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My parents gave me a Pentax k1000 last November with a range of lenses, a 50mm, 135mm and a crazy 500mm mirror F8, which must have been difficult to use!
I recently received back my first roll and was surprised that I had managed to expose them correctly!
Anyone else still using film?
Which camera have you got and what is your favorite film?
Yep, from time to time as an exercise in slowing myself down, not burst shooting, and exposure
I have a Nikon FM from the year I was born (35th birthday present) as well as a Minolta X300. The Nikon tends to be loaded with B&W as I can develop it myself as well - mix of Ilford, Rollei Blackbird and Adox Silvermax. The Minolta is usually loaded with colour film, either Velvia 50 for classy stuff or cheap Agfa Vista from when Poundland were doing it for a quid a roll - I bought £20 worth which will last me ages...
no, and I'm actually vaguely wondering whether to sell mine. Had a shufti at ebay over Xmas, and I'm amazed that a film SLR from 2000 is worth more on Ebay than a dSLR from 2006.
And even more amazed that a film compact from 1998 is apparently worth more than both.
Who's buying then??
Do you trust the light meters on them or use an app?
I've still got a Nikon FM2 and 2 Olympus OM1n's but haven't used them in years. Unless I was setting my dark room back up as well I can't see myself using film again.
Light meters seem to be fine on both cameras. I have a separate light meter (not an App, I trust those less than I trust the hardware!) if I need it.
I really enjoyed using the Pentax, see something you like , snap it and move on. You just have to accept what you got and move on, I'll definitely be using it more.
The light meter on mine seems to be accurate enough, I'll test it against the app and see.
Very reluctantly sold my much beloved Hasselblad 500CM before Christmas (finishing up work on the house so needed to raise the funds). I thoroughly enjoyed using it - it was wholly manual so forced me to slow everything down and be much more deliberate when taking pics.
As to favourite film - not one in particular - you can have great fun finding expired film on ebay and seeing what comes of them.
Hopefully will be buying a replacement towards the end of 2020 when funds allow it again.
Had fun this year with an original Olympus trip 35 , gave it to my daughter , take great
shots selenium metering so no battery solar powered so its the future tech!
Surprised about how many folks she said mentioned the trip and how they remember them.
Unfortunately whilst cheap they often have gummed up aperture blades - can be fixed DIY
howto on youtube.
Cost is a factor 36 shots , so we have been playing with 1/2 frame - 72 shots - its half price
apart from the prints.
Olympus Pen is the key word EE models are point and shoot with selenium powered auto metering
Again they may need fettling for stuck blades , it takes ages to get through 72 shots , nearly done the 1st film , can be printed in normal labs apparently - its cheaper fun with 1/2 frame.
I've been hanging on to mine in the vain hope someone will see a market opportunity and make reasonably priced digital backs for them.
Sitting on a couple of decent medium formats and a OM1 with a heap of lenses (plus Nikonos etc)
Surprised about how many folks she said mentioned the trip and how they remember them.
I think I gave my Trip to my sister when I got an Olympus XA. That was a great little camera, rangefinder focusing and aperture priority. Although it had no manual setting you could use the film speed setting as a method of exposure compensation.
Timely thread as I just picked up a Pentax ME Super, Super A, 50mm 1.7 M, 50mm 1.7 A, Bell and Howell 28mm, 35-100 f3.5 A, and some other bits like battery grips/winders, teleconverters, flashes and (some very analogue looking) remotes for £100 off facebook! Not the biggest bargain in the world but was buying off someone who knew nothing about cameras selling a deceased relatives collection. I was optimistically hoping for a 1.4 A or even a 1.2, but happy with what I ended up with and it's condition, especially as I couldn't even turn them on to test them!
The ME Super needs some work as it keeps sticking, either the shutter doesn't fire or gets stuck mid way through. Will have to take it apart and give it a service. I've got an old ME super which has the symptoms of the ribbon cable having snapped so between them should be able to build a working camera.
The Super A, either I need to check the manual or the 'computer' is playing up as I can't get the aperture and shutter on the LCD to agree with what my brain thinks would be right.
Some of the lenses also need some TLC to the mechanisms.
Could just sell the working items as is for a profit but quite like the idea of a winter project stripping and cleaning them.
forced me to slow everything down and be much more deliberate when taking pics.
That's what I like about them, I've a K5 that objectively produces just as good images with the same lenses. But I just don't have the discipline to not take junk photos.
Digital - take 200-300 pics in a day, one might make it to the desktop background, the rest never look at any of them ever again.
Film - 4-5 off each roll end up framed on the wall.
I have a Nikon F5 which is superb and also uses all my lenses of my digital Nikons which is a huge bonus. The metering is spot on which considering it was a very expensive pro camera speaks volumes for Nikon quality.
I grew up on fully manual cameras so even now I'm not a machine gun user with my D4, D500, D810 or D3 digital bodies.
It's like vinyl for me, I love the idea, but I'm not sure I can be bothered with the practicalities! I do have a fisheye lomo that is film though and gets an occasional outing, it's REALLY low-fi photography though.
My eye has currently been drawn by a rangefinder style digital fujifilm X100(.) camera, small enough to carry most places, fixed lens length so forces you to think about the shot or move for it and decent picture quality, but that's not really in the spirit of this thread!
It’s like vinyl for me, I love the idea, but I’m not sure I can be bothered with the practicalities! I do have a fisheye lomo that is film though and gets an occasional outing, it’s REALLY low-fi photography though.
Vinyl = Film, I can see the analogy in that both are a slower process with delayed gratification. And users with entrenched opinions will argue on the internet forevermore over which is best until some other technology supersedes digital cameras (google glass, or do phones already count?) and in 30 years time someone notices that "film camera sales exceed digital for the first time since the 90's".
LOMO/Holga is more like a kids keyboard with a drum machine function, trying to play Beathoven's 5th and telling people it's about the composition not the instrument.😂
Never stopped using film since my first camera 40 years ago. Cameras are cheap - £20 for a little used EOS650 with a lens, then expired film bought bulk. It was the camera I took on our last four big holidays. Not because I prefer film - with digital I found that every holiday produced 1,500 pretty useless images and had been viewed more or less through a little screen. With film, it's one or two considered photos a day - meaning the holiday is a holiday. As for accurate exposure or perfectly focused photos - who cares, I'm not selling them. Besides you can still scan them in and play on photoshop if that's your thing.
And yes, some are silly prices. Currently selling my Olympus Mju thing, a 35mm compact. It may well fund the purchase of a used Fuji XT-1.
Yep sure do - 35mm (F3 / / FE / M6) / medium format (RB67 / C330) and large format 5x4's. Couple of enlargers in the garage - happy days.
I've probably not used my Nikon F80D in about 10years. I used to use Velvia & Provia I think if I was feeling flash, or Kodachrome. I probably gave up on it due to the faff/expense of posting it off to get developed & then to either use a projector or get prints or a CD. I never went digital, as I thought it remove the simplicity & limitations of a proper camera, and I'd probably end up taking hundreds of duff photos rather than taking my time to get a handful of good photos per roll, which would be an achievement.
Maybe I'll get back into it some day...
If anyone is interested in a colour enlarger, I have one going spare...
Working in central London it's much easier having plenty of places that'll develop medium format films relatively cheaply (and well - typically cheap != good)
I do have a digital camera - Fujifilm X-pro thing that's fitted with a fast prime and that goes everywhere with me. But it is the practice and focus of film that makes it much more deliberate and enjoyable for me. My father is a mad keen photographer (and a very good one - has the fellowship of the Royal Photographic thingy etc) - he's purely digital and going out with him is a contrast; he'll shoot thousands of pics and then spend hours and hours in the digital darkroom selecting the best pics, editing and finally printing them on the massive large-format printer he's got. He takes some amazing pics and he has a very good eye, but it's probably 20-30% with the camera in hand, 70-80% process coming after he's got them on the computer.
For me, film photography is loaded the other way - my process and practice is at the 'sharp' end - being more considered about each shot (if nothing else, especially with MF, each shot costs ££), then it's off to the developers and that's where photography stops, beyond having some occasionally enlarged and printed in a bigger format. 99% focused on the process of taking pics - framing, lighting etc etc. The shutter goes down, it's pretty much done.
I guess it might be different if we had the space to put a proper darkroom in.
Love analogue photography, but I'm at the other end of the scale. It's all Lomo and lofi for me. I have a Diana Mini and a Fuji Instax. Thinking about getting one of the new Lomo DIY cameras with the liquid lens.
It's actually influenced my digital work now too - unless it's for a specific purpose that I need one of my 'decent' cameras for, I've gone back to using older and cheaper digital cameras mostly - much of my 'serious' photography is currently done with an HTC Desire HD that I found at the back of a drawer... If not that then a Fuji XP130 with a scratched lens protector in 'toy Camera' mode.
Happy being an outlier.
@tinas - I feel more like a kid bashing pans with a spoon as a fitting analogy.
@colournoise - I think you should do it for the reasons you enjoy it, not to produce perfect images. If the images connect to fun memories, all the better.
As well as the Oly trip and Pen in prev post we have a bunch of Nikon gear F,FE,F4,F90 , medium format RB67,Super 23, and 3 large format view cameras in the loft - MPP monorail and technicals waiting for some project time, lucky to have enlargers stashed away that go up to 5x4 so it’s all possible with time.
I would but the cost of getting films developed is off putting. If I could get my act together and dev my own films then i would start with film again.
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I would but the cost of getting films developed is off putting. If I could get my act together and dev my own films then i would start with film again.
If you write to truprint customer services they'll send you a load of those turquoise envelopes so you can still get it done for a few quid!"
If you write to truprint customer services they’ll send you a load of those turquoise envelopes so you can still get it done for a few quid!”
TINAS - A mate of mine tried that recently and got the following message back by email, linking to their website:
Does Truprint still process film?
Truprint no longer offer an analogue film processing service, however www.filmprocessing.co.uk offer these services. Contact details are as follows:
Tel No: 01752 668484
Email address: info@colourfilm.co.uk
I have way too many cameras, most of which never get used. SLR-wise, got a few Pentax ME Supers which I love. And a Leica M3 which gets used mostly in the summer when it’s easier to get exposure right as I don’t have a working light meter.
This thread reminds me to look out for some film deals and stock up. I only shoot BW and develop at home. Then scan negatives and get prints from the scans. Paying for development in shops is way too expensive. Not sure if any are still doing it but used to use ads in photo mags placed by retired ex-Fleet St darkroom blokes who would offer good price and quality developing
Why would it be £1 more to develop 120 film than 35mm? Different machine?
TINAS – A mate of mine tried that recently and got the following message back by email, linking to their website:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO............... end of an era.
Why would it be £1 more to develop 120 film than 35mm? Different machine?
Duno, there's probably more to it than that though there's less than half the exposures too. Might be more labor intensive too when you account for having to setup the machine for each roll because unlike 35mm the exposure isn't a standard size.
To the people who use scanners, which ones are you using?
I've had a bit of success using the DSLR method and inverting on photoshop, but its not always consistent.
I have couple still but never use them. Sold my 1967 Nikon F1 mot recently for a lot of money for an unusable body with all the vinyl falling off and huge amount of paint worn off.
Can’t understand it myself.
The best thing about film was the way it taught you to choose/plan your shot rather than scattergun everything. It may not cost money to fire off 100 frames but it costs a lot of time to go through them.
And now folk won’t get the fun of going on a shoot overseas with 6 people 50 rolls of film and the target of 6-7 major articles, a dozen smaller stuff and some banker shots for future use. And all with no idea if it worked until you come back and get a roll processed.
And now folk won’t get the fun of going on a shoot overseas with 6 people 50 rolls of film and the target of 6-7 major articles, a dozen smaller stuff and some banker shots for future use. And all with no idea if it worked until you come back and get a roll processed.
Haha, I briefly worked as DIT for a few TV shows, that stress is very much still there even with Digital 😂
At least with film you dont have the stress of having to wipe cards for the next day, i did back up that shot to three drives didnt I, wait why is that one a couple of TB smaller, wait, STOOOPPPPPPPPP, shit 🤢😭
Scanner - have old Epson V500 , its old but impressive - best to get something with good dust/scratch removal , i think all the V series are good but not cheap new.
I still like film for B&W work. My Nikon F80 died and when I saw what the second hand prices were like on Ebay I replaced it with a Bronica ETRSi with 2 backs and 3 lenses for ~£150. I use a separate meter since a) it doesn't even have one and b) the phone based ones I tried were not very accurate.
I develop at home - you don't even need a darkroom, just a changing bag until you get the film into the developing tank. Developing costs are probably higher for 120 since you use more chemistry...you can get 2x35mm films in my developing tank at once, or a single 120...although a commercial operation is unlikely to be using tanks like these.
Favourite film? Depends...Ilford Delta 100 for fine grain, Delta 3200 for golfballs...
i did back up that shot to three drives didnt I, wait why is that one a couple of TB smaller, wait, STOOOPPPPPPPPP, shit 🤢😭
Ouch!
Currently selling my Olympus Mju
Are they actually worth anything? I've have one sat in the glove box of my car for the past 10yrs...
Edit - ebay seems to think they are 🤔 & I have a Mju 11 ultra compact with 35mm lens 😁
My Mju was also in the glovebox for years until some 35mm forum pointed out the value. Good for street. I did put a film through it in Dec - not a bad camera at all. Prefer my XA2 or Trip or Blackbird,fly or any of the cheap Russian things....
Anyone know of a guide to taking lenses apart?
I've got a Bell and Howell 28mm with a sticking iris, it's worth nothing but I fancy a tinker and maybe converting it for video use. I'm guessing there won't be the equivalent of a haynes manual for it but there might be a generic guide to dismantling, cleaning, lubrication etc.
The digital camera effectively ended my old job. I was a photographer at the MOD and when something was getting blown up you better have someone who's going to be able to get a good shot without checking the result before pressing the fire button. And you needed someone who could clean and load a camera properly that was going to go through 400 feet of 16mm film in a fraction over 2 seconds. And as well as that you needed someone who could process all the film, nothing could ever go off site for processing or printing. It made for a great job having to do absolutely everything in house.
Once digital cameras arrived and more importantly high speed digital cameras the scientific staff could do a lot for themselves and the need for specific photographers became much less. I left before it got to that stage, not because I had any great insight into what was happening but it turned out to be a good move for me. Those that decided to stay all moved further and further away from actually taking photos and found themselves in different roles
I believe, like vinyl, they have been undergoing a renaissance. I may be able to flog my Contax 139 even if it is a bit ropy.
Anyone know of a guide to taking lenses apart?
there are tons of guides on Youtube - there is a guy who is very good lookup mikeno62
Got an Olympus mju2, Canon EOS30 and a Toyo 5x4 which I only ever used a couple of times. I also have 2 or 3 films and a dozen or so medium format slides which still need developing, and some 15 year old prepaid Fuji envelopes 😀
I started using my second roll of film at the weekend and got through about 6 shots of my family when I realised I hadnt changed the ASA setting from 400 to the 200 that it should have been for Kodak gold.
Anyone know if that sort of film can tolerate that amount of what I'm guessing is underexposure?
Ref 400/200 asa Kodak Gold depending on the subject it will make a varying difference , whilst print film generally has a wide margin - especially designed for point and shoot , if you have subjects with a light or sky background it will make them a bit dark, unless you applied the needed compensation , or the camera did it for you with some wizzy metering, then they should be OK, its a 1 stop difference , the printers may auto adjust too. Tolerance depends on subject and the post exposure techniques needed to get an acceptable result , thats where all the highlight/shadow detail stuff comes in and and .. you missed the shot, the expensive way is to bracket of course, can also get some nice effects with under/over if the printer does not correct.
Yep, got a nice little collection of stuff I've picked up from Charity shops, use a lot of vintage lenses on my Fuji XH-1 & X-Pro 1. Got this lot on display at home to annoy the wife...I've used them all at least once after repairing them. There is a nice little photoshop in Penzance that develop and scan the photos onto my penstick for about a fiver for standard colour (B&W is about 8 quid)
Pentax MX
Yashica MAT LM (medium format)
Yashica Electro 35 GT
Kiev 4A
Zeiss folding camera
Konica Pop
Agfa Optima Sensor
Rollei 35T
Olympus XA
Pentax Auto 110 SLR
Minolta 110 Zoom SLR
Zenit EM
Whilst we have a stack of film cameras to use as as per prev posts , at the end of last year I picked up a couple of Fuji X100`s for peanuts because they had the common fault of stuck aperture blades, so you only get to shoot at F2 , despite this "restriction" a combination of large sensor and excellent jpeg engine/film simulation and overall handing (almost silent operation) they have been a real treat, having a film Leica the Fuji X100* absolutely give you the nearest to film experience in my view.
@finishthat - Dammit, you aren't doing anything to discourage my ebay hunting, they all seem to sell for a really decent price (I presume because they are worth it)! A lot of the time the T models go for close enough to a reasonable F.
Yeah the X100 series do fetch a fair price , remember the ones I got were both faulty, so around £100 ,
for me thats fine as they work, just with the aperture stuck at F2, I thought I could fix them myself but it turns out the fix may be a bit harder than I thought so for the moment I am happy to use them as is, outdoors there is never camera shake due to high shutter speed , and there is a built in ND filter that can be assigned an Fn button if it gets too bright. Also and I am a bit of a stickler for this - because they did not cost much they are not "precious" so I can take them anywhere without stress, its the same as the expensive watch thing if you wont take it with you why have it?
Whilst we have a stack of film cameras to use as as per prev posts , at the end of last year I picked up a couple of Fuji X100`s for peanuts because they had the common fault of stuck aperture blades, so you only get to shoot at F2 , despite this “restriction” a combination of large sensor and excellent jpeg engine/film simulation and overall handing (almost silent operation) they have been a real treat, having a film Leica the Fuji X100* absolutely give you the nearest to film experience in my view.
+1 on Fuji's - the X100 is ace. I lucked out and found a 'beater' X-Pro2 (missing its card door), well-used, battered but functionally perfect. Stuck it in a case, cheap fast prime lens on the front, and it goes everywhere with me. Keep an eye out on LCE website and the various other usual 2nd hand camera kit online stores. Often they seem to have PX bargains that cosmetically aren't great and hence sell at a price whereby you don't need to be precious about it.
Does anyone digitise their film negatives? Is there a way to retain the 'film look' with scanners?
I may get an epson V600 in the future.
Does anyone digitise their film negatives? Is there a way to retain the ‘film look’ with scanners?
It will always look like film IME. The dynamic range of the scanner should be higher than the film, and 6400dpi is ~58 mega pixles on 35mm film. SO what you get on the screen isn't much different to what you'd get on an enlarger. Light passes through the negative and ends up on a photosensitive receiver whether it's paper or electrical.
Although different people mean different (and often conflicting) things when they say "film look". Anything from wide angle, shallow d.o.f, grainy (at >400iso), detailed (at iso 50), higher color dynamic range / more vivid, lower color dynamic range / less saturated, etc.
interesting programme on the radio today about the dying days of the darkroom and chemical photography. Slightly strange listening to photography on the radio but quite an interesting bit of radio non the less.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d70k
“Garry, I’ve just been offered 11 litres of CibaChrome, you want it?"
We join him as he uses up the very last of the chemistry which enable him to use the techniques he has spent a lifetime perfecting, before his dark room is closed forever. Reflecting a change out of his studio and in the world - in 2007 there were 204 professional dark rooms in London, by 2010 there were 8.
I listened to that maccruiskeen it was good, strange to think there is someone out there who is the the very last person to be doing something.
It brought back memories for me of making cibachrome prints some 25 years ago. I recalled the total and absolute darkness you had to work in and it was a lot trickier to colour balance I found that printing from negatives. The prints were also very easy to damage while processing but once dry it was easier to tear a telephone directory in half that a gash print! They certainly had a unique look with the incredibly glossy finish, I've probably got some prints still in a box somewhere, I'll have to go on a hunt for them.
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I saw an interesting video about the last roll of Kodacrome on Youtube recently
Another interesting one from yesterday
I recalled the total and absolute darkness you had to work in
I did at first think it was an odd choice of subject matter for radio but I guess it would have made for weird TV too 🙂
having exclusively shot 10x8, 5x4, 6x6 transparency for about 15 years i couldn’t wait to see the back of it!
all the linhof/hassleblad gear is sold off. i just don't get the ‘romance’ and hipster interest. don't get me wrong it sometimes has a certain quality and i was heavily into cold cathode enlargers, high acutance developers (rodinal, HC-110) and had stacks of silver heavy papers like oriental seagull and Agfa brovira but if you are producing work for clients then digital all the way. time is money, and digital produces better results.
i’m sure those hipsters would think differently if they had to use it every day to pay the mortgage and keep clients happy. so much time wasted waiting for film to come back from the lab and not being able to strike a set and move onto the next shot.
having to batch test film and add 5-red or green to keep it neutral and then the lab would change something and the tones would shift.
I'd agree for pro use it's much easier quicker and more reliable on digital. My skills were no longer needed once digital got into the world of proper high speed filming. I was thinking last night that I took photos on all formats and filmed with 16mm, processed B&W C41 and E6, printed from all of them, processed 400 feet rolls of 16mm VPN and telecined them and mixed up all the chemistry to do it. I enjoyed the variety though. I guess I was lucky in that due to what we did it all had to be done in house so we didn't outsource anything. All that has gone, huge amounts of kit just went into skips.
A similar thing has happened in the av industry I'm now in with presentations. Today we'll typically run with a main and back up laptop which will play and show everything going to screen. I used to be back set on some shows with a data projector and slide projector and on the desk VHS, U-Matic, Betacam and DVD players all of which needed cueing up and playing in. It is so much easier now with a fraction of the kit
Only last week I threw out a full screen blending and matrix kit that had cost around £20,000 10 years ago, all analogue though so useless now. Same thing happened to a broadcast quality standards converter that had cost a similar amount.
I don't get that people still want to use film, I also get the feeling that they do it to be "different" rather than having any real merit in using film.
Digital cameras have done to film what MP3s have done to LPs.
The only positives I can see from using a film camera is it forces you to consider your image a little more, because your film is limited and you can't see the end result until its been developed. If you've screwed it up, that moment is gone. Also film cameras generally have less automatic exposure choices, so they help you learn and understand exposure better.
I still miss using my Pentax Super A.... but my Pentax KP is so much better to use.
I don’t get that
Yes you do, you explain it 3 sentences later. What you mean is, "This doesn't appeal to me".
In a world where you can buy a tap that saves you having to boil a kettle of water to make instant coffee. Sometimes it's nice to have a task/hobby to focus on, rather than just it's results. Damn hipsters using their kettles to boil water slowly.
If you’ve screwed it up, that moment is gone. Also film cameras generally have less automatic exposure choices, so they help you learn and understand exposure better.
I still miss using my Pentax Super A…. but my Pentax KP is so much better to use.
But then if you judge a camera by the percentage of good images it produces the film one probably wins.
You can extend the argument further and a cameraphone comes out better than the KP, because the lack of DoF and massive levels of sensitivity, shake reduction, and noise reduction that's possible means every images comes out Ok, all you have to do is point it at something worthwhile.
Took my k5 for a walk at the weekend with an old f3.5 35-105 manual lens, my OH got better pics of the dog with her phone.
It's a fun, tactile experience with the film camera and yes it is different, it's nice to be different sometimes.
it forces you to consider your image a little more
heaven forbid!
Not so sure film is more expensive. This notion may relate to our ancestors in the 1960's....
Just bought an old Canon EOS50E for £20, which included a new battery - they are £10 themselves. The camera is unused. Expired film, £4 for 24 or 36. Developing is £8. I may take 3 or 4 images a week on film. If I don't like the Canon, I'll sell it for £35 as "film tested."
Digital. I fancy a Fuji XT-1. Used, £260. Needs a lens, oh. Call that £200. I'm now in for probably £550 when you add in a new battery and memory card. No film developing, but I'll need a new laptop...... Plus now instead of taking a £20 camera out on my bike, I'll have near £600 worth of kit. Ain't gonna happen. I have a Nikon D80 with lenses, unused now.
With digital I'll take 40 or 50 images on a ride. Point, click, point, click. They will all be rubbish. But it will take me an hour on the laptop (which always feels like working from home) to find out.
I don't use film to be different or to hark back to the old days. I use film because fundamentally taking photos is boring. I just want to take a few images that actually reflect what I did. Could take my phone out and use that, but then I'm back being connected to the world.
Film is dead cheap, the photos are usually fine (my £10 Canon would have been an impressive piece of kit back in the day) and I really can't be bothered being a photographer. I like cameras and photos, but I don't like photography.
Plus there is a shop in town that develops film. I take my film in, and have a chat - with a real person.
I understand digital, have owned digital cameras since they came out, have bloomin photoshop qualifications. Just can't be bothered with the faffage of digital all the time.
I watched a nice documentary last night on Netflix about Elsa Dorfman, a portrait photographer who uses a 20x24 polaroid for her photos. Quite interesting and the camera results are amazing quality.
Well worth a watch
On the back of this thread I decided to cash in on an Olympus Trip that has been lying in the cupboard unused for 5+ years. I bought it at that time for about £20. Anyway, i chucked it on eBay with a small selection of unused film with a buy it now of £50 and it was sold within 5 minutes. I wish I'd stuck it on a bit higher now.