I still like to shoot film, but only B&W, and Ken has really nailed the reason. For colour work, unless you can find a pro lab that still does E-6 processing, digital is the way to go. Colour neg is hopeless, just had one film processed by the only sensible lab around here and the colours and DR were way off, like I'd used an old Sigma lens! For my purposes WRT colour, my *ist-D still works well enough: I can get A4 sized prints easily enough, and no-one I supply prints to wants anything bigger - they're mainly friends/family, of course. For B&W, it's one of several older Pentaxes I own, including the MZ-S, or a Rolleicord for big negs. I do enjoy the whole process of self-developing - but then I have the time as well as the inclination. As long as I can get decent film, chemicals and paper, I'll hang onto my developing kit and carry on being old-fashioned. One of my grand-daughters has recently expressed an interest in photography - it will be interesting to see if she asks me about using film, it can be magical when you see your first print coming up in the tray.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Waller Sent: Monday, 9 February 2015 9:06 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR I was exclusively a slide film shooter, if I wanted to shoot slides, I'd need to find someplace to do it - and not just some 24hr. quick lab - all my sources for quality slide processing have gone. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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.
