I don't think there is anything wrong with longing for film. It really doesn't matter to me if the longing is out of nostalgia or because one feels a certain technical difference that it produces.
A builder may love the buildings he produces, but that doesn't mean he doesn't also have feelings for the tools he uses (or used in the past). An air-driven nail gun may have a certain practicality to his everyday work (and profits) but that doesn't mean that the skill of using an old-fashioned hammer doesn't still have usefulness or evoke some pleasure. I also miss film and darkroom work and have recently decided that today's low (and sometimes GIVEAWAY) prices represent something of an opportunity to get back into film/darkroom without spending very much. If you like manual focus lenses, you've probably accumulated some film bodies. (In fact, if you love autofocus lenses you may have accumulated some film bodies... I got a nice Z-1p, for example). People are just about giving away darkroom equipment these days. I'm in the process of turning a downstairs bathroom into a B&W darkroom and looking forward to using my Pentax-F 17-28mm fisheye zoom as it was intended to be used (not as a 25-42mm equiv. on a crop camera). I also hope to have some fun with my old Mamiya TLRs, and do some pinhole stuff with paper negatives. Keeping the darkroom B&W will allow me to keep costs down and not have to be as fussy with temperature control, etc. Nobody says you can't play on both sides of the street. Darren Addy Kearney, NE -- 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.
