mrca
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MF film has a gorgeous look as does the unique looks of some film stocks. On 35mm the grain of a 3200 speed film can overpower the image, on 645 or larger it is gorgeous. After shooting film for 40 years, I was like many of us, enamoured by how clean a digital image and made the switch in early 2000 but in about 10 years the sterile, clinical look of digital became just that to me and pulled out my film cameras and finally started developing my film at a cost of about $1.50/ roll instead of $20+ with Dwaynes lab- if you haven't seen the movie Kodachrome, it's one you shouldn't miss- and not quite "one hour" service but developed, dried and scanned in a few hours. My Mamiya rb67 entire kit, body, 4 lenses, 3 backs in pristine condition cost less than $1000. The tonal transitions, black and white from a 5 element lens, and the huge negative, not a "crop" medium format like so called medium format digital produces stellar images. One of the backs is 645 that gets 16 shots a roll instead of the 10 in 67. My Yashica mat 124 g is 6x6 and 12 shots and is lighter than a digital camera and on the street has me stopped 3 or 4 times with questions that morph into my elevator pitch and they approached me, not the other way around. Problem is film has gotten expensive and Kodak just announced a 25% increase after the first of the year. $14 for 35 mm but that works out to only about 30 cents a shot and the 6 7 about 80 cents a shot doing my own development. They no longer sell 220 twice the length of 120 so the reels for tanks can take 2 rolls at a time on the one spool. Interesting going back to a fixed iso and number of shots that you want to fill. At all times now, I have 7 rolls in progress. And it's just fun using the waist level finders on two of them and on the split screen focusing on the 35mm bodies, focusing manual focus lenses is a breeze, not to mention zone focusing for street to there is no need to focus and the film stock I use has 5 stops of useable image for over exposure. Try using a digital image 5 stops over or under exposed. And folks think film is hard.