rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Nosaj Loc: Sarasota, Florida

Film photography has these disadvantages:
1) limited number of images per roll.
2) cost of developing - at home or by service.
3) travel photography limits everything.
4) changing lenses AND changing film rolls doubles the inconvenience.
5) film canisters add weight and bulk to carry equipment.
6) home development requires added expenses to supplies of chemicals and paper.
7) used film canisters are not biodegradable.
8) completed film rolls are vulnerable to damaging heat, electronic, or light conditions.
9) poor paper quality causes image wash-outs over time.
10) replacing full film rolls with fresh ones causes missed photo opportunities requiring quick responses.
If they want to make the film experience real, then they should bring back the flash bulb, bellows, hood, and external light meter. Good luck!!

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Some of these factors are considered to be part of the ‘film experience’. For example, the 36 exp limit reduces long burst - followed by deciding which of a series of virtually identical photos to keep - and having to decide whether to take photos right now or wait a while. I take hundreds of film pictures now, and none them involve flash bulbs nor a hood nor an external meter {I use the same film camera with the same internal meter and same electronic flash to photograph my grand-daughter that I used to photograph her mother}.

Equus Loc: Puget Sound

Did you have to walk uphill to school and home in the 6 foot deep snow too.

Actually I agree with you on this. but a real experience would be to start doing daguerreotype for some similar process with the big box camera. And for a real experience try doing it in 8X10 or larger format. Of course the one negative to all this is that you have to mark everything as a hazardous chemical. But think of the convenience of a large format and all that goes with it. and of course using a tray of flash powder would be a blast.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

The “daguerreotype experience” and “large format experience” are considered to be different from the “film experience”.

BebuLamar

They could use flash bulbs and bellow (especially bellow) for the digital cameras too. In fact I do use bellow on my digital camera. I have several good exposure meter but when I go out and shoot I rarely bring one with me even when I used a camera without a built in meter. Determining the exposure without a meter is part of the fun.