Pumper Hinkle wrote:
> I am an amateur and I've been shooting with an SLR for over 40 years.
> In that time I have picked up some sense of good photographic
> techniques. I use photography to illustrate techniques and do***ent
> processes as well as the usual snapshots of family and friends.
>
> When my trusty old Spotmatic died from severe trauma, and couldn't be
> repaired, I didn't know quite where to turn next. I ended up getting a
> Nikon N-80 to see if I wanted to go Nikon. That led to Nikon
> accessories such as lenses and flashes and eventually an FM3a (which I
> dearly love but now rarely use). Then I picked up a D-100. At first
> I bounced between film and digital but now I only use the digital and am
> beginning to covet an upgrade to the D300 and I don't anticipate ever
> shooting film again.
>
> At this point I think it would probably be wise of me to sell off my
> film cameras for whatever I can get and use that towards the D300 and an
> SB800.
>
> So, For those of you who have abandoned film in favor of the chip,
> and have gotten rid of their film cameras, what regrets do you have? If
> any?
>
> Ralph
I have none. When I bought my wife her first digicam, she
said she would keep using her film camera with the digicam,
but all she did with the film camera was to finish the roll
of film that was in it.
You will hear from others with different opinions. To my
thinking, film and digital should be seen as different
media, along the line of oils vs. watercolors for painting.
As a practical matter, it will be increasingly difficult to
get new film cameras and repairs for the old ones, and to
get the variety of films that you are used to.
One reason I was an early user of digicams (although they
were pretty bad at first) was that I could do things on my
computer that previously required a darkroom and its
equipment.
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