[jinto36]

I considered myself pretty knowledgeable about photography (mostly through videography though) but I never had a decent film camera, and neither did my parents, so most of my experience with film was disposables and a cheap panoramic camera I bought for 10 of my own dollars when I was seven or something. Last year I ended up with a Canon AE-1 Program with a couple of Canon prime lenses in good shape and decided to try to revisit film, since I realized I probably had dismissed it more from using cameras without proper ability to meter or adjust exposure, and with tiny lenses. As others have said, having to think about settings really helped with making me step back and take another look at how what the parameters really mean in terms of camera and lens construction and how they inter-relate. Also when I was looking for info on the AE-1 Program I had come across samples posted by others taken on Kodak Ektar 100 and could hardly believe they were from film- it has nearly color saturation that's typical of modern digital cameras, and none of the grainy greenish underexposure that I was so used to seeing from film.

[Aloha]

Ektar is absolutely magic, its probably the best looking film ever made.

Also, honestly, even with my fancy mirrorless camera, I usually shoot in program or aperture priority mode, depending on how much control I want over the image.