I saw how many photos I'd taken on one of my cameras yesterday - and it struck me (when I worked it out), that I took more pictures on my film cameras in the same time period than I do on my digital cameras! Anyone else found the same?
I have thought that I had joined the click,click society - but I only take an average of 1x36 film a week (well, pre-Caedes)! Must be slowing down a lot... zzzzz

well, it's becoming increasingly rare to even find a supplier who makes film any more - kodak have stopped producing it, Ilford keep hanging on the edge of bankruptcy so it's mainly down to Fuji to hold the fort - at least in the UK. Same goes for cameras really - there is only really Canon left in the big camera manufacturers still producing mainstream film models - how much longer all that will last who can say.

I never totally liked Kodak film, but used to use their 25asa stuff for special jobs. Ilford I do like and Fuji? I've always been ambivalent about. Used to use East European black & white film, but no longer send for it - I don't know if Orwo exists now.
When I browse through my old stuff and find I can *still* get a decent print off it - I wonder if I will be able to do that in 20-30 years time with digital images!

you'll find that RAW processors such as PhaseOne are getting very clever at replicating film types. the current version can sumulate lots of styles similar to kodak, fuji and ilford - whilst not exact they are good simulations and one would hope that will improve too as subsequent revisions come out. new cameras such as the FUJI S5 Pro also have presets to simulate a film capture rather than a digital one although I havent tried them so couldnt comment on that.

The thing I think about though, overall, is that I can download my digitals to an external memory - eg a CD, but in 20 years time, will that be able to be read I wonder? Perhaps our digital age is indicative of the times and throw-away imagery?

yes - it's a very disposable medium and the onus is on the artist to preserver the data in whatever the current medium is. but then again - if you don't take care of photographic prints and transparencies - they degrade equally fast.