I've been taking photographs since I was 12 (I'm nearly 46), so yes, I've used film and love it! My first camera was a Polaroid that took SQUARE pictures, and I have some of those I'm very proud of. When I started High School, I got into using SLRs with *gasp* B&W film, which I learnt to develop and print in the school's darkroom (also the sickbay - that didn't last). I built my own darkroom behind the shed at my parents' place, which is still there, where I spent many happy hours printing my own B&W negatives. Of course, I've shot many frames of colour negative, but my favourite film stock of all was Kodachrome. No other slide film quite makes the grade against it. Ah, the good old days ...

I love digital, for many reasons, but I still want to take film, and will, and I may even try to establish myself a new darkroom. Arcane as it may now be, film and its associated processes (and the smells, ah, the smells) need to be preserved in one way or another!

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I like film... I just don't like developing it.

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been using it for 32 years and still love it. everyone should try it - it makes you focus on what you're doing to a much, much greater extent.

I like film and developing.... ilford

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I voted no, but I actually did use film. But that was in the time digital camera's did not excist yet, and I was about 9/10/11 years old right then, so I cannot tell you anything about it that could help you.

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I've been using a lot of black and white and transparency film over the last two years, and I didn't see a clear enough difference to cause me to keep carrying a 35mm around, plus it just wasn't piratical with the price of processing and getting a good scanner, so in the end I decided to stay with digital.
Saying that, I can see plenty of reasons why people sill use it, but i just wasn't right for me.

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Square pictures can have real charm! I won't be setting up a darkroom myself, as I will mostly be shooting slide film - I'll just let someone else develop it, I hear it's a very fine-tuned process.

I have had a go using a darkroom, however, and it was strangely relaxing.

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You mean the cost of developing?

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Yes, I found the same thing on the occasions where I used film.

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