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Film is a very fun hobby that I recently began enjoying. I’ve never been into digital photography — the instant feedback kind of removed the magic for me. Film

Film is a very fun hobby that I recently began enjoying. I’ve never been into digital photography — the instant feedback kind of removed the magic for me. Film forces you to finish the roll (or you’re throwing money away) and that helps keep me engaged. When you get the scans back, you get excited to get out and shoot another roll. I will say it’s expensive, but the real expense isn’t the stock or the gear but development.

g4d 3y ago
I completely agree - on the cost front though, I find that the development costs are reasonable and actually developing black and white at home is relatively easy and cheap. But the film stock cost has increased quite prohibitively for me, especially compared to 2017/18 when I first started shooting film again.
vidanay 3y ago
I shot nearly 40 rolls of 35mm film on vacation to China in 2001. I actually included development costs as a line item expense in my vacation budget.
- ghaff 3y ago
  Ordering the 25 or whatever rolls of slide film and processing envelopes was sort of a ritual for me before a big trip. The last time was in 2006. It was around the time that Kodak was winding down its processing operation and about half the rolls disappeared into the ether somewhere.As I recall, Kodak couldn't find them but they eventually appeared in the mail a couple months later. A batch of to-be-processed film presumably got misplaced somewhere in the course of transferring facilities.
bpye 3y ago
If you shoot B/W home development is easily achieved - even C-41 is doable at home but it is more involved. Of course that only gets you negatives, you’ll either need to scan them yourself, pay for it, have an enlarger to make photographic prints, etc…
igouy 3y ago
> the instant feedback kind of removed the magic for me. Which instant feedback? Sony SLT-A65 with "Auto Review" OFF means being shown what's in the frame, not what was in the frame last-time the shutter was pressed. Instant feedback that I'm not holding the camera level — I love that!

g4d 3y ago

I completely agree - on the cost front though, I find that the development costs are reasonable and actually developing black and white at home is relatively easy and cheap. But the film stock cost has increased quite prohibitively for me, especially compared to 2017/18 when I first started shooting film again.

vidanay 3y ago

I shot nearly 40 rolls of 35mm film on vacation to China in 2001. I actually included development costs as a line item expense in my vacation budget.

ghaff 3y ago
Ordering the 25 or whatever rolls of slide film and processing envelopes was sort of a ritual for me before a big trip. The last time was in 2006. It was around the time that Kodak was winding down its processing operation and about half the rolls disappeared into the ether somewhere.As I recall, Kodak couldn't find them but they eventually appeared in the mail a couple months later. A batch of to-be-processed film presumably got misplaced somewhere in the course of transferring facilities.

bpye 3y ago

If you shoot B/W home development is easily achieved - even C-41 is doable at home but it is more involved. Of course that only gets you negatives, you’ll either need to scan them yourself, pay for it, have an enlarger to make photographic prints, etc…

igouy 3y ago

> the instant feedback kind of removed the magic for me. Which instant feedback? Sony SLT-A65 with "Auto Review" OFF means being shown what's in the frame, not what was in the frame last-time the shutter was pressed. Instant feedback that I'm not holding the camera level — I love that!