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Old 06-14-2008, 06:42 PM
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If I ever start missing film, I try to remind myself of how you always reached the end of the roll just as things were getting good. What it was like to have the film slip the sprockets. What it was like to inadvertently double-expose. How much high-iso film cost. How much <100 iso film cost. How you always had slide film loaded when you wanted to make prints. How you always had the 100 iso film in when you wanted to shoot available light, and the 1200 in when you wanted to do landscapes. How you had to write down your exposure settings in a notebook with the roll # and exposure # if you were experimenting. What it was like to discover you actually hadn't gotten your flash to fire correctly. For the entire roll. And you still had to pay for the processing and prints. And, of course, when the printlab sent your negatives back with big scratches and one frame sliced through the middle and a "sorry" note.

That generally makes me feel happier about digital.
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