Digital Era

Ok, I have finally done it. Its not that I did not have a digital camera, I have had one since 2006 when a friend gave me his old one when I took the kids to Disneyland. I liked them, appreciated their abilities..but never really thought they were compareable to my film Nikon's, especially my FM3a.
But I know that they are much better than they were. I finally decided to buy one, and picked up the D90. I wanted the D300, but I felt that it would be better to wait and see what was coming next. The difference between digital and film is that they become obselete. My film camera will never change, I may change the film I use...but the capabilities of the camera are primarily in my abilities. Sure, I may wish for a slower speed than the current 1-sec before I jump to bulb, but in reality I can live with it. The metering system is excellent and will never cause issues.
The D90 is a fabulous camera, loaded with features I have no understanding of. Now I am worried about colour balance, gray-scale, noise reduction and other things which are simply not a part of my film world. Heck, I can chose the ISO...wow...
Many things I like, and I will get used to some of them. I have not yet been on a creative shoot yet, but soon I hope. I want to see how it compares and how I can work with its abilities. I see the two cameras as complementary, I will continue to use my film camera a lot. In fact, I want to take a course next year and I will most definitely bring both my film and digital cameras to the course. They are different ways of expressing yourself.
Now, that said...I do not like what is happening in the industry. I don't like seeing new models every 6 months and I do not like the focus on the megapixels. Nikon has been good about that, they have not really produced a continuing advancement in the mp range...they are at 12.3 now...been so for a number of years. I would suggest that they will move to 15 with the D4/D400..but we will wait. What I would like to see is more full-sized sensors, and lower prices for those. I do not like the lenses they have. Most companies are moving to small-sensor lenses, the DX series in Nikon nomenclature and DII in Tamron. Sorry, I want my lenses to work on both my film and digital cameras...so I am finding this frustrating. They are both more expensive and lower in number, increasingly so, and I think that is the wrong move. Not that I think a Nikon DX lens is of lesser quality...I just want to be able to move the lenses back and forth between cameras. Right now I am using my 28-100 lens I bought with my F65 (yuck). It is a G-type lens and has absolutely no usefulness except on cameras which have internal aperature mechanisms. For digital this is fine, but it most certainly is not a great lens. I want a nice all-purpose lens, but I am having troubles finding one. Oh well, this will work for now.

Anyways...I am now in the digital world....be interesting what the next few years will bring.