imaging film or digital?

[JimmyH155]

Well blew my sanity last night when I found a photo that I had taken 13 years ago of Eta and environs 25 minutes I remember. . It was framed and A4 size. I also this week managed to print out an A4 photo I took with my Pentax DSLR last Sunday, of the very same area of sky.
The old photo was black and white and I developed and printed it myself
WOW! There was just no comparison.... I am going to the camera shop tomorrow to see if I can still obtain black and white film and developer etc....
No noise, green dots, red dots, splodges, monitor calibrations, expensive multi ink printers.... and I still have my film camera and dark room stuff

[jase (Jason)]

Jimmy, try get yourself a couple of rolls of Kodak TechPan. This film was way ahead of its time and is extremely sensitivity when hypered. Unfortunately, Kodak stopped producing it around 5 years ago. There may be some old stock around. I'd be still using it if it was readily available - its fantastic to blend the resolution of TechPan into colour slide film.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

mmm, nostalgia trip right there . I bet its a bit like vinyl records, noisy, but soo natural.

Modern DSLRs and CCDs dont suffer reciprocal failure, so good luck with looong exposures .

[Garyh]

Hi Jim, the biggest prob with the old film camera is getting suitable film these days. Anything that was good for astrophotography has long gone and been replaced by film that gives lousey results. Only E200 and provia 400 slidefilm will give you a decent pic these days. Then you need a good film scanner to get them on the pc to do some processing etc....
I have some fuji hq200 color neg film from the states which does a exellent job in the fridge which is now 2 years old...If you want a pack...pm me!!! as it will probally end up in the bin......
No turning back to film for me!!!!
cheers