Those opinions range so very widely too, today I met "I'd rather dig ditches than give up shooting film" man. I probably came accross to him as a"you must be some kind of dinosaur if you don't love pixels" person. The world is moving my way, but his methods are something that I will always respect and have wonderful memories of. What am I saying, I still shoot some transparency film now and again and I'm sure there is some colour neg stock rolling around in the car boot. Given the choice, though, its digital from now until the next thing.... you know....instant holography comes along.

On a discussion forum on another website I was really wounded by a post that suggested that I might have gone digital because I "...couldn't hack it as a real photographer...". I even resorted to flaming in my response, but was that because he was right? Well the answer is that my company made the decision that I should get DCS520s and not me, but the enthusiasm with which I embraced the new technology still surprises me to this day. An old colleague reminded me that I used to change my entire equipment and all of my favourite techniques yearly to avoid boredom. Thinking back this really was the case, I was always buying new lenses and trying new lighting or no lighting or whatever I fancied represented good news photography that particular month. Digital represented the biggest ever change in my working ways and gave me the largest injection of enthusiasm that I could have handled without overdosing on it. Two years on and I'm not bored, this must be the longest that I have ever lasted without major upheaval.