If you do go down the recanned route … I’d be interested to hear about the experience. I seriously considered doing this a few years back (when Ektar was pushing £10 and Kodak 250d was very cheap/available).
I considered this a while back but as you suggested it's only cheaper if you can get the film for a good price e.g. recanned or out of date (at least where I am)
Plus you have to be ok with only working with ec2...
If you do go down the recanned route … I’d be interested to hear about the experience. I seriously considered doing this a few years back (when Ektar was pushing £10 and Kodak 250d was very cheap/available).
Bellini make a home-dev-friendly ECN2 kit now.