 50sII. The spirit of the journey is adventure and to experience new challenges. It follows the mountains in New Zealand South Island to photograph glaciers. Sample panoramic landscape photos   The Fujifilm GFX cameras have many aspect ratios to choose from, and one of them is 65 x 24. All the photos from this day were taken using the...

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The medium format digital camera is awesome for panoramic landscape photography.  The medium format digital camera is awesome for panormaic landscape photography. In todays video, I share with you my landscape photos from my fourth day on New Zealand's South Island. This is part of a series of videos that take me on a multi day journey. The spirit of the journey is adventure and to experience new challenges. It follows the mountains in New Zealand South Island to photograph glaciers. Sample panoramic landscape photos   The Fujifilm GFX cameras have many aspect ratios to choose from, and one of them is 65 x 24. All the photos from this day were taken using the 65 x 24 aspect ratio,...

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner talks how to expose Fuji Velvia 50 correctly. In this video, I use my Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera, Fuji Velvia 50 and graduated ND filters to take landscape photos. To make sure I get correct exposures for my for my slide film, I use my Sekonic light meter to take spot meter readings.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Mamiya 7 and Fuji Velvia 50 for landscape photography. In this video I use my Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera, Fuji Velvia 50 and graduated ND filters to take landscape photos of a giant sand dune in New Zealand. To make sure I get correct exposures for my slide film, I use my Sekonic light meter to take spot meter readings.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Mamiya 7 and Provia 100F for landscape photography. In this video, I use my Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera and Fuji Provia 100 to take landscape photos of giant redwood trees in New Zealand. To make sure I get correct exposures for my slide film, I use my Sekonic light meter to take spot meter readings.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses his Mamiya 7 and Kodak Ektar 100 for landscape photography. In this video, I shoot Kodak Ektar 100 with my Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera. I take landscape photography photos of giant sand dunes in New Zealand. To make sure I get correct exposures for my slide film, I use my Sekonic light meter to take spot meter readings. I use graduated natural density filters to control the highlights in the scene.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Mamiya 7 and Ilford Pan F for landscape photography. Is this video, Stephen uses Ilford Pan F Plus 50 for B&W landscape photography in the far north of New Zealand. All the images were taken with his Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera and to make sure he gets correct exposures for his black and white film, he use his Sekonic light meter to take spot meter readings.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer tutorial New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner talks how to scan slide film at home. Scanning colour slide film is easy with the right guidance and tools. In this tutorial I will show you how to scan colour slide film with my Epson V800 flatbed scanner and Silverfast software, so that you can digitalise your slide film and edit the it in Lightroom or Photoshop. Watch this tutorial video on how to scan slide film   Watch this tutorial video on how to colour calibrate your scanner  

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A New Zealand landscape photographer medium format film camera review New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner reviews the Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera. The Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera system is awesome for landscape photography. Take a look at my review of this system, which includes sample photographs taken with it and its 50mm, 80mm and 150mm lenses. Stephen used the Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera for my landscape photography work in 2020. In this video there is a slide show of his images taken with the Mamiya 7 and three of its lenses. He talks about its general features, lens options, things he likes, what he thinks are the shortcomings of the system, and why he...

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