Where to start??? How best to spend $$$?

[Misfit]

I lovelovelove film. I've been on and off in the process of setting up my own mini-dark room. :] All you really need to be able to do is develop your own film and BAM! you get a scanner capable of scanning negatives, and your good. I'm lucky and I have a friendship with my old photo teacher and I get to crash his darkroom every now and then.

To be honest though.. I will probably switch to digital. it's just plain easier! The scanner I'd want is roughly ~500, so I might as well get a rebel or something similar. (I might go with the new pentax, since I have 5 lens already from film.)

[RhacHead]

Nothing worse than shooting rolls of film on some trip and being so excited to get them developed and paying out the nose to develop several rolls of film...and end up with three or four half-way decent pictures. I was very happy to leave those "good ol' days" behind!

Or going to develop your film only to have the film stick together since it was dark and you didnt get it on the roll properly!!! Grrrr

[garweft]

Or going to develop your film only to have the film stick together since it was dark and you didnt get it on the roll properly!!! Grrrr

Or getting the fixer mixed up with the developer.....

I need to put together a little breakdown darkroom I can set up in the bathroom. I really miss making my own prints.

[Misfit]

My first roll of film is still one of the most mutilated I have ever seen! lol Lame little plastic reels, they never, ever work. Grrrr.

It's horrible when the fix is bad. We kept having that issue when I was taking a class at my college. I swear.. people can't figure out how to dilute 1:3 to save their own lives!