I do agree with you on teh leeway of film and f-stops. I guess my main point is that you can preview.
I went to the Washington coast this year and shot about 6 rolls on the beach. I was using a polarized lens and 200 film. because of cloud cover and the extreme humidity, many of my photos came out a bit dark despite the fact that I was over-exposing a bit. Had I had the benefit of the LCD display, I could have seen that from the start.
I also could have taken 250 high resolution pictures without carrying pockets full of film. And I could have taken a lot of B&W without switching film.
I still like the SLR for landscape shots that I am going to blow up (and there are lots of great things to shoot in the Rockies), but for most day to day use, the digital is great. (I have a Casio 3000-ev, 3.1 mega pixel with a 300 mb disk.)
Media stability is not the only issue. Obsolesence of formats and technology is a huge concern. I’d bet that the data on my 8-inch floppies is intact and readable - but it would cost $$$ to send them to a service bureau to retrieve files if I wanted them. And who can read a Visicalc format from 1981?
If you have anything of value stored on an old DDS 1 tape, I’d recommend that you get it off and into a different format ASAP - not because of media deterioriation, but because it won’t be long before no one will be able to read the tape format.
Storage manufacturers can take backward compatibility only so far - even for their $$Mega million customers - let alone consumer products.
If ORB manages to take over the ZIP marketplace, will you be able to find a device to read your ZIP disks in the year 2030? If you’ve invested in ORB drives & disks, and the company goes belly-up, will you be SOL?
My point is that those of us who rely on digital storage can’t let our stuff become obsolete.
Astro -
Thanks for the offer, but I managed to make do without the old document.