With a Blad and fist full of Portra you had to know what you were doing. You had to use a meter. It took some time to get film back from the lab or you had to get your hands dirty developing and printing yourself. Skills.
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Ironically, out of some of my frustration of tethering and the whole Digital Road Wreck, I (re)bought a couple of my beloved Hassie 203FE's recently, and I've started shooting color neg again. With the 203 and the meter built in, you just set it to aperture priority and shoot away, just like a point and shoot. It's a true joy. And I've got my old lenses back; those sweet Zeiss lenses.
What's even more interesting -- my local C41 pro lab will do web-quality scans, on their Noritsu scanner, of every frame of the uncut film, for the same price as making a color contact sheet. So that means, in effect, you could shoot an actual job on film, and by the next day, have your CD back with web scans on it, import to iView, make a web gallery, and have them uploaded immediately. Every frame. Not that different of a workflow, even compared to digital.
I'm going backwards, and I'm loving every minute of it. The funny part is when the make up artist will look at the back of the 203FE, and all she sees is a dark slider holder... Sweet revenge.