This clip got me going through my photos app realising it’s a lot of “note-keeping” so to speak; pics of papers from school and work.

It also got me to pick up my actual camera for the first time in a long time. Its past due to rekindle and old hobby.

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    Getting high quality digital prints from digital photos is amazingly cheap these days (for example, I use https://www.photobox.co.uk/photo-printing/photo-prints-6x4 ) Which is also cheaper than professionally developed film - though you should avoid the temptation of photobooks, canvas prints, and so forth except in special circumstances.

    So, get into good habits of quickly discarding bad shots (e.g. out of focus), and the worst versions when you have taken multiple shots of the same thing - either in pauses in your photography (avoid chimping) or when you get back home. Then do a round of basic cropping and any lighting adjustments. Perhaps add keywords or star ratings to the photos if that’s your thing. Then consider what is worth printing, and what just kept digitally. Also purge functional shots (such as the pill photos of the video) when no longer useful.

    I think with good habits, you’ll spend less time on drudgery than film photography (whether you develop it professionally or yourself), you’ll have moments of admiring your work as you do so (I hope!) and have better results at the end of it all.

    Film photography can serve as a useful discipline in thinking about your craft, or be more rewarding as an act of creation, but it won’t save you time or effort.

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      I bought a cheap and small (400-500€?) color laser printer for my company like 7 years ago
      I’m still on the first cartridges and we even printed photos for some time on photo paper
      Worked really well and looked much better, than I’d have thought

      So maybe this is an alternative for some, just to try it out

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        Oh, if you’ve got a good printer (and ink for it!!!) then, yes, use them (especially if someone else is paying for it) - but I’ve pretty much given up on home colour printing these days - the ink is too expensive, and and runs out too fast. And the online equivalents are I suspect cheaper than home printing if you add all the costs in, and often better quality.

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          As said, laser printer

          This thing goes on and on and seems to never get empty
          Also it also doesn’t dry out like ink cartridges

          I’m really happy with it and it wasn’t expensive