G> Certainly you and Paul (grin). I remember when we three argued the other way G> around not too many years back. You and Paul claimed no one in their right mind G> would spend that much on a digital camera, and I argued that it made perfect G> sense if you were trying to make a living with your camera.
It were funny discussions these days :) All the number crunching going on. G> I am actually pro digital --especially for professional use which has nothing to G> do with quality but everything to do with making profits--, but I find I have to G> argue for film for the exact reasons Frantisek mentions. And not having invested G> thousands on digital equipment I do not have to "justify" it to myself. I do use digital daily, and I like certains things of it. I do use film, not as much, but still a lot, especially when going on any kind of trip. There are times I wish I could "afford" to shoot an event with just the leica/film slr (there is one older PJ who was to Ukraine elections with _just_ leicas, almost everybody else was sending jpegs over the net...). There are times I am glad I shot something _not for work_ on digital as well. Call me moody perhaps :) Both processes have inconveniences for me - I am not that good at darkroom work (and now with less and less practice, probably getting worse), and I dislike having to stare on computer screen for too much time (because I have been working on computers for too much of my life already). I feel both processes are different... just that, different processes. One is sometimes better because it has some hard to define feel, be that nostalghia, feeling of amateurism - meaning love of something, or of simply a good workmanship done with love (of course, only if it was done so). Like a good old wooden table has. But only in some cases. But still, I don't know anybody (be it "pro" <g> or "amateur") for whom digital has changed life significantly, made them instantly happier or helped their karma ;-) while this is not an argument against digital (god forbid!), it's an argument against arguments pro digital ;-) enough words from me, I don't aspire to thinking that my opinion is so original as to be entertaining on the list. Please bear my posts me with patience :) Frantisek
