[shirleyF]

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[jezzyjj]

So controversial a post, it's been censored!!

[shirleyF]

I deleted it myself as no one out of nearly fifty people could be bothered to give me their advice.

[jezzyjj]

Not everyone checks in here all the time and maybe those who did see post, did not know the answer/have advice to give.

[Kidorry]

For what it is worth the last time I used film it cost a packet to have it printed.

[GlassBox]

You only left it on for a day! Give us a chance

[jezzyjj]

Originally Posted by Kidorry

For what it is worth the last time I used film it cost a packet to have it printed.

Printing digital files is no cheaper and you also have to figure in higher cost of camera plus computer hard drives and memory cards. So not quite a straightforward comparison.
Some years back, the cost of replacing my 35mm camera and lightbox for viewing slides with a comparable digital camera and laptop cost 980ish rolls of developed film!
That's a lot of film.
Digital is now cheaper than then, but film isn't as expensive as you think when you look at total cost of ownership. I have a fridge full of film and several film cameras gathering dust, which are unlikely to ever be used.

[karl101]

Originally Posted by jezzyjj

I have a fridge full of film and several film cameras gathering dust, which are unlikely to ever be used.

You should take your film camera out at least once a year, just to remind yourself what it was like. I took my 30(ish) year old U.S.S.R. FED4 Rangefinder http://www.flickr.com/photos/kazzle101/3494787482/ camera round town in the late summer. I was very pleased with the results.

K.

[pete051]

The old russian leica amazing it still works

[karl101]

Originally Posted by pete051

The old russian leica amazing it still works

not a Leica, but a copy. Built like a tractor though.

K.

[Kidorry]

My wife has still got her 1960s U.S.S.R Zenith.That also is very heavy but still takes brilliant photos,if you know how it works.She does,I don`t.

[pete051]

My first SLR was Zenit EM when they could still get away with calling their lenses Carl Zeiss jena, The 50 mm was superb but the others ..........

[mattsando]

I have a few film-cameras. It's fun!

[jezzyjj]

Originally Posted by karl101

You should take your film camera out at least once a year, just to remind yourself what it was like. I took my 30(ish) year old U.S.S.R. FED4 Rangefinder http://www.flickr.com/photos/kazzle101/3494787482/ camera round town in the late summer. I was very pleased with the results.

My very first camera was a Fed 4L! Still go it somewhere.
I hate the faff of scanning and it is so very painfully slow to do which is one reason I gave up on film, the other is that the quality of film processing was so awful and unrreliable. Even pro labs seemed to drop their standards when digital came it - which was commercial suicide.
And as the developers I liked to use for B+W are no longer made......