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Originally Posted by ardeegee
A better analogy would be "don't own a film camera and never print out photos."
When I was in college in the early 1990s I used to lust over film SLRs, particularly wanting something from the Cannon Eos line, but couldn't afford the several hundred dollars for the cheapest ones. A couple of years back, I thought about buying one on Ebay now that the same models I couldn't afford around 20 years ago now can be bought for 20 or 30 bucks. I decided that it wouldn't be worth even that much to me because I have absolutely no nostalgia to ever have to deal with the hassles of photographic film ever again.
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I think odiakkoh was referring to the act of taking a photograph being a way of creating a keepsake of the past, regardless of the medium.
I still have my Pentax film SLR. It was the camera I learned with, so I won't part with it. I also still have my trio of Argus Bricks, and once in a while I run a roll through them, but rarely, and even then I just have the negs developed and scan them. My Oly DSLR has paid for itself twice over in terms of time and money I'm not spending fussing with film.