35mm film's survival - what are it's advantages over digital

Don... i am with you in my love of older Nikon Cameras (in my case the fe2). The problem is I hate film so much. I wish Nikon would come out with the digital equilvilent of the Fe3. That would be my perfect camera.

You got it. As Yaron Kidron said, earlier here, <i>"If Nikon would offer me a digital back to

complement my fm3a, I would certainly buy one-- but only if it would let me "Advance" to

the next frame by pulling on that delicious film-advance lever."</i> I once saw a

manipulation showing, as I recall, a hypothetical F3D - all the existing controls, plus an

LCD and image control keys on the back. Response was strongly in favor of this "alternate

reality."

Don... I am not quite as commited to the exact match of an old manual focus camera. Some differences I would welcome...

 

Auto Focus - There is no reason to give up the benifits of AF for a good MF body. Opinions differ on the F4 but it handeled the MF/AF situation great. The only item I would not saccrifice for this would be the split image screen.. but other have done it so can Nikon.

 

"motor drive" functionality built into the body. Since no actual motor drive is needed with digital, this is a given. Personally I say good riddance to the wind crank.

You can't use a wind crank? Do you dress yourself in the morning? Why not go for the gusto and make a camera the requires nothing of you but for you to hold it & point it in the general desired direction, auto focusing, auto metering, auto compositon, maybe it could have legs or wheels on it so you won't even have to carry it. Then you can lay on the couch and eat potato chips all day long while your camera is off taking snaps, because, why should you have to do anything?

Talk about cranks!