I don't know how long you've been making photographs. Losing materials has always been a part of it. Good photographers learn to master what is available. Poor photographers complain about their tools. You must be one of the latter.
Years ago I knew an old guy who had an amazing collection of record slides of his local area, buildings, streets, landscapes, trains (steam in those daya), where everywhere looked gorgeous, even the grotty run-down areas. All the slides were on Kodachrome (some going back to Kodachrome I), but his "secret" was that every shot was taken on a sunny day with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. He said himself that there was no point in using Kodachrome in any other weather "it just looked yuck", and, IMHE, he was right. Apart from his "Kodachrome in sunshine", he used entirely B&W...and was a great picture-maker with that too.