I shoot film too. Got a second hand Canon SLR so that I could use the EF lenses I already had for my DSLRs. Its as easy in a theoretical way, but you do lack the advantages of checking the shot is fine there and then and reshooting if necessary.
You also lack the editing possibilities unless you have a good scanner of course, but thats half a digital workflow then.
To those saying EMP could wipe out our entire history, its the same as saying fire could erase all our history in books. Potentially possible, but infinitely unlikely because we dont keep all our history in the same place. In fact its more widespread and duplicated now than its ever been.
About CD and DVD not being readable in the future, of course they wont be, but you will have the means to pass this data to other formats as and when they become available, because they will always overlap.
The only reason you dont have cassettes with old games from your spectrum is because too few people cared about that data and would not pay for the conversion. And even then, there are emulators around to play every arcade game or computer game from the past that you can think of. I know, I was playing all the NeoGeo games and the original Commando and the more obscure Valtric just the other day
And I couldnt even remember the name Valtric when I started searching for it, it was just a memory from my childhood.
Now I am not the biggest fan of capitalism out there but right now with millions and millions of people storing their personal data do you think there wouldnt be a thousand companies out there ready to jump to provide solutions for converting your data. I dont think even if it was in a propietary format would it stop it from happening with such a big market for it. That is if the companies owning the rights are stupid enough not to, even if they go bankrupt before that, bids would line up to own the format. Its just not going to happen, with capitalism if there are clients willing to pay, there is a product, unless something so major happens that we are more worried about finding food or water and couldn't care less about the photos anyway.
You also lack the editing possibilities unless you have a good scanner of course, but thats half a digital workflow then.
To those saying EMP could wipe out our entire history, its the same as saying fire could erase all our history in books. Potentially possible, but infinitely unlikely because we dont keep all our history in the same place. In fact its more widespread and duplicated now than its ever been.
About CD and DVD not being readable in the future, of course they wont be, but you will have the means to pass this data to other formats as and when they become available, because they will always overlap.
The only reason you dont have cassettes with old games from your spectrum is because too few people cared about that data and would not pay for the conversion. And even then, there are emulators around to play every arcade game or computer game from the past that you can think of. I know, I was playing all the NeoGeo games and the original Commando and the more obscure Valtric just the other day
And I couldnt even remember the name Valtric when I started searching for it, it was just a memory from my childhood.Now I am not the biggest fan of capitalism out there but right now with millions and millions of people storing their personal data do you think there wouldnt be a thousand companies out there ready to jump to provide solutions for converting your data. I dont think even if it was in a propietary format would it stop it from happening with such a big market for it. That is if the companies owning the rights are stupid enough not to, even if they go bankrupt before that, bids would line up to own the format. Its just not going to happen, with capitalism if there are clients willing to pay, there is a product, unless something so major happens that we are more worried about finding food or water and couldn't care less about the photos anyway.
. also have a couple of brownies and an old (60s looking) epson compact. I also like to play around with my super 8 camera although its expensive - £12 for 50' and you have to send it to sweeden or something to develop it these days.