Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony 
Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> Peter writes:
> 
> > Speak for yourself.
> 
> That is my usual practice.
> 
> > Digital has many advantages over film.
> 
> And many disadvantages as well.  I won't list them for the 
millionth time,
> however.

Most of the commercial and PJ and stock photographers I know are 
using digital.   Even the studio MF shooters are now going digital 
since the new lines of big format CCD's has started to come out.   
There's already a full-format 645 out.   

There are very few areas where digital still doesn't cut it.  If you 
really need 6x7 or larger you're stuck with film; if you need to do 
long exposures - in excess of a few minutes - film is the way to go.  
If you need full, non-bayesian-artifacted RGB resolution, film still 
has an edge, but it's a very slight one.

But that's about it.  And all of those are corner cases.   Within a 
few years film-shooters will have to buy their film mail-order and do 
their own processing because the market for those things will be too 
small to support local labs and film stores.  Film shooters will be 
like fans of vinyl LP's and tube amplifiers - still around, but 
irrelevant.