Michael S. Keller wrote: > I've been out of serious camera shopping for so long that only now did I > notice the absence of Pentax film cameras in the product lineup. Should > I care? I was thinking of getting another, but is it worth it? Or if I > ever shoot film again, should I just use the Nikon P&S I inherited from > my father? My primary love with film was black & white, where I started > with my grandfather when he showed me the fun of darkroom work. My > fondest shooting memories from those days was of dipping into Ilford > HP-5 and carrying it all the way to prints, with the necessary frugality > of using the same developer for everything in the chain (D-76, no stop > bath, whatever fixer I had). > > Do I want to go to that expense again for equipment that is already > aging and for which there may never be new parts again? > Hello, Michael.
There are a ton of reasons not to shoot film. And I'm sure you'll hear them. I still shoot film because I like the donkey work. The tactile aspects of film just can't be replicated by a digital process. I don't have a darkroom yet, but I really enjoy doing the simple things like putting film in the camera and sorting slides and hanging the black and white up to dry. I don't particularly care for scanning film or editing photos on a PC, but I do it so that I can have a finished product. (The darkroom is an on again, off again project.) Thus, I still shoot mostly film. It's therapeutic and I like it. I can't tell you what to do, but I enjoy using film enough that buying into a bunch of old darkroom equipment and camera gear is worth it to me. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
