Everyone has missed the most important aspect of traditional vs. digital: Image stability. Film offers the chance to reprint the image in the future, and it can look just as good. Digital cannot do that. It probably never will. There is no such thing as an "archival" digital file. It is not only up to a cd or similar type of media. File formats change, especially in the fast moving software market. Press and magazine photographers are alerady realizing they need the image on film, regardless of how it gets used later. It is not print quality or editing that will keep film around, it is the need for images that last, and the knowledge that people in the future can access those same images. Digital is the ultimate form of throw-away photography. Don't bother to question print stability, think about the source of the image.
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