For me, I do photography mostly to get away from the other stressful sides of my life (law school, work, etc). I do some jobs, and for all of those I use digital. But for the rest of things, I'm shooting for my own enjoyment and for the purpose of getting away and slowing down. So manual film cameras fit that bill perfectly.

I started in digital with the XTi about a year ago, and very quickly realized that film and digital produced different results. Especially to the discriminating eye, film and digital simply cannot replicate each other in certain situations. For example, the richness of Velvia has a different look than digital, and of course true B&W film has a texture to it that digital has yet to readily replicate.

But for me it's really the experience of using a manual camera. The Ricohflex TLR is by far my favorite. There's simply nothing like framing on a 2 1/4 x 2 1/4" screen. And although I use the Zeiss very rarely, the feeling of using an 80 year old camera is just cool. And the Nikkormat provides an easy way to shoot B&W 35mm - in fact I just shot a whole role of it yesterday, in combination with my off camera flash setup. That should prove to be an interesting combination.

Anyway, I follow film cameras pretty closely on eBay just for the heck of it. I can tell you for certain, Medium Format and Large Format show no signs of slowing down at all. If anything, I'd say MF prices have actually gone up in the past couple months. I think there is *plenty* of interest left out there. It certainly is a smaller market, but it will be many, many years before it is gone.