Hi Ardeep and welcome to the boards.

I've jotted down a few thought below which may help.

1) If you are going to be travelling around alot, weight will matter as will space I suspect. Camera film will take up space and may not do as well in very extreme climes (for example film I took to Belize in 1996 came back with a green tinge after 4 weeks out there). It might be worth considering a DSLR instead but I realise this may not help the budget.

2) On film, you can pick up a second hand film SLR such as an Nikon F80 / 75 for around Ł100 on ebay or from second shops (check the ads in AP). I know these as a Nikon user but obviously there is a range to choose from e.g. Canon, Pentax, Olympus Minolta....

If you're a photography novice, go to a shop where you can hold the camera you're interested in and play with it to see how intuitive it is, what settings it has etc

3) For landscapes you can (amongst other things) take a wide view or use a telephoto lens to pick out an object of interest and or compress the apparent space between foreground and background. thinking of weight and space a gain, a zoom lens of around 28-135mm or 200mm would cover all areas. Although longer in focal length than you need, Sigmas 28-300mm costs Ł169 and will cover all eventualities.

4) If you're using film and enlarging it, the slower the film is rated (i.e. ISO 100) the finer the grain and the more you can enlarge it before the picture looks grainy. BUT, slower film needs longer exposure time / larger aperture so a tripod could well be useful but again we're increasing weight (although tripods are quite light, by the time you're at 10,000 feet EVERYTHING is heavy!)

5) A set of graduated filters such as those produced by Kook or Cokin will help to balance the exposure between bright sky and a duller land. Not essential but they'll help to balance the exposure. However this is munching in to the budget. But then it would be a shame to bring back pictures that are not as great as they could be from a Big trip.

6) Photography sources: library or bookshop or magazines. A lot of what you need to know is the same for film and digital e.g. composition, what a change in aperture does to focus, changes in shutter speed and focal lenght of a lens, understanding light (midday light is harsher, afternoon light has a slight blue tint, dawn and dusk are softer light etc). For magazines I'd try Outdoor Photographer or AP. Forums here will answer any questions too. Mayb with a touch of squabbling occasionally!

7) Getting film onto a website. Nearly everywhere now offers you the chance to get CDs of your images when developing film e.g. Boots, Snappysnaps, Jessops. Scans onto CD from these places will be fine for putting on the internet. Many of the black and white images from Alaska on my flickr site are from shop scanned CDs.

Prices vary and the film processing quality varies too so shop around and ask people who they like. Stores vary so Boots in X might be great but the Boots in Liverpool St. station sucks. When you get film developed, if you've deliberately over or underexposed a picture when shooting it, tell the people developing it NOT to autocorrect the pictures, otherwise they'll try to make everythig an ideal image which may destroy what you had in mind.

I'll shut up and give somebody else a chance but I hope that helps.

Matt