Sometimes I just want to keep things simple. A film , manual focus, rangefinder camera with an optical viewfinder, a fixed prime lens of my choice, a couple of films and me the photographer. No megapixels, no menus, no IBIS, no AF,  no multiple choice complex functions, no EVF, no live view screen, no histograms, no chimping; no worries.

Sunny f-16 rule, look through the viewfinder, frame the composition and click. Then wind on to the next frame and walk on to see what I can see to find my next picture. Nothing simpler, nothing more relaxing, totally absorbed in my photography.

As you can see you get rich colour tonality from film though these are some quick low-res scans that do not really show off its real capabilities. Photograpy using film really is fun I have to say and a very different experience from using digital.

Having only 36 shots on a roll of film in the camera tempers any tendency to snap away with abandon at anything and everything and making multiple shots of the same thing "just in case". It focuses my mind on getting things as right as possible with only a single picture of only interesting subjects and only at the right moment. I take my picture when everything looks just right and I move on. Only time will tell when the pictures return from processing whether the results actual met my intentions.

So film is photography and photography is film and photography is fun so film is fun. I have to admit I find it more fun as a process for relaxation than digital. The whole physical process around film keeps me in touch with my photography in a way that makes it feel somehow more real.