Up until the last few years, my photography was purely casual. Then I bought a very good (for its day) digital camera and began to get more serious about what I was doing. Haven't really messed about with astro stuff--pretty strictly landscape for me. But as my knowledge has grown, I've appreciated film more and more. Even though film grain makes things more "interesting" on a microscopic scale, it's still got way better resolution that any digital camera I've seen. And the dynamic range is also considerably better. It takes me a lot of Photoshopping to get a digital photo to look anywhere close to a good film shot. I'll grab a new DSLR sometime over the next year or so, but it still takes $1500 of DSLR to get what I used to get with a $400 Pentax.
I guess it's inevitable but I'll still miss film once it's gone.
Hopefully it'll still be a round for a few years.
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Patrick