I feel qualified to speak to this because over the years I have had so
many people who were anxious to tell me why digital cameras were no
good.

The part that amuses me is that as digital cameras have been getting
better the reasons given as to why they are no good change, often what
was considered as a large issue when the digital camera was inferior to
a film camera is now dismissed when the digital camera is better. As
an example, when I bought my first digital camera memory cost LOTS of
money and those of us shooting digital where very limited in how many
photos we could shoot before needing to download our photos. At that
time this was pointed out to be a large problem with digital cameras,
but now I can shoot something like 1000 shots with just a few CF cards,
this would be like 28 rolls of film, but the film people now seem to
think that the number of shots you can take is not so important.
Digital cameras needed more light then film camera at one point in
time, this was seen as a large problem, but now that digital cameras
can take good photos using about 1/8 th the amount of light that a film
camera needs this is discounted as not all that important. Of course
the one I have heard the most about is shutter lag, now that cameras
like the 20D are here shutter lag seems not to be an issue, my 20D has
shorter shutter lag then my film SLR and even if the film SLR could
keep up it would use a full roll of film in about 1 second. Or there
was the problem how will you get prints from your digital camera, now
at Costco I can get prints cheaper from my digital camera then I can
from my film camera.

One by one what were problems for digital camera are now where digital
camera shines.

There is getting to be less and less now to complain about digital
cameras, and so now I am beginning to see some rather amusing problems
brought up, The cameras don't look good or they don't use film and
so are not really doing photography or there is no craft in using a
digital camera. I have even heard people complain that they miss the
grain that film has. The fact that people find it necessary to try and
make these kind of things into issue is an indication of just how good
digital camera have gotten.

Now there are people who find it necessary to compare digital cameras
to 4 x 5 view cameras, right so just how many people are taken photos
with view cameras? I live in Hawaii, this has got to be one of the
most photographed areas in the world, so how many people have I seen
using a view camera, zero, zip, none. I am sure they are out there but
to try to find fault with digital cameras because they don't have the
resolution of a 4 x 5 is just plain silly.

The one thing I am certain of is that as the years go by and digit
cameras continue to improve there will always be a few people who will
manage to find fault with them. Just what they will find fault with in
5 or 10 years from now I am not sure, but it should be interesting.

Scott