Originally posted by Dartmoor Dave There's definitely a part of me that wishes digital cameras had never been invented. I kind of miss those days when the job was done at the moment we pressed the shutter and exposed our slides. But sadly the cost of film and the frustrations of trying to get decent scans means that I'm almost entirely digital nowadays.
In those everybody shot film days, I always envied the people who could shoot slides and know they would turn out! I have shot some batches of slides that were good, but some others that were terrible, for reasons I was never very sure of. It turned me into a print film guy, and one who usually shot at a third stop below box speed, just to insure the negatives wouldn't be too thin.
I'm still shooting some film though. I like being able to test an old--they call them "legacy"--lens on one of my Pentax dslrs, to learn some of its character and limitations, before shooting it on a film body, where it can show it's intended field of view. The film shooting is more expensive, but it has its own pleasures. It also makes me slow down, especially if the film body has no meter or no working meter, and I have to use my little handheld light meter. If need be, I can do some post-processing with the scan files from the processor, so the digital experience can actually enhance what I can get out of the film shooting.