Many professionals are also going digital, especially where timelines are short, such as in news photography, as even the most complex digital photo editor software can produce workable images quicker than a darkroom. But many still use film for "artistic photography.

By using high quality cameras (Nikons and Leicas) high resolution films, and tripods, you can get pictures of high technical quality. Using a film scanner can create a 50Mpx image of each picture, which gives lots of pixels to work with.

Darkrooms are being replaced by computers – in partucluar a Macintosh G4 and an Epson 2200 printer are a great combination. On the whole, the film-scanner-Photoshop-printer route can give much more control than splashing around in the dark with paper and chemicals.