Film is Dumb.

Shane Paul Neil
5 min readMar 10

There I said it.

In 2023 there is virtually no reason to shoot film. It’s expensive. It’s inconvenient. The process is slowwwww (especially if you don’t develop yourself). People who shoot film love the word artisanal and beanies.

So why do I want to master it?

Currently have two film cameras. A Canon T80 and a Pentax Honeywell. When I got them, I wasn’t sure that they even worked. I got…

Shane Paul Neil

Writer (duh) and photographer. Bylines @levelmag @complex @ebony @huffpo shotbyspn.com/findme