I sorta got into film photography in the past year, and have shot about six rolls on an old Canon AE-1 program we had around the house.
I've had a lot of fun with it; the product is much different than what digital cameras can take (but the iPhone has a fantastic camera in its own right). I've really been liking Kodak Ultramax 400 (what all these shots were). Walgreens still sends them out for processing, too.
For reference, I'm old enough that my baby/kid pics were shot on film, but we got a digital camera by the time I was about 7 or 8.
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Nice, I miss the days of film, kind of like missing the days of analog audio/vinyl.
My current go to camera is a Nikon 3300 DSLR but use it mostly just for special occasions. Camera phone have taken the place of "good enough" to share things with family and friends. Most of the time on a small screen.
Large format cameras rule with large prints, you can clearly see the difference. Like digital music, photos are now just a throw away, share it and select it thing, the stuff saved on hard drives will end up wasting away.
I need to get myself together, got hard drives on different computers full of photos and need to eliminate 90% of them, save a dozen or 2 from each year and get printed, then toss the computers.
BTW!
Im old enough to remember when the Canon AE1came out on the market, that year my very young wife bought me the competitions Olympus OM10 ... Years later moved onto a OM2, from there on was the digital world.
Nothing beats the simplicity of film and best part is, you didnt take so many darn photos, you sent them off to get developed, got the prints and were done, You had a printed photo. *L* There was more value to me with film. Now its just shoot as many photos as you want and delete the others, not as much as a challenge. Still ok.