Slides in Africa: storage and development

[Margus]

But i don't regret leaving film for a moment.
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Well, after my last trip i really was mad on myself that i took my pro-digital with me together with a film camera. It took extra room and the results were poor compared with film camera.

Sure no digital camera comes close to my fully manual medium format camera's results in B&W, Infrared or colour slide film. I think the price you pay for analogue camera's film/developing/enlarging/scanning with those results for sure are worth sending the film home or searching a place to develop them locally.

I think if you have enough room on a bike to fit a developing tank you can develop B&W and IR films yourself with no problems on the road. Just slidefilms need very precise E-6 developing and thus needs a specialialized lab, but again, the colour depth and saturatation, the resolution and emotion of film image that no digital can beat - all are worth the price even sending them home for development. Leave your digital for "party pictures" or for practicing a photography - film is for soul (at least for me), if you want the breathtaking results then sure take film camera with lots of rolls with you.

Margus - thinks that the digital imaging is a way too overestimated nowadays just because it's comfort pushing only a button.

[This message has been edited by Margus (edited 03 September 2004).]