Digital photography

Without a doubt, there is some unknowable and spiritual quality that I find I can only get with 12,800 ISO black and white film shot on a pre-1974 rangefinder, a kind transcendental otherworldliness that not only captures the image you see but also the very zeitgeist, the mes-en-scene, it's like a golden hand of an unrevealed princess reaches right out of the camera and takes the immaterial essence of the moment back into the camera on the tips of her love coloured finger tips - and then to sew this unknowable beauty across the silver-halide canvas with a single majestic sweep, like an angel sewing the seeds of profundity across a barren and yearning wilderness.

I then get 32 machine prints knocked out at Boots.

9.9
would have been a perfect 10 with the inclusion of "frisson", "vertiginous" and "silver halide alchemy"