It takes West Camera, a lab in Toronto, two days to process a roll of 35 mm film. It costs $16 to $11 for the digital scans, $5 for the prints. When they’re ready, most of them will be pretty bad, the lighting too bright or too dark, the framing disappointing enough that you’d instantly delete it if it was a photo you took on your phone.
“It’s really the delayed gratification. Waiting a week and then coming back to see how did they turn out. People come to pick up their film and they’re excited,” says Michael Willems, a photography teacher who also runs a film developing studio in Ottawa. It is precisely the limitations – the fact that you must be more discerning in what photos you take and how you take them, and the fact that the result will be one of a kind and almost impossible to replicate – that are driving a generation that grew up with the ease of digital photography to film, Sax says.
The technical challenges of film – making sure your camera is on the right settings, knowing the speed of your film, getting the light just right – are certainly part of the appeal, Evans says.
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