alt Hacker News> Taking a shot becomes a deliberate action since you don't have unlimited frames. It's a different experience.
It’s a very different experience. Whether you enjoy that depends a lot on why you are engaging in photography. Do you prize the ritual, the act of taking photographs in the moment? Then you might love film. Might also love working in a dark room and doing your own development and prints.
Personally I don’t care about any of that. I care about the resulting photo. I’ll take upwards of 800 photos when I’m shooting one of my kids’ soccer games. I’ll get 100 photos max that are worth keeping, and a much smaller number I’m really happy with. Some will miss focus. Some will miss the moment. But I’ll have a few great photos for the trouble.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying the ritual. Also nothing wrong with just enjoying the product.
I used to do that when I was a teenager and it was truly wonderful. I had my own darkroom and was even developing my own film (BW only). As tech evolved I moved on to digital but took so many photos that somehow I stopped caring about photographs at all. It even became a bit overwhelming to look at photos and to some extent it still is to this day. I took on many other hobbies so it's not a huge loss for me. But I can totally get why some folks would get back to film from digital, they're going for the experience and not the end result as photos, which I agree would be more efficient to process digitally. But same goes with other arts. Why are people still painting? All can be done digitally in Krita or some other software and a lot more efficiently and faster and so on. And yet people pay money for canvases, oil paints, brushes, and spend hours and hours painting.