INW, you may have found my thread about launching into the digital video world and my pleasure with the results.
The still quality from the movie camera is also amazing (>1 MPixel). The day of the film camera for all but the real enthusiast or professional is nearly over.
Hand-in-hand with digital imaging goes the software for processing the images. Even professionals now need to be able to correct shadows, crop, enlarge etc and if you start with a film image you have to scan it. So why not go digital to start with?
A mega-pixel image viewed on a monitor is enormous and fills my 1152 x 864 display; printing is not a problem from the pixel point of view, but if you want to save a picture in a file watch out. 6"x4" = 1800x1200xthe number of colour bits! Well, you work it out! I have one hi-res B & W image of >50MB! So you need a new hard disk to hold all the big files, Photoshop 6.0 to process the images and compress them (jpeg is very user friendly), at least 256 MB RAM and a 1GHz processor. But I guess its not art!
Get the picture? (pun intended).
Can you still get 120 film?
BTW, did I give something away? 73 from G0$$$ (inactive).