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I will never go back to film. It’s too expensive and I have gotten rid of all my darkroom equipment.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I never owned any darkroom equipment, but our local camera store develops color film daily and B&W film every week, which is adequate for the load I’ll be producing.

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For the betterment of all.

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

Betterment? Betterment how? If a person enjoys shooting with film, what's the harm to anyone? In fact, it is a benefit as it keeps some people gainfully employed who might otherwise be homeless out on the streets.

So please explain how banning film is for the betterment of all.

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I greatly enjoyed seeing that myth about silver prints go up in smoke.

At a local two person photo gallery show the monochrome silver prints occupied half of the gallery nearest the entryway. Acoarst the first thing guests encounter, before the prints, was an informational item extolling the whole silver fine print mythstique. Multiple "expert critics" were quite exstatic and raved on and on about how inkjet absolutely cannot compete.

Very same critics did NOT bother reading the info at the halfway point, and raved about the whole two person show. It was great fun to then redirect their attention toward the info posted at the halfway line that divided the two bodies of work. That would be the info about the 2nd half of the show, which was all inkjet prints.

FWIW, the whole show was nudes, which perhaps contributed to "blurring the line" that separated silver from ink.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Quite a number of labs still process E-6 films, as Ektachromes and Fujichromes use that process. I did it myself dozens and dozens of times back in the 1980s. It requires rigid temperature control, precise mixing, and careful replenishment, but other than that, it is pretty boring.

Kits are available for the brave. I recommend a sous vide kitchen tempering tool for temperature control.

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

Yes, I used to process Extachrome back in the late 60's and early 70's when I was in school and then later, for a few more years after graduation, only I was using the E-4 chemicals. And yes it was very temperature sensitive. I would load the film onto a developing reel and canister in a changing bag and then process the film using the kitchen sink as a water bath. I must have done close to a 100 rolls over the years, some for myself and some for other people, particularly individuals who were concerned that if they took their film to a lab that their images would be 'censored', nothing hardcore pornographic or anything like that, just pictures of 'friend' and 'acquaintances' (remember this was the 60's). In fact, I did several rolls for a guy who was at Woodstock (I ended-up 'attending' vicariously while I was reviewing and mounting his slides). But today, for only two rolls, it wouldn't be worth the effort and while my wife put-up with the mess 50+ years ago (after all, I was getting paid and it helped put food on our table while I was in school), I'm not sure she would be as accommodating today

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Some people like to drive older cars, even old gas guzzlers, that are much more expensive to operate when there are more modern options to get them around more efficiently and much cheaper. Same way with film. It comes down to "different strokes for different folks"

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Film isn’t dead,
It just smells funny!

If you say you are a good photographer, prove it!
Pick up a digital camera and BFF photo a landscape. Then pick up a film camera and shoot the same landscape. You have one minute. I know it would take me longer with film. I remember being very pedantic with 36 exposures.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Adorama has an article out today about revival of “retro” Y2K cameras {point&shoot} because of the Gen Z folk
https://www.adorama.com/alc/retro-digital-cameras-gen-z/?utm_medium=email&emailprice=T&utm_source=Bluecore-030623-08AM-Creators-Huddle&utm_content=030623-08AM-Creators-Huddle&utm_campaign=030623-08AM-Creators-Huddle-P-G-NA-GLP&obem=rZ8aTikABNol7iJK9OhiXiFit7MoAEvGl3gA8V4sHUg%3D&bc_lcid=t5131947755872256lw5582399832236032li0&utm_source=Bluecore-030623-08AM-Creators-Huddle

I guess film is even more “retro”.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Yes, to some degree it is.

Understand digital and film are two separate mediums which produce similar results. There are things I can do with film that I cannot accomplish with digital, and vice versa.
--Bob

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

More of an opinion than a reason. For something to be banned, it should show a general or overall negative impact on a majority of people and a severely significant impact on the environment. I cannot see how a small percentage of photographers using film could have such an impact on the people and environment. Using film is a personal choice and should not create any big problems for the world.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The best thing about film is your memories get better even if the pictures didn't.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I haven’t seen my Olympus “Infinity” film camera since we moved here ten years ago. I used to value it because it was so pocketable, but by then, it had been replaced by a Canon “SD1000”, which was even more ‘pocketable’ {and digital}

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

I shoot some B/W mainly because my dad's B/W images are still great to view and these are almost 90 years old. Maybe 90 years from now, someone in my family will be glad to have a few of these to view. No color degradation, no worries about software to handle electronic images, etc.