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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.