[at-l] do I spend my wad on digital or film?

[dfaddleton at gmail.com (David Addleton)]

so I bo't a cheap cheap digital to figure out how they work and what to  
expect
here's a pic of my cheap cheap digital:  
http://static.flickr.com/1/226104_59921070ff.jpg . . . just point and  
shoot, nothing special, $40 at Walgreens a couple years ago . . .
I've used it for all kinds of pics, and it works best for real estate  
agents taking pics of houses . . . imho
Now, I KNOW there are better digital cameras out there . . . but there's  
this one weakness I discovered that I wonder whether it is a weakness of  
more expensive cameras or not . . . I took a pic of a sunset with this  
cheap camera and it killed a pixel in the ccd ( or 9 pixels . . . not sure  
) . . . the sun was just too much for it . . .
What protection do more expensive cameras have from this problem?
With old film cameras you just swap out the film, but the "film" in a  
digital is the ccd and if you fuck it up you're fucked for good . . .
and I'm thinking about what happens when THAT happens when you're in the  
wilderness . . . cause I want to travel to some weird countries and take  
pics in their nat'l parks . . .
see http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/IK5wx2TI for what I mean . . .
it's ok for some pics, but very very very bad for other pics . . .





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