On Film Revival

[bags27]

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/05/you-only-have-one-shot-how-film-cameras-won-over-a-younger-generation

[Pintpot]

Interesting Ken thanks for posting, there's a second hand camera outlet close to me that's always busy with people, mostly young, buying camera gear.

[leica dream]

I grew up in an age before digitals existed (1950's) and thoroughly enjoyed processing my own images. I had my own darkroom with everything set up with the enlarger etc and produced acceptable (to me) prints.  Four years ago I tried to revert to film. I bought a second hand Leica R6.2 and had lots of fun experimenting.  Whenever I mixed with any club people they thought I had crawled out of a cucumber, and I could not find any local community where there was film interest let alone experience. I no longer have my processing equipment so relied upon UK retail laboratories for processing. Some were a disgrace to say the least, then one in Germany I found was was excellent in supplying CD of the negatives for me to take forward.  However, now being over 80 I could not justify the expensive costs of bespoke processing. After 12 months I sold my R6.2 for what I had paid earlier. A very sad decision.  What the episode did reawaken for me was the discipline of taking the shot. No auto focus, No ability to change ISO, No chance to flick a switch to see if the image was captured nicely.........and so on.  Really had to think about precisely what settings I wanted for the quality of the shot.

I look positively on that experience in that it helped be think more precisely about shooting techniques in the digital age with the support of my Leica C (type 112)...................... Having said all that, I would go back to film in a heartbeat if circumstances were favourable. I still have some old very basic film cameras - one even fitted for glass plates!