Film SLRs are extremely inexpensive!

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Dirk said:
Inexpensive film SLRs remind me a little of inexpensive inkjet printers. The initial investment is nothing compared to the expense of using them, especially now that film and developing is getting more and more expensive.
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What a load of BS. 🙂 4-6$ a roll, developer/chems are very low cost compared to the amount of rolls you get out of them. If you shoot black and white (or even color [including E-6]) you should be doing your own processing. Presuming you use sane storage practices you're gaining free archiving *passively* and a beautiful medium at the same time.
 
Dirk said:
Inexpensive film SLRs remind me a little of inexpensive inkjet printers. The initial investment is nothing compared to the expense of using them, especially now that film and developing is getting more and more expensive.
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And the alternative is to buy a digital camera for lots of money and then watch it become redundant or broken in a few years.

Meanwhile you could process and scan your own film for surprisingly not a lot of money and have fun doing it.

One of the biggest "problems" with film is convenience.
People want everything now. Why would photography be any different? 😉
 
sc_rufctr said:
And the alternative is to buy a digital camera for lots of money and then watch it become redundant or broken in a few years.

Meanwhile you could process and scan your own film for surprisingly not a lot of money and have fun doing it.

One of the biggest "problems" with film is convenience.
People want everything now. Why would photography be any different? 😉
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Anything is expensive compared to free.
A digital camera becoming 'redundant' is a matter of choice, if it's good enough now, why not in the future?
I'm not saying I don't buy modern digital gear, but it's my problem, not digital 🙂
 
Got a Mamiya ZE-2 - fully working - for £20 (including postage from USA to UK) last summer. Got a Sekor E 28mm f2.8 lens this month for £28 (including postage from Belgium to UK).

Used it last week and it was a joy! Awaiting first roll to come back from the lab.
 
mugent said:
Anything is expensive compared to free.
A digital camera becoming 'redundant' is a matter of choice, if it's good enough now, why not in the future?
I'm not saying I don't buy modern digital gear, but it's my problem, not digital 🙂
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Don't get me wrong... I love digital. It's a great tool for practice and honing our skills and like I said it's convenient. Also... Pro level full frame digital cameras are getting affordable.
But I love old old film cameras as well. Just load some film and bang away and they can be serviced/repaired.

Try getting a DMR repaired by Leica.
 
Got this for £7

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snagged a nikon N80 on the 'bay to pair with my F for $25 shipped. a nice clean up + some talc powder on the sticky grip, and it's ready to go.
 
My last camera purchase was a Minolta XG-M body for 99p plus p&p. The seller even lost out on that, he under-quoted. Works fine except the 1/1000th LED never lights up, although the shutter still fires properly. Since my X-700 died, I wanted a body to use the lenses on!
 
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