"Digital will never compare with the warmth of film."<p>I love photography and chemistry both, and I admit to being a rank amateur when it comes to Serious Picture Taking, but... "warmth of film"? It's very poetic, but does the article's author live in the real world? At least for my use cases, digital cameras are so vastly superior to their film equivalents on the merits that the only way to make film sound like it might come anywhere close to the convenience and capability of digital requires nostalgic appeals like the one above, which is fine, I guess, as long as people recognize this as a purely subjective feeling. God knows that the reason I ran OpenVMS on DEC kit at home for so long was for the nostalgia of logging into the same kind of system my dad used in his career - those old boxes had no practical value, that's for sure. And I'll bet you any money that 50 years from now, our grandkids will be writing articles claiming that some far-futuristic lightfield holography do-thingy (that's so obviously superior to classic digital cameras as to have wiped them off the market over the previous 20 years) will never have the warmth of the 10-megapixel CCD cameras their parents grew up with. (Hell, there will probably be arguments on the future's photophile forums where hipsters argue about the warm, rich picture quality imparted by gold-plated SD cards.)
My parents still have a No.2 Brownie. It's no longer in shape to actually take photos, but it was used for years and years by the grandparents in their travels. Lots of family history all around the world were recorded with them.