I agree. I switched to digital for personal use back in 98/99. I haven't missed it one bit. I did teach for a period of 3 years in the early aughts, a photography class. That was with old Praktica 35mm cameras. We used Ilford 125 film and Ilford photographic papers. At times, I do miss the whole wet chemistry aspect. I would always have the class make pinhole cameras as one of their major assignments. That was always a fun project for them.A 5D!
My dad, and consequently I, loved Pentax. When it was time for me to move to digital, I had all this Pentax gear...but they were slow in producing a digital SLR to market. Consequently, I started building a Canon system. I still had a lot of Pentax gear. When my dad was ill, I bought him the Pentax K10D so that he could also use his Pentax equipment with a digital SLR. When the K01 became less popular, and became a real bargain to buy, I bought a yellow one. It takes beautiful photos. The K01 is very quirky...but then I do like off beat things myself.Here is a list of most of my Pentax lenses: I am missing a few older screw mounts. The biggest strength of the Pentax system was its versatility in using lenses from screw mount to the Pentax K Mount.-Pentax DA XS 40mm F2.8. -Pentax DA 16-45 f/4 ED/AL. -Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4. -Pentax DA 10-17 f/3.5-4.5 ED Fisheye. -Pentax DA 50-200 f/4-5.6 ED. -Pentax DA 18-250 f/3.5-6.3 ED/AL [IF]. -Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2. -Magnicon 70-210mm f/4.5 AF. -Magnicon 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF.-Magnicon 28-70mm f/2.8-4.5 AF.-Samyang 500mm f/8 Mirror lens. -Cosmicar MC 28mm f/2.8. -Kiron 2x teleconverter PA/RX -MC Hanimex Automatic Zoom c-macro 80-200mm f/4.5. -SMC Pentax A 50mm f/2.0.