Welcome Mike! Neat that you are doing it old school! I still have my old Canon T-70 film camera and like shooting with it, but I'm afraid I got hooked on Digital and all the post processing you can do (Besides, I don't have any good place in my house where I could set up a Dark Room.

The I first got started in a semi-serious way in photography, it was while I was stationed in Greece (Air Force). That's when I bought my T-70 (mid 80's). We had a Dark Room on our small site, so I did mess around, but never got really good at it.