The bottom line If you stay with the top brand names of digital cameras, accessories will be easier to find and the model you buy is more likely to be serviceable when it dies in 3 or 4 years. Like most computer-based products, the digital camera you purchase today will be replaced in less than a year by a new model that's half the size and has twice the features for about the same price. Whatever decision you make about digital equipment, don't throw away your 35-mm camera yet. It still has a place in your photographic arsenal. Film still provides the highest-quality images and resolution for publication, and some journals won't accept digital images.
Film is still the cheapest way to get copies of high-quality prints to give to family and friends.
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