I agree. I love the shots I do get with my film camera. What raised it to my attention, however, is when I was doing that "photo shoot" for the dog and realized that I was taking rolls and rolls of film that I couldn't even be sure I'd get one usable pic from; I won't know until I pick them up today whether there's one that's both a good moment and in focus. I'd gone in with my little digital thinking that for the purposes of this shoot (I'm not interested in the actual photo, but in getting a digital print I can work from) that was all I'd need--but the amateur (non-SLR) ones don't shoot fast enough to grab the action.

Part of it is jealousy and competition. No one I know is using film anymore, and so any "current event" I shoot appears for me up to a week or more late. While everyone else can just pop online (or to a newspaper) with their instant shots. I have no control over the processing (I'm not about to start developing color film) so I sometimes wonder what the point is. Then again, I'm not sure what my goals for photography are.