Then I can start to look for one of the large aluminium trunks and I've got it all covered!
You mean there is actually a type of collection that reaches an end, where the collector has everything they want!
That's a first!
Well from a Pentax 110 perspective, but there's no reason I can't have multiples of them.
Can you still get film for them???
I havent even bought 35mm for years
Yep, sure can. Not as easy to get as it used to be, and the range is smaller now, as a lot of the big players have either moved on from film, or cut their production to certain formats and ISO, BUT there is a very solid following in film that is actually growing. Of course, it will never eclipse digital again, but then again, digital camera's still have a long way to go to get the resolution that can be got from some film camera's. Funnily enough, you can even get 110 format film, and another thing that has been happening lately with a lot of old film cameras is that many lens can be adapted to digital camera's.
Abe today gave me a Linhoff 4 x 5 camera (hmm, I enquire about 110 format cameras, and now I've got a large format unit that takes negatives that are 90 x 120 mm - I owe you big time Abe!). As far as digital goes, you can spend $10k + for a Pentax 645 digital, or many times that for a Hasselblad equivalent or a Leaf back or a Phase One, but a LF camera has a film area 4 times as bit, and you can still get 4x5 film and get it scanned with a drum scanner if you want to digitalise.
Yeah sure, you can stitch images together on a puter, or some cameras can do it in camera, but I actually like film for the opposite reason I like digital in relation to sport photography; it is a contemplative process compared to digital capture. My 6x9 Fuji's don't even have an inbuilt meter, but they don't need batteries at all!
You know the really sad part about using film? The bar fridge now has more film in it than beer! and everything from 110 cartridges up to some Fuji Velvia 50 slide film. In terms of beer, that means everything from XXXX to Little Creatures!