That's fine Peter.

All that is true Peter, but the OP has bought a film camera and, as far as I know, wants to learn with it.

I'm sure we'll all help as we can, whatever route is decided upon.

I wouldn't for a moment discourage anyone from shooting film if they want to. A friend of mine shoots film by preference and he has done most of his learning using film. It may be slower, but if that's what you want to do, go for it.

It's even covered in the instructions and the advice there is to remove the battery for a short while.

Are you storing the camera near a source of magnetism or static electricity? An example might be an unshielded speaker. That could I suppose cause a problem, cured by moving the camera away.

And here.

I think the Q7 is imminent.

I agree with your sentiment and I hope you will re-connect with the joy of making images.

There is at least one great image within your picture. I would enlarge and straighten the young man enjoying the bubbles and I think you have a very lively candid shot there.

The Q seems to have gone at SRS, but the Q10 prices have fallen dramatically.

Already in Leads to Deals and another thread as well!

To be fair, photographers don't need anywhere near what PS offers, but as always there are one or two nice things that aren't in the Elements package....

Full marks to the builders who recently bought land in Manchester and then found there was a forgotten Victorian reservoir underneath it. It was magnificent and they wanted to keep it, amending the plans for the house building to accommodate it. The council, who also had no idea it was there, said No. End of story. That's unsympathetic IMHO.

However, they did what they could. They made a booklet about it and allowed the public in for several weeks before the demolition. I think 23,000 people went to see this wonderful place, photographers descended in droves and rock bands made music videos there. A friend of mine was commissioned to photograph the actual moment the diggers broke through the roof.

With a bit of sympathetic co-operation it could have been saved I'm sure.