When I started with digital photography in 2000, we used the Nikon D1, it was pretty much a horrible camera. Trees turned purple, people turned purple, and at anything over ISO 400, you got nasty purple and blue streaks in the photos. Fast forward 8 years later and this deer, shot yesterday, was taken at ISO 800, underexposed at least a half stop, at a file size that is 10 times bigger than the original D1. Digital cameras have widely expanded nature and particularly bird and wildlife photography. The light can be marginal and yet the pictures exceptional. I still like film for certain situations (alpenglow, where the pink hues are captured better by film), but I suspect in 2009, I'll shoot maybe 20 rolls of film, whereas I used to shoot 10-20 rolls a week.