Reflections on film photography (my new hobby)

I bought my first film camera—only counting adulthood here—in June, this year, I think. I talked about the purchase here. Since then I've gone to eBay and purchased a Canon EOS 2000, a late-model SLR with a lot of modern features, and a 50 mm lens for it. Then my mother-in-law found out I was interested in photography and dug out another SLR she bought for a class in 1985, a Minolta 7-XA. It came with a low quality lens so I went back to eBay and got another 50 mm lens. All that is to say, now I have three cameras, none of which were particularly expensive. I've developed twelve rolls of film. Some of those were half-frame, but then I've also handed the camera off to other people a number of times. I've probably taken 600 film photographs. Why am I using film? Film is kind of... worse, honestly, than digital photography. There are a lot of disadvantages. You are more in danger of losing your shots to mechanical failures or just using your film, and you can take a lot fewer of them.…

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