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If you do not have film camera, there are no many reasons to get it.
But, if you already have (good) film camera, I wouldn't recommned to get rid of it.
In some situations film cameras still make sense.
Digital cameras require a lot of energy (especially screen).
If you take a lot of pictures, you need access to the power sources or you have to have number of extra batteries (sometimes expensive). Film camera with small battery can take much more pictures than digital.
If you have mechanical camera (without battery), you are completely free from any energy problems.
It could be important if you plan to spend two weeks vacation somewhere in the middle of the jungle, for example.
Good film camera still can take better (more detailed) pictures than many digital cameras.
To get equal quality, you need professional level digital camera (pretty heavy and expansive).
Digital photography is not so cheap.
You must have:
Batteries;
Memory cards;
You need in many cases:
-- Fast Computer,
-- A lot of memory (internal and possibly external),
-- Good monitor,
-- Editing software
-- Photo quality printer (with paper and ink)
-- Portable memory storage to download images from memory cards: very important if you are on vacation.
It could be laptop or portable harddrive.
-- Some "fancy" digital equipment, like monitor color calibrators, for example.
Digital cameras still more expansive than equal class film cameras.
Especially it's applicable to medium format cameras.
Top level film Hasselblad could cost 8,000$ - 10,000$.
Digital Hasselblad cost more than 20,000$. With lens it could be up to 30,000$.
Difference is considerable.
There are no large format digital cameras.
Some professional photographers (especially in studious) use large format cameras.
There are no digital substitute for such cameras.
Actually there are unique large digital cameras, but cost is something like 50,000 - 60,000$.
Magic of dark room.
I mean real dark room, not digital.
There are still many (I think many thousands) people who like dark room processing very much.
Film processing doesn't require complicated equipment.
Dark room actually is very simple. If you already have dark room equipment, you do not need to spend hundreds (even thousands) of dolalrs on digital equipment.
Many millions of film cameras have been sold during the last century.
I seriously mentioned last century. Good film cameras could work for many years.
I have working medium format Kodak 70 - 80 years old.
My first camera (I still have it, it works very well) was produced in late 50s.
Hundreds of millions of people have film cameras.
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