[Joe]

The time has arrived.....

The time to face reality....

The F5 simply isn't getting used how it should. the processor is being cranked up even less, and the enlarger....well, I can't even remember the last time I peered through the darkness at those colour filter wheels!

The D1 series stuff wasn't enough. I used almost exclusively, and very happy with them I was, but still felt I had that film kit to rely on if I needed some 'finer' quality stuff.

It wasn't that long ago I was quite happy using my manual focus lens collection....but that got swapped out for some faster auto focus. That 'pain' was easier to swallow, and the high speed focus success hit rate thanked me for it.

Now, with a D2h I have that speed, (and finer quality than the D1h stuff), and a very light, very compact D70s (similar results to the now sold D1x, but less scary in a studio environment! lol)

Some quick calculations....with all the film kit gone, camera kit, processor, odds and ends sold for what it seems to fetch online via auction, I'd be looking at seriuos funding on a s/h D2x......

It seems more of a 'no-brainer' writeen in black and white here.

I can see it, and it makes perfect clinical sense, even though I'm simply not using film much, I can't bring myself to leave an old friend.

Head says...ditch it, ditch it quick.

Heart says...but you might want to use a roll once in a while.




help me make it easier?

what do others think?