Call me Rip Van Winkle because "photography" for me in recent years has become nothing more than wandering around Boston looking for texturing details I could capture to digital for 3D games I've been designing.

Until I woke up from my 20-year snooze recently.

I have an old saying that hobbies should support themselves whenever possible, and since I really need a new digital camera, I started poking through my old film cameras.... Leica M4, lots of Canon 35mm stuff, Calumet 4x5, Schneider lenses, and a beautiful wooden Burke & James 8x10 that I rebuilt just about when other hobbies took over.

But after looking at ebay listings of similar equipment, I can't do it. I can't just turn these old friends into cash to buy some contraption that will be obsolete junk in five years.

So now I'm reading about scanning LF film to see if perhaps a combination of -both- worlds might be a viable choice.

Because of your thoughts on digital "versus" film, I feel a lot more hopeful now.