Why I Might Go Digital

For a long time I've prided myself on using film. I love working with film. I've held off from going digital because of the upfront cost. But now I might do it just because I'm not willing to give up shooting color because I can't find a reliable lab.

It's one of the things that sucks about living in a small town. I've got basically 2 choices. Grocery/Drug Stores and Camera shops. Now, the camera shops would be great except they charge $8.00+ per roll for development and printing. That's just way too much when the grocery stores do it at about half the price. But the quality of the prints there is usually really bad. Yea I know I could develop the color negatives myself but given the cost of the equipment and the time spent I might as well go digital.

So that puts me down to 2 options:

Option A is to go digital and put out $1000+ for a good camera and accessories.

Option B is to let the lab cointinue to process my color negatives (which they seem to be able to not mess up) and just print my own pictures using a negative scanner and a photo printer.

Hopefully option B will work out for me because I doubt I'll be getting a grand to spend on a camera anytime soon. (I could try for Christmas but I highly doubt it'll happen.)