I had a fuji mirrorless for a couple months – never again, i found it extremely difficult to take sharp pictures, autofocus was so unpredictable. especially with fast moving objects (read: kids). would definitely recommend a dslr.
but i know you can actually try both in the shops (the wicklow street camera shop can even lend you the 2 cameras so you can have a look yourself.
Do you need colour or black and white films developed? No idea about colour but the best place for bw is definitely your bathroom. I, or I guess others on this forum, can give you a hand if you’ve never developed your bw film.
If you’re thinking black and white then your golden rule is to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights – the shadows on a negative are the thinnest parts of the image, so you need to make sure some light hits the halides which can later be developed – you do not want these parts of your image to be completely black on your final print. And that is taken care of by the exposure.
Then you can adjust the development time (or temperature) to ensure highlights are developed correctly. If in effect you overexpose (i.e. extend exposure time in order to ensure some details are captured in the shadow) then you need to shorten your development time.
Any bw negative can be shot at higher ISO rating (i.e. underexposed and then overdeveloped) but this will generally lead to some loss of quality – bigger grain and contrast becomes more difficult to control. Sometimes this can create quite good effects … Some developers are more flexible in this regards than others. XTOL or Diafine are probably the best examples. But then some folk like the look of HP5 shot at 1600 and developed in Rodinal :-)
So there is lots of flexibility there, the difference from digital is that there’s no ctrl+Z in your lightroom (I mean darkroom :-)
For colour analogue you’re not really getting any flexibility unless you can do C41 at home.
Lovely shot and composition but I think the photo is underexposed a bit. Have you tried exposure bracketing? I find that digital late evening / sunset photos generally look their best given slightly more exposure and then corrected in lightroom / aperture – this way you get more shadow detail and colors can be picked up as well. but what do I know still shooting film :)
You may also consider one of the Fuji mirrorless cameras – I personally love the XPro1 – great picture quality, great lenses and good fun using the camera!