[Drew68]

Can't blame them. I know with absolute certainty that I will never own anything but a digital camera again. Mine is a 5.5 megapixel model that is two years old. It is outdated by know but it still takes photos that print out just as perfect (to my eyes) as a film camera --and I even use the low resolution settings.

[Myrddin]

Canon makes fine digital cameras too. Their revenues won't be hurting. Ditto for Kodak. I like my Sony F717. It will be my camera of choice for many years.

[Uncle Miltie]

I think I'll go shoot some Velvia.

[martin_fierro]

Mine is a 5.5 megapixel model that is two years old. It is outdated by know

Hey, I'm still schleppin' along with this mutt (2.3 MP), complete with duct tape holding the memory card door shut.

[Gay State Conservative]

My Dad worked for 37 years at Polaroid.In the last few years of his life,he was heartbroken to see what was happening to Polaroid...and Kodak.I often think that his attitde was similar to the one that a guy who helped design and/or build the WTC might have had on 9/11.

[Moonman62]

Canon will continue making film cameras already on the market as long as their demand remains.

The title and article don't match.

[reagan_fanatic]

I've got a Vivitar 8.1 megapixel digital camera myself. Very easy to use and takes fantastic pictures. Not to mention I can upload the pictures on-line to Walgreens and pick them up later the same day.

[Blueflag]

I still take great shots with my CANON AE-1 Program.

I like to shoot pix of high speed objects, like race cars and airplanes. Digital cameras haven't met my needs yet in the same price range.

But, casual pix are all digital-- a old Kodak point and shoot, and a Fujifilm S5200 5.5MP SLR. 0.01 shutter lag is pretty good.

[GSlob]

Well, a digital back [if made modular] could be always attached to an SLR instead of the film back, like they could do with Hasselblads. Lens, viewfinder with exposure metering and the shutter are the same anyway.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Interesting how many technologies that dominated the 20th century are dying or have died in front of our eyes: film photography, analog audio recordings, land-line telephones. Lots of changes, mostly for the good.

[js1138]

I can recall saying this would happen several years ago and being shouted down. At the time I said it a six megapixel camera seemed like a dream. Now I would say that consumer grade cmeras will reach 20 megapixels by the end of the decade.

Semi-pro cameras like the Rebel will have, by the end of the decade, more resolution and more exposure lattitude than Kodachrome, and good noise specs at ISO 1600.

There are theoretical cameras that can be focused after the exposure, a kind of hologram. The crystal ball is cloudy five years from now. But film will disappear from consumer channels.

[KarlInOhio]

Digital cameras are fine for general usage, but I haven't seen a reasonable price one which can do 1/1000 second or better stop action photography. A cheap 35mm camera just required a roll of high speed film to handle that (at the price of some extra film grain). I also haven't been all that happy with digital's on low light, long exposure shots.

I would love to see a high speed 5+ MPix SLR digital camera for less than $500 so I can change lenses. I also want a pony. :-)

[teletech]

I own a Sony MVC-FD95 (2.1 Mega Pixel) and a Sony DSC-V3 (7.2 Mega Pixel. Digital cameras are the ONLY way to go!

[PeteB570]

Ahhh, my Canon AE-1.

For just general shooting a digital is fine but if you want to play with the camera and pictures it's hard to beat a 35mm with a good set on lenses, extension tubes, filters, etc.

Wish I had more free time to play with it.

Man, I'm still using my Kodak Digital Science DC50 zoom camera for work.

[longtermmemmory]

If only there was a retrofit digital film unit easily available.

I remember seeing one advertised years ago, but not since.

[TexasRepublic]

How the mighty have fallen! My realized ambition in college was to own a Canon F1 to shoot the yearbook. The F1 was the ultimate system camera. Over the years I accumulated a number of accessories such as lenses, viewing screens, speed finder and even macro bellows. The thing I still detest about digital camera is the shutter lag time -- nothing beats a leaf-shutter rangefinder for closeup sports photography.

[LetsRok]

Once digital cameras get to 14 megapixel they will then be as good as film.

[N. Theknow]

In January, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., another Japanese optical manufacturer, said it was quitting the camera business altogether — digital and film — and selling its digital assets to rival Sony Corp.

Quitting altogether?

I can't picture that!

Is this a developing story full of negatives regarding film cameras?

f-Stop me before I pun again!

[HamiltonJay]

Digital is convient and probably fine for typical average person...

However given a choice, I still prefer film.

[Publius6961]

It is outdated by know but it still takes photos that print out just as perfect (to my eyes) as a film camera --and I even use the low resolution settings.

I just replaced my old 3 Mp digital with an 8Mp and I still own teo Nikon F models, which have been used once in the last four yesrs.

Since 1998, when I got my first digital camera, I know I have saved at least $9000 in film and processing costs... A net savings of roughly $8k

[Uncle Fud]

Still works sweetly for me after over 30 years, especially when fed with Ilford FP4 or Agfachrome.

I have a little Fuji digital for fooling around but the only thing that could tempt me into digital full time would be a digicam with an ultra wide (17-20mm) zoom.

No digis I am aware of get wider than 32mm or so unless you want to inve$t in a whole new Nikon or Canon system.