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I was actually thinking of buying a film camera body to try my hand at this art.
How easy is it to develop the film yourself and use a negative scanner to grab a very high dpi scan of the image. Given the price drop in film cameras especially the second hand bargains that are coming up this seems to make sense.
However one aspect of film photography is that you needed a very good mount with low PE to do the job right. With digital one can do lots of smaller exposures and add them together. I suppose you could do this with film by scanning and adding negatives. The benfit of digital is that the old requirment for a very good mount is fast becoming unnecessary. Short exposure digital photography allows use low budget starters to get nice round stars and you dont even really need to guide.
So while we could save on the film camera you would end up paying more for the film scanner and or great mount with low PE. When you could obtain similar results more cheaply using short exposures on digital cameras, on budget mounts.
I am no expert, and this is just my humble understanding of the present situation.
Regards
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