: Granted, if I'm taking pictures at an event
: that is especially suited to film, such as a
: race when instant "snap"
: photography is essential I might bring a
: 35mm along with me too.

Chuck,
I guess you have not experienced the new digital SLR cameras yet or you'd never even consider bringing your 35mm film camera. Your comment totally reflects the fustration of the point and shoot consumer digital cameras which have up to and over a one second delays before the picture is captured.

With that in mind, I can see why you might choose a traditional instant cature 35mm film camera.

BUT, the new DSLR Prosumer cameras are in a new league with 3 frames per second shooting and almost instant on. In JPEG Fine/Large capture mode, my D70 can shoot over 4 seconds at this rate before the storage buffer fills. In addition, it has a shutter speed of 1/8000 sec for capturing some great stop action photography.

These and many other reasons are why folks are moving to this new breed of camera and leaving film at home. Film is still great for landscape shots and high contrast pics too.

Here's a shot out of a sequence of continuous frames as I saw the action happening through the view finder, so I just kept my finger on the trigger(so to speak)and let the camera do it's job.