Is a film camera better than a digital camera?

Old Friends are the best! 35MM photography has been out since the thirties, has evolved and kept up with- and created some of its own trends- and is well-established as the dominant form of film-based photography. I have a fine 35mm Pentax with a Japanese l35 lens.

The lens has half-stops a good compositonal feature not found on many modern cameras. With a wide exposure range and many shutter speeds- mated to established camera technique and a user-standardized asa 400 film-well it is a stalwart using camera and works well. Not against progress but hey, here is a 47 year old Camera -the lens is younger- that shoots like tomorrow.

Again I can state conventional 35MM photography has survived such challengers as Instamatic ( gone since about l985) Agfa Rapid ( a proprietary sub-caliber 35) and such things as View-master, ( 3-D) and for the most part, Polaroid. 35MM is alive and well and has a continuing future. No more obsolete than acoustic guitars.

Even now new films are being developed and old ones reissued- a vital niche market at the CAMERA shop.

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