Does anyone still use film?

Due to costs, when shooting film, there was no screwing around. Every exposure was thought out, every mistake took money out of your pocket. The idea of spray and pray was horrifying, and most cameras were barely capable of it. I gave up photography during the end of the film era just due to cost. Digital adds a lot of "let's just try it" to the equation, which I love. The cameras are a lot more expensive, but over time, they come out ahead.

If you found Kodachrome, you'd be unable to develop it. IIRC, processing Kodachrome emits a deadly gas that must be handled which is beyond the ability of hobbyists.

The link to eBay is for color print film. IIRC, it was C-41 process. Again, IIRC, you could process it yourself but I never remember anybody doing so. What you can do and enjoy is printing from the negatives. I did that for months while I had my short career as a pro snapper.

Printing color is difficult unless you're doing so on a mass scale. It takes a few tries to get the color right which is OK if you're doing hundreds of prints as I was but expensive for a single print or two.

IMO, for a reasonable cost in film chemicals, paper and equipment, monochrome is the way to go. While I don't subscribe to the claim that the look of film is better than digital, I'll concede that a master printer using silver can produce monochrome prints that will impress even the most crabby critic.

I hope you're not pulling our leg here, OP! 😏. There has been quite the little film revival afoot the last few years, and you can see tons of clips on YouTube of wildly enthusiastic analogue fans geeking out on all kinds of 35mm, medium format, and large format film cameras. Reddit has a few sub forums devoted to film such as r\ analogue or r\AnalogueCommunity. There's brisk turnover in chat and posts of shots. The cohort seems to tend younger and more toward the joy and wonder of photography. It can be a welcome escape from the constant fussbudgeting for more megapixels, more fps, and moremoremore tech superpowers that sometimes dominates on the digital forums.

I myself fell for photography late, in the early\mid-2000s, and learned, shot, and published using a mechanical Nikon 35mm, used it for over a decade. Paid no attention to digital until about three years before the pandemic and wouldn't think of shutting the door on film completely. I do live in a huge megalopolis where dropoff color processing is still available, along with darkroom rental.

As you may have noticed, the OP’s third identity on this site has just been deleted and so it would seem that ‘her’ intentions are not straightforward….

The wide-eyed, "Golly, what was it like way back then????" tone of it all was just a tad overplayed. Naughty, naughty monkey. 🐒🐒🐒

Yes. I was totally fooled.

I subsequently got a very inappropriate Private Message from "her" which I brought to the attention of Admins. I've been advised that that account has been removed from the site.

Rich

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It was very quickly obvious from a number of indications in ‘her’ first few posts in ‘her’ first identity that ‘she’ was up to some kind of mischief. Equally disturbing is that after ‘her’ first account was deleted, ‘she’ was able to rejoin twice more with very similar usernames and it wasn’t immediately picked up.

Never mind

Overhead projectors were very useful when I was giving talks on colour, because you could play around with various sheets of coloured plastic to show mixing.
Best with two projectors.
Don

In the late 1960s, you could still buy plates from Ilford. I had a 10x8 inch wooden camera and took a few photos on plates, which I still have.

Don Cox

The best way to do stereo was to find a stereo camera (basically two cameras joined together) that took 120 size film. Then you need two projectors that took 120-size slides, a silver screen (Kodak made one for this purpose), and polarizing glasses.

Don

@DonCox

fyi…

San “Sandy Jennings” has been banned from these forums three times.
Long story… lol

The Internet arrived at the same time as the Spice Girls.
Don

I still shoot the odd roll of MF film mostly B&W and occasionally slide film. I develop them myself . Though as I no longer have a dedicated darkroom if printing I tend to scan them

I still shoot an occasional roll of B&W 120 (RB67) and 35 mm (Leica M4). I develop , scan and print.

I still have my old darkroom equipment which back in the day I had set up permanently . Now it is too much hassle to set it up for occasional use. Develop scan and print is much easier

Really?! Didn't occur to you to see if there is a Film photography group on here? In case you haven't guessed, there is.