21st century photography is dominated by digital operation, but the older photochemical methods continue to serve many users and applications.
Film and digital imaging systems have different cost emphases. Digital cameras are significantly more expensive than film equivalents, but taking photographs with them is effectively cost-free. The price of digital cameras continues to fall. Other costs associated with digital photography are specialist batteries, memory cards, paper, printer ink cartridges and long-term storage.High quality film cameras are less complicated and therefore less expensive, ongoing film and processing costs being the major expense. Film prices have risen in recent years as supply diminishes.
With many photographers switching to digital, film cameras and lenses are now available on the second-hand market at often much-reduced prices, allowing for semi-professional and even professional film cameras to be owned by people who would once never have been able to afford them.
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