Recently, I went into my favourite little photography store in Ottawa, Canada - Galaxy Camera. I have been there before but on this particular day, it was actually crowded with young students wanting to buy film and related chemistry, etc. So what do I mean by crowded? The store is tiny and holds about ten people and on that day, there were ten people in it. Not a huge crowd but everyone was after film. I chatted up one of the young students and he told me they were all taking a fine arts degree, which included film photography, at the University of Ottawa,
That's full circle in my experience. Ages ago, the local community college got out of film photography and I got, for almost nothing, a 5x4 Devere colour enlarger and a Durst 138s. Thy both had good lenses. The only catch was that I had to remove them from the building. I hired a guy with a truck who put both enlargers (huge beasts) in my basement for a hundred bucks, I think. No more than that. I still have the Durst.