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I sometimes shoot on film, my IG is in my profile.

I find it surprising and often understated how good is the UX of old film cameras and how well it holds up when compared to modern digital gear.

Simple, well designed, often very portable - you can take these for your next trip or for a street photography session and depending on your approach the process and the results can be very enjoyable.

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Well, of course - the only film cameras anyone cares about today are the top 0.01% of camera models ever produced. No one cares to collect/use the cheap crummy ones, of which there were plenty :)

Disagree with the first piece about only using the top 0.1%. I grew up (through my 20's) shooting on a Pentax K1000, cheap workhorse of a camera, and I preferred its ergonomics to top-end mirrorless cameras I use today.

The K1000 is generally considered among the best film SLRs ever made, especially for the price, and easily falls into the top 0.1% category in my mind. There's a reason why it was in continuous production for 20 years with hardly any changes to its design.

I guess my quibble is with the percentage, then. A good, cheap, plentiful camera belies the idea that only the top 0.1% of cameras were good.

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