Before digital cameras, it took a lot of investment to be a photographer. Shooting TFP was an expensive proposition. Today, I run into a lot of "Glamour" photographers, and many say they got into shooting women a few years ago because "digital is cheap and gives me immediate feedback." The downside-- the advent of digital photography has allowed a lot of crappy photographers and scam artists to enter our business. The upside -- the immediate feedback of digital has helped many talented photographers become even better.
My opinion -- digital will continue to grow more mainstream, film will continue be religated to the hard core and the artsy. My hope -- that the art directors at advertising agencies and magazines start giving digital photographers more credibility and stop asking to see our transparancies (because it costs a lot of money to turn my digital images into transparancies - LOL).
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