----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: Film is Dying? (was Pentax is Dying?)
> Why start digital if you never used digital before? You have to > start everything at some point don't you? > > Never shoot BW? Oh I see, but what if you wanted to try? By selling > ALL your film bodies and saying "never use film again" you have > burned your bridges and limited your creative possiblities. To me, > with 35mm film cameras so cheap now, it is worth having at least one > just for fine grain BW because the results are still better than > APS 6MP Digital for that application.... If they are scanning film for output, it doesn't matter. Want black and white? Convert the colour image. Unless you are printing in a darkroom, there isn't much advantage to shooting black and white, and some significant disadvantages. William Robb
