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photographs [ARD loks around at film cameras fron A (Argus) to Z (Sorki)...] While it's undoubtedly true that many amateur (and professional) photographers own a digital camera (I guess my Datacopy 300 on a PERQ counts :-)). it undoubtedly untrue that no enthusasts still use film. As for gtting prints from negatives, you can do it the same way you always did. Plenty od enthusiasts have enlargers still which can handle a wide range of negtive sizes. I also believe that negative/tranparency scanners exist should you want to go the digital route. it's not my subject at all, but I would guess that the image processing needed to turn the scan of a negative into a postive was fairly straightforward. Of course you can _make_ an enlarger too. There have been many designd published over the years, the only really critical bit is that the negative and printing paer are both perpendicualr to the lens optical axis (unless you deiiberately want them not to be to correct for 'converging verticals') I susepct gridning the lens elements for the enlarger lens is beyond most people, though. A camera lens will work, but the image qualtiy will not be as good as it could be (camera lenses are corrected for large object distances). A macro lens should work well though. And true enlarger lenses are not hard to find. Of course if it;s a large format negative you cna easily make a contact print from it. I know that I'd much rather have ot print a negative than try to decode an uncodumented digital image file. -tony