[difficulty of using film these days]
Even if I gathered all these materials, it's not likely the places I
would like to photograph would permit tripods or long setups. Beyond
the costs, film equipment is a lot heavier and bigger, even more bulky
than most DSLRs.

The payoff would have to be significantly better results in order to
justify lugging around the old film camera and associated gear.

I do far less photography when travelling than I used to when film
was more practical - airport X-rays have largely ruled it out, and
since I mostly used specialist films (medium format transparency
film, high-speed monochrome and high-performance slide film like
Velvia) I couldn't expect to find the stuff when abroad.

I can't afford the sort of digital kit (if it exists) that would
match the resolution of my old Minolta Autocord TLR (6x6 film with
very sharp Tessar) or the shutter response time of that camera or
my 50-year-old Leica rangefinder. The kind of pictures I was good
at taking - things you don't find on postcards or Panoramio - were
close-up shots of people that required split-second timing, often
in low light with a very fast lens and ultra-fast film. I could
afford to do that with a TLR, a prewar Zeiss folder or a 50-year-old
Leica rangefinder but I can't afford a digital camera that could do
the same and I can't expect the film for the old cameras to survive
the trip. So I hardly ever take photos any more.

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