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Choosing film

Choosing film

- I'm back with Derrick Story to talk more about film. In a couple of previous installments, here at The Practicing Photographer, Derrick has been telling us about his experiment of, not abandoning digital, but taking up analog again, and how it has changed his photography. If you haven't watched those segments, you ought to check 'em out. Derrick, at the end of the last one, when we were talking about buying cameras and stuff, you made the very interesting point that, with a film camera, you can effectively change your image sensor any time you want, something you can't do with a digital camera. - Absolutely. - So for the person who's never shot film before, it can be a little overwhelming. There's a lot of different kinds of film out there. Even with the death of a lot of filmmakers, there's, or a lot of film companies, there's still a lot of choices out there. What do they need to know when they're starting out? -…

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