>>4482299I just went through this last week. Weighed up the pros and cons, and how badly I wanted to try shooting film (which wasn't an awful lot, but I like understanding how things work).
>pic rel (AUD$)The frontal outlay was a bit of a cunt, but I bought an SLR/lens combo and sold the lens for more than I paid for the combo so the camera was free and I use EF lenses with my mirrorless that work brilliantly on the SLR ofc. It feels like cheating being able to put a a modern stabilised L lens on a 90s film camera. I also own a macro lens so scanning is mostly already paid for. Basically it wasn't that bad to get into this. My cheapest lens cost twice as much.
Anyway. This is all B&W which after some research was far more economical than colour. For me to do colour not only is the dev more costly but appeared to be a larger pain in the ass. Local shop is a rip off for B&W, and is fine sounding for colour but then the film costs more.... eh.
Fuck all that if I'm going to become a filmfag I don't want the JPEG experience.
I did the math without writing it down but once I shoot and dev about 8 rolls of film I'm doing it for less than the shop doing it for me AND I now own a bunch of equipment and (will) have a fair chunk of experience doing something cool which only so many others have.
