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Re:Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can ... by lm28469 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:42PM (#22194010)
It's fun and it looks good. Sure, if you only look at the technical specs it's inferior in almost every way, resolution [0], no image stabilisation, poor autofocus, slow shutter speeds, poor high ISO performances, 10 to 36 shots per roll &c.

I bought a d3400 to get into photography, never really liked it. One day I visited my parents and my dad showed me an old Nikon FE, the one he used to take my childhood pics with. Slapped two batteries in and it worked just as good as 30 years ago, I haven't shot digital since then.

Good luck shooting medium format digital if you don't have $15k+ to burn. I got a bronica SQ + two lenses for less than what you'd pay for a good aps-c digital camera. If you dev and scan yourself it's good fun and not too expensive, you can experiment with different film stocks, different developers, different techniques. I personally find it much more rewarding, you can't spray n pray, you can't fix a 2 stops under exposure in post prod, you just have to know what you're doing and get it right. It's more of a creative process in a way.

There are also many quirks that you can't really replicate :

Infrared photography isn't really easy on digital: https://fstoppers.com/film/humanitarian-conflict-beautifully...

You can't shoot xpan panos on digital: https://i.redd.it/5184siubabv11.jpg & https://i.redd.it/ajrj8o38a1t21.jpg & https://i.redd.it/m7z6wm2idiw01.jpg

You can't shoot cinestill 800t either: https://i.redd.it/dnh3vi4u4s841.jpg & https://i.redd.it/x852qq3h43c41.jpg

etc. https://i.redd.it/5h74tuzocva41.jpg

[0] although you can get some pretty high res stocks these days, here is a 35mm frame: http://www.adox.de/Media/cms20test.jpg

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Re:Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can ... by octorian on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:00PM (#22197895)
You can still get the good autofocus, good metering, good shutter speeds, and image stabilization with 35mm film. You just need to pick up a Nikon F100 or F6, and slap on a modern F-mount VR lens.

Of course to get better resolution, you need to go up to medium format. (where those niceties become harder to come by)

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Re:Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can ... by semi-extrinsic on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:40PM (#22194653)
You can technically (depending on film) fix a 2 stop underexposure - e.g. with Tri-X there's no problem pushing it to EI 1600. But you can't really do it on a picture-by-picture basis, only for a whole roll.
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