Thirty-five millimeter color film still stores images with less expense and more efficiency than current digital media. In the last few months I've read reviews of digital cameras whose resolution reach 1,500x2,000 pixels, at prices I might consider paying. However, people who learn about digital photography now will have a great advantage as these techniques come of age over the next decade. I continue to use traditional cameras, but I scan my negatives or slides with a good film scanner, or I get my color pictures transferred to PhotoCDs at the time I have them developed. My impressions of the Internet and the World Wide Web are strong and divergent.
Many web sites are full of gratuitous special effects and advertising.
There is a lot of silly stuff out there. I found Randal L. Schwartz' page where he lampoons things people often put in their web pages. On the other hand, there's not much preventing people from publishing good, creative work on the Web. The Web allows me to have a permanent exhibition space which I can update as my work evolves. The Web offers another kind of democratization for publishing, as the advent of desktop publishing in the mid-1980s offered.