One of the most common questions I hear when I meet someone to photograph them for the paper is: &#8220;Are you shooting with a digital camera?&#8221; Truth be told, newspaper photojournalists were the first group of photographers to embrace digital photography, not because of the early image quality (often horrid) but the ability to save an hour processing and scanning film on deadline.</p><p>The Star converted completely to digital photography in 2000, replacing our darkroom with computer terminals. Quality-wise, digital photography has made enormous strides in those eight years.</p><p>While I never loved being in the darkroom like a lot of photographers I know, I do occasionally miss shooting film. Film looks slightly different than digital, just like a record sounds a little different than a CD.</p><p>For this story, I put down the Canon digital cameras and used a medium-format Hasselblad camera: Twelve shots on a roll of film. No instant previews. No motor drive advance. No light meter. Back to the basics of making pictures.</p><p>The pictures come out squares instead of rectangles. Those notches on the picture borders? A</p><p>Hasselblad thing &#8212; and proof they were shot on film.