MajorFubar said:
lol glad to see I'm not alone. I stil enjoy shooting film, especially using manual cameras that make you stop and consider the shot, not some computer with a lens on the front. (Sorry to the OP for drifting the conversation off-topic)
I might have said the same thing a few years ago. In fact I
did say the same thing a few years ago and kept an old Minolta X700 with 28mm and 50mm Rokkor MD lenses going for occasional use with Ilford HP5+ and my old Nikon neg scanner.
Yes the results were great (film developed by Ilford themselves in Crewe) but it was expensive and labour intensive for
absolutely no reason other than to say it was done with film.
Sold the neg scanner for £550 (more than it cost to buy when brand new
) and never looked back.
All of my B&W work since has been from digital cameras and looks just as good. (Actually i'd say better nowadays.)
I can even get it printed onto proper Ilford B&W paper if I want. (The same paper they'd have used to print from my negs.)
Just because a camera is digital doesn't mean you haven't still got a camera in your hands (rather than just 'some computer' as you described it so dismissively) and it doesn't stop you from exercising manual control over all the variables and taking time to get the picture
you want, so long as you choose the right camera (which was always true with film too).