Why analog film still has a lot of mileage in it
“NYT” piece.

“There’s probably a gigabyte’s worth of information on this little piece of film,” Mr. Simons said of the 6-by-6-centimeter transparencies produced by most of his film cameras. “There’s no way any scanner can even get it all. There’s not much of a substitute for a piece of film.”

More useful background on digital photography

The Economist has run a couple of decent pieces recently. Here’s on digital cameras. And another on the printing problem.