Film used be about a steady-stream of operational costs, amortizing film, processing and printing over many years.

Digital has always been about huge up-front costs of cameras and computer processing.

Film purchase and processing now have scanned added on, and all are getting painfully expensive, not to mention the surge in camera prices as TikTok decides which camera is flavour of the month. I can no longer decide to buy a Contax G2 backup body cheaply, so lucky I did it a long time ago.

Photography has always been an expensive hobby, plus ça change