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Originally Posted by Steve
"...There is something about film though, that is still neat. I used to love developing my own film in school (B&W only, color was too hard)."
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As far as longevity goes, I've got perfect negatives from the 1920s that produce excellent prints. I've heard that CDs lose their "edge" at a threshold of just ten years.
I developed Ektachrome 64ASA color slides years ago. It wasn't
that difficult, but the temperature was critical and had to kept at ± ½° for an hour.
The circumstances in the only processing room available were awkward (snow would blow into the room through the wooden walls). I found that by filling a deepsink with warm water and immersing all the chemicals in it, that the tolerances could be maintained. (And never "lost" a roll).
There was no automated equipment to put the developed film into the mount, but snap-together plastic counts were available -- and used. They still look great!
So, "there
IS something about film." (And it is neat).