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Originally Posted by Dave Canon
It is amazing the number of older Camera Club members ,who had finally hung up their cameras, who have since bought digital cameras and come back with a vengence and renewed interest.
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I guess that I fall into this category. I never had my own darkroom and had to join a club and started City & Guilds principally to get acces to a darkroom. After quite some time in the doldrums, I bought a Nikon Coolpix 885 in 2002, and it brought me back to photography.
Much as I enjoyed the darkroom, wet processing is very time consuming and the satisfaction I got from producing a good result was enhanced due to the number of prints that were not quite right, so the wastage was high or could not be easily and reliably reproduced even with care. Also the set up and clean down time has to be added into the equasion, and you had to store and dispose of chemicals, dry the prints, and there was nothing more frustrating than running out of paper just when you had cracked it.
I think that for most, digital is just so much more convenient, cleaner and quicker.