So the only reason why I touch film nowadays, is that it is way cheaper on medium format and extremely low ISO B&W film still has more exposure latitude than digital bodies (maybe except the Fuji S5 Pro).

Having said all that, what people forget is that in the ‘good old times’ there used to be cheap film labs on every high street and in every town. So cost and time considerations aren’t a new thing.

In 1977 my high school graphic arts teacher said the most memorable thing that has stuck in my head since then,”Every 10 years we will be retrained on new styles, equipment, and methods. Stay out in front of the curve and you will survive in the industry”
I have studio, that started in a 1 hour photo lab 11 years ago. We ran 500 rolls a week though the door. Two years ago the film processor died, we junked it and took what few rolls of film to Target to process and then we would print it. It was a smarter way than buying a new film processor, that was a bitch keeping the chemicals to the proper strengths, because we didn’t have enough film running though it. Also, we are scanning the film into a digital printer, Making it a DIGITAL IMAGE! It seems to be a long way around the block to get a cross the street, to use film. It’s great to teach basic photography no doubt, but, film has fallen by the way side like the Polaroid.

In 1977 my high school graphic arts teacher said the most memorable thing that has stuck in my head since then,”Every 10 years we will be retrained on new styles, equipment, and methods. Stay out in front of the curve and you will survive in the industry”
I have studio, that started in a 1 hour photo lab 11 years ago. We ran 500 rolls a week though the door. Two years ago the film processor died, we junked it and took what few rolls of film to Target to process and then we would print it. It was a smarter way than buying a new film processor, that was a bitch keeping the chemicals to the proper strengths, because we didn’t have enough film running though it. Also, we are scanning the film into a digital printer, Making it a DIGITAL IMAGE! It seems to be a long way around the block to get a cross the street, to use film. It’s great to teach basic photography no doubt, but, film has fallen by the way side like the Polaroid.