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People use to play all sorts of games while developing film, the original photoshop, including multiple exposures. Don't discount post-processing. It's not as new as you think.
The scope of PS now gives photographers the tools that were out of our financial league 15-10 years ago. Thee are many differences but it is all evolutionary. I used FP4 then 5 I used Plus-X,
Tri-X T-MAX TECH PAN and all manner of chemistry from HC-110 to A specialty called POTA and lots of combos to do what I needed at the time. Now my studio photographers set the capture parameters before committing the image to file and storage to minimize post processing but we still have the tools up our sleeve. We work in a cultural institution with heritage collections so creating an image that resembles the original is paramount PS means we can achieve this in a far faster timeline
There will always be an argument for and against, traditionalists and progressives. The best skilled photographer I ever met worked in film until I hired a young woman schooled in bits and bytes but with a passion for the old traditional methodology and she had the most exquisite eye That's when I came to realize a foot in both camps is ok swapping technique and ideas from one to the other.when I employ a photographer I still like the encumber to have film therefore time and light experience just seems to give better ability
Just today I was looking at trannies I shot 11 years ago the subject was the replacement of the roof at the library where I work, the depth and tone of colour was amazing I had forgotten how impressive film can be even in the mundane images I was dealing with
If you can find and afford to shoot some film try experimenting with it before the opportunity disappears forever