I’ve been shooting film again for the last couple of years, although not exclusively of course. One of the interesting things is seeing old stuff being reinvented, usually not as well as it was in the old school days, but still there’s a lot of creativity out there. Lomography have reinvented the daylight loading developing tank, so if you did fancy processing an occasional roll of film it wouldn’t be too difficult. https://shop.lomography.com/us/daylight-film-developing-tank-35mm And scanning 35mm is pretty easy and cheap with things like this from JJC, which is essentially a set of extension tubes with a slide/film strip copier and light: https://jjc.cc/index/goods/detail.html?id=1024 If you only scan mounted slides then it’s perfectly feasible (I do it) with an old Pentax-M 50/4 macro lens, extension tubes, slide holder K and a light panel. With cheap but very good b&w film like Kentmere it can be relatively cheap to shoot film, certainly a lot cheaper than sending it out for processing and scanning. > On 25 Mar 2025, at 23:14, John Sessoms <sessomsj@earthlink.net> wrote: > Cool if you're 20 something I guess. > > Wish I still ran the photo-lab. It was nothing for me to slip the occasional roll of my own film into the processor back then. > > On 3/25/2025 2:25 PM, Postmaster wrote: >> Definitely using the camera. Film photography is cool now.

Most everyone I know (close to my age) has completely left film behind. I still want to shoot film, but there's no one local who will process it & I no longer have darkroom access. And this place is too damn small & ill built for me to even think about setting up a darkroom. I don't even have room to do tabletop. There IS one local lab that will do C41 (35mm), but the don't do E6 even as cross-processing. ... NO medium format; NO large format (4x5), NO traditional B&W I'm glad that young people are re-discovering the joys of film photography, but they don't really do anything to help ME enjoy it. I've got plenty of film available; a whole refrigerator FULL. I just miss the resources I once had available to shoot it, process it and print it. On 3/26/2025 3:44 PM, Bob W PDML wrote: > I’ve been shooting film again for the last couple of years, although not exclusively of course. One of the interesting things is seeing old stuff being reinvented, usually not as well as it was in the old school days, but still there’s a lot of creativity out there. > > Lomography have reinvented the daylight loading developing tank, so if you did fancy processing an occasional roll of film it wouldn’t be too difficult. > > https://shop.lomography.com/us/daylight-film-developing-tank-35mm > > And scanning 35mm is pretty easy and cheap with things like this from JJC, which is essentially a set of extension tubes with a slide/film strip copier and light: > https://jjc.cc/index/goods/detail.html?id=1024 > > If you only scan mounted slides then it’s perfectly feasible (I do it) with an old Pentax-M 50/4 macro lens, extension tubes, slide holder K and a light panel. > > With cheap but very good b&w film like Kentmere it can be relatively cheap to shoot film, certainly a lot cheaper than sending it out for processing and scanning. > > >> On 25 Mar 2025, at 23:14, John Sessoms <sessomsj@earthlink.net> wrote: >> Cool if you're 20 something I guess. >> >> Wish I still ran the photo-lab. It was nothing for me to slip the occasional roll of my own film into the processor back then. >> >> On 3/25/2025 2:25 PM, Postmaster wrote: >>> Definitely using the camera. Film photography is cool now. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com