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[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yeah, I grew up at a time when point-and-shoot film cameras were cheap enough that each household had one, but we often had so save for months and let film rolls accumulate in a drawer until we managed to go develop them (all of my family is so adhd it's not even funny). I remember the development being really cheap, but printing the pictures was where the labs took you for a ride. When we got a film camera that had the tech to produce a test strip and select pictures before printing them we were so relieved.

I do the film camera thing because it forces me to be more aware of when I take pictures and of what/whom... I like the feel of the clunky mechanical cameras, and my dad left me a Soviet-made SLR that's a workhorse. It's also nice to have physical objects that jog your memory, instead of thousands of pictures I forget exist until I go looking for something on my phone. It is pretty expensive though. I'll go for months without taking pictures until I have enough to get by and spend on film and development.

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