OK. We all know film is dead, so I want to know who thinks Digital is Better than Film??

Rob.

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Who says film is dead?

I think theres still a place for film.

So what about a undecided section?

I agree there will always be a place for film. I just think it will be the same place that B&W is now!

Film will be the preserve of the die hard few. I am not knocking film, photography owes a lot to it.

With most pros now using digital and even the landscape guys coming over to digital, film has had it's day.

For the undecided(s) there is always purgatory!!

Regards,

Rob.

The answer to this is "probably", but I can't bring myself to reply YES in your poll just yet. There's a nagging doubt in the back of my mind that says film is a long way from dead. I think I'm right in saying that many film producers still use film for their final take. Is it because its more accurate or easier to archive or it simply lasts longer? - I don't know, but I am sure that film will be with us for the foreseeable future. I have a pocket sized digital camera which is brilliant. Its so small I take it with me almost wherever I go, when the larger SLR (Canon EOS3) stays at home. However, for all serious (tripod) photography I always get the SLR out and load it with hi-res slide film. You may argue that top of the range digital SLRs are equal, if not better than my EOS3. One thing is certain though, to get a digital SLR with similar features as the EOS3 I would have to pay in excess of £3000 for the body. This is something I cannot justify at present and unless the cost of these top of range cameras comes down considerably I suspect I will never be able to justify the cost.

Digital allows most people to produce an image that is all their own work from taking through to printing, whereas film users in most cases have to rely on a third partys interpretation to produce their final image.