The results

I went into Jessops today and collected my developed film. Anxiously, I opened up the package and looked through my photographs. What a relief. Almost all of my shots have come out very well indeed as out of 72 shots, only six where no good. Importantly, all the pictures of my dog Meg came out and I'm about to upload three of those to my deviantART gallery. Over the next few days I'll be uploading more photographs taken with the Canon EOS-100 SLR film camera. I had paid extra to have the negatives developed digitally as well as traditionally, so this spares me having to scan the photographs.

Two little bad things though. Jessops left out one of my negatives when developing the prints. They included it in the digital processing so I'm not sure what's gone wrong but I'll be headed back tomorrow to ask them to process the overlooked exposure. Second issue is that while the digital processing was good, the resolution leaves a little to be desired. The images are fine for on-screen display but aren't really that good for printing from and I had been told I would be able to do 9x11inch prints with perfect quality. As I say, small issues...

Overall, my experience with the film SLR camera has left me on a high. Seeing the result today has made me buzz - it has been very exciting. I've got some great shots of Meg and some other interesting shots from my walks out and about. I hope that over the next few days you'll enjoy what I share with you at deviantART.

Lastly, I would urge anyone who has either not used a film camera in a long time, or has never used a film camera before, to grasp the opportunity, should it arrive, to use a traditional SLR. They're great fun to use and I have to admit, as much as I have loved using digital cameras over the last seven years, there's nothing as irritatingly frustrating, yet in the end thoroughly fulfilling as having to wait to see the results of your labours. I'm very happy.