Why are some people still buying film cameras?

Why are some people still buying film cameras?

Mark Comon (Vice President, Paul's Photo, Torrance, CA) gives expert video advice on: What's the difference between a film camera and a digital camera?; Why are some people still buying film cameras? and more...

Some people are still buying film cameras because of the look and feel of film. Look at the difference between the motion pictures you go to that are shot on film versus shot on video. It's the same thing: film versus digital. Film photography has a life. Film photography is a living, breathing thing. Film pictures have more soul than digital ones. Film pictures have more depth; there's more light, there's more action going on inside the image because film is a deeper, richer medium. You see much more shadow detail, much more highlight detail in film than you ever will in digital. Digital is cool, digital is convenient, digital is hot, digital makes beautiful big prints, but there's a look to film. Are regular people going to be shooting film as time goes on? Probably not. The artists, the serious photographers will, just like in the movie business, still shoot film instead of video, and that's because it's a different look; it's a different feel; it's a different medium.