Quote Originally Posted by Outdoorsman
Film.
The only time I use digital is when someone hands me one, saying "You know how to take pictures, right? Here, you take the picture- it'll turn out better if you do it." And then I have about 5-10 seconds to figure out how to use the stupid little thing. There are too many interfaces, menus, submenus, functions, etc. I don't want to have to read the manual cover-to-cover before I can make a decent image. This is not the case with film cameras. They are simpler and easier to use. I will not get a digital unless it's a DSLR. All these p&s digitals the size of a mouse are just not where it's at. I don't need a keychain that takes pictures or a phone that can send low-quality jpegs to my family in Oregon. I need an SLR that doesn't weigh a hundred pounds, takes better pics than film, and can accept all my current acessories with no change in performance. I will not switch to digital until the switch will be as seamless as buying a new film body is. I got my Elan 7N in late spring, and it was so smooth a transition from the old 650 I forgot I even got a new camera. Until I started to use all the new functions I now had. What a dream of a camera it is! I don't want to have to relearn photography just because digital is the new hip thing. I want to change to digital if it will improve my images, not my image. And it's just not affordable for a poor broke fool like me. I'd rather shoot film until DSLRs are the same price as film SLRs. It's not a "I hate digital 'cause I don't want to change" thing. It's a "I have no use for digital 'cause film still works perfectly fine" thing.
I'm not a pro or anything. I'm just a regular photographer, out there to have fun and make the images I like. To each their own!
Outdoorsman,
I hear you and you made some valid points but I just don't think that getting a DSLR body is that expensive. Indeed they are 2 to 3 time more expensive than their 35mm SLR counterpart but I think that the money that you are saving by not having your flms processed at the lab make it very worthy from a financial point of view. As I have said earlier in this tread, my D70 body paid for itself in 7 months.

Just some thoughts

Seb