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Q. Using a film camera

Asked by c a (K=5) on 4/8/2009

I want to use my film camera more but the cost to buy film, develop and put on cd seems a lot. How do you people do it cheaply. Please Veteran film photogs I needs some pointers.

Jeroen Wenting

(K=25317) - Comment Date 4/9/2009

There is no magic bullet. Buying a film scanner is of course a must if you shoot in any volume.
And if you use mainly black and white, consider processing your own film.
A few bottles of chemicals once in a while is cheaper than having someone else do the work.

Rashed Abdulla

(K=163889) - Comment Date 4/14/2009

Photography is a costly hobby, I agree that dealing with films cost more these days specially.

Afilm scanner of a good quality like the Nikon ED series scanners are real good, but they are not cheap, other makers make good scanners also, depending on how much you can pay.

I process my films at home, 120 rolls, 4X5Inches sheet films and my 35MM films, doing that at home cost less but still costly and time consuming and missy, again when you do process your film at home you have more control on those films, times factors and temperatures play a major rule on how the final process will come, this again depend on how you like your films to be.

Digital SLR'S cameras are not cheap also, manufacturers make you pay the price of films out of the digital cameras, they know that with one CF card you run for years capturing images for free of cost.

regards

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