What do you like the most about film photography ? ?

Question: What do you like the most about film photography !? !?

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I love using film for many different reasons!.

For one thing, vintage manual film cameras are much better made!. They have a solid, heavy feel to them that reminds you they're made for "serious" photography!. They just LOOK like what you imagine a camera should look like!. There's just something about holding and using a real, all-metal camera!. I love how the shutter resolutely snaps when you press the button!.!.!.you have no doubt that you have just burned a frame of film and you have permanently created a photograph!. I have a collection of vintage 35mm rangefinder cameras and 120 cameras!. Everything is completely manual on them - shutter speed, aperture, focus, everything!. And I love that because it makes taking pictures a challenge, and also you have a lot more control and creativity!. I have an 8 megapixel digital camera, but I hardly use it anymore!. I just use it for quick snapshots!.

The other thing I like about film is that it gives a much warmer tone to colors!. Digital cameras tend to overexpose, with blown highlights, and give a very cold tone to pictures!.

I also love developing my own black and white film and pictures at home!. I like taking black and white pictures, but there is still just something magic about opening the developing tank and seeing real images on the film!. I've developed about 20 rolls of film so far, and it amazes me everytime!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

--The way it makes me concentrate and think!. It's so easy to get sloppy with digital as you have unlimited photos!. the fact that each photo costs something, even if just a few cents, makes you think a bit more about each shot!.

--Better colors with quality film!.!.!. (Velvia, Kodachrome, Portra)

--The feeling you get when you get when your photos turn out well!.

--The fact that you can enlarge photos with less grain!.

--The quality for the size!. You need a Nikon D80 before can think about coming close to my rangefinder with Kodachrome or Velvia!. I can do everything the D80 can do and its a lot smaller!.

--Quality film cameras are so cheap on the used market!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Large format!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.medium format!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.density, color reproduction, grain, reprosity failure is what i like the most of all - for change of light and long night exposures film is brilliant - its noiseless, no hot pixels and the highlights dont burn like on digi after a few seconds

then theres the darkroom, frustrating but so rewarding and a brilliant teaching tool

go have fun, im nicely jealous of you

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I love film simply because I've been using it for 37 years!. I'm pretty confident of the results I'll get!. My discard rate from a 36 exposure roll is usually 2 or 3 prints!. That's not to say the "keepers" are all worthy of becoming 8x10 or 11x14 prints on the wall but they are good pictures!.

I also like the slower pace with using film!. I'm like a sniper - one exposure, one good picture!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the challenge of it!.!.!.there is no delete button, once the picture is taken it is etched on the film and there is no going back!.
the quality of the images
the negatives, if stored properly, will make a far more permanent record than digital files!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The darkroom experience is what keeps me coming back to film photography!. Seeing the print come to life in the developer bath after painstakingly composing, exposing, developing, and printing!.!.!. I still get goosebumps when I even think of it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

well, the fact that you get to develop the film, i always liked to go into that dark little room and see my photos come to life, also better photo qualitiesWww@QuestionHome@Com

The memory of the places that I used it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com