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I love to think at some point I'll reignite my love of black and white film photography. Maybe go down the just printing route. But it's the time that absolutely kills it for me.
It's still so romantic and who knows when I'm an old man and hopefully have some more time I'll try it.But even the SonyA6000 is okay for what it is. Images feel soft and fake in comparison, and there’s no texture.
See that's where I love the fuji cameras, I hardly have to do any post-processing (which I loathe) as I spend most of my day sat at a desk anyway. The colours straight out of the can look glorious.
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Mhmm. I’d pined over fuji for ages, and used their film stock for years (especially in 120) with great results. The X series was just too damn expensive. My A6000 was a gift 2 1/2 years ago, and it’s not seen much use. I doubt I’d have gotten more use from waiting and affording a Fuji.
As far as B&W, I’m keeping hold of the Mamiya RB67 and the 5x7 and 10x8. You know, just in case. Contact prints of 5x7’s are wonderful.
pdlouche
Yea my circumstances and mentality toward photography changed at the same time and I felt very little remorse when I offloaded all my valuable film kit. Sad about it now, but that’s life. I have cameras sitting in bags and on shelves and barely touch them.
Like you say - film was affordable. I think when I was in NYC for a month in 2013 I shot a couple dozen rolls and that was a low yield compared to trips years earlier. The film was £land Agfa and I paid almost nothing for develop-only, and scanned them all on an Epson V700.
As soon as that Agfa stock dried up and developing costs rocketed, even B&W seemed laborious. I still have all my dev tanks and clips, and some bulk of Ilford pan 50 somewhere, should still be possible for me to run some rolls if I wanted.
But even the SonyA6000 is okay for what it is. Images feel soft and fake in comparison, and there’s no texture.
But there’s no dust dirt hairs or scratches, and no processing time or cost.