Oh, dear…
I’ve just bought a Canon F1 New from an eBay seller.
Before the pandemic, I was getting back into film photography and regularly going to a community darkroom near where I live. For about 60 bucks a quarter, you could go there anytime during their regular hours and develop film or make prints. They provided all the chemicals and equipment. You just needed to use your own film and photo paper.
I would check around with local community colleges or arts organizations to see if there is anything like that available where you live.
I’ve been reading about it and it sounds interesting.
Flowers evolved to look attractive to insects many of whom can see ultraviolet, and therefore the flowers have decorations only visible in the UV.
There are few or no clear skies in the UV, because it’s scattered so effectively.
Various phenomena change UV reflectivity on surfaces, so there are marks and blemishes that tell all kinds of stories about what an object has been through. This is much more significant than it is in visible wavelengths. Skin damage, for example, is scary to look at in the UV. Old documents and paintings show more clues in the UV. Contaminants show up in the UV (also some show up in the visible when illuminated by UV because they fluoresce, though ordinary photography can see this).
Lenses often have a dot for infrared, because their color correction doesn’t extend to such long wavelengths, so you get better focus if you make the visible light image sharp, and then turn the focus ring to put the best focus point on the dot rather than on the main line. All of this works because lenses generally pass near infrared wavelengths. In the ultraviolet, though, lenses don’t pass the ultraviolet (except for very rare and expensive lenses made for the purpose, such as crime scene lenses; Nikon made one years ago but it’s long been discontinued and costs thousands if you can find a used one). One way to get around the lens problem is to use pinhole lenses, and in fact the pinhole lens problem of diffraction is less severe in the UV because the wavelength is shorter.
“I was doing a boudoir photo shoot with two hot bikini models when they both started to…”
Works for both the Pentax forum & that other ‘Pent’ forum 
No advice. I just wanted to give props for the SRT-101. I wanted it desperately, but the PX in Vietnam only had the SR1-S, which had an external light meter, making it fairly clunky to operate. But it beat the old Argus C-3 that I used in photo class, and the Petri-7 that was my first new camera. I didn’t have through the lens metering until I bought a Canon many years later.
It’s 2024.
“I never thought this would happen to me, but I bought a film camera…”
Back in early March I watched a documentary on Vivian Maier, a nanny in NYC in the 50s-70s who would carry her Rolliflex twin lens reflex camera as she went on walks with the children in her care. Her photos are captivating.
I had seen her work before, but this time I suddenly realized there was nothing keeping me from trying film photography–I could shoot film and send it off to a lab to be developed and digitized.
So I bought a Mamiya C220 medium format camera and never looked back.
A few weeks later I was developing B&W and scanning it in. Some weeks after that I was developing C41 color film and scanning that in.
Then, a few months back, I set up a darkroom–it was amazingly easy to use my basement bunker office as a darkroom, even without running water. The only obvious change is the enlarger in the corner.
Be careful, you might go down the rabbit hole of film photography!
Thanks, but I’m not going back to film photography. I have a nice Nikon digital that doesn’t get much use, so another camera would just be more stuff gathering dust on a shelf.
New thread!
I started an Omnibus Film Photography Thread in MPSIMS.
Given that I linked 14 previous film photography-related threads in the OP, you can see why I started a thread for ‘one-stop shopping’.