I burned off the film that was in there (it was decade-old slide film and didn't develop properly) and picked up a roll of ISO 100 black and white. One evening I headed to campus, both D80 and FTb in tow, and took some shots. I brought the D80 along to use as a light meter, since the FTb's meter battery died. Overall I ended up with shots that were over-exposed compared to what I'd normally go for with digital, but I'm pretty pleased with the results.
As much as I'm pleased with the pictures, I found the whole process to be somewhat "disconnected" (for lack of a better term) compared to shooting digital. Maybe it's simply because my ideas aren't well-formed enough when I shoot, but I usually do a lot of iterative shoot-review steps to see what works, and the review step is missing on film. I enjoy similar guessing and testing when I do post-processing, but for these shots I just got the lab to scan them and that was that. Maybe I just need a darkroom ...
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