The best digital camera is your scanner, because with a scanner you can use a film camera (or plate camera, if you are a deep traditionalist). The most interesting film cameras are made out of metal, leather and glass, and even a 1930s camera can compete with the latest hi-tech digicam for image quality, and beat it hollow for satisfaction.
Will film disappear? It looks unlikely; take a look at flickr.com to see how film (and darkroom printing) are surviving and thriving.
The best photographs created since photography's invention were made with low-technology cameras and what we might call inadequate materials. Most of them only had one colour.
A photograph doesn't care what was used to make it.
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