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What to do if you inherit a 35mm film camera?

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Many of us are likely to remember a father or more rarely, a mother, exhorting us to stand stock still in front of a beautiful mountain in the Lake District, or maybe we have fairgound photos from Whitley Bay or the beach at Marsden in the family album. If there’s a talented amateur photographer in the family, you might discover a box of old camera stuff not being used. If you find a stash in an attic, or better still, are given an old 35mm film camera, this is what to do.

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Everyone needs this information! There are a several landfill tons of perfectly good-to-excellent 35mm film cameras out there which will work rather well with perhaps just a bit of a wipe down and a new battery. And film is really, really cheap. There’s never been a better time to learn how to do proper film photography, with a proper film camera.

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