dear, lest we forget, digital cameras requrie a number of things such as batteries, and a computer to work on, and both of these use up electricity, which, depending on your form of it (being on the coast you likely have Hydro, so its not as much of an issue), can also be a waste of natural resources. but thats just me being an arse. Many know I've always preferred a darkroom to photoshop when it comes to straight up black and white photo (if I ever do colour though, one, I'll still use film, but I'll DEFINITELY be scanning the negs to work with them on a computer). Darkroom are much more enjoyable for me, and each paper costs a lot less than any semi-matte computer printing paper (30$, sometimes 20$ Canadian for a pack of 100 sheets of AGFA Semi-Matte RC paper, as opposed to 20$ for 20 sheets of epson high quality gloss... tho I'm sure if yer serious about it, you can buy in bulk for about the same price per sheet, i just cannot afford that much paper in one shot! lol). as for that magazine, f'em. Gauranteed they're using photoshop to retouch scanned images, and the next issue, they're prolly gonna print a few letters in the letters to the editor section about their reader's disbeliefs that suchb a"respectable" magazine would be so closed minded about their own work.