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What is it about 35mm film that draws a seasoned photographer back into its clutches.
Digital is so much easier, you can take as many pictures as you want, limited only by the number of images that you can get onto your memory card, most cameras let you check the images on the built in screen at the time of capture, you can show your creations to anyone who wants to look at any point.
When you get home you start the download process, put the kettle on and when your hot drink is ready the photo's you took are there to be viewed, maybe hundreds of them, on the screen in front of you ready to be selected, rated and edited.
Film however is different, very different, you get 36 shots before you run out of space on your storage media, you cannot review them, you cannot show them to someone, you wait.
When you get home you still do a download but this time its a form or label, things you need to send your film off to a laboratory for them to process, print and scan, and you pay a princely sum for this to happen.
Even though film doesn't make any sense it is just such an enjoyable medium to use for photography, so after much soul search, much researching and peering into the depths of the piggy bank I decided to add a film camera to the kitbag.
This lovely preowned camera and lens combination is going to be my constant companion, my guess is that it will outlast me, it could become the family heirloom (joking).
I'll still be using digital but now have the option of film as well.
M
What is it about 35mm film that draws a seasoned photographer back into its clutches.
Digital is so much easier, you can take as many pictures as you want, limited only by the number of images that you can get onto your memory card, most cameras let you check the images on the built in screen at the time of capture, you can show your creations to anyone who wants to look at any point.
When you get home you start the download process, put the kettle on and when your hot drink is ready the photo's you took are there to be viewed, maybe hundreds of them, on the screen in front of you ready to be selected, rated and edited.
Film however is different, very different, you get 36 shots before you run out of space on your storage media, you cannot review them, you cannot show them to someone, you wait.
When you get home you still do a download but this time its a form or label, things you need to send your film off to a laboratory for them to process, print and scan, and you pay a princely sum for this to happen.
Even though film doesn't make any sense it is just such an enjoyable medium to use for photography, so after much soul search, much researching and peering into the depths of the piggy bank I decided to add a film camera to the kitbag.
This lovely preowned camera and lens combination is going to be my constant companion, my guess is that it will outlast me, it could become the family heirloom (joking).
I'll still be using digital but now have the option of film as well.