Learning to use a film camera

The debate around Mirrorless v the traditional DSLR is an interesting one. I was very much involved at the time that film was switching over to digital in 2002/3 where my publishers were still asking for colour transparency film as it was easier to do colour separation...

If you have an old film SLR camera lurking in the cupboard, and you were familiar with full manual mode, adjusting the apeture and shutter speed and then focussing manually, then you may well be able to use your old lenses with a new DSLR.

I was always a Pentax man and...