Originally Posted by stickyshifter
I used to shoot with a FM2n, later FM3a and F100. Now I shot mainly with a Canon EOS 1V. But I prefer to shoot my EOS 10D for anything and everything.
After awhile the advantage and speed of digital outweigh the waiting and speculations of film. Not to mention the instaneous experimentation with digital. Not to mention the fact that I love to shoot an insane number of exposures (in one concert event I shot close to 3,000 photos). Film is just not possible when I want to shoot outside my work as a hobby. A more affordable way, which is digital, is a life saver. Not to mention the ease of storage in hard drive (back up on CD of course!)
I don't see digital has any real limitations now a day. It's blow ups are great, if not better than most 135 film I've shot. I don't really want grain in my shots. The latitude might be a problem to some, but if you know the exposure then it is not bad. Flash, however, is not user friendly unless you know what you are doing.
Well at least for color anyway. For black and white nothing beats Tri-X400. Hehehe. T-max was fine-grain but an ass to develop perfectly. But now aday I just transfer the digital files into BW and try my best to make it look BW with level in PS.
Trust me I am the same way about the number of shots I take and experimentation. I will definitley be getting another digi soon for just that reason but when I do skate shots etc. I will be right back to film because of the framerate limitations and the fact that a fisheye doesn't work so hot on a digi.
Luckily all the glass I have will transfer back and forth between the two types of cameras so I won't have to reinvest in new glass when I do get my digi.