On a base level film still captures three times the info that digital does. Digital capture in any case renders grain and texture different on the minute level. This is what bother some art photographers but for most purposes digital is ok as soon as the price comes down to a level that is more affodable for the quality pro cameras. The also is the inertia from: film camera aren't broken, why fix them with digital? I of course prefer film because that is what i know and what I am set up to do. I like having an original that I can see where I have a full gamut of colors and am not restricted by In a message dated 1/19/03 4:59:39 AM EST, nazca@cdo.weblinq.com writes: > I just saw again National Geographic Channel's "The Photographers", and > noticed that there is no mention at all of digital cameras. The narrator > talks about the photographers using "rolls of films", and I saw Steve > Curry [I'm not sure if my spelling is correct] opening up the back of a > film camera to shoot the Afghan girl last year. > > Why? Do NG photographers avoid the digital? > > Elson