Film is like doing cuniform writing on a clay tablet these days Sandra, as opposed to using a wordprocessor!
I did it for years until something better and more convenient came along, but I am not a masochist wishing to make life harder for myself by clinging to the horse and cart when somebody has invented the automobile.
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There are still people coating glass plates with wet collodian even in this day and age to whom your use of film and a Nikon F3 would be considered too revolutionary.
http://www.wetplateday.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.alternativephotography.com/w ... on-process" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If you want to go retro, why not completely retro and use wet collodian or make tintypes etc?
Seriously, we all use what methods we want, but I am afraid the world is moving on from film like it or not. I was told a few years ago by a Kodak shareholder that Kodak would never stop producing Kodachrome, within a year it did.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/3/284120 ... -of-demand" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/ph ... lms-update" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/ro ... -darkness/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Film may still be around in years to come, but the problem will be economies of scale. The fewer people who use it the dearer it will be to manufacture film and chemicals for those who still want them and the more the price of film and chemicals will escalate due to the reduced demand even more will decide it is now too expensive to use. Therefore the vicious circle will continue until manufacturers (or their shareholders) decide it is time to call it a day. Some say film production will move to the third world where it will be cheaper to manufacture, but the so called third world embraced cheap digital cameras quicker than the West, simply because they could not afford film cameras in the past and now they can afford cameras they want modern technology like smart phones, not Instamatics, so little demand for film exists there.
Never believe any assurances from firms they will continue manufacturer anything, since they always say that until the day they stop so as not to affect sales of the stocks they are trying to clear. Neither does in item still being profitable mean it will not be discontinued, it is always a matter of how profitable. If a firm presently making a product making 5% profit in their factory can use the same space to make another product making 15% profit they will junk the first and make the second instead. If they do not the shareholders will sack the directors!
Kodak was advertising it's ink jet printers on British TV the day before it announced it was stopping their production.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/printin ... -printers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Anyway as long as it keeps you happy, good luck with the film photography Sandra.
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