Film Is Not Dead

People often ask why film? Isn't film dead? Can you still get film processed? Well film is not dead and it can be processed cheaply if you only want the negatives. but why film? Well I have to go back in time again. After my using my first personal digital point and shoot camera I wanted to do more. so I began to read the manual and try and do more with this little camera. I began to shoot in tiff's because of the higher quality image. I began to play with aperture and shutter speed all with the goal of getting better photos. But after digging through so many menus, being frustrated with blurry shots taken in darker places or indoors and having peoples faces blasted with a flash I began to do some research.

I accidentally stumbled on some photos of the Computer History Museum. Searching through the information I found they were taken by a Canon 5D. looks like I needed an SLR Camera. But weren't they expensive and out of reach?  No apparently not. So I was given a Nikon DSLR for my birthday. It was bliss. This camera had buttons for many of it's functions. I was now hooked on photography. But where were all the great looking photos like the ones I saw taken by the 5D? My SLR photos were sharper, nicer and had more detail than my point and shoot, but something was missing. I then found out that I needed to process these photos in a program like Photoshop, Lightroom or aperture to get them looking alive and not so sterile. So now I needed to spend hours in front of a computer tweaking my photos so they wouldn't look so flat and sterile. Welcome to digital photography.

I was now spending so much time in front of my computer trying to make my digital shots look like they were alive, vibrant and well.... looking like film. So i applied film actions in Aperture, Lomo actions, Diana actions, Velvia actions and more all in the name of making my photos come alive. Why film? Well for one, why not cut out the middle man and save hours in front of a computer and start off with film?

I have added a couple of shots in this thread, one processed digital and one film with some minor touch ups. Which is film?

Why film? More reasons to come.