In the digital age it is easy to shoot the memory card full.  It only costs you batteries.  When I had to spend hours in the dark room developing the film and then printing it out, I was A LOT more selective about the shots that I took and constantly questioning myself on why I was taking a particular shot.

I have since traded my 40 year old darkroom and 35 mm cameras for an acoustic guitar, but I am thinking of dusting off the Mamiya C3 and finding a nice tripod for it so I can go back to that magical world of film photography.

I would not give up digital photography because it lets me be so cavalier as to be able to take the snapshots that I would not take with a film camera.  The film camera makes me focus a little bit more on each shot since it is much more expensive to produce an image that way.

To shoot a hundred or a thousand shots in either medium hoping that you will find a gem among them is crazy!  To shoot a hundred or a thousand shots with the intention of making them all gems is a better attitude to approach the mission with.

Sorry for being so unfocused in my reply.

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