what if film photography was invented after digital?

[taxi38]

It could also be argued that in its short life digital shooters have already fired off more frames than in the entire history of film photography.Yet searching through those same digital flickring frames its difficult to find an image that interests me.The admitted ease of digital seems to have left behind the finness of the image in many cases.

 

[shadowfox]

It could.be argued that this is actually happening now,photographers who have never used film are trying it for the very first time.It would be interesting to hear an opinion of films merits from one of them.

Indeed.
For a lot of people and in growing numbers, film is a new thing after they started with digital.

And a lot of people liking film despite all the convenience and "quality superiority" of digital.

It's rational to prefer digital to film.
The reverse isn't so clear-cut, but just as valid a preference, because we are human beings.

 

[NicoM]

Although there is somewhat of a resurgence of film photography from the youth today (including myself), I do not think that film would have been invented had digital already existed. It seem like it would be backwards-thinking to do something like that.

That being said, if film was indeed invented after digital, I think it would still be a very niche medium.

 

[grapejohnson]

If this was to happen. Eventually we would have a camera where as it's both Film for special occasions and Digital for everyday use

i'm still wondering why there aren't more digital backs for cameras other than Mamiya and Hasselblad. Imagine if interchangable backs (like Canon/Nikon data backs) that had a sensor instead of a pressure plate started coming out for cult/current production 35mm cameras. I would be interested in one if they existed. I also think that this could be a good solution if film does some day go out of production, though I doubt companies would ever make them.