jeez, I guess B&W it isā¦
unless anyone has any good leads on where to buy cheap filmā¦?
I remember when they used to give you a free roll when you got one developed in Jessops. now that was living!
Thereās still some that crops up on eBay. I bought a ten pack of expired Jessops film for fifty quid before Christmas.
I think I might just reassess my expectations of film pricing. If I go out for a night and buy three pints, Iād have nothing to show for it, but I could buy a film for the same money. OK, so film might have been loads cheaper years ago, but actually, with the amount I actually shoot, itās not that unaffordable now
@wasted luckily ive not been shooting much and still have a fridge/freezer full but once that is gone its going to have to be for very special occasions
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I think thatās the thing - I only really shoot on special occasions these days. I shot less than ten rolls last year
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I mean it does take me an age to go through a roll as I seem I take pictures fairly infrequently and obviously Iām aware itās not the cheapest or most practical way to take pictures, so am happy to pay a bit more for the enjoyment the process gives me. But hard not to wince at those prices.
think Iāll stick to B&W for the foreseeable and pray colour prices come down somehow.
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just checked all my usual places i would buy from and they are either now very VERY highly priced or completely out of stock
maybe i should cash in with my stock
Iāve not bought a box of portra in a few years (since a box was about Ā£38.99). Iāve bought the odd roll for about Ā£14 but that plus developing is wayyy too expensive for me now. Iām using HP5 at Ā£6 a roll.
Apparently theyāre taking steps to keep up with demand? But unless the prices drop there wonāt be any demand anymore ! !
A lot of more casual people will definitely switch to using old digital cameras, either getting them out of drawers or spending something like Ā£30 on a camera instead of spending loads on inflated film prices.
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Having a camera that can shoot a 20 frames per second sounds fantastic, until you come home from a gig and find that you have over 1700 files on your memory card, most of which youāll delete.
Looks like thereās no slower burst mode either - if youāre on electronic shutter itās single shot or 20fps.
Still, at least I donāt have a Canon R6 mk II - thatās 40fps
Just upgraded to an R7 for more-or-less this - gamechanger for wildlife photography but yeah, the triage process is tedious AF. Just have to get really comfortable deleting stuff on instinct.
(and the burst rate on it is at least selectable between 15 and 30fps depending on physical or electronic shutter, and I think thereās an even slower mode - I assume itād be the same on the R6 Mk2)
It looks like that from the menus, but experience and googling tells me that on electronic shutter itās fixed at 20fps on the R6 Mk I. Last night was James Yorkston & Nina Persson - essentially a folk gig - so I needed to be quiet
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Get a slower SD card and shoot in full RAW rather than CRAW to fill the buffer quicker? 
Does the R6 distinguish between low/high/high-plus drive modes? The R7 manual claims itāll do 15fps on electronic and maybe also 3fps but itās not clear and I donāt have mine to hand: Canon : Product Manual : EOS R7 : Selecting the Drive Mode (start.canon)
Itās got High and Super high speed modes, but that just impacts the mechanical shutter fps, not electronic. Looking on the internet Iām not the only frustrated one, especially since itās something they could fix relatively easily with firmware!
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More thoughts later maybe, but very quickly, it confirms my view that if youāre going to take someoneās portrait, take it for a reason rather than just shooting an anonymous portrait, because otherwise whatās the difference between these AI images
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Gave this another go when the moon was coming up last night. Wish Iād looked into it sooner as it turns out that if you can keep the phone still itās capable of impressive things. Pretty awesome what can come out of a tiny single lens on a middle-of-the-range phone thatās now a at least a few years oldā¦
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