Digital Cameras Disadvantages

what is the advantages of using traditional cameras compare to digital cameras?
the disadvantages of digital cameras
Regarding the extra features of digital cameras, they can do everything a film camera can and more. If you don´t want to use some of the extra stuff on a digital camera... don´t. You don´t have to. And if you don´t want to mess around with image files on a computer, take the camera/ memory card to the drug store and order prints there. So I´d hesitate to give film cameras the edge for simplicity. Digital can be as easy or as complicated as you want to make it.
Here´s what I do perceive to be the advantages of film.
1) Cost
Cost is an advantage if you don´t shoot much. With film cameras you pay for rolls of film and again for development .With digital you pay a premium up front and get all your ´negatives´ for free. The break-even point depends on the kind of camera you use. With a cheap point & shoot, you start saving money after just a few hundred pictures. With a $3000 dSLR vs. a $500 used film SLR however, it takes thousands of pictures to justify the higher price of a digital camera.
Low-cost film cameras are also attractive in risky environments where your might damage / lose your camera (like eh, on a rock climbing trip)
2) Dynamic range
Digital has caught up with 35mm film in terms of resolution (megapixels) but film still captures a little bit more dynamic range - simply put, the extreme edges towards complete black and complete white. A digital camera tends to clip very bright objects and display them as pure white when a film camera would still hold a little detail (eg. with bright clouds in the background of your shot). This is not something that would bother 99.9% of casual photographers, but it´s there.
3) Viewfinder
With SLR cameras, affordable digital versions have a relatively small viewfinder compared to their film counterparts. Digital versions also don´t have a split prism viewfinder (where 2 half-circles overlap during focusing) This can make film SLR cameras more pleasant to use, particularly if you want to focus the lens manually.
Digital point & shoot digital cameras often come without a viewfinder at all, and only offer an LCD screen - these are not much fun in bright light.
4) Batteries
Film cameras - older ones - have the advantage that they can operate (almost and even entirely) without batteries. Normally, recharging isn´t a hassle - no more than inserting a new roll of film every 36 pictures with a film camera - but if you´re doing a 5 week jungle trek, recharging can become a real issue.
Yeah, I´m stretching. Personally, I´ve traveled across the word with a digital camera and I´ve managed just fine with a universal adapter and just one spare battery.
5) Responsiveness
With digital point & shoot cameras, there´s always shutter lag - a delay between pushing the shutter button and actually taking the picture. This is usually about 0.1 second - just enough to ruin action shots. Film cameras are instantaneous.
With digital SLR cameras, there is no shutter lag, so no disadvantage there.
6) Storage
With film, you can keep negatives in a shoe box for decades. With digital, you have to keep checking your CD/ DVD/ hard disk backups every few years.
That´s all I can think of...
It´s enough, I think, to make a case that using film can have real advantages.
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