>>3269329>because digital photos literally dont exist.easily in the top 3 for best reasons to shoot film. Archival is difficult/impossible with digital cameras. There are some digital methods like M-DISC, or Sony's usb tape drive, but they require a computer that supports them. You can just hold your developed film into the light and see the shots; no electricity needed. Plus, you're not limited to your current scanning tech. You can use your iphone to make some facebook quality scans, but if you hit the lotto, you can buy a drum scanner, and make scans high enough for large prints. However, your 16MP pics from your DSLR will always be 16MP.
There's a sense of smugness that comes along with handling scanned film shots. You know that if you make an irreversible edit, or lose all your data, you didn't lose your photo.
>pic relMy granny was raging hobbyist photographer, and I finally started scanning her old pics a few months ago. She started when she was a teen, and has close to 100,000 photos. She kept the negatives to most of them, but unfortunately, her children threw them out a few years back. They said they didn't know why they needed to keep them if they had the prints. I was able to find about 100 of them, but they're mostly random pics from the 90s. Had she shot this on a digital camera, it would probably be very low res, and I probably wouldn't have a way to read the digital medium it was stored on.
