Film vs. Digital

• Film Advantages:

Overall, there is a lower startup cost.

Film captures detail in blacks and whites better

Allows more errors in minor focusing  

Allows more errors in exposure

The film captures a higher resolution

• Film Disadvantages:

Film cameras are generally heavier than digital cameras

Film takes up more space

The film becomes a continuing cost

The film must be developed before it can be viewed

Dependent on labs to developed the film unless you have a darkroom

• Digital Advantages:

Cameras are lighter than film cameras

Memory cards are small and can store more images than a film camera

Images can be viewed as soon as it's taken

Images can be edited

Can print only the images you like and discard the rest

Cameras have built in filters

• Digital Disadvantages:

There is a higher initial cost for the cameras

Detail can be easily lost

Higher possibility of losing progress due to equipment crashes 

Difficult to capture in low-light environments

Cameras lose their value faster than digital