Haha! I shot film for 40 years. it's expensive! Metering is way easier than most people let on. Film boxes used to have all the settings right on them. They had little diagrams for front lighting, back lighting beach lighting on and on. You could just use those and everything would turn out fine and dandy. Now i wish i would have kept that some of that stuff. The hardest part was focusing but even that isn't so tough if you're used to manual. Having a darkroom was never an easy thing unless you owned a home and could afford a ton of gear and chemicals and paper. I always wanted a studio like the guy in Antonioni's movie Blow Up!

Photoshop? What an insane creation. Sure it's cool and you can change the molecular structure of the known and unknown universe, but seriously? When i first saw it and tried to use it it seemed to be designed by computer geeks who had never even held a camera let alone taken a photo. People who were not photographers at all. But i digress. Film snobbery is joke. Expensive glass has always been expensive and film won't make an artist of anyone who isn't already going there.