hi,
i love doing b&w photography.
my go to used to be an olympus om1. great camera i owned since i was about 10 or 11 ish back in the early 80's.
i always developed my own film, that was until i upgraded to my first play with digital.
i bought myself a canon 1ds and a handful of lenses; however i also bought an adaptor so that i could run my old olympus lenses on the canon body.
sure it meant i had to forego all the automatic focus etc and all of the exif data stated i was using a 50mm lens (due to the chip on the adaptor), but i was used to setting focus myself anyway and the multi point focus system on the 1ds didn't really interest me anyhoo.
this opened up huge opportunities to use all the olympus kit i had, including extension tubes and filters etc.
with a reverse adaptor to go from the olympus to canon i was able to use some of my add ons then revert back to the canon lens on the end.
generally nowdays i don't bother with the om1. i can do all the processing i need in bright light rather than a dark room, if i decide i don't like my processing work i can go back and re-do it as many times as i like rather than possibly ruining a film.
i tend to switch between my 1ds and a canon bridge camera (cant remember the type number) which has a 50X zoom lens.
the bridge is good for snapping and not having to carry around a bag of lenses or a camera the size and weight of a domino. the 1ds i tend to use for serious portraits or long night exposure work.
i would love to upgrade to a 1dx but find it hard to justify the price tag.
however i do miss the times of dipping chemicals and photosensitive paints. i even had an old bottle of uranium liquid used for pulling out more details from under-exposed film....
those were fun times that i look upon with fondness, yet i don't miss the time it took.

What is this "film" you refer to?

A new plug in for lightroom perhaps?

It's a user-replaceable 20 mega-pixel light sensor that can work in (almost) any camera.
 

film is having a minor resurgence - all the major retailers in the US never stopped carrying any chemicals , but what is happening the local smaller stores are starting to carry as well.

it's all still there, it always was really - but now it's only for the people looking for it

film is having a minor resurgence - all the major retailers in the US never stopped carrying any chemicals , but what is happening the local smaller stores are starting to carry as well.

it's all still there, it always was really - but now it's only for the people looking for it

Except for Cibachrome.  Ilford quit making it in 2011.  I don't miss the limitations of film at all, especially with the advances in digital imaging technology, but sadly, printing technology has a long way to go to equal the beauty of prints done on Cibachrome. 

I was just thinking that we had to change film rolls every 36 shots, but now, with the storage capacity of SDXC cards, we find ourselves needing to change batteries every 300-400 shots before changing memory cards. 

I'm especially loving the fact that we can see the images immediately and make corrections on the fly.

I’d forgotten the frustration of film getting lost by the lab. 

That, and getting someone else's slides back from the lab.   

I minored in photography back in art school and even though I managed the darkroom for a time and could process a roll of B&W film in less than half an hour of the time it was shot it was still difficult to correlate (learn) exactly how decisions made when shooting affected the final result. Especially when using strobes. Instant results make learning sooo much faster.

Anyone want a Durst  5x7 enlarger?

"Anyone want a Durst  5x7 enlarger?"

I took my Bessler 45MX to the dump, couldn't give it away.

I did hang on to the lenses, lens boards, negative carriers, and the Aristo D2 Cold Light head.

The guy at the Wolfe store told me that believe it or not, film is making a comeback. 

As does everything babyboomers with money are sentimental about. See prices of mopeds from the era of their youth go balistic.