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If you enjoy photography and like the kinda vintage idea of how photos used to be, you should look into getting an old film SLR camera. I have a Minolta X-700, you can get one on ebay for like $200 and it’s a ton of fun. Film photography is a totally different experience than digital because you can’t just check a photo and delete it if you don’t like it. It’s more advanced than a point and shoot, but nowhere near as complicated as a modern DSLR. You can still buy film pretty easily at places like CVS too and most places that develop photos offer digital scans as well as prints.
My brother is a cinematography (mostly for commercials) and he swears by the old school film look. If I ever get motivated enough, I'd definitely love to give it a try! Will check out that model if I ever do
Another commenter mentioned film point and shoot cameras too and it’s not a bad idea if you don’t want to deal with all the technical stuff. I have no experience with them though, so I can’t speak for their ease or quality. My friend has a Minolta 3000i that I’ve been curious to try out. Those are on ebay for like $20-$50, so it may be a better choice for your first film camera.
You can also buy (excellent) point & shoot film cameras, btw. or a rangefinder camera for a decent price (non-Leica branded, because Leica is expensive no matter what ;)
I hope you wont mind me reminding this: film is not simpler. It's as much work if not more as any other type of manual photography, digital or not. The difference, beside the lack of immediacy, being that you control the output and not some computer code... which means that you must assume the many mistakes that will happen too ;)
I learned photography on a film camera back in the late 70s. And to me B&W film have yet to be rivaled by anything digital. The real issue with film is that, depending where you live, it can be a pain to get it properly processed (of the few remaining places around here, too many simply can't be bothered to do it right). One could certainly process B&W at home but it would still be a pain to learn to do it properly. And don't even think about colors (a lot more complex and expensive) and then there would be the demanding task of scanning each negative or each print and then digitally clean it.
I know myself enough to know that I will definitely be too lazy to develop film. Heck, I am too lazy sometimes to even back up my photos. Though it would be kind of fun to enjoy film cameras, realistically I will likely never see those photos at all.mm
I couldn't disagree with this more. A modern DSLR or mirrorless with have an extremely advanced automatic mode, really advanced autofocus with subject detection and tracking. Even the most modern SLR's from the early 2000s won't be able to match them for ease of use when everything is set to automatic. Edit
Plus with a digital you can spray and pray. Set it to burst end trust one out of the 500 photos you take will be any good.