OK I don't quite know whether or where to post this but here will have to do. I think I'm suffering a bit of film camera burnout. I think I've taken on too much, trying to do a film 52, a film POTY, and to keep up with all the interesting film challenges that this part of the Forum throws up.
I've just got back the second pair of films shot this month mainly for POTY, but also for the film 52. Both challenges are pushing my photography forward, and that's great. But I've a feeling that limiting myself to film is slowing down that learning and frustrating me. Basically, out of about 150 shots I'm not really happy with any of them. Quite a few, especially the shots for February POTY (macro/focus stacking/HDR etc) suffer from technical or gear-related flaws that I would have discovered more or less at the time if taken on a DSLR, but are much harder (pretty much impossible given the timescales) to correct a week or two later.
And that's ignoring the cost. If I'm getting through 4 films or more a month, that's about £500+ a year for film, process and scan.
Added to this, a few weeks back in stormy weather on the coast near Edinburgh I took several film shots (Pentax ME 50mm, Superia) that turned out either so-so or plain dull, and several X10 shots that (for me) truly rocked.
I started back in film because I felt that slowing down and doing stuff manually would help me relearn the bits of photography I used to really know (I didn't have/need a light meter for the first 4 years of photography), rather than just relying on P mode on my X10 (I don't have a DSLR). Plus the community here on this forum
. But now I'm wondering if the delayed feedback and slow turnround is stopping me benefiting from the various challenges.:thumbsdown:
Maybe one approach is to turn the film 52 into a plain 52, and carry on with the film POTY and other stuff?