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by friseurtermin 1542 days ago
100% what I came here to say. My film camera restricts me from checking each photo instantly, keeps other people from checking each photo ("Show me! Do I look good in that? Take another one") or from sharing online.

As an added bonus, I get to relive my trip a few weeks later when I get my films back from the lab.

I have to add that I don't think any of my films were ever destroyed by an airport scanner.

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>I have to add that I don't think any of my films were ever destroyed by an airport scanner.

That is a bit of a myth these days. Modern airport hand luggage scanners are safe up to ISO 800 or so. And from my experience airport staff is very willing to hand-check high ISO film (did an intercontinental trip with T-Max 3200 once and had no issue getting it hand-checked in 4 different countries - it probably helped that I separated out only the 3200 film and got all others scanned regularly)

I hear there's new CT machines which may cause issues, but apparently the staff is well aware of this and they should be labeled.

I like high grain images, but I also wonder if it's kind of a fad?

The ability of modern digital cameras to shoot essentially unlimited photos might not be without its drawbacks, but being able to shoot low grain images practically in the dark is pretty cool.