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Is there any realisit benefit to using a classic computer? Is there any realsitic benefit to driving a vintage car. Is there any realistic benefit to painint a picture (rather than taking a photograph). The answer in all cases is IMHO the same. YES. People enjoy doing those thigns. Ans that is sufficient reason for doign them (prvided they don't seriously affect others, which none of those do). There are actualyl some benefits to film, Medium format, and especially large format is a higher resolution than any digital camera that I've seen. I've nto seen a digital camera wit hthe wort of movements you get on a large format camera -- yes, you can fudge the image on a computer, but I prefer to get it right at the start. Monochrome film, in particular, has a much longer life than any digital media, and it's certainly a lot easier to virew or print a film negative than a digitial file stored in a long-forgotten format on a long-forgotten type of medium (as an aside, I am gettign fed up by the number of people who tell me that nobody cna read 5.25" disks any more...) The other advnatage _is_ the expense of film. You are careful with it. You spend time setting up the photogrpah (if it's a static subject, which jhust aobtu everything I take is). YUou look at diferernt viewpoints. With digital a lot of people jsut shoot a lot of picutres in the hope that one will be good. Often they do get a good picture liek that, but they don;t know why. Of course you can be careful with digital photography too, but most aren't. -tony