POV: you're a photographer, who has been using digital cameras for a while, and you want to take your first steps into film photography, BUT you don't want to start with a simple camera that you'll outgrow. 

Well, you've come to the right place. This is our guide to the best 35mm film cameras for people who already consider themselves photographers.

Digital photography is great, and it definitely has its perks: having unlimited amounts of photographs to take, being able to edit them in so many ways, and being able to see the results instantly. But these reasons are also all of the reasons to try film. 

(Trust me, I was very much on the fence about it at first too.)

Firstly, film causes you to slow down and consider your composition. Instead of having unlimited photographs and taking a hundred photographs of the same subject at different angles, film causes you to slow down, find the perfect shot, and only take one or two before finding another subject, or background. You'll become a better photographer, who doesn't need to cull thousands of images at the end of a shoot, because you started thinking about each composition.

Secondly, how you shoot the image is how it will look in the final version. How you created the image and the exposure, filters, and aperture you used will be how your final image looks. This allows you to closely consider how each factor plays its part in creating the final image.

Thirdly, you get excited waiting for your images. You have to send your negatives off to a lab (or develop them yourself), which means there will be a bit of waiting game between taking the images and seeing them. So scrap your instant gratification! Your images will mean so much more to you when you see them a few days or weeks later. Instead of taking an image, looking at it straight away, and discarding it, you will revisit your film photographs and remember the moments behind the image.

You're a photographer, so you already have some understanding of how cameras work and how to create great images. You understand the basic concepts of shutter speed, aperture and ISO (hopefully). This means you'll probably want to skip the over-simplified point and shoot cameras that most beginners to film start with, although they can be very fun.

Because of this, the main thing to consider when choosing a camera is how you want to take photographs. Do you want the camera to have fully manual settings, or automatic settings, or both?

This factor will change how you take photographs and whether you get an amateur level camera or a professional level camera.

So here we go. These are our top five cameras for photographers who are new to film photography, but not new to the principles of photography.