I recently started a college darkroom class. While the whole process is fun, cool, novel, and actually pretty useful skill (which is more than can said more most college courses) but fuck me I'm sticking to digital.
Film costs more than bullets, and you can recycle bullets. The last big brand film cam was made over 20 years ago. I've seen an argument for sticking the middle finger to A.I, but scans are gonna be shared online anyway? It's the cheapest path to Full Frame at least.

>>4435051 (OP)
stop being poor and learn to enjoy the process

>>4435051 (OP)
>full frame
35 mm is shit but you’re entering based territory if you get medium

i enjoy shooting film and continue to prefer it but i saved money by switching to a leica m9 because of how much it was costing

>>4435051 (OP)
>The last big brand film cam was made over 20 years ago
>what is Leica MP/M-A
>what is Pentax17
>what is Nikon F6
Anon I don’t think you even tried looking

>inb4 arbitrary stupid reasons why those don’t count

>>4435051 (OP)
It's easy to justify as a hobby, it is fun and the results look good. There are far dumber hobbies. I hate the tendency to maximize at a leisurely pursuit like this, especially when the goal is art. It should be fun.
If you don't think it's fun or you don't like the look, don't bother. Just because someone else enjoys it doesn't mean you have to.

>>4435051 (OP)
For archiving its good. But an inert gas sealed HDD is going to be just as reliable.

The singular and uncontrovertible upside is that you have physical evidence that the photograph is in no way shape or form doctored (aka AI generated). This will probably become increasingly important.

Otherwise, subjectively, film does look much better than most digital photographs in my opinion. Yes, there is a layer of digital interpretation with scanning, but nobody says the colors you capture with a digital camera aren't "real", or if they do, they are seriously confused. Printing is great. People should optically print their negatives and THEN scan for some very good results for sharing. Otherwise printing is just amazing anyway.

That's really it. Everything else is bullshit. Expense is retarded. Development is retarded. Scanning is autistic. But if you can ignore all of that and make good images, it really is an art.

i shoot maybe four rolls a year so for me it's cheaper and the pictures i get is nicer and i don't have to edit them and i can give a away prints to other people :)

>>4435067
>This will probably become increasingly important.
Where? Court? Lmao

Civilization will pull the plug on any AI powerful enough to attempt to replace reality before this is even an issue. The sheer amount of AI generated footage of politicians raping 12 year old jewish children would be world shattering.

>>4435051 (OP)
What you learned is the actual film hobby, so at least you're ahead of major douchebags that buy a leica and then send everything to a lab to get 8 bit CCD scans of their film so everything looks like a ricoh GR shot it