That's so true Bec. I love black and white film but in general when I hear people pining for film I think of my teenage and student years when I didn't have the money to take as many photos or as much movie film as I would have liked. Pre-2003 when I used to go and shoot the Pride event, which was for fun, I would go straight to the lab with say four films and it would cost maybe 25 Pounds ($40) for processing. Then I'd have to scan them all which would take 30 minutes a roll in the neg scanner. Then the Photoshop tweaking would begin.

When I lived out in the countryside in the early 1990s and was shooting for magazines it was a 100 mile round trip to the lab and the slides had to be posted to the magazine. Many a time I edited, cut them up, mounted and captioned them in the post office

My favourite feature on modern (Canon) cameras is the optical image stabiliser. I like taking pics at night and it's incredible what you can get compared to the days of film. Plus the results on a modern DSLR at high ISOs like 3200 are amazing. I bought a Canon 600D recently.


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Not to mention that we can show the images immediately. When I had my studio I can't tell you how often I would of LOVED to have had the ability to pretty much take unlimited photos at a wedding... and then display them at the reception! Plus things like running out of film, or the film not moving through the camera, or bad lighting have pretty much left the pro arena as embarrassing fuck ups.