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Why shoot film?

Why shoot film?

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Why shoot film?

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- Here at The Practicing Photographer, we mostly talk about digital photography. But I'm sitting here right now with Derrick Story, who has some film cameras sitting in front of him, as well as some film. Derrick, you started out life as a film photographer. - I did. - And you've been doing digital like the rest of us for years. But you recently kind of embarked on a little experiment. - I did. This was a couple years ago, actually. - Yeah. - And I read an article that shooting film would make me a better digital photographer. - Okay. - And I'm going I'm all for that. (laughing) Right. So I wanted to test it. - Okay. - So I pulled out-- - And you were kinda skeptical of that, right? - I was very skeptical! Because I thought oh come on. I read these things all the time, right? So I pulled out one of my film cameras, and I had a few stashed away from the day. I sold a lot of that stuff, but I kept a…

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