Getting started in film photography.

[Gerry]

Redshark News is mostly a site for professional video articles but once in a while they write an article or two on digital still equipment. The latest edition however has an article on getting started with retro film still photography. The most interesting thing that I notice was that the title photo for the article is of an Olympus OM-1. 😎

https://www.redsharknews.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-getting-started-in-film-photography

[Ian]

I loved using film cameras of all types (from disc to roll-film!) and developed my own black and white and colour film/printing. My daughter got into black and white film, too, when she did her at foundation course. Ithink everyone should consider trying it, but I really don't miss the restriction of the number of shots in your camera, the cost, the thousands of hours in the darkroom, the smelly chemicals, etc.

Ian

[Keith-369]

I always loved getting the pictures back from the labs and going through them, I do miss that.
However, I used to take 15-20 rolls of 36 exposure film every time we went away, and used pretty much all of them, expensive indeed. I really don't miss that aspect.
(I lost a roll of fully exposed film, in it's plastic cannister, in Cuba one year. Changing rolls on a pier it fell off my lap and I watched it roll and vanish through a gap in the pier boards. A snorkler volunteered to search but never found it. I don't miss changing rolls, and missing great shots whilst doing so, either).

[biggles3]

I always loved getting the pictures back from the labs and going through them, I do miss that.
However, I used to take 15-20 rolls of 36 exposure film every time we went away, and used pretty much all of them, expensive indeed. I really don't miss that aspect.
(I lost a roll of fully exposed film, in it's plastic cannister, in Cuba one year. Changing rolls on a pier it fell off my lap and I watched it roll and vanish through a gap in the pier boards. A snorkler volunteered to search but never found it. I don't miss changing rolls, and missing great shots whilst doing so, either).

Always a nightmare losing a roll of film - I used to do mountaineering in the '70s and twice dropped canisters of film while hanging from a belay; all you could do was watch as they approached terminal velocity and eventually disappeared from view...😐 The solution can be seen in the piccie - the only downside being additional weight and bulk but each of the bulk canisters was the equivalent of 7 rolls of 36 frames. That said, if you dropped a 250-frame canister it would have smashed through a Joe Brown helmet on anyone below!