What would it take for you to try Film?

[ninjaslim]

I never stopped using film there's no option for that
I have a digital camera so that I can take 250 shots of a building I have to measure, I use the digital for the family snaps but film for family memories and shots of my buildings that I consider photographs
I love my iphone, instagram all the time but not sure I consider it photography.
I love my vinyl collection too, oh and my massive MP3 collection
Do it all

[wgerrard]

Haven't been here for a long time, but here's what it would take for me to use film: A box into which I could insert a film spool, push a button, and out comes a print. A large digital display with editing capabilty before the print was made, plus creation of a RAW file to dump to my laptop would be very, very nice.

I spent a few years developing film in the kitchen, scanning it in, trying to produce acceptable prints. That wasn't fun for me. The fun is in the shooting and looking at the results. What's in the middle, film or digital, is, for me, just unwelcome legwork.

[paradoxbox]

hope my opinion still matters but..

i started on digital. had no interest in film at all, was very excited about the latest digital gear.

what got me interested in film was the huge dynamic range that film has and the ability to take photos even with no batteries.

i remember being really annoyed that my Nikon D2X at the time couldn't handle the summer city scenes I was shooting without blowing out highlights or turning shadows into total blackness. there was not nearly enough range.

when i saw how black and white and color negative film could easily handle the range in a scene i decided to convert. that was all it took.