Digital is the way to go, though I have tons of lovely pictures my late DH took. As an artist he had a lovely eye for real beauty. I remember having DS keep him busy in town all day while I drove 50 miles to another town to get ONE lens for his magnificent camera..cost over 300 dollars!! For one lens. DS now has that camera, don't know what he'll do with it since he takes nice pictures with his cell phone. And I like the digital that the kids got me. Sometimes progress is good, sometimes bad. Most of the time we just have to go with the flow, as DH used to say. Just too hard paddling up stream all the time.