What is the problem with

Those people that are bashing digital photography so much!??! I went to a few photo sites the other day with some forums and stuff and there were a bunch of people talking about how digital cameras are so far inferior to film.

And my step grandpa always bugs me about oh, you could've got a decent SLR for the price of your S30 last year. But by now for the number of pictures I've taken, the costs would've exceeded big time with things like film and developing charges.

Okay So I use a printer to print out most of my images?

My Canon i850 does a nice job, highly economical on ink, and I can print out 8x10's without paying a lot of money at Wal-Mart or Ritz Camera. And the cost of my printer would be slashed out by the cost of a good scanner if I stuck to film.

I don't know, This is the free topic forum so I just thought I'd type up a bunch of stuff. Anyways, CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? Film or digital, we all have our goods and bads. argh.

The problem you are stating is caused by people not keeping track of technology at the same pace.

until 2 years ago NO digital camera could compete with a moderate film camera.

Last year with the D60 and Nikon equivilants, Digital passed the standard film SLR cameras in terms of quality for color images (Film was still superior for B+W)

With the 1Ds, in terms of output quality digital is nearly at Medium format quality in a 35mm body. It definately beats the best 35mm film camera (again except B+W).

Some of the P&S cameras are at the point where they are beating the cheap 'disposable" film cameras and starting to approach standard film SLR in terms of quality.

The only exception is B+W, because with film you can get very small grains if you only need the silver halide for B+W. That and digital cameras are trading pixels for colors, if they were used strickly for B+W they would exceed film in terms of quality in that category. You would need two dedicated digital cameras to do both B+W and color at maximum resolution.

At this time film cameras give you two things that digital can't. flexability between color, B+W, IR and special films; and resolution for B+W images.

The issues is one of education, we have just this year entered the point where digital is equal to and starting to exceed film capabilities at competive prices (given digtal's higher costs versus film costs) and some people are a bit slow to change. So allow for people who don't know what they are talking about for at least another year or two.

Just my opinion,