Background:Okay, so for a while now I've been wanting to get a 35mm film camera to learn film. I really was against this idea because it would mean a whole new thing to learn. I had my hands full with just learning digital photography. You know....the gear, the settings, the WB, the ISO, the aperature, AE bracketing, Av mode, Tv mode, Full M mode and so on and so on. I mean it doesn't stop. On top of that you have to know your digital software like picasa, lightroom, photoshop, elements, etc. so you can make your digital pictures even more pimpy. It's a lot to take in and sometimes it gets really confusing.
Soooo....as you can see, learning film is a real pain in the butt! I'm sure it would be fun, but a pain indeed because I would have to learn everything all over, but with film. This is like learning how to write left handed or snowboard switch. It's no longer a digital file but film negatives. I have to know what film is going to produce what kind of result. How's the noise? Is the sharpness there? The colors look good? This is just some of the worries with film and I'm going to have to figure it all out by trial and error. The final image will be based on the film I choose, the settings I use, and my development procedure (someday will develop my own film). Oh and of course my photographic eye....thats probably the most important thing.
So there are trade-offs to shooting film and digital. I expect I will be shooting mostly with digital and fine tuning my skills with film. Who knows though. Large format rules the roost when it comes to image quality even in today's digital world. Heh, maybe someday large format?! Who knows.....Anyways, here is my Nikon FA. It such a sweet camera and has top notch manual controls to let me do just about anything in the manual world. It even has titanium honeycomb shutter curtains! Haha, I love saying that. Right now I only have the AI 50mm 1.4 lens and I suspect thats all I'm gonna have.
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