Digital cost more than film

[losheng]

Film is more costly for me because it requires more time. Time is money.

I think the cost should indeed be measured in time, but more specifically, miserable time, and miserable time is huge money. Spending time on the computer is freaking painful for me, so I really don't enjoy digital photography at all. Darkroom time highly therapeutic for me. And looking at prints is a lot more gratifying than staring at the monitor. Also, in terms of absolute time, I'm not sure if digital saves time either. People shoots magnitudes more with digital, and with that comes the endless misery of cataloging, managing, post processing, backing up the originals, backing up the backups, etc etc.

So, I think the real measure is still: which is more enjoyable overall!