There they are... an unexpected gift from my father-in-law, the Rolleiflex SL66 with a complete set of lenses. The allure of film has been hard to resist as I've often catch myself looking at M6 or M7 for sale ads. But now, I have 5 rolls of 120 Tri-X BW film on its way to me from B&H :)
The first thing I searched was to see if there's a possible digital back solution for this camera, and there appears to be none. So it looks like I'm stuck with film. It's both exciting and scary at the same time for someone like me who has always been relying on TTL metering. My biggest fear is I will under/over expose a lot and waste a bunch of money on developing the negatives only to find out I got no keepers from the entire roll. I think it's a good exercise, though, to force myself to be much more careful about exposures and framing.
The first thing I searched was to see if there's a possible digital back solution for this camera, and there appears to be none. So it looks like I'm stuck with film. It's both exciting and scary at the same time for someone like me who has always been relying on TTL metering. My biggest fear is I will under/over expose a lot and waste a bunch of money on developing the negatives only to find out I got no keepers from the entire roll. I think it's a good exercise, though, to force myself to be much more careful about exposures and framing.
Part of the problem with shooting film today is finding a place to process it. I think to start, I will find a decent place that will process and scan the negatives for me. But I've also read up on developing film myself and it does seems like a quite doable process. I'll see if I'm going to be committed to shooting film first.
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