Reply To: Getting a new camera- digital vs film

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I’m not about to give up my D70, but I’ve been shooting more and more film recently, myself. I like using older equipment, and it’s much cheaper than digital gear – you can get a manual focus SLR and a couple of excellent lenses for under $100, and prices for used medium format gear have fallen a lot too.

You do have to pay the ongoing film and development costs, but there are ways to get that fairly cheaply – Fuji slide mailers, for example, or you can get 35mm C41 processing and a CD of JPEGs for like $5 from CVS if you don’t get prints (you’ve got to find one where the photo staff aren’t idiots though). I’ve posted information about easily processing your own B&W here somewhere too.