Digital Is Almost Always Better Than Film

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The digital vs. film argument has become so silly it's stopped being substantive and moved over to silly nonsense.

The arguments now remind me of arguments against digital calculators thirty years ago. "What will the dummy do when the battery runs out?" was the battle cry back then. Today, calculators don't even use batteries and are so cheap and so common that everyone has a dozen or so.

The image quality of film vs digital has been settled years ago.
Digital won. Get over it.

Does anyone miss buying film and then paying to have the film developed and then scanning the negatives?


Does anyone miss those precious slides rotting away after a mere 5-10 years?

Does anyone miss not being able to shoot above ISO 400?


DSLRs excel at dim light photography. True, the smaller point and shoot cameras don't do well in dim light but then neither does the Kodak Brownie.

Does anyone miss taking along a suitcase full of film?


On my recent 15-day Alaska cruise I loaded each camera with a 16GB memory card. They lasted me for the entire cruise with room to spare.

Does anyone miss waiting days for the film to be developed?

This subject is a dead horse anyway because consumers are not going to suddenly toss their digital cameras and go back to crappy old film.


I can't even buy slide film here in El Paso nor get it developed!


Film addicts will eventually get the message when the rest of the film industry follows Kodachrome into oblivion.

It's only been a mere 24 years since Kodak released the first commercial DSLR. It was a real dog with 1.5mpixels and a hard drive to store the pictures and sold for $5500 or roughly $9,000 in today's dollars. Yes, film was better then.

Imagine what cameras will be like 24 years from now! Factor in Moore's law which states that digital circuits double in capacity every two years.

I don't get excited about new DSLR models because that $2,000 marvel will be obsolete and replaced by a much better camera in two years!

Yes, I do use film for one purpose. I use film for long exposure star trail images. DSLRs don't do well on extremely long exposures, but film does.


I have a Nikkormat FTn for that purpose.


Every now and then I take it out of the camera bag and give it a big hug. They will never make a camera like it and a Nikkormat FTn was my first SLR.
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